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 AaT. 5.
 The Inhabitants of the ceded Territories shall be secured in the
free exercise of their Religion, without any restriction, and all
those who may desire to remove to the Spanish Dominions shall be
permitted to sell, or export their Effects at any time whatever,
without being subject, in either case, to duties.

 ART. 6.
 The Inhabitants of the Territories which His Catholic Majesty
cedes to the United-States by this Treaty, shall be incorporated in
the Union of the United-States, as soon as may be consistent with
the principles of the Federal Constitution, and admitted to the
enjoyment of all the privileges, rights and immunities of the Citi-
zens of the United-States.
 ART. 7.
 The Officers and Troops of His Catholic Majesty in the Terri-
tories hereby ceded by him to the United-States shall be with-
drawn, and possession of the places occupied by them shall be
given within six months after the exchange of the Ratifications of
this Treaty, or sooner if possible, by the Officers of His Catholic
Majesty, to the Commissioners or Officers of the United-States,
duly appointed to receive them; and the United-States shall fur-
nish the transports and escort necessary to convey the Spanish
Officers and Troops and their baggage to the Havana.

 AaT. 8.
 All the grants of land made before the 24" of January 1818. by
His Catholic Majesty or by his lawful authorities in the said
Territories ceded by His Majesty to the United-States, shall be
ratified and confirmed to the persons in possession of the lands,
to the same extent that the same grants would be valid if the Ter-
ritories had remained under the Dominion of His Catholic Majesty.
But the owners in possession of such lands, who by reason of the
recent circumstances of the Spanish Nation and the Revolutions
in Europe, have been prevented from fulfilling all the conditions
of their grants, shall complete them within the terms limited in
the same respectively, from the date of this Treaty; in default of