suits between private
individuals which may on the date mentioned be undetermined shall
be prosecuted to judgement 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 judgement; but, such judgement having
been rendered, the execution thereof shall be committed to the
competent authority of the place in which the case arose.

_Article_ 13.--The rights of property secured by copyrights and
patents acquired by Spaniards in the Island of 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 date of the
exchange of the ratifications of this treaty.

_Article_ 14.--Spain will have the power to establish Consular
officers in the ports and places of the territories, the
sovereignty over which has been either relinquished or ceded by
the present treaty.

_Article_ 15.--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 trade. This article may at any time be terminated on
six months' notice given by either Government to the other.

_Article_ 16.--It is understood that any obligations assumed
in this treaty by the United States with respect to Cuba are
limited to the time of its occupancy thereof; but it will,
upon the termination of such occupancy, advise any Government
established in the Island to assume the same obligations.

_Article_ 17.--The present treaty shall be ratified by the
President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate thereof, and by Her Majesty the Queen-Regent of
Spain; and the