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each side of the railroad, without prejudice to the dominion 
and free use of the owner over all the rest of the said strip 
of land which may belong to him ; with the obligation to 
Captain Pirn or his legitimate representative, of previously 
paying to the owner for the land and materials expropriated, 
and for the damages caused according to the just valuation 
of exports at their natural value, without reference to the 
railroad : but in inhabited places public edifices cannot be 
expropriated unless with the consent of those who can 
legally grant it.” 
Art. 4th.—At the end of paragraph 4 of the same Article 
III. shall be added : “ Which lands shall be used by the con¬ 
cessioners and settlers in accordance with the laws of the 
country. And it is explained for the effect of these conces¬ 
sions that the measure of each league is understood to be 
5000 varas of 84 centimetres.” 
Art. 5th.—Article V. shall be read as it has been written, 
adding the following clause: The good state of service of the 
railway, with its accessories and other works adjacent, is 
guaranteed by ^2,000,000, which Captain Pirn, or his 
legitimate representative, must deposit in the Treasury of 
the Republic five years before the termination of the said 
twenty-nine years. 
Art. 6th.—The XIY. will read as follows :— 
In view of the treaties made with Spain on the 25th July, 
1850, with Prance on the 11th April 1859, and with Great 
Britain on the 11th February, 1860, Commander Bedford 
Clapperton Trevelyan Pirn, of the English Royal Navy, in 
his own name and that of his successors and assigns, accepts 
and confirms the formal guarantee which the said treaties 
contain of maintaining the independence, neutrality, and 
innocent use of the transit across the Republic, and submits 
the enterprise to the conditions established in said treaties. 
Given in the saloon of sessions of the Senate.—Managua, 
March 14th, 1865.—Mariano Montealegre, S. P.—A. Murillo, 
S. S.—Federico Solorzano S. S.—The Executive Power.— 
Saloon of Sessions of the Chamber of Deputies.—Managua, 
