se as citizens
of the country to which the courts belong.

ARTICLE XII.--Judicial proceedings pending at the time of the
exchange of ratifications of this treaty in the territories over
which Spain relinquishes or cedes her sovereignty shall be determined
according to the following rules:

1. Judgments rendered either in civil suits between private
individuals or in criminal matters before the date mentioned and with
respect to which there is no recourse or right of revenue under the
Spanish law shall be deemed to be final, and shall be executed in due
form by competent authority in the territory within which such
judgments should be carried out.

2. Civil suits between private individuals which may on the date
mentioned be undetermined shall be prosecuted to judgment before the
court in which they may then be pending or in the court that may be
substituted therefor.

3. Criminal actions pending on the date mentioned before the Supreme
Court of Spain against citizens of the territory which by this treaty
ceases to be Spanish shall continue under its jurisdiction until
final judgment; but such judgment having been rendered, the execution
thereof shall be committed to the competent authority of the place in
which the case arose.

ARTICLE XIII.--The rights of property secured by copyrights and
patents acquired by Spaniards in the Island de Cuba, and in Porto
Rico, the Philippines, and other ceded territories, at the time of
the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty, shall continue to
be respected. Spanish scientific, literary, and artistic works not
subversive of public order in the territories in question shall
continue to be admitted free of duty into such territories for the
period of ten years, to be reckoned from the days of the exchange of
the ratifications of this treaty.

ARTICLE XIV.--Spain will have the power to establish consular offices
in the ports and places of the territories the sovereignty over which
has been either relinquished or ceded by the present treaty.

ARTICLE XV.--The Government of each country will, for the term of ten
years, accord to the merchant vessels of the other country the same
treatment in respect of all port charges, including entrance and
clearance dues, light dues and tonnage duties, as it accords to its
own merchant vessels not engaged in the coastwise tra