according to the form inserted in this prefent treaty; and the ship, when the shall have shewn such passport, shall be free and at liberty to pursue her voyage, so as it shall not be lawful to molest or give her chace in any manner, or force her to quit her intended course.

19. Confuls shall be reciprocally established, with the privileges and power which those of the most favoured nations enjoy in the ports where their confuls refide, or are permitted to be.

20. It is also agreed, that the inhabitants of the territories of each party shall respectively have free access to the courts of justice of the other; and they shall be permitted to prosecute suits for the recovery of their property, the payment of their debts, and for obtaining fatisfaction for the damages which they may have sustained, whether the persons whom they may fue, be fubjects or citizens of the country in which they be found, or any other persons whatever who may have taken refuge therein; and the proceedings and fentences of courts, shall be the fame as if the contending parties had been subjects or citizens of the said country.

21. In order to terminate all differences on account of the loffes sustained by the citizens of the United States, in consequence of their vessels and cargoes having been taken by the fubjects of his Catholic majesty during the late war between Spain and France, it is agreed that all fuch cases shall be referred to the final decifion of commiffioners to be appointed in the following manner. His Catholic majesty thall appoint one com

miffioner, and the prefident of the United States, by and with the advice and confent of the fenate, shall appoint another; and the faid two commissioners shall agree on the choice of a third, or if they cannot so agree, they shall each propose one perfon, and of the two names so proposed, one shall be drawn by lot in the prefence of the two original commiffioners; and the perfon whose name shall be drawn shall be the third commiffioner; and the three commiffioners so appointed shall be fworn impartially to examine and decide the claims in question, according to the merit of the several cafes, and to justice, equity, and the laws of nations. The faid commiflioners shall meet and fit at Philadelphia, and in cafe of the death, fickness, or neceffary absence of any fuch commiffioner, his place shall be supplied in the fame manner as he was first appointed, and the new commiffioner thall take the fame oaths, and do the fame duties.They shall receive all complaints and applications authorised by this article during eighteen months from the day on which they shall afsemble. They shall have power to examine all fuch persons as come before them, on oath or affirmation, touching the complaints in question, and alfo to receive in evidence all written teftimony, authenticated in fuch a manner as they shall think proper to require or admit. The award of the faid commiffioners, or any two of them, shall be final and conclufive, both as to the justice of the claim, and the amount of the fum to be paid to the claimants; and his Catholic majesty undertakes to cause the fame

22. The two high contracting parties, hoping that the good correfpondence and friendship which happily reigns between them, will be further encreased by this treaty, and that it will contribute to augment their profperity and opulence, will in future give to their mutual commerce all the extenfion and favour which the advantages of both countries may require.

And in confequence of the ftipulations contained in the fourth article, his Catholic majesty will permit the citizens of the United States, for the space of three years from this time, to depofit their merchandizes and effects in the, port of New Orleans, and to export them from thence without paying any other duty than a fair price for the hire of the ftores; and his majesty promifes, either to continue this permittion, if he finds, during that time, that it is not prejudicial to the intereft of Spain, or if he should not agree to continue, he will affign to them, on another part of the banks of the Miffifiippi, an equivalent establishment.

23. The present treaty thall not be in force until ratified by the contracting parties, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in fix months from that time, or fooner, if poffible.

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In witness whereof, we the underwritten plenipotentiaries of his Catholic majesty and of the United States of America have figned this prefent treaty of friendship, limits,

and navigation, and have thereunto affixed our feals respectively. Done at San Lorenzo et Real, October 27, 1795. (L.S.) THOMAS PINCKNEY, (L.S.) PRINCE DE LA PAZ,

Abstract of the Treaty between Great Britain and the United States of America.

THIS Treaty confifts of twentyeight articles:

The first article establishes peace and friendship between his Britannic majesty and the United States.

In the fecond, his majefty confents to withdraw all his troops and garrisons from all posts and places within the boundary lines affigned by the treaty of peace to the United States. The evacuation is to take place on or before the ist of June 1796.

The third article allows to his majesty's fubjects and the citizens of the United States, and to the Indians dwelling on either fide of the faid boundary line, freely to pafs and repass by land or inland navigation into the respective territories of the two parties. The country within the limits of the Hudson's Bay Company is excepted. Vestels belonging to the United States are not to be admitted into the ports of his majetty's faid territories, nor British vessels from the fea into the rivers of the United States beyond the highest ports of entry for foreign vette's from the sea. The navigation of Miffiffippi, however is to be entirely free. Goods and merchandize shall be conveyed into the territories

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of his Britannic majefty by American citizens, and into the territories of the United States by Britith fubjects, fubject to the regulations established by both parties.

The fourth article relates to the afcertaining of the extent of the Miffiffippi to the northward.

The fifth article alludes to the doubts that have arifen relative to the river St. Croix, and agrees to refer these doubts to commifioners,

The fixth article allows British subjects the power of recovering debts' due to them by American citizens previously to the peace: which debts have not been recovered hitherto, on account of fome legal impediments. The United States agree to make full and coniplete compenfation to the creditors who have fuffered by those impediments. The amount of the loffes and damages is to be afcertained by five commiffioners-two to be appointed by Great Britain, two by the prefident of the United States, and one by the other four.

When the five commitioners thus appointed shall first meet, they shall, before they proceed to act, refpectively take the following oath or affirmation, in the presence of each other, which oath or affirmation being fo taken, and duly attefted, thall be entered on the record of their proceedings, viz. I, A. B. one of the commiffioners appointed in putsuance of the fixth article of the treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, between his Britannic majesty and the United States of America, do folemnly swear, or affirm, that I will honestly, diligently, impartially, and carefully examine, and to the best of my judgment, accord

ing to juftice and equity, decide all fuch complaints, as under the faid article shall be referred to the faid commiffioners; and that I will forbear to act as a commiflioner in any cafe in which I may be perfonally interested.

