aid relinquishment or cession, as the case may be, are
also included such rights as the Crown of Spain and its authorities
possess in respect of the official archives and records, executive as
well as judicial, in the islands above referred to, which relate to
said islands or the rights and property of their inhabitants. Such
archives and records shall be carefully preserved, and private
persons shall, without distinction, have the right to require in
accordance with law authenticated copies of the contracts, wills, and
other instruments forming part of notarial protocols or files, or
which may be contained in the executive or judicial archives, be the
latter in Spain or in the islands aforesaid.

ARTICLE IX.--Spanish subjects, natives of the peninsula, residing in
the territory over which Spain by the present treaty relinquishes or
cedes her sovereignty, may remain in such territory or may remove
therefrom, retaining in either event all their rights of property,
including the right to sell or dispose of such property or of its
proceeds, and they shall also have the right to carry on their
industry, commerce, and professions, being subject in respect thereof
to such laws as are applicable to other foreigners. In case they
remain in the territory they may preserve their allegiance to the
Crown of Spain by making before a court of record, within a year from
the date of the exchange of ratifications of this treaty, a
declaration of their decision to preserve such allegiance, in default
of which declaration they shall be held to have renounced it and to
have adopted the nationality of the territory in which they may
reside.

The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of
the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined
by the Congress.

ARTICLE X.--The inhabitants of the territories over which Spain
relinquishes or cedes her sovereignty shall be secure in the free
exercise of their religion.

ARTICLE XI.--The Spaniards residing in the territories over which
Spain by this treaty cedes or relinquishes her sovereignty shall be
subject in matters civil as well as criminal to the jurisdiction of
the courts of the country wherein they reside, pursuant to the
ordinary laws governing the same; and they shall have the right to
appear before such courts and to pursue the same cour