officiels que ces hommes faisaient partie des dits équipages. Et sur cette demande ainsi justifiée, sauf toutefois la preuve contraire, l'extradition ne pourra être refusée, et il sera donné toute aide et assistance aux dits consuls et vice-consuls pour la recherche, saisie et arrestation des susdits deserteurs, lesquels seront même detenus et gardés dans les prisons du pays à leur réquisition, et à leurs frais, jusqu'à ce qu'ils ayent trouvé occasion de les renvoyer; mais s'ils n'étaient renvoye dans le delai de trois mois à compter du jour de leur arrêt, ils seront élargis et ne pourront plus être arrêtés pour la même cause. ART. 7. La présente convention temporaire aura son plein effet pendant deux ans à partir du 1er. Octobre prochain, et même après l'expiration de ce terme, elle sera maintenue jusqu'a la conclusion d'un traité définitif, où jusqu'à ce que l'une des parties ait déclaré à l'autre son intention d'y renoncer, laquelle déclaration devra être fait au moins six mois d'avance. Et dans le cas où la presente convention viendrait à continuer, sans cette declaration par l'une ou l'autre partie, les droits extraordinaires specifiés dans les 1er et 2d articles, seront à l'expiration des dites deux années, diminués de part et d'autre d'un quart de leur montant, et successivement d'un quart du dit montant d'année en année, aussi longtems qu'aucune des parties n'aura déclaré son intention d'y renoncer, ainsi qu'il est dit ci-dessus. ART. 8. La présente convention sera ratifiée de part et d'autre, et les ratifications seront échangés dans l'espace d'une année à compter de ce jour, ou plutôt si faire se peut. Mais l'éxécution de la dite convention commencera dans le deux pays le première Octobre prochain, et aura son effet, dans le cas mème non-ratification, pour tous bâtimens partis bonâ fide pour les ports de l'une ou l'autre nation, dans la confiance qu'elle était en vigueur. En foi de quoi, les plenipotentiaires respectifs ont signé la G. HYDE DE NEUVILLE, [L. S.] ARTICLE SEPARE. Les droits extraordinaires levés de part et d'autre jusqu'à ce jour, en vertu de l'acte du Congress du 15 Mai, 1820, et de 1822. June 24. 1822. June 24. Ratification. of the ordinance of 26th July of the same year, and others Signed and sealed as above, this 24th day of June, 1822. Now, therefore, be it known, That I, JAMES MONROE, President of the United States, have caused the said Convention and first separate Article to be made public; to the end that the same, and every clause and article thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this twelfth day of February, [L. S.] in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the forty-seventh. By the President: JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, JAMES MONROE. Secretary of State. NOTE. In addition to the preceding treaties, &c. between the United States and France, there was, in 1783, a contract made for a loan of six millions of livres tournois, with the French government, for the use of the United States which were advanced in twelve monthly payments of 500,000 livres each, on the receipt of Benjamin Franklin, then American minister. This loan was to bear an interest of five per centum, and to be repaid in Paris, in six equal portions of one million each, and in six periods, commencing from the year 1797, and so on, from year to year, until 1802, when the final payment was to be made. In this contract, as in that of 1782, anticipation of re-payments was stipulated, provided the United States found their finances in a condition to admit of it.-The several treaties with France, up to that of the 30th of September, 1800, have become obsolete, or have expired. The act of the 7th of July, 1798, approved during the presidency of John Adams, which is inserted at large, at page 58, is intended to annul Nos. 1, 2, and 4. The hostilities which succeeded this act, between the United States and the French Republic, were terminated by the convention, which was negociated at Paris, on the 30th of September, 1800, but not finally ratified at Washington until the 21st of December, 1801. See No. 5, page 82. By that important convention the two treaties of February, 1778, and the convention of the 14th of November, 1778, were annulled, the United States freed from a burdensome alliance with France, and exonerated from the weighty respon l'ordonnance du 26 Juillet de la même année et autres la confirmant, qui n'ont point déjà été remboursés, seront restitués. Signé et scellé comme ci-dessus ce 24me jour de Juin, 1822. 1822. June 24. sibility imposed by that treaty, [see the 60th page of this collection] whereby, among other stipulations, the United States agreed to guarantee to the crown of France its possessions in America. The temporary convention No. 9, [page 126] negotiated on the 24th of June, 1822, and ratified on the 12th of February, 1823, "shall be in force for "two years from the 1st day of October next, and even after the expiration of "that term, until the conclusion of a definitive treaty, or until one of the "parties shall have declared its intention to renounce it; which declaration "shall be made at least six months before hand."