SPAIN. 



AHT. III. The property, embargoed gubernative- 

 ly. of the disloyal ("infidentes") who have since 

 died, shall also be released from embargo, and de- 

 livered unto their lawful heirs, if these remain faith- 

 ful to the Spanish nation. 



ART. IV. The property referred to in the two pre- 

 ceding articles once returned, its owners or holders 

 shall not sell, assign, transfer, or burden it in any 

 manner until two years after the official publication 

 of the complete pacification of the island. 



ART. V. The proceeds of property before its re- 

 turn shall be considered as applied toward the ex- 

 penses of the war, unless otherwise provided for, 

 and its owners without any right to make reclama- 

 tion of any nature whatsoever. 



ART. VI. None of those whose property has been 

 released from embargo shall either nave the right 

 to make reclamation For any loss or injury that mav 

 have been suffered by the property or object returned 

 them. 



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ART. VII. To assist as far as possible in the return 

 of said property, this Government will authorize the. 

 Governors and Lieuteuant-Goveruon of the island 

 to effect the same in each case, to those comprised 

 in this decree, whose property is situated within 

 their respective Jurisdiction*, with the due precau- 

 tions which shall be communicated to them from 

 the office of the Secretary of the General Govern- 

 ment. 



ART. VIII. The judicial proceeding* actually un- 

 der way against iiMtmtm shall be forwarded 'until 

 overruled or judged, as may result in law. 



ART. IX. Concerning the property adjudged to the 

 State, by sentence of compeU-nt tribunals, hi* Majcs. 

 ty's Government will decide in due time whatever it 

 may deem most convenient. 



ART. X. The requisite orders shall be issued 

 through the office of the Secretary of this General 

 Government, that the foregoing articles shall bo 

 duly complied with by whom it may concern. 



On November 3d he issued another decree, 

 declaring that all estates ruined during the war, 

 and in the way of reconstruction, shall be free 

 from contributions for five years from the date 

 of the decree. Every new estate and all new 

 property acquired in cities or villages of the 

 central and oriental departments will have 

 the same privilege. All industries and com- 

 merce in said departments newly established 

 will be exempt for three years from contribu- 

 tions. All female cattle, either Spanish or 

 foreign, imported into Cuba with the exclusive 

 object of raising stock, will be duty free for 

 two years. Instructions for the fulfillment of 

 this decree were given at the respective cen- 

 tres of the island. The decree was received 

 with much satisfaction. 



On March 28th, the Spanish Government 

 paid to Mr. Gushing, the Minister of the United 

 States, the sum of 102,574 14s. 2d., being 

 the first installment of the indemnification de- 

 clared up to that time to citizens of the United 

 States by the commission of arbiters. The re- 

 mainder, amounting to 106,768 5s. Id., was 

 paid on October 8th. 



STANLEY, HENTJY M. The recent return 

 from Africa of this noted traveler created a 

 wide-spread interest in his achievements. He 



was born near Denbigh, Wales, in 1840. His 

 original name was John Rowlands. At the 

 age of three he was sent to the ponrhoow at 

 St. Asaph, where he remained till he waa 

 thirteen, receiving there a good education. For 

 a year he was a teacher at Mold, Flintshire, 

 and then shipped at Liverpool as a cabin-boy, 

 on a vessel bound to New Orleans. There !. 

 found employment with a merchant named 

 Stanley, who subsequently adopted him and 

 gave him his name. His benefactor died in- 

 testate, and young Stanley, at the outbreak of 

 the civil war, enlisted in the Confederate army. 

 was taken prisoner, volunteered in the l'mt< <1 

 States navy, and subsequently became an net ing 

 ensign in the iron-clad Tioonderoga. After the 

 close of the war he traveled in Turkey and 

 Asia Minor, and in 1866 visited Walt*. Ho 

 gave a dinner to the children in St. Arnph 

 poorhouse, telling them in a speech that, what- 

 ever success he had attained, or would attain 

 in the future, he owed to the education he re- 

 ceived there. In the spring of 18rt7 lie re- 

 turned to the United State*, and in 18rt8 ac- 

 companied the British expedition to At-vMinia 

 as correspondent of the Xtn> York Htratd. 

 In 1869 he was sent to Spain in the same ca- 

 pacity, and on October 17th of that year waa 



