es will adjudicate and settle the claims of its
citizens against Spain relinquished in this article.

_Article_ 8.--In conformity with the provisions of Articles 1,
2 and 3 of this treaty, Spain relinquishes in Cuba, and cedes in
Porto Rico and other islands in the West Indies, in the Island
of Guam, and in the Philippine Archipelago, all the buildings,
wharves, barracks, forts, structures, public highways and other
immovable property which, in conformity with law, belong to the
public domain, and as such belong to the Crown of Spain.

And it is hereby declared that the relinquishment or cession,
as the case may be, to which the preceding paragraph refers,
cannot in any respect impair the property or rights which by
law belong to the peaceful possession of property of all kinds,
of provinces, municipalities, public or private establishments,
ecclesiastical or civic bodies, or any other associations having
legal capacity to acquire and possess property in the aforesaid
territories renounced or ceded, or of private individuals, of
whatsoever nationality such individuals may be.

The aforesaid relinquishment or cession, as the case may be,
includes all documents exclusively referring to the sovereignty
relinquished or ceded that may exist in the archives of the
Peninsula. Where any document in such archives only in part relates
to said sovereignty, a copy of such part will be furnished whenever
it shall be requested. Like rules shall be reciprocally observed
in favour of Spain in respect of documents in the archives of
the islands above referred to.

In the aforesaid 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 the 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.

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