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Un des symboles suivants apparaltra sur la derniire imege de cheque microfiche, selon le cas: le symbols — ► signifie "A SUIVRE", le symbols V signifie "FIN ". iVIaps, plates, cherts, etc., may be filmed et different reduction ratios. Those too ierge to be entirely Included In one exposure are filmed beginning in the upper left hand corner, left to right and top to bottom, as many frames ss required. The following diegrams illustrate the method: Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent Atre filmAs A des taux de reduction diff Arents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour Atre reprodult en un seul clich6, 11 est f ilm6 A partir de I'engle supArieur gauche, de gauche A droite, et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'imeges nAcesssire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mAthoda. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 4| r I I) i! ! ! I i3.)^DEFli\ITlVE TREATY of Peace and Friendship between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America Signed at Paris, the 3rd of September, 1783. In the Name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity. It having pleased the Divine Providence to dispose the hearts of the IVIost Serene and Most Potent Prince, George the Third, by tlie grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg, Arch-Treasurer and Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, &c., and of the United States 780 GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES. of America, to forget all past misunderstandings and differences that have unhappily interrupted the good correspondence and friendship which they mutually wish to restore: and to establish such a bene- ficial and satisfactory intercourse between the 2 Countries, upon the ground of reciprocal advantages and mutual convenience, as may promote and secure to both perpetual Peace and Harmony; and having for this desirable end already laid the foundation of Peace and reconciliation, by the Provisional Articles signed at Paris, on the 30th of November, 1783, by the Commissioners empowered on each part; which Articles were agreed to be inserted in, and to constitute, the Treaty of Peace proposed to be concluded between the Crown of Great Britain and the said United States, but which Treaty was not lo be concluded until terms of Peace should be agreed upon between Great Britain and France, and His Britannic Majesty should be ready to conclude such Treaty accordingly ; and the Treaty between Great Britain and France having since been concluded. His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, in order to carry into full effect the Provisional Articles above-mentioned, according to the tenor thereof, have constituted and appointed, that is to say: His Britannic Majesty, on his part, David Hartley, Esq., Member of the Parliament of Great Britain; and the said United States, on their part, John Adams, Esq., late a Commissioner of the United States of America at the Court of Versailles, late Delegate in Congress from the State of Massachusetts, and Chief Justice of the said State, and Minister Plenipotentiary of the said United States to Their High Mightinesses the States General of the United Netherlands; Benjamin Franklin, Esq., late Delegate in Congress from the State of Pennsyl- vania, President of the Convention of the said State, and Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America at the Court of Versailles; John Jay, Esq., late President of Congress and Chief Justice of the State of New York, and Minister Plenipotentiary from the said United States at the Court of Madrid ; to be the Plenipo- tcntiaries for the concluding and signing the present Definitive Treaty : who, after having reciprocally communicated their respective Full Powers, liave agreed upon and confirmed the following Articles: Arj". I. His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United Stales, viz., New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Penn- sylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be Free, Sovereign and Independent States; that he treats with them as such; and for himself, his Heirs and Suc- cessors, relinquishes all claims to the government, propriety and teiritoi ial rights of the same, and every part thereof. II. And that all disputes which might arise in future on the subject of the Boundaries of the said United States may be prevented, it is GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES. 781 } i-* ■I hereby agreed and declared, that the followiiijj are and shall be their Boundaries, viz., from the North-west Angle of Nova Scotia, viz., that Angle which is formed by a line drawn due North, from the source of St. Croix River to the Highlands, along the said Highlands which divide those Rivers that empty themselves into the River St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the North-western- most head of Connecticut River; thence down along the middle of that River to the 4.jth degree of North latitude ; from thence by a line due West on said latitude until it strikes the River Iroquois or Cataraquy; thence along the middle of the said River into Lake Ontario; through the middle of said Lake until it strikes the commu- nication by water between that liakc and Lake Erie ; thence along the middle of said communication into Lake Erie; through the middle of said Lake until it arrives at the water-communication between that Lake and Lake Huron; thence along the middle of said water-com- munication into the Lake Huron ; thence through the middle of said Lake to the water-communication between that Lake and Lake Superior; thence through Lake Superior, Northward of the Isles Royal and Phelipeaux,to the Long Lake; thence through the middle of said Long Lake, and the water-communication between it and the Lake of the Woods, to the said Lake of the Woods ; thence through the said Lake to the most North-western point thereof, and from thence on a due West course to the River Mississippi ; thence by a line to be drawn along the middle of the said River Mississippi, until it shall intersect the Northernmost part of the 31st degree of North latitude : South by a line to be drawn due East from the determination of the line last mentioned, in the latitude of 31 degrees North of the Equator, to the middle of the River Apalachicola or Catahouche; thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint River; thence straight to the head of St. Mary's River, and thence down along the middle of