Office of the Historian

Mr. Moore to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.]
Paris, December 10, 1898.

Treaty as agreed on will consist of preamble and seventeen articles, as follows:

  • First. Relinquishment of sovereignty over Cuba and the assumption by the United States of any obligation under international law for the protection of life and property during occupation.
  • Second. Cession of Puerto Rico and other islands in West Indies and Guam.
  • Third. Cession of Philippine Islands archipelago and the payment of twenty millions within three months after the exchange of ratifications.
  • Fourth. Admission of Spanish ships and merchandise to Philippine Islands for ten years on the same terms as American ships and merchandise.
  • Fifth. Evacuation of Philippine Islands by Spain; immediate return of Spanish soldiers at Manila by the United States to Spain; disposition of war material and armaments in Philippine Islands and Guam.
  • Sixth. General release and return of prisoners, military and political.
  • Seventh. Mutual relinquishment of claims arising since the beginning of the insurrection in Cuba and before the exchange of ratifications; the United States to adjudicate and settle claims of its own citizens.
  • Eighth. Transfer of public property, archives, records.
  • Ninth. Citizenship in relinquished and ceded territories. Spanish subjects, natives of the peninsula, may, within a year, elect to retain Spanish nationality. Civil rights and political status of native inhabitants of ceded territories to be determined by Congress.
  • Tenth. Protection of all persons in their religion.
  • Eleventh. Jurisdiction of courts.
  • Twelfth. Preservation of pending judicial proceedings.
  • Thirteenth. Protection of copyrights and patents in ceded and relinquished territories.
  • Fourteenth. Appointment of consuls by Spain in such territories.
  • Fifteenth. Each country to accord to merchant vessels of other same treatment as to its own in respect of port charges.
  • Sixteenth. Any obligations assumed by the United States as to Cuba limited to time of occupation, but the United States will at the end of occupancy advise any government established in Cuba to assume same obligations.
  • Seventeenth. The exchange of ratifications at Washington within six months after signature of treaty.

Treaty expected to be signed this afternoon.

Moore.