Queen Victoria: Ratification of Convention Between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Texas

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Article II.

The manner in which the Capital of One Million Pounds
Sterling of Foreign Debt, mentioned in the preceding Article, shall be transferred
from the Republick of Mexico to the Republick of Texas, shall be settled hereafter
by special Agreement between the Republick of Texas and the Republick of
Mexico, under the mediation of Her Briannick Majesty.

Article III.

The present Convention shall be ratified, and the Ratifications
shall be exchanged at London as soon as possible within the space of nine
Months from this date.

In Witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the
same, and have affixed thereto the Seals of their Arms.

Done at London, the Fourteenth day of November, in the Year
of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty.

Palmerston.. J. Hamilton.
[L.S.] [L.S.]