Art. 6. Engagement of France to repay this loan, acknowledged to have been made upon the
pledge of Congress to repay it into the royal treasury, at Paris, page..

7. Agreement, upon the faith of Congress, to repay the loan in Holland, at the French
treasury, in 10 annual payments with 4 per cent. interest

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8. Interest on the Holland loan, for 5 years preceding the first term of payment of the
principle, to be paid by the U. States into the royal treasury at Paris ..........
4. Convention concerning consuls, and vice consuls, of the 14th of November, 1778;
negotiated at Versailles, by L. C. de Montmorin, on the part of France, and
Thomas Jefferson, on the part of the United States. Annulled by act of July
7, 1793.

Art. 1. Consuls to present commissions, and receive exequatur without cost

2. Exempt from personal service in the community

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3. May establish agents where necessary-their consular functions
4. May establish a chancery for the deposite of their official papers

5. Rights, authority, and duties of consuls

6. Consuls shall receive declarations and reports from captains of losses at sea
7. Duties of consuls in cases of shipwreck...

8. Police to be exercise 1 by convuls, over the vessels of their natiɔa

9. Consuls may arrest deserters from the vessels their nation ...

10. Citizens or subjects a nenable for eri nes to the laws of the country
11. Ofenders may be seized and arrested on boar 1 th ir vesels

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12. Differences between citizens of either party to be adjusted by consuls without fees..
13. The benefit of trib in ds, for settling disputes in relation to connerse, open to each
14. Alien citizens, or subjects, to be exempt fron personal service
15. If consuls of other nations obtain privileges, from either party, they are common to both 82
16. This convention tɔ be in force for 12 years, from the ratifications .........
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5. Convention for terminating differences, of the 30th of September, 1800; negotia.
ted at Paris, by Oliver Ellsworth, Wm. Richardson Davie, Wm. Vans Mur-
ray, on the part of the United States, and Joseph Bonaparte, Charles P. C.
Fleurieu, and Pierre Louis Rhoderer, on the part of France. Ratified provi
sionally, on the 18th of February, 1801, and declared to have been finally rati-
fied on the 21st of December, 1801. Expired..

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Art. 1 Firm and inviolable peace between both parties.....

2. Treaties of Feb. 1778, and convention of Nov. 14, 1778, aunulled..
5. Captured public ships to be restored....

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4. Captured property not condemned, to be restored on certain proof.
Form of passport-from of proof of captured vessels to be restored
Certificates required as proof in case of cargoes-To take effect from Sept. 1800

5. Debts due to either party to be paid, and may be sued for

6. Free commerce between the two nations

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7. Rights of devise, inheritance, etc. to be enjoyed, mutually, without naturalization
8. In case of war 6 months allowed for the removal of property

9. Debts not to be sequestered in the event of war....

10. Commercial agents may be reciprocally appointed, but to be officially recognized, &c. ib
11. No higher duties to be paid by either party than those paid by the most favored na-
tions on the part of France this stipulation is limited to Europe

12. Free trade allowed to an enemy port-notice of blockade before captures
13. Contraband specified-but the vessel not to be affected by such articles..
14. Free ships make free goods, although enemy's goods....

15. Goods laden on enemy's ships, after knowledge of war, to be confiscated

17. In time of war, with a third power, passports. &c. required-contraband illegal ib
18. Ships to be visited by two or three men; the armed ship lying out of cannon shot reach 98

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Art. 19. Merchantmen under convoy not to be visited-the commander's word sufficient, p. 98
20. Receipts to be given for papers of captured ships-hatches not to be opened at sea ib
21. Captain of a captured ship not to be removed-passengers to be kindly treated.. 100
22. Prizes to be condemned only by established courts-motives to be mentioned....
23. Damages done by ships of war to be made good-offenders personally liable-cap-
tains of cruisers to give bonds in a specified sum for good conduct...
24. Armed vessels and their prizes not to pay duty, nor to be examined
25. Privateers of a third power, at enmity with one of the parties, not to refit, àc.
25. Neither pirates, nor their goods piratically taken to be harboured, &e...
27. Neither party to interfere in the fisheries of the other.......

