CAPE SPARTEL LIGHTHOUSE
- Convention signed at Tangier May 31, 1865
- Senate advice and consent to ratification July 5, 1866
- Ratified by the President of the United States July 14, 1866
- Ratifications exchanged at Tangier February 14, 1867
- Entered into force February 14, 1867
- Proclaimed by the President of the United States March 12, 1867
- Terminated by protocol of March 31, 1958[1]
14 Stat. 679; 18 Stat. (2) 525; Treaty Series 245
[TRANSLATION]
In the name of the only God! There is no strength nor power but of God.
His Excellency, the President of the United States of America, and His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, His Majesty the King of the Belgians, Her Majesty the Queen of Spain, His Majesty the Emperor of the French, Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, His Majesty the King of Italy, His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, His Majesty the King of Portugal and the Algarves, His Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway, and His Majesty the Sultan of Morocco and of Fez, moved by a like desire to assure the safety of navigation along the coasts of Morocco, and desirous to provide, of common accord, the measures most proper to attain this end, have resolved to conclude a special convention, and have for this purpose appointed their Plenipotentiaries, to wit:
His Excellency the President of the Republic of the United States: Jesse Harland McMath, esquire, his Consul-General near His Majesty the Sultan of Morocco;
His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and of Bohemia:
- ↑ 9 UST 527; TIAS 4029.
