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in the Floridas, without paying other or higher duties on their
cargoes or of tonnage than will be paid by the vessels of the United-
States.-During the said term no other Nation shall enjoy the same
privileges within the ceded Territories. The twelve years shall
commence three months after the exchange of the Ratifications of
this Treaty.
 Aar. 16.
 The present Treaty shall be ratified in due form by the Con-
tracting Parties, and the Ratifications shall be exchanged in Six
Months from this time or sooner if possible.
 In Witness whereof, We the Underwritten Plenipotentiaries of
the United-States of America and of His Catholic Majesty, have
signed, by virtue of Our Powers, the present Treaty of Amity,
Settlement and Limits, and have thereunto affixed our Seals re-
spectively.
 Done at Washington, this Twenty-Second day of February,
One Thousand Eight Hundred and Nineteen.
 [Seal] JoHN Quincy ADAs
 [Seal] Lms DE ONs

 [THE SPANISH INSTRUMNT OF RAIFICATION]
 [TBaNSATINo]
Ferdinand the Seventh, by the Grace of God and by the Constitu-
 tion of the Spanish Monarchy, King of the Spains.
 Whereas on the twenty-second day of February of the year one
 thousand eight hundred and nineteen last past, a treaty was con-
 cluded and signed in the city of Washington between Don Luis de
 Onis, My Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, and
 John Quincy Adams, esq., Secretary of State of the United States
 of America, competently authorized by both parties, consisting of
 sixteen articles, which had for their object the arrangement of
 differences and of limits between both Governments and their re-
 spective territories; which are of the following form and literal
 tenor:
 [Here follow both texts of the treaty]

 Therefore, having seen and examined the sixteen articles afore-
 said, and having first obtained the consent and authority of the