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TRINIDAD : THKN AND NOW. 



ders a list of their names, ranks, and places which 

 they are going to. 



" Article 7. — The officers of the Royal Adminis- 

 tration, upon the delivery of the stores with which 

 they are charged to such officers as may be appointed 

 by the British Commanders, will receive receipts, ac- 

 cording to the custom in like cases, from the officers 

 so appointed to receive the stores. 



66 Article 8. — All the private property of the 

 inhabitants, as well as Spaniards as such as may have 

 been naturalized, is preserved to them. 



" Article 9. — All public records are to be preser- 

 ved in such courts or offices as they are now in ; and 

 all contracts and purchases between individuals 

 which have been done according to the law of Spain 

 are to be held valid and binding by the British 

 Government. 



" Article 10— The Spanish Officers of Adminis- 

 tration who are possessed of landed property in Tri- 

 nidad are allowed to remain in the Island, they tak- 

 ing the oath of allegiance to His Britannic Majesty ; 

 and they are further allowed, should they please, to 

 sell or dispose of their property and to retire else- 

 where. 



" Article 11. — The free exercise of their religion 

 is allowed to the inhabitants. 



" Article 12. — The free coloured people who 

 have been acknowledged as such by the laws of 

 Spain shall be protected in their liberty, persons and 

 property, like other inhabitants, they taking the oath 

 of allegiance and demeaning themselves as becomes 