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Limitation of this convention to 8 years-provisional ratification by U. States...
Ratification by France, according to the amendments of the U. States' Senate.. 107
6. Ceding Louisiana, of the 30th of April, 1803; negotiated at Paris, by R. R. Liv-
ingston, and James Monroe, on the part of the United States, and Barbé Mar-
bois, on the part of France. Ratified on the 21st of October, 1803....... 109
Desire of the parties to remove all misunderstanding in relation to the construction of
the treaty of Madrid, of the 27th of October, 1795, &c......
Art. 1. Retrocession of Louisiana by Spain to France-consideration for the same--French
title incontestable--cession from France to the U. States.

2. What is included in the cession .....

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3. Inhabitants to be admitted into the union on principles of the federal constitution ...
4 A French commissary to receive the province from Spain & pass it over to U. States 112
5. Period of surrendering the military posts, etc. to the U. States
6. U. States to fulfil the treaties of Spain with the Indian tribes
7. French and Spanish vessels, with the productions of their respective countries, enti-
tled to the same privileges, in the ports of Louisiana, as U. States vessels, from
France or Spain entering the same-object of this indulgence

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8. After the 12 years, French ships to be on the footing of the most favored nations.... 114
9. A convention for the payment of debts to U. States citizens--and a convention relative
to definitive rule between the parties, to be ratified herewith......

7. Convention for the payment of sixty millions of francs to France, for the cession
of Louisiana, of the 30th of April 1830; negotiated at Paris, by R. R. Living-
ston and James Monroe, on the part of the United States, and Barbé Marbois,
on the part of France. Ratified on the 21st of October, 1803..
Definitive regulations relative to the cession of Louisiana...

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Art. 1. U. S. engage to pay 60 mill. francs to France and satisfy certain debts to their citizens 116
2. Stock of $11, 250,000 to be created, at 6 per cent. payable in London or Paris,―prin-
cipal reimbursable at U.S. treasury in annual payments of not less than $3,000,000;
first payment to be made 15 years after ratifications exchanged
Should France sell the stock, it is to be done on the best terms for the U. States 118
3. Value of U. States dollar fixed at 5 livres 8 sous tournois ...

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No. 8. Convention for the payment of the sum due by France to the United States,
negotiated at Paris, by Barbé Marbois, on the part of France, and Robert R.
Livingston and James Monroe, on the part of the U.S. Ratified Oct.21, 1803 118
Art. 1. Debts due from France prior to Dec. 30, 1800, to be paid, under certain rules.............
2. Debts specified which are to be provided for ib.-3. Time and manner of payment. ib
4. Specification of debts comprehended by the preceding articles....

5. Specification as to what cases the articles are to apply to

6. Three commissioners, to act provisionally, to be appointed by U. S. ministers.
7. Commissioners to examine, and to certify claims which ought to be admitted
8. Also, to examine, and certify, such unprepared claims as ought to be admitted
9. Debts, with 6 per cent interest, to be paid at the treasury of the United States

Art. 10. An agent to be appointed to assist to examine claims-manner of settling disagree-

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ments prescribed--claims rejected only to exonerate the United States, page... 124
11. All necessary decisions to be made within one year from date of ratifications ...... ib
12. Claims against France, since Sept 30, not to be affected by this convention
No. 9. Convention of navigation and commerce, of the 24th of Juue, 1822; negoti-
ated at Washington, by John Q. Adams, on the part of the United States, and
G, Hyde de Neuville, on the part of France. Ratified 12th of February, 1822.
In force until one of the parties renounce it, giving six months' notice thereof, 126
Art. 1. Importations of United States' articles, in their vessels, to pay, in France, 20 francs
per ton, over what they pay in French vessels....

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2. Importations of French articles in vessels of France, to pay, in the United States, $3
75 cents per ton, over and above what they pay in American vessels,

3 Goods for transit, or re-exportation, not to pay discriminating duties in either nation,
4. Quantities composing the ton: wines 464 gallon hogshead; brandies and other liquids,
244 galls.; silks and dry goods, in France 42, and in America 50 cubic feet; cotton
804 lbs. or 365 killogrammes; tobacco, 1,600 lbs. or 725 kilogrammes; ashes, pot and
pearl, 2,240 lbs on 1,016 kilogs; rice 1,600 lbs. 725 kilog, and all weighable arts.
2,210 lbs. or 1, 016 kilogrammes

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5. Duties of tonnage, light money, &c. not to exceed in France, five francs per ton on
American vessels, and in the United States 94 cents on French vessels, . .

