that the manuscripts have been found and that they would be returned to him at Lisbon;

Whereas, the Portuguese Government has produced before the Tribunal a copy of a declaration of the claimant stating that he has received all the manuscripts enumerated in the request presented by the Government of His Majesty the King of Spain before this Tribunal, and that he renounces his claim; For these reasons, the Arbitral Tribunal rejects the claim as having become groundless.

THE TRIBUNAL,

In view of the claim presented by the Spanish Government in favor of M. Pedro Gomez Nuñez and the papers in support thereof;

In view of the counter-case presented by the Portuguese Government on the subject of the said claim and the papers in support;

Whereas, with regard to the facts which have given rise to the difference submitted to the arbitration of the Tribunal:

The Spanish Government claims for its national, Pedro Gomez Nuñez, the restitution of the objects mentioned in the inventory appended to its claim, objects which were located in the house wherein he dwelled, and also the restitution of everything which furnished the chapel, and finally the restitution of the cattle which was upon the farm near the house occupied by him at Izeda, commune and department of Bragança, where he dwelled with several companions at the time of the revolution of October 3-5, 1910;

Whereas, the Portuguese Government makes the objection in the first place that this claim does not come under the jurisdiction of the Tribunal, because the aforementioned claimant does not in any manner prove his nationality;

Whereas, the Spanish Government has had knowledge of this exception through the Portuguese counter-case and has not drawn up any statement; Whereas, in fact the claimant does not produce any evidence of his nation

ality;

Whereas, the Tribunal is charged, by virtue of Article 1 of the compromis, to render judgment upon claims relative to the property of nationals of Spain, France and Great Britain, but whereas, the claimant does not prove, in the manner prescribed by the Spanish Civil Code and the Portuguese Civil Code that he belongs to one of the aforementioned nationalities;

For these reasons, the Arbitral Tribunal declares the claim of the Spanish Government in favor of M. Pedro Gomez Nuñez to be inadmissible.

THE TRIBUNAL,

In view of the claim presented by the Spanish Government in favor of Father Francisco Perez and the papers in support thereof;

In view of the counter-case presented by the Portuguese Government on the subject of the said claim and the papers in support;

Whereas, with regard to the facts which have given rise to the difference submitted to the arbitration of the Tribunal;

The Spanish Government claims for its national, Father Francisco Perez, the

value of 2,317 pesetas, since the Portuguese Government seized after the revolution in Portugal on October 3-5, 1910, the parcel of land known under the name of Convent of Fraga at Farreira do Aves, commune of Sattam, department of Viseu, where the claimant dwelled with several companions, and seized all the property which was located there and which is designated in the appended inventory, the inventory containing the indication of the value of the said property;

Whereas, the Portuguese Government makes the objection in the first place that the claimant does not furnish proof of his nationality;

Whereas, the Spanish Government has had knowledge of this exception through the Portuguese counter-case and has not drawn up any statement; Whereas, in fact, the claimant, who alleges that he is a Spaniard, has not furnished any proof of his nationality;

Whereas, the Tribunal is charged, by virtue of Article 1 of the compromis, to render judgment upon claims relative to the property of nationals of Spain, France and Great Britain, but whereas, the claimant does not prove, in the manner prescribed by the Spanish Civil Code and the Portuguese Civil Code, that he belongs to one of the aforementioned nationalities;

For these reasons, the Arbitral Tribunal declares the claim of the Spanish Government in favor of Father Francisco Perez to be inadmissible.

THE TRIBUNAL,

In view of the claim presented by the Spanish Government in favor of M. Eduardo Fernandez Pesquero and the papers in support thereof;

In view of the counter-case presented by the Portuguese Government on the subject of the said claim and the papers in support;

Whereas, with regard to the facts which have given rise to the difference submitted to the arbitration of the Tribunal:

The Government of His Catholic Majesty claims in favor of Eduardo Fernandez Pesquero the restitution of certain personal property belonging to him, or in default thereof, its value, estimated at 448 pesetas; whereas, the claimant alleges, in support of his request, that he dwelled in the College of Barro; whereas, at the time of the revolution he was driven out of the said college with great violence and taken away as a prisoner; whereas, the Portuguese Government has seized the said college with everything located therein;

