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penalty, forfeiture, disqualification, etc., be incurred by any dif-
ference in faith or practice from those established within his Cath-
olic Majesty's dominions.
7th. The laws of the United States relative to the tenure, trans-
fer or descent of property will be granted to the inhabitants of
the said tract, and they will be allowed to institute such process,
offices and courts touching these subjects as may be proper and
necessary; provided only, that this will be done at their expense
and without charge to the government; and provided further, that
in all cases when the parties in suit on these subjects signify their
consent and desire to have decision according to the Spanish laws,
it will be granted to them.
8th. In all other respects the said subjects will be entirely, and
without qualification, subject to the Spanish laws and usages.
This part of the colony will be formed into a militia and liable to
military service within the province when any exigency of govern-
ment may require it.
9th. In addition to this colony the baron will engage to raise
a corps of eight hundred men to be formed into four batallions,
three of musketry, and one of riflemen. This corps will in all
respects be subject to the discipline and service of his Catholic
Majesty's troops, save only that in questions of property and re-
ligion, the privileges granted to the other part of the colony will
be exended to this also.
10th. The power of nominating all officers of the regular corps
will be exclusively within the general thereof, and when approved
by the king, commissions will be issued to them accordingly, and
vacancies supplied in the same manner.
11th. The same bounty will be given to the soldiers as to the
farmers and artificers.
12th. Such colonists and recruits as may be engaged in Ger-
many, will be paid and provided at the king's expense, from the
day of their enlistments or engagements respectively, and for the
purpose of safe and easy transportation, it will be agreed between
the courts of Madrid and Versailles, that they be allowed a free
and unmolested passage from St. Esprit in France to Carthagena
in Spain, where they are to embark in royal vessels for New Or-
leans in Louisiana.
Kapp continues:
Steuben presented this plan to Diego Gardoqui, who dispatched
it to Madrid; but it does not appear that the court engaged in
any negotiations about it. Its rejection is too natural when we
consider the absolute form of government in Spain. It could not
suit them, that one of their colonies should be more free than the
rest, and if not the thorough appreciation of the case, at least182
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