Three of the faid commiffioners shall constitute a board, and thall have power to do any act appertaining to the faid commiffion, provided that one of the commiffioners named on each fide, and the fifth conaminioner shall be provent, and all decifions tha!! be made by the majority of the voices of the commiffioners then prefent, eighteen months from the day on which the faid commiftioners thall form a board, and be ready to proceed to business, are affigned for receiving complaints and applications; but they are nevertheless, authorized, in any particular cafes, in which it thall appear to them to be reasonable and just, to extend the faid term of eighteen months for any term not exceeding fix months after the expiration thereof. The faid commiffioners shall first meet at Philadelphia, but they thall have power to adjourn from place to place as they thall fee caufe.

The award of the faid commitlioners, or any three of them as aforefaid, thall in all cafes be fual and conclufive.

The feventh article allows indemnification, by the British Government, to fuch of the citizens of the United States as have fuffered, during the late war, by irregular and illegal captures. The United States alfo agree to indemnify British subjects for irregular illegal captures taken by Atarican thips during the war.

For the purpose of ascertaining the amount of any fuch losses and damages, five commiflioners shall be appointed and authorised to act in London, exactly in the manner directed with respect to those mentioned in the preceding article, and after having taken the fame oath or affirmation (mutatis mutandis) the fame term of eighteen months is also affigned for the reception of claims, and they are in like manner authorised to extend the fame in particular places. They shall receive testimony, books, papers, and evidence in the fame latitude, and exercise the like difcretion and powers respecting that fubject; and thall decide the claims in question according to the merits of the feveral cates, and to justice, equity, and the laws of nations. The award of the commiffioners, or any fuch three of them as aforesaid, fhall in all cafes be final and conclufive, both as to the justice of the claim, and the amount of the fum to be paid to the claimant; and his Britannic majesty undertakes to cause the fame to be paid to fuch claimants in specie, without aný deduction, at fuch place or places, and at such time or times, as shall be awarded by the same commiffioners, and on condition of fuch releases or affignments to be given by the claimants, as by the faid commiffioners may be

directed.

The eighth article refers to the two former, and fettles the mode of paying the amount of the loffes. The ninth article permits the fubjects of each country to hold Jands in either country, and to fell and devise them in the fame manner as if they were natives.'

In the tenth article it is agreed,

that in case of a war, no money belonging to individuals shall be sequestered or confiscated.

The eleventh article establishes a perfect liberty of navigation and commerce between the two countries.

The twelfth article allows the citizens of the United States to carry the produce of the United States to the West Indies, in vessels of not more than seventy tons burthen. The citizens are also allowed to carry away the produce of the islands to the territories of the United States alone. This article is to continue in force for two years after the present war, when further regulations are to be made.

In the thirteenth article his Britannic Majesty consents to admit American vessels into the British ports in the East Indies. This confent, however, is not to extend to the carrying on of the coafting trade in the East Indies.

The citizens of the United States are not to refide or go into the interior parts of the East India fettlements. They are not to ex port, in time of war, stores or rice from the East-Indies; they may touch at St. Helena for refreth

lar articles the produce of other nations.

The fixteenth article relates to the appointment of confuls for the protection of trade.

The seventeenth article relates to vessels being captured or de tained, on fufpicion of having enemy's property on board. Such property alone is to be taken out; fuch vessels are to be permitted to proceed to fea with the remainder of their cargo.

The eighteenth article decides what articles the term contraband can be applied to.

The nineteenth article provides for the security of the respective subjects and citizens, and for the preventing of injuries by men of

war.

The twentieth article relates to the refusal of the repective parties to receive pirates into any harbours or towns, and to the seizure of goods and merchandize taken by pirates.

The twenty-first article provides, that the subjects and citizens of the two nations shall not do any acts of hoftility against each other, and shall not accept commiffions from foreign states or princes, to commit hoftilities.

The twenty-second article prevents acts of reprisal, without due notice.

The twenty-third relates to the treatment of ships, officers, and crews, in the respective ports of the two powers.

The twenty-fourth article provides, that privateers of nations at enmity with either of the two powers, shall not arm their ships in the respective ports of the two powers, or fell what they have taken.

The twenty-fifth allows the ships of war belonging to the said parties, to carry the ships and goods, taken from their enemies, whitherfoever they please.

In case of war between the two nations, the twenty-fixth article permits the merchants and others, of each of the two nations, to refide in the dominions of the other, and to continue their trade.

The twenty-leventh article agrees that the two powers shall respectively deliver up persons charged with murder and forgery.

The twenty-eighth, alluding to the preceding articles, states, that the first ten articles shall be permanent, and that the subsequent articles (the twelfth excepted) shall be limited in their duration to twelve years. The treaty is to be binding and obligatory as foon as it is ratified.

The treaty is figned

GRENVILLE, JOHN JAY.

Official Copy of the Treaty between the King of Spain and the Republic of France.

THE French republic and his majesty the king of Spain, equally animated with a defire to put a stop to the calamities of the war which now disunites them, strongly convinced that there exist between the two nations respective interests which demand a reciprocal return of friendship and good understanding, and withing, by a folid and durable peace, to re-establish that desirable harmony which had for a long time been the conftant bafis of the relations fubfifting between the two countries, they have charged