...which (Art. V) it was agreed that the Congress of the Confederation should ' ' earnestly recommend to the legislatures of the respective states to provide for the restitution of all estates" of British subjects.1 Other examples may be found in treaties made since the adoption of the Constitution....

...1783 was therefore carefully guarded in the wording of the Tory clause, Article v, which declared: Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the legislatures...arms against the said United States. . . .and that Congress shall earnestly recommend to the several States a reconsideration and revision of all the...

...citizenship should be restored." In Article 5 of the treaty of 1783, it was agreed that Congress should "earnestly recommend it to the Legislatures of the...been confiscated belonging to real British Subjects." ** Congress did recommend amnesty and restitution, but at first the State legislatures either refused...

...contracted." And the fifth Article having stipulated, that the Congress should earnestly recommend to the Legislatures of the respective States, to provide...restitution of all estates, rights and properties which had been confiscated, belonging to real british Subjects; and the sixth Article having provided, that...

...5th. It is agreed that Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the Legislatures of the several Stales to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights,...confiscated, belonging to real British subjects; and also all the estates, rights, and properties of persons resident in districts in possession of his Majesty's...

...right beyond that so possessed. By the fifth article it is agreed, that the Congress shall recommend to the legislatures of the respective states, to provide...confiscated belonging to real British subjects : and also, that persons of every description shall have liberty to go into every part of the United States, and...

...conformity to the 5th. article of the Provisional treaty, will lose no time in earnestly recommending to the legislatures of the respective States, to provide for the restitution of confiscated estates, & to reconsider and revise all laws of confiscation, that they may be And the...

...independence. Article V of the Treaty stated in part: It is agreed that the Congress shall earnestly recommend to the legislatures of the respective states, to provide...all estates, rights and properties which have been conf iscated, . . .and that Congress shall also earnestly recommend to the several States a reconsideration...

...foreigners dependent on such laws. In the treaty of 1783 with Great Britain, Art. V. provides: "It is agreed that the Congress shall earnestly recommend...confiscated, belonging to real British subjects." In the treaty of 1853 with France it was provided in section seven: "As to the states of the Union,...

...Recovery of the full Value in Sterling Money of all bona fide Debts heretofore contracted. Art 5th It is agreed that the Congress shall earnestly recommend...provide for the Restitution of all Estates, Rights & Properties which have been confiscated belonging to real British Subjects; and also of the Estates,...