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The several

declarations, or statements, shall be made by them, or either of them, and such reference to a friendly sovereign or state, shall be made, in all respects, as in the latter part of the fourth article is contained, and in as full a manner as if the same was herein repeated.

ART. 8. The several boards of two commissioners mentionboards of com- ed in the four preceding articles, shall, respectively, have missioners may appoint a seere- power to appoint a secretary, and to employ such surveyors tary, employ surveyors, &c.

Pay of the commissioners, &c.

in islands chang

or other persons as they shall judge necessary. Duplicates of all their respective reports, declarations, statements, and decisions, and of their accounts, and of the journal of their proceedings, shall be delivered by them to the agents of his Britannic majesty, and to the agents of the United States, who may be respectively appointed and authorized to manage the business on behalf of their respective governments. The said commissioners shall be, respectively, paid in such manner as shall be agreed between the two contracting parties, such agreement being to be settled at the time of the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty And all other expenses attending the said commission shall be defrayed, equally, by the two parties. And in the case of death, sickness, resignation, or necessary absence, the place of every such commissioner, respectively, shall be supplied in the same manner as such commissioner was first appointed, and the new commissioner shall take the same oath or affirmation, and do the same duties.It is further agreed between the two contracting parties, that in case any of the islands mentioned in any of the preceding articles, which were in the possession of one of the parties prior to the commencement of the present war between the two countries, should, by the decision of any of the boards of commissioners aforesaid, or of the sovereign or state so referred to, as

in the four next preceding articles contained, fall within the Grants of land dominions of the other party, all grants of land made previous ing jurisdiction to the commencement of the war by the party having had such under this trea- possession, shall be as valid as if such island or islands, had ty, to be valid. by such decision or decisions, been adjudged to be within the

Reciprocal pa

Indian tribes.

dominions of the party having had such possession.

ART. 9. The United States of America engage to putan end, cification of the immediately after the ratification of the present treaty, to hostilities with all the tribes or nations of Indians, with whom they may be at war at the time of such ratification; and forthwith to restore to such tribes or nations, respectively, all the possessions, rights, and privileges, which they may have enjoyed or been entitled to in one thousand eight hundred and

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eleven, previous to such hostilities: provided always, that such tribes or nations shall agree to desist from all hostilities December 24. against the United States of America, their citizens and subjects; upon the ratification of the present treaty being notified to such tribes or nations, and shall so desist accordingly.And his Britannic majesty engages, on his part, to put an end, immediately after the ratification of the present treaty, to hostilities with all the tribes or nations of Indians with whom he may be at war at the time of such ratification, and forthwith to restore to such tribes or nations, respectively, all the possessions, rights and privileges, which they may have enjoyed or been entitled to, in one thousand eight hundred and eleven, previous to such hostilities; provided always, that such tribes or nations shall agree to desist from all hostilities against his Britannic majesty, and his subjects, upon the ratification of the-present treaty being notified to such tribes or nations, and shall so desist accordingly.

use their endea

the slave trade.

ART. 10. Whereas the traffic in slaves is irreconcileable with Both parties to the principles of humanity and justice, and whereas both his vors to effect majesty and the United States are desirous of continuing their the abolition of efforts to promote its entire abolition, it is hereby agreed, that both the contracting parties shall use their best endeavors to accomplish so desirable an object.

ART. 11. This treaty, when the same shall have been ratified This treaty on both sides, without alteration by either of the contracting ratified. binding when parties, and the ratifications mutually exchanged, shall be Ratifications to binding on both parties, and the ratifications shall be exchan- be exchanged at Washington. ged at Washington, in the space of four months from this day, er sooner, if practicable.

In faith whereof, we, the respective plenipotentiaries, have signed this treaty, and have hereunto affixed our seals. Done, in triplicate, at Ghent, the twenty-fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.

[L. S.] GAMBIER,

L. S. HENRY GOULBOURN,

L. S. WILLIAM ADAMS,

L. S.] JOHN QUINCY ADAMS,

L. S.] J. A. BAYARD,

L. S. H. CLAY,

L. S. JONA. RUSSELL,

[L. S.] ALBERT GALLATIN.

1815. July 3.

Convention of

No. 7.-A Convention to regulate Commerce between the Territories of the United States and his Britannic Majesty.

The United States of America and his Britannic majesty, London of 3d being desirous, by a convention, to regulate the commerce and

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navigation between their respective countries, territories, and people, in such a manner as to render the same reciprocally beneficial and satisfactory, have respectively named plenipotentiaries and given them full powers to treat of and conclude such convention; that is to say, the president of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the senate

thereof, hath appointed for their plenipotentiaries John Quincy

JohnQuincy A- Adams, Henry Clay, and Albert Gallatin, citizens of the dams, Henry Clay, & Albert United States; and his royal highness the prince regent, actGallatin, Ame- ing in the name and on behalf of his majesty, has named for rican Negotiators.

his plenipotentiaries the right honorable Frederick John RobinFrederick John son, vice-president of the committee of privy council for trade Robinson, Hen- and plantations, joint pay-master of his majesty's forces, and ry Goulbourn, & William A- a member of the imperial parliament, Henry Goulbourn, Esq. dams, British Negotiators.

a member of the imperial parliament, and under secretary of state, and William Adams, Esq. doctor of civil laws; and the said plenipotentiaries having mutually produced and shown Full powers ex- their said full powers, and exchanged copies of the same, have changed. agreed on and concluded the following articles, videlicet:

Reciprocal liberty of commerce between States of America, and all the territories of his Britannic matheterritories of jesty in Europe, a reciprocal liberty of commerce. The inthe British ter- habitants of the two countries respectively shall have liberty ritories in Eu- freely and securely to come with their ships and cargoes to all

ART. 1. There shall be between the territories of the United

the U. States &

rope.