6. Consuls and Vice Consuls of either nation, in the other, may cause the arrest of d'es-
erters, and detain them for three months

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7. Convention to be in force two years from 1st October, 1822,--extra duties at the end
of two years. to be diminished by one fourth, and so on, from year to year, till
one of the parties shall declare the intention of renouncing it
Separate article, the extra duties levied before 24 June, 1822, to be refunded, ib
10. Convention to liberate France from all Reclamations preferred by the United
States, for unlawful Seizures, Captures, Sequestrations, Confiscations, or
Destructions of their Vessels, Cargoes, or other Property. Negotiated at
Paris, on the 4th day of July, 1831; by William C. Rives, on the part of the
United States, and Horace Sebastiani, on the part of France. Ratified on
the 2d day of February, 1832.

Art. 1. 25,000,000 francs to be paid to the United States for all reclamations

2. In six annual instalments-Interest at 4 per cent.

3. 1,500,000 francs to be paid by the United States to France for all reclamations
4. In six annual instalments-Interest. 5. Other reclamations may be sued for, by
either party.

Reciprocal engagement to furnish documents, etc.

7. Duties on French wines-Six cents per gallon on red wines; and ten cents for white
wines, in casks; other wines 22 cents in bottles-Limited to ten years-Reclama-
tions relative to 8th article of treaty of cession of Louisiana, abandoned-Same
duties on long, as on short staple cottons. 8. Ratifications

GREAT BRITAIN.

1. Provisional articles of peace; of the 30th of November 1782; negotiated at Paris,
by Richard Oswald, on the part of Great Britain, and John Adams, Benjamin
Franklin, John Jay, and Henry Laurens, on the part of the United States.-
Sanctioned by Congress on the 11th of April, 1783

Art. 1. His Britannic majesty acknowledges the United States sovereign and independent
2. Boundaries of the United States and their territories, defined and admitted

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3. The United States to have the right to take fish on the Grand and other banks of New-
foundland; in the gulf of St. Lawrence, on the coast of Newfoundland, and to dry
and cure them, for the present, in the unsettled bays, harbors and creeks of Nova
Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador

Art. 4 No impediment allowed to the recovery of debts on either side, page.

5. Congress to recommend to the respective states to provide for the restitution of con-
fiscated property belonging to real British subjects and others, &c.—No lawful im-
pediment in the prosecution of just rights

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6. All confiscations, and prosecutions of persons, for the part they may have taken in
the war, to cease

7. A firm and perpetual peace-hostilities to cease-prisoners to be released-armies
and fleets to be withdrawn from the United States-artillery to remain-archives,
records, deeds and papers to be restored . .

8. The navigation of the Mississippi to be free to both nations

9. Conquest on either side, before the arrival of these articles in America to be restored
without difficulty, and without requiring any compensation

2. Armistice declaring a cessation of hostilities, of the 20th January, 1783; negotiat-
ed at Versailles, by Alleyne Fitz Herbert, on the part of Great Britain, and by
John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, on the part of the United States. Sanc-
tioned on the 11th of April, 1783

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Reference to the articles which stipulate a cessation of hostilities betw G. Britain, France,
and Spain-reference to the provisional treaty of Nov. 30, 1782, see page 226 230
Declaration by the British minister, that the United States are included in the armistice
between Great Britain and France and Spain
Acceptance of the British minister's declaration of an armistice, and reciprocal declara-
tion, by the minister of the United States, that hostilities shall cease
Art. 1. Preliminary article, declaring the period when hostilities shall cease, &c.
2. Preliminary article, declaring the times, beyond which, if captures are made at sea, in
different parts of the world, they shall be restored

3. Definitive treaty of peace, of the 3d of September, 1783; negotiated at Paris, by
David Hartley, on the part of Great Britain, and John Adams, Benjamin Frank-
lin, and John Jay. Ratified by congress on the 14th of January, 1784 . . . 237
Art. 1. His Britannic majesty acknowledges the U. States to be free, sovereign,and independent 237
2. The boundaries of the United States defined and established.

