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APPENDIX. 
contract of the 5th March, 1864, made between the supreme 
Government of the Republic and said Captain Bedford Clap- 
pert on Trevelyan Pirn. 
In witness whereof, we sign the above in duplicate in 
Managua, the 1st of March, a.d. 1865. 
(Signed) Antonio Silva, 
(Signed) Bedford C. T. Pim, 
Commander, Royal Navy. 
The Government, having the above contract before it, 
and finding it in conformity with the given instructions, 
approves and sends it to Congress for ratification. 
Managua, 2 March, 1865. 
Tomas Martinez. (L. S.) 
The Minister of Pomento, etc., and acting Minister of 
Home and Foreign Affairs. 
Antonio Silva. (L. S.) 
Art. 2nd.—Article I. will read as it is written, adding the 
following: “ And Captain Pim declares that neither the 
railway nor the exclusive privilege granted to him within 
the limits expressed in this concession can in any way be an 
obstacle to the opening an inter oceanic canal, and it is 
agreed that the right of preference for the construction of 
any other railway is only to be understood for interoceanic 
railways from the Atlantic to the Pacific."” 
Art. 3rd.—Paragraph 2nd of Article III. is altered in 
these terms : “ The right of expropriation according to the 
laws of the Republic of that portion of land which may be 
required for the works of the railroad on lands possessed by 
private persons, cities, and towns; but it is understood that 
only that portion can be expropriated which is strictly neces¬ 
sary for the iron road and the accessory works, as docks, 
canals, piers, wharfs, coal depots, stations, hotels, and electric 
telegraphs, as well*as the expropriation of timber, stone, and 
other raw materials which could be used in the said works, 
but this right is limited to a strip of one mile in breadth on 