Whereas, the Portuguese Government makes the objection in the first place that the claimant does not furnish the proof of his nationality;

Whereas, the Spanish Government has had knowledge of this exception through the Portuguese counter-case and has not drawn up any statement; Whereas, in fact, the claimant, who alleges that he is a Spaniard, does not furnish any proof of his nationality;

Whereas, the Tribunal is charged, by virtue of Article 1 of the compromis, to render judgment upon claims relative to the property of nationals of Spain, France and Great Britain, but, whereas, the claimant does not prove, in the manner prescribed by the Spanish Civil Code and the Portuguese Civil Code, that he belongs to one of the aforementioned nationalities;

For these reasons, the Arbitral Tribunal declares the claim of the Spanish Government in favor of M. Eduardo Fernandez Pesquero to be inadmissible.

THE TRIBUNAL,

In view of the claim presented by the Spanish Government in favor of Dona Tomasa Rocatallada y Escartin and the papers in support thereof;

In view of the counter-case presented by the Portuguese Government on the subject of the said claim and the papers in support;

Whereas, with regard to the facts which have given rise to the difference submitted to the arbitration of the Tribunal:

The claimant had resided for several years at Lisbon at the time of the revolution of October 3-5, 1910, upon a parcel of land belonging to a Spanish lady and to other Portuguese ladies, a parcel of land upon which there was installed the religious association called "Associação do Santissimo Coraçao de Jesus' of which she was a member and which was authorized in Portugal by decree of October 18, 1901;

Whereas, many personal objects, indicated in the inventory annexed to the case of the claimant and estimated in this inventory to have a value of 25,361 escudos 90, or frs. 121,805, were located upon this parcel of land;

Whereas, the Government of the Portuguese Republic seized at the time of the revolution of October 3-5, 1910, the aforementioned parcel of land with the objects located thereon;

Whereas, the claimant declares that these objects belong to her and should be restored to her;

Whereas, the Portuguese Government makes the statement that the claimant has not proved her nationality because she has not furnished her birth certificate, but that it consents not to avail itself of this plea because the claimant has produced a certificate of the consulate of Spain considered as sufficient;

Whereas, since the parties do not contest the nationality of the claimant, the Tribunal is justified in considering her as a Spaniard;

Whereas, on the other hand, the claimant does not prove in any way that the objects claimed belong to her; whereas, the fact alleged by her that the claimed objects and a register in which they were found were located, at the time of the occupation by the Portuguese Government, in the house in which she dwelled, does not prove that these objects were the private property of the claimant, because, according to the case, a religious association had been installed upon the property inhabited by her, an association which necessarily was formed of a number of persons, and because a simple register does not and can not indicate which of the inhabitants of the house is the proprietor of the personal property located therein;

For these reasons, the Arbitral Tribunal decides that the Government of the Portuguese Republic is not bound to restore to the legation of Spain at Lisbon the objects indicated in the inventory annexed to the case, or their value, with a view to their restoration to the claimant.

THE TRIBUNAL,

In view of the claim presented by the Spanish Government in favor of M. Antonio Rodriguez Sobrino and the papers in support thereof;

In view of the counter-case presented by the Portuguese Government on the subject of the said claim and the papers in support;

Whereas, with regard to the facts which have given rise to the difference submitted to the arbitration of the Tribunal:

The Spanish Government requests of the Tribunal, in favor of Antonio Rodriguez Sobrino, a Spanish citizen, the restitution of his joiner's tools, as well as articles of clothing and footwear which were located before October 5, 1910, at the home of his compatriots, the Spanish priests of Travessa das Mercês, No. 72, at Lisbon, where he was employed as a joiner; whereas, in default of this restitution, the claimant requests the value of his tools to the amount of 60 escudos, and for his clothes and footwear, the sum of 10 escudos; he finally claims the sum of 328 escudos 50 as compensation due for enforced cessation of work for one year, owing to the loss of his tools, the said indemnity calculated at the rate of escudos O $ 90 per day, which this workman received for his work;

Whereas, the Portuguese Government makes the objection in the first place that the claimant does not furnish proof of his nationality;