3. The citizens of the United States to continue to enjoy the right of fishing on the banks
of Newfoundland, in the gulf of St. Lawrence-liberty allowed to dry and cure
fish in the unsettled bays of Nova Scotia

4. No impediment allowed to the recovery of debts on either side

5. Congress to recommend to the states to provide for the restitution of confiscated estates
-twelve months allowed to certain persons to endeavor to recover their estates-
congress to recommend to the states a reconsideration of their laws concerning
confiscations-persons having an interest in confiscated lands, to meet with no law-
ful impediment in the prosecution of rights 6. All confiscations and prosecu-
tions of persons, for the part they may have taken in the war, to cease
7. Firm and perpetual peace-psoners to be released-negroes not to be carried away
-armies and fleets to be withdrawn-archives, &c. to be restored
8. The navigation of the Mississippi to be free to both nations. 9. Conquests on either
side, before the arrival of the provisional articles in America, to be restored ..
4. Treaty of amity, commerce and navigation, of the 19th of November, 1794; ne-
gotiated at London, by William Wyndham, (Baron Grenville) on the part of
Great Britain, and John Jay, on the part of the United States. The senate of
the United States, on the 24th of June, 1795, advised the president to ratify
this treaty,on condition that there should be added thereto an article, whereby
it should be agreed to suspend the operation of a part of the 12th article.-
Such an article having been added, the treaty was duly ratified by the Pre-
zident of the United States and his Britannic Majesty, and the ratifications

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were exchanged at London, on the 28th of October, 1795. The ratification
of the 1st explanatory article took place on the 9th of May, 1796; and the
ratification of the second explanatory article on the 5th of June, 1798. The
former of the explanatory articles was negotiated at Philadelphia, on the
4th of May, 1796, by P. Bond, on the part of Great Britain, and T. Pick-
ering on the part of the United States; and the latter at London, on the
15th of March, 1798, by Lord Grenville, on the part of Great Britain, and
Rufus King, on the part of the United States, page

Art.1. A firm, involable, and universal peace between the two nations

2. Great Britain to withdraw her troops from certain posts within the boundary line of
the United States, on or before the 1st of June, 1796-settlers and property un-
molested-these settlers not to be compelled to become citizens of the United
States, nor to take the oath of allegiance.

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3. Freedom of intercourse and trade mutually allowed to citizens and subjects of the two
parties, and to the Indians, on the continent of America; the limits of Hudson's
bay company excepted--exceptions as to the admission of either party—the river
Mississippi to be open to both parties-goods and merchandise not wholly prohib-
ited, to be admitted into the territories of each party-each party may export goods,
not prohibited, from the territories of the other-no duty of entry to be levied on
peltries brought by land—indians not to pay imposts or duty-no higher or other
tolls to be demanded than are payable by natives, on either side; and no duty to
be paid on goods which are merely carried over portages, and not attempted to be
sold or exchanged in the passage

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A joint survey of the Mississippi to be be made, from one degree below the falls of
St. Anthony, to the principal sources of that river, to ascertain whether a line drawn
due west from the Lake of the Woods, will intersect the Mississippi.... 245
5. Commissioners to be appointed to indentify the river St. Croix, designated in the de-
finitive treaty of peace, in 1783, as forming part of the boundary line of the United
States-the commissioners to make a particular and descriptive declaration as to
the indentify of the river St. Croix, and their decision to be final
6. The United States to compensate British creditors for losses occasioned by legal im-
pediments to the collection of debts contracted before the peace of 1783-limita-
tion of this provision to losses sustained by legal impediments only--five commis-
sioners to be appointed to ascertain the amount of losses which the United States
consent to make good to British creditors-commissioners to take an oath--form
of the oath to be taken by the commissioners-three commissioners to form a board
--eighteen months allowed for receiving claims, with an extension of the time for
six months in just and reasonable cases-the commissioners to meet at Philadel-
phia with powers to adjourn elsewhere-rules prescribed and powers invested in the
commissioners, for the investigation of claims-award of the commissioners to be
final--the United States to pay in specie-no payment to British creditors, pre-
viously to a year after the ratifications of this treaty

7. The British government to make compensation to the citizens of the United States
for illegal captures of their vessels by British subjects, where adequate compensa-
tion cannot be obtained in the ordinary course of justice--this provision not to ex-
tend to losses occasioned by negligence of claimants-five commissioners to be
appointed, with the same powers, as those appointed in virtue of the 6th article of
this treaty for adjusting the amount of compensation to be paid by the British gov-
ernment to citizens of the United States, for illegal captures of their vessels and
merchandise--the commissioners appointed in virtue of this article to decide res-
pecting claims to be paid by the United States to British subjects, for losses sus-
tained by captures made by armed vessels, under the circumstances mentioned in
a letter to Mr Jefferson to Mr Hammond, of the 5th of September, 1793.

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