ARGENTINE REPUBLIC 53209 ARBITRATION Upon a part of the National Territory of Misiones DISPUTED BY THE UNITED STATES OF BRAZIL ARGENTINE EVIDENCE LAID BEFORE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY Estanislao S. Zeballos ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY AND MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC VOLUME I S. FIGUEROA, Printer 298 Broadway, New York. 1893. 1493 BULL of POPE ALEXANDER VI, on the DISCOVERIES OF THE PORTUGUESE AND SPANIARDS, GIVEN AT ROME ON MAY 4th, 1493. (*) ALEXANDER, Bishop, Servant of the Servants of God, to the Illustrious and Dearest in Christ, our Son the King Ferdinand, and in Christ most beloved daughter Elizabeth, Queen of Castile, Leon, Aragon, Sicily and Granada: Greeting and Apostolic Blessing. Of the works most grateful to the DivineMajesty and most desired by our heart, the principal is, that the Catholic Faith and the Christian Religion be exalted, so much more in our times, and that it may grow and extend everywhere, that the salvation of souls be promoted and that the barbarous nations be depressed and reduced to the same faith. Consequently, having been elevated to this sacred See of St. Peter by favor of the Divine mercy, and not through our merits, and being aware that you, as the true Catholic Kings and Princes I know you to have always been, by your clear deeds known to almost all the world, not only contrive to the same end but with full devotion, earnestness and diligence, without saving toil, expenses or perils nor your own blood, contribute and have dedicated all your attention and efforts to it from long ago, as the recent recovery of the Kingdom of Granada from the tyranny of the Sarracens testifies it, with so much glory for the Divine name, we justly deem, not without cause, that we must spontaneously and graciously grant you all that, to the honor of God and the extension of the Christian empire, may help you in this holy and laudable purpose. (*) Published in the «Collection of Treaties between the Argentine Republic and the Foreign Nations »: « Tratados celebrados por la República Argentina con las naciones extranjeras.» Oficial publication, V. III, Appendix p. IX. The book in three volumes is presented with these documents. |