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...treaty of Munster, between Spain and Holland, it was agreed that each country should keep the possessions it had already in South America. The Dutch had settled to a considerable extent in Guiana, and, when the independence of Holland was acknowledged in the above treaty Holland was allowed to keep her possessions. Now the people of Venezuela point to this treaty with considerable confidence. But in reality no definite mention of what these possessions were is made in the treaty of Munster...
Professor Macvane then spoke of the knowledge of the subject of the boundary which the maps give. He chose sixty-eight maps out of a much larger number and classified them. There is a difference of opinion in almost all of them which were published before 1814, when the Dutch still had a claim on the territory. About sixteen of the most reliable map makers put the boundary at Cape Nassau. One of our secretaries of state has said that this is a simple matter of historical evidence, but it is not a subject on which conclusive evidence is easy...
...subjects of the examination will be penmanship; copying; letter writing; arithmetic; history; geography; bibliography; and languages; (Dutch, Spanish, French, Italian and German...
...will be useless for anyone to apply for the examination who has not a knowledge of least three of the five languages, as follows: Dutch, and either German or French, and Spanish or Italian. The translations will be only from the foreign language to English and of an elementary character. The examinations will include questions on the physical condition of the competitors, and it will be useless for persons who are not physically strong to apply for the place. The examination will be held in this city (Washington), and arrangements may be made to give it in some other large...
...Dutch, H. W. Skinner...