APPENDIX I


 THE ADAMS-ONIS TREATY, 1819

TBEATY or AMxTY, SwernT MNT, AND LIMITS, signed at Washing-
ton February 22, 1819. Original in English and Spanish. Sub-
mitted to the Senate February 22, 1819. Resolution of advice and
consent February 24, 1819. Ratified by the United States Febru-
ary 25, 1819. Ratified by Spain October 24, 1820. The Spanish
instrument of ratification was submitted to the Senate February
14, 1821. (Message of February 13, 1821.) Resolution of advice
and consent February 19, 1821. Ratified by the United States Feb-
ruary 22, 1821. Ratifications exchanged at Washington February
22, 1821. Proclaimed February 22, 1821.1

 [ORIGINAL]
Treaty of Amity, Settlement and Limits between The United
 States of America, and His Catholic Majesty.
 The United-States of America and His Catholic Majesty desir-
ing to consolidate on a permanent basis the friendship and good
correspondence which happily prevails between the two Parties,
have determined to settle and terminate all their differences and
pretensions by a Treaty, which shall designate with precision the
limits of their respective bordering territories in North-America.
 With this intention the President of the United-States has fur-
nished with their full Powers John Quincy Adams, Secretary of
State of the said United-States; and His Catholic Majesty has ap-
pointed the Most Excellent Lord Don Luis de Onis, Gonsalez, Lopez
y Vara, Lord of the Town of Rayaces, Perpetual Regidor of the
Corporation of the City of Salamanca, Knight Grand-Cross of the
Royal American Order of Isabella, the Catholic, decorated with
the Lys of La Vendee, Knight-Pensioner of the Royal and distin-
guished Spanish Order of Charles the Third, Member of the Su-
preme Assembly of the said Royal Order; of the Counsel of His
Catholic Majesty; his Secretary with Exercise of Decrees, and his
 I Taken from Miller, Treaties, I:3-20. See also U.S., Dept. of State,
Treaty series, no. 827; and 8 Statutea at Large 252-273, for other publie-
tions of the treaty. The text here reproduced is from the manucript original
used by Miller.
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