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ADDENDUM. 



in order to attract navigation and commerce, we should hold out some 

 privileges and stimulants to immigrants intending to trade on the said 

 rivers : Therefore we decree — 



" 1. That the rivers Chinchipes, Santiago, Morona, Pastasa, Tigre, 

 Curaray, Naucuna, Napo, Putumayo, and other streams flowing into 

 the Amazon, are declared of free navigation, including that part of the 

 last named river which belongs to Ecuador. 



" 2. Vessels navigating the said rivers, to whatever nation they 

 belong, will be free during twenty years from paying any kind of tax, 

 and goods imported during the same time will also be admitted duty free. 



3. The public authorities of Napo, or of any other canton estab- 

 lished now, or which may be established hereafter, are authorized to 

 concede thirty cuadras of land to foreign or Ecuadorian families, on con- 

 dition that this land be cultivated for the term of five years from the 

 date thereof, under the penalty of forfeiting the same if this condition 

 is not accomplished. A larger extent of land may be obtained, on the 

 recipient giving a bond for payment twelve and a half years after, if a 

 foreigner, and twenty-five years after if an Ecuadorian, &c. 



" 4. The present inhabitants of Napo, and along the other Ecuadorian 

 rivers which flow into the Amazon, will have the same privileges as 

 hereinbefore mentioned, the preference in the selection of the land 

 being given to them, as well as a perfect and inalienable title to the 

 possession of the land which they now occupy. 



" Given in Quito, capital of the republic, the 26th of November, 1853. 

 " MANUEL BUSTAMENTE, 



President of the Senate. 

 "NICHOLAS ESPINOSA, 



President of the House of Representatives. 

 "JOSE M. MESTANZA, 



Secretary of the Senate. 

 " FRANCIS J. MONTALVO, 



Secretary of the House of Representatives. 

 11 Government House in Quito, capital of the republic, 26th of No- 

 vember, 1853. 



"JOSE MARIA URBINA, 

 "MARCOS ESPINEL, 

 Minister of the Interior and Foreign Relations. 



" Certified : 



Camilo Ponce." 



He succeeded in making an exclusive treaty with the executive au- 

 thorities of New Granada, but it is believed that the Congress of that 

 Republic will not ratify that treaty. I have the copy of a letter from 