-" And in case the present "arrangement should remain without such declaration of its discontinuance "by either party, the extra duties specified in the 1st and 2d articles, shall, "from the expiration of the said two years, be, on both sides, diminished by "one-fourth of their whole amount, and, afterwards, by one-fourth of the "said amount from year to year, so long as neither party shall have declared "the intention of renouncing it as above stated." This convention not having terminated, in consequence of the notification of either party, American and French vessels, laden with the produce of their respective countries, continue to be received into the ports of each other, on the same and equal terms. 1782. October 8. TREATIES WITH THE NETHERLANDS. ORIGINAL. No. 1.-A Treaty of Amity and Commerce between their high mightinesses the states general of the United Netherlands, and the United States of America, to wit: Hew Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Their high mightinesses the states general of the United Netherlands, and the United States of America, to wit: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, desiring to ascertain in a permanent and equitable manner, the rules to be observed relative to the commerce and correspondence which they intend to establish between their respective states, countries, and inhabitants, have judged that the said end cannot be better obtained, than Rules to be ob- by establishing the most perfect equality and reciprocity for served relative the basis of their agreement, and by avoiding all those burdenmerce and cor- some preferences, which are usually the sources of debate, between thetwo embarrassment, and discontent; by leaving also each party at liberty to make, respecting commerce and navigation such ulterior regulations as it shall find most convenient to itself; and by founding the advantages of commerce solely upon reciprocal utility, and the just rules of free intercourse, reserving withal to each party the liberty of admitting at its pleasure other nations to a participation of the same advantages. to the com respondence nations. On these principles their said high mightinesses the states general of the United Netherlands, have named for their plenipotentiaries, from the midst of their assembly, Messieurs, their deputies for the foreign affairs; and the said United States of America, on their part, have furnished with full powers, Mr John Adams, late commissioner of the United States of America at the court of Versailles, heretofore delegate in congress from the state of Massachusetts Bay, and chief justice of the said state; who have agreed and concluded as follows, to wit: ORIGINEEL. Tractaat van vriendschap en commercie, tusschen haar hoog mogende de staten generaal de Vereenigde Nederlanden, en de Vereenigde Staten van America, te weeten, New Hamp shire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island en Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Noord Carolina, Zuyd Carolina, en Georgia. Haar hoog mogende de staten generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden en de Vereenigde Staten van America, te weeten: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island en Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Noord Carolina, Zuyd Carolina, en Georgia, geneegen zynde op een bestendige en billy ke wyze te bepalen de regelen, die in acht genomen moeten worden, ten opzigte van de correspondentie en commercie, welke zy verlangen vast te stellen tusschen haare respective landen, staaten, onderdanen en ingezeetenen, hebben geoordeelt, dat het gezegde einde niet beeter kan worden bereikt, dan door te stellen tot een bazis van haar verdrag, de volmaakste egaliteit en reciprociteit, en met vermyding van alle die lastige preferentien, dewelke doorgaans de bronäders zyn van twist, verwarring en misnoegen; door aan iedere party de vryheid te laaten, om weegens de commercie en navigatie, verder zulke reglementen te maken, als die voor zig zelven het gevoeglykst zal oordeelen; en door de voordeelen van commercie, eeniglyk te gronden op weederzyts nut, en de juyste regels van vrye handel over en weer; reserveerende by dat elles aan iedere parthy de vryheid, om, na des zelfs goedvinden andere natien te admitteeren tot het participeeren aan dezelfde voordeelen. Op deeze grondbeginzelen, hebben voorgemelde haar hoog mogende dee staaten generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden, tot hunne plenipotentiarissen, uit het midden hunner verga dering benoemd de Heeren derselver gedeputeerdeen tot de buitenlandsche zaaken; en de gemelde Vereenigde Staaten. van America, van hunne zyde met volmagt vootsien, den Heer John Adams, laatst commissaris van de Vereenigde Staaten van America aan het hof van Versailles, geweezen afgeevaardigde op het congres weegens de staaten van Massachusetts Baay, en opper-regter van den gemelden staat, dewelke zyn overeengekomen, en geaccordeert: 1782. October 8. |