St. Mary's River to the Atlantic Ocean: East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the River St. Croix, from its mouth in the Bay of Fundy to its source ; and from its source directly North to the aforesaid Highlands, which divide the Rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean from those which fiill into the River St. Law- comprehending all Islands Avithin 20 leagues of any part of rence ; the shores of The United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due East from the points where the aforesaid Boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part, and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy, and the Atlantic Ocean; excepting such Islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the limits of the said Province of Nova Scotia. III. It is agreed, that the People of The United States shall con- tinue to enjoy unmolested the right to take Fish of every kind on the Grand Bank and on all the other Banks of Newfoundland ; also in 782 GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES. the Gulph of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the Sea, where the Inhabitants of hoth Countries used at any time heretofore to fish. And also that the Inhabitants of The United States shall have liberty to take fi&h of every kind on such past of the Coast of Newfoundland as British Fishermen shall use, (but not to dry or cure the same on that Island,) and also on the Coasts, Bays, and Creeks of all other of His Britannic Majesty's Dominions in America; and that the Ame- rican Fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled Bays, Harbours, and Ci>eeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so lon^ as the same shall remain unsettled ; but so soon as the same, or either of them, shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said Fishermen to dry or cure fish at such Settle- ment, without a previous agreement for that purpose with the Inha- bitants. Proprietors, or Possessors of the ground. IV. It is agreed that Creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money of all bond fide debts heretofore contracted. V. It is agreed that the Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the Legislatures of the respective States, to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights, and properties which have been confiscated, belonging to real British Subjects : and also of the estates, rights, and properties of Persons resident in Districts in the possession of His Majesty's arms, and who have not borne arms against the said United States : and that Persons of any other description shall have free liberty to go to any part or parts of any of the 13 United States, and therein to remain 12 months unmolested in their endeavours to obtain the restitution of such of their estates, rights and properties as may have been confiscated; and that Congress shall also earnestly recommend to the several States, a reconsideration and revision of all Acts or Laws regarding the premises, so as to render the said Laws or Acts perfectly consistent, not only with justice and equity, but with that spirit of conciliation which, on the return of the blessings of Peace, should universally prevail. And that Congress shall also ear- nestly recommend to the several States, that the estates, rights, and properties of such last-mentioned Persons shall be restored to them, they refunding to any Persons who may be now in possession the hontL fide price (where any has been given) which such Persons may have paid on purchasing any of the said lands, rights or properties since the confiscation. And it is agreed that all Persons who have any interest in confis- cated lands, either by debts, marriage settlements, or otherwise, shall meet with no lawful impediment in the prosecution of their just rights. VI. That there shall bene future confiscations made, nor any pro- secutions commenced against any Person or Persons, for or by reason GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES. 783 of the part which he or they niny have taken in the present War; and that no Person shall on that account suffer any future loss or damage either in his person, liberty, or property; and that those who may be in con^nement on such charges at the time of the Ratification of the Treaty in America, shall be immediately set at liberty, and the pro- secutions so commenced be discontinued. VII. There shall be a firm and perpetual Peace between His Bri- tannic Majesty and the said States, and between the Subjects of the one and the Citizens of the other, wherefore all hostilities both by sea and land shall from henceforth cease: all Prisoners on both sides shall be set at liberty, and His Britannic Majesty shall with all con- venient speed, and without causing any destruction, or carrying away any Negroes or other property of the American Inhabitants, withdraw ail his Armies, Garrisons, and Fleets from the said United States, and from every Port, Place, and Harbour within the same ; leaving in all Fortifications the American Artillery that may be therein : and shall also order and cause all Archives, Records, Deeds, and Papers belonging to 'any of the said States,.or their Citizens, which in the course of the War ipay have f|\^len into th@ hands of his Officers, to be forthwith restored' and deljve>ed to the proper States and Persons to whom tkey belong* ,. , m VIII. The navigaiioii'Of the River Mississippi, from its source to the Ocean, shall for e\%r remain, free and open to the Subjects of Great Britain, and the Citizen^ of The United States. IX. In case it should so happen that any Place or Territory belonging to Great Britain, or to The United States, should have been conquered by the arms of either, from the other, before the arrival of the said Provisional Articles in America, it U agreed that the same shall be restored without difficulty, and without requiring any compensation. X. The solemn Ratifications of the present Treaty, expedited in good and due form, shall be exchanged between the Contracting Parties in the space of 6 months, or sooner if possible, to be com- puted from the day of the signature of the present Treaty. In witness whereof, we, the Undersigned, their Ministers Plenipo- tentiary, have in their name, and in virtue of our Full Powers, signed with our Hands the present Definitive Treaty, and caused the Seals of our Arms to be affixed thereto. Done at Paris, this 3d day of September, in the year of our Lord, 1783. (L.S.) D. HARTLEY. (L.S.) .JOHN ADAMS. (L.S.) B.FRANKLIN. (L.S.) JOHN JAY.