1

tection to com

such places, ports, and rivers, in the territories aforesaid, to which other foreigners are permitted to come, to enter into the same, and to remain and reside in any parts of the said

territories respectively; also to hire and occupy houses and Complete pro- warehouses for the purposes of their commerce; and generally merce, subject the merchants and traders of each nation respectively, shall to the laws of enjoy the most complete protection and security for their comeach country. merce, but subject always to the laws and statutes of the two ⚫ countries respectively.

No higher or o- ART. 2. No higher or other duties shall be imposed on the ther duties, on the importation importation into the United States of any articles, the growth, or exportation of the produe produce, or manufacture of his Britannic majesty's territories tions, &c. of in Europe, and no higher or other duties shall be imposed on each country, than on those of the importation into the territories of his Britannic majesty in other foreign Europe, of any articles, the growth, produce, or manufacture

1815. July 3.

of the United States, than are or shall be payable on the like articles being the growth, produce, or manufacture, of any other foreign country; nor shall any higher or other duties or charges be imposed in either of the two countries, on the exportation of any articles to the United States, or to his Britannic majesty's territories in Europe, respectively, than such as are payable on the exportation of the like articles to any other foreign country; nor shall any prohibition be imposed on the Prohibitions on the importation exportation or importation of any articles, the growth, produce or exportation or manufacture of the United States, or of his Britannic ma- of the produc

tion of either

jesty's territories in Europe, to or from the said territories of country to exhis Britannic majesty in Europe, or to or from the said United tend to all States, which shall not equally extend to all other nations.

other nations.

can and British

No higher or other duties or charges shall be imposed in any Equality of duof the ports of the United States on British vessels, than those ties on Ameri payable in the same ports by vessels of the United States; nor vessels. in the ports of any of his Britannic majesty's territories in Europe on the vessels of the United States than shall be payable in the same ports on British vessels.

Equality of du

ties on the produce&c. of each

country, whether imported in

The same duties shall be paid on the importation into the United States of any articles, the growth, produce, or manufacture of his Britannic majesty's territories in Europe, whether such importation shall be in vessels of the United States American or or in British vessels, and the same duties shall be paid on the British vessels. importation into the ports of any of his Britannic majesty's territories in Europe, of any article, the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States, whether such importation shall be in British vessels or in vessels of the United States.

The same duties shall be paid, and the same bounties al- Equality of dulowed on the exportation of any articles, the growth, produce ties & bounties on the exporta. or manufacture of his Britannic majesty's territories in Eu- tion, from one rope to the United States, whether such exportation shall be country to the of the pro in vessels of the United States, or in British vessels; and the ductions of eith

same duties shall be paid, and the same bounties allowed on the exportation of any articles, the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States, to his Britannic majesty's territories in Europe, whether such exportation shall be in British vessels, or in vessels of the United States.

er, in British or American vessels.

It is further agreed, that in all cases where drawbacks are, Drawbacks the same, whether or may be allowed upon the re-exportation of any goods, the the goods were growth, produce, or manufacture of either country respective- originally imported in Amely the amount of the said drawbacks shall be the same, whether rican or British the said goods shall have been originally imported in a British bottoms. or an American vessel, but when such re-exportation shall

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July 3.

take place from the United States in a British vessel, or from the territories of his Britannic majesty in Europe, in an Except in case American vessel, to any other foreign nation, the two conof re-exporta- tracting parties reserve to themselves, respectively, the right tion, the vessels of one par- of regulating or diminishing, in such case, the amount of the ty from the country of the said drawback.

other, to a third foreign nation Intercourse

West Indies &

The intercourse between the United States and his Britan

nic majesty's possessions in the West Indies, and on the conwith the British tinent of North America, shall not be affected by any of the North Ameri- provisions of this article, but each party shall remain in the possessions not complete possession of his rights, with respect to such an affected by this intercourse.

can continental

article.

to Calcutta, Ma

U. States' ves- ART. 3. His Britannic majesty agrees that the vessels of sels may trade the United States of America shall be admitted and hospitadras, Bombay, bly received at the principal settlements of the British domiWales' Island, nions in the East Indies, videlicet: Calcutta, Madras, Bomdirect, in arti- bay, and Prince of Wales' Island, and that the citizens of the cles not prohibited.

and Prince of

said United States may freely carry on trade between the said principal settlements and the said United States, in all articles of which the importation and exportation, respective

ly, to and from the said territories, shall not be entirely proBut not to ex- hibited, provided only, that it shall not be lawful for them, port military or naval stores or in any time of war between the British government and any rice thence, state or power whatever, to export from the said territories, when the British are at war. without the special permission of the British government, any Citizens of the military stores or naval stores, or rice. The citizens of the U.States not to United States shall pay for their vessels, when admitted, no pay for their vessels, in the higher or other duty or charge than shall be payable on the permitted ports of the E. Indies, vessels of the most favored European nations, and they shall paid on vessels pay no higher or other duties or charges on the importation or of the most fav- exportation of the cargoes of the said vessels, than shall be ored European payable on the same articles when imported or exported in

more than is

nation, &c.

the vessels of the most favored European nations. Articles must But it is expressly agreed, that the vessels of the United be conveyed di- States shall not carry any articles from the said principal and be unladen. settlements to any port or place, except to some port or place

rect to the U.S.

in the United States of America, where the same shall be unladen.

Vessels of the It is also understood, that the permission granted by this U.States not to article is not to extend to allow the vessels of the United carry on the coasting trade States to carry on any part of the coasting trade of the said in the British British territories; but the vessels of the United States having But vessels of in the first instance, proceeded to one of the said principal may proceed settlements of the British dominions in the East Indies, and