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Article I. Taking into consideration the peculiar geo¬ 
graphical position of Honduras, and in order to secure the 
neutrality of the Islands adjacent thereto, with reference to 
any railway or other line of interoceanic communication 
which may be constructed across the territory of Honduras 
on the mainland, Her Britannic Majesty agrees to recognize 
the Islands of Ruatan, Gruanaca, Elena, Utile, Barbarete, and 
Morat, known as the Bay Islands, and situated in the Bay 
of Honduras, as a part of the Republic of Honduras. 
The inhabitants of the said Islands shall not be disturbed 
in the enjoyment of any property which they may have 
acquired therein, and shall retain perfect freedom of religious 
belief and worship, public and private, but remaining in all 
other respects subject to the laws of the Republic. If any 
of them should wish to withdraw from the Islands, they 
shall be at full liberty to do so, to dispose of their fixed or 
other property as they may think fit, and to take with them 
the proceeds thereof. 
The Republic of Honduras engages not to cede the said 
Islands, or any of them, or the right of sovereignty over such 
Islands, or any of them, or any part of such sovereignty, to 
any Nation or State whatsoever. 
Article II. Her Britannic Majesty engages, subject,to the 
conditions and engagements specified in the present Treaty, 
and without prejudice to any question of boundary between 
the Republics of Honduras and Nicaragua, to recognize as 
belonging to and under the sovereignty of the Republic of 
Honduras, the country hitherto occupied or possessed by the 
Mosquito Indians within the frontier of that Republic, 
whatever that frontier may be. 
The British Protectorate of that part of the Mosquito 
territory shall cease three months after the exchange of the 
ratifications of the present Treaty, in order to enable Her 
Majesty’s Government to give the necessary instructions for 
carrying out the stipulations of said Treaty. 
Article III. The Mosquito Indians in the district recog¬ 
nized by Article II. of this Treaty as belonging to and under 
