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whether for food or for manufactures; bmt it is expressly agreed that this 

 stipulation is never to be used as a pretext for estabUshing in that country 

 any plantation of sugar^ coffee, cocoa, or other like articles, or any fabric: 

 or manufacture, by means of mills or other machines whatsoever, (this 

 restriction, however, does not regard the use of saw-mills for cutting or 

 otherwise preparing the wood,) since, all the lands in question being^ 

 indisputably acknowledged to belong of right to the Crown of Spain, no 

 settlements of that kind, or the population which would follow^, could be 

 allowed. 



The English shall be permitted to transport and convey all such wood 

 and other produce of the place, in its natural and uncultivated state,, 

 down the rivers to the sea, but without ever going beyond the hmits^ 

 which are prescribed to them by the stipulations above granted, and with- 

 out thereby taking an opportunity of ascending the said rivers beyond their 

 bounds into the countries belonging to Spain, 



Art. 4. The English shall be permitted to occupy the small island^ 

 known by the names of Cafina, St. George^s Key, or Cayo Cafina, in 

 consideration of the circumstance of that part of the coasts opposite to 

 the said island being looked upon as subject to dangerous disorders ; but this, 

 permission is only to be made use of for purposes of real utility; and as great 

 abuses, no less contrary to the intentions of the British government than the 

 essential interests of Spain, might arise from this permission, it is here stipu- 

 lated, as an indispensable condition, that no fortification or work of de- 

 fence whatever shall at any time be erected there, nor any body of troops' 

 posted, nor any piece of artillery kept there; and, in order to verify with 

 good faith the accomplishment of this condition sine qua non, (which 

 might be infringed by individuals, without the knowledge of the British 

 government,) a Spanish officer or commissary, accompanied by an Eng- 

 lish commissary or officer duly authorized, shall be admitted twice a year 

 to examine into the real situation of things. 



Art. 5. The English nation shall enjoy the liberty of refitting their 

 merchant ships in the southern triangle included between the point of 

 Cayo Cafina and the cluster of small islands which are situated opposite 

 that part of the coast occupied by the cutters, at the distance of eight 

 leagues from the river Wallis, seven from Cayo Cafina, and three 

 from the river Sibun, a place which has always been found well adapted 

 to that purpose. For which end, the edifices and storehouses absolutely 

 necessary for that service shall be allowed to be built;, but in this con- 

 cession is also included the express condition of not erecting fortifications 

 there at any time, or stationing troops, or constructing any military works;, 

 and, jn like manner, it shall not be permitted to station any ships-of war 

 there, or to construct an arsenal, or other building, the object of which 

 might be the formation of a naval establishment. 



Art. 6. It is also stipulated that the English may freely and peaceably 

 catch fish on the coast of the country assigned to them by the last treaty* 

 of peace, as also of that which is added to them by the present convention 

 but without going beyond their boundaries, and confining themselves^ 

 within the distance specified in the preceding article. 



Art. 7. All the restrictions specified in the last treaty of 1T83, for the 

 entire preservation of the right of the Spanish sovereignty over the coun- 

 try, in which is granted to the English only the privilege of making use 

 of the wood of the difierent kinds, the fruits and other produce in their 

 natural state, are here confirmed: and the same restrictiens shall also h®- 



