Excerpt from Final Report of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission: Washington, D. C., May 2, 1910 The Spanish Treaty Claims Commission has the honor to submit this, its final report: The Commission was created under an act of Congress approved March 2, 1901, to carry into effect the stipulations of article seven of the treaty between the United States and Spain, concluded on the tenth day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. Article VII of this treaty reads as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.