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1 Spanish Treaty Claims Commission 1 (1910)

handle is hein.prescomm/flrtotesh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 61ST CONGRESS, SENATE. DOCUMENT 2d Session. No. 550. SPANISH TREATY CLAIMS COMMISSION. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TRANSMITTING THE FINAL REPORT OF THE SPANISH TREATY CLAIMS COMMIS- SION, DATED MAY 2, 1910. MAY 17, 1910.-Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit herewith, for the information of the Congress, the final report of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, dated May 2, 1910. WM. H. TAFT. THE WHITE HOUsE, -May 17, 1910. FINAL REPORT OF THE SPANISH TREATY CLAIMS COMMISSION. WASHINGTON, D. C., 3Lay 0, 1910. The PRESIDENT: 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 VII of the treaty between the United States and Spain, concluded on the 10th day of December, 1898. Article VII of this treaty reads as follows: The United States and Spain mutually relinquish all claims for indemnity, national and individual, of every kind, of either Government, or of its citizens or subjects, against the other Government that may have arisen since the beginning of the late insurrection in Cuba and prior to the exchange of ratifications of the present treaty, including all claims for indemnity for the cost of the war. The United States will adjudicate and settle the claims of its citizens against Spain relinquished in this article. Section 1 of the act of Congress above referred to provides for the appointment by the President of five commissioners, one of whom