Whereas, the Spanish Government has had knowledge of this exception through the counter-case of the Portuguese Government and has not drawn up any statement;

Whereas, the claimant, who alleges that he is a Spaniard, does not, in fact, furnish any proof of his nationality;

Whereas, the Tribunal is charged, by virtue of Article 1 of the compromis, to render judgment upon claims relative to the property of nationals of Spain, France and Great Britain, but whereas, the claimant does not prove, in the manner prescribed by the Spanish Civil Code and the Portuguese Civil Code, that he belongs to one of the aforementioned nationalities;

For these reasons, the Arbitral Tribunal declares the claim of the Spanish Government in favor of M. Antonio Rodriguez Sobrino to be inadmissible.

THE TRIBUNAL,

In view of the claim presented by the Spanish Government in favor of Dona Magdalena Rodriguez y Laplana and the papers in support of this claim; In view of the counter-case presented by the Portuguese Government on the subject of the said claim and the papers in support;

Whereas, with regard to the facts which have given rise to the difference submitted to the arbitration of the Tribunal:

The Spanish Government claims in favor of Dona Magdalena Rodriguez y Laplana, co-proprietor jointly with six Portuguese ladies, of a parcel of property situate at Lisbon, Rua Nova des Olivais, called Quinta de Candieiro, purchased by them at a price of 10,000,000 reis (10,000 escudos, or about frs. 50,000), according to an authentic document drawn up on October 21, 1899, and entered in Book No. 125 of the notary Carlo Augusto Scola at Lisbon, a parcel of property estimated in the memoir at a value of 15,000 escudos or about frs. 75,000;

Whereas, one of these co-proprietors died on March 1, 1909, after having appointed as heirs the six other co-proprietors in such a way that at the present time the six ladies, still living, are co-proprietors of the aforementioned parcel of land;

Whereas, the claimant alleges that she is a subject of His Majesty the King of Spain, and furnishes a certificate issued by the Consul-General of Spain in Portugal, in order to prove her nationality;

Whereas, the Portuguese Government denies that the claimant has established her nationality by the said certificate and claims that the Tribunal is not competent to render judgment in this case; whereas, the Portuguese Government, moreover, declares that since the claimant is a co-proprietor, she is not entitled alone to enter a claim for the complete or partial restitution of the said property; and, finally, whereas, the claimant is only a fictitious proprietor of onesixth of the property, the religious congregation Associação de Santissimo Caração de Jesu being actually and alone the proprietor of the property;

Whereas, according to Article 327 of the Spanish Civil Code "the minutes of the register of the civil state shall furnish the proof of the civil state, which shall not be replaced by any others unless it does not exist, or unless the books of registry have disappeared, or in case a dispute has been raised before the Tribunal"; whereas, the claimant has not furnished any other proof besides the aforementioned consular certificate, without alleging that she finds herself confronted by one of the exceptional cases of the aforementioned Article 327 of the Spanish Civil Code; whereas, her nationality has, therefore, not been established;

Whereas, the Spanish Government has had knowledge of the exception of incompetence maintained by the Portuguese Government and has not drawn up any statement;

Whereas, the claimant has not furnished the proof of Spanish nationality as it is prescribed by Articles 327 of the Spanish Civil Code and 2441 of the Portuguese Civil Code;

Whereas, the Tribunal is charged, by virtue of Article 1 of the compromis, to render judgment upon claims relative to the property of nationals of Spain, France and Great Britain, but whereas, the claimant does not prove, in the manner prescribed by the Spanish Civil Code and the Portuguese Civil Code, that she belongs to one of the aforementioned nationalities;

For these reasons, the Arbitral Tribunal declares the claim of the Spanish Government in favor of Dona Magdalena Rodriguez y Laplana to be inadmissible.

THE TRIBUNAL,

In view of the claim presented by the Spanish Government in favor of M. Robustiano Rodriguez y Sobrino and the papers in support of this claim; In view of the counter-case presented by the Portuguese Government on the subject of the said claim and the papers in support;

Whereas, with regard to the facts which have given rise to the difference submitted to the arbitration of the Tribunal: