ARTICLE XIII.-(East India Trade.)-Vessels of the United States are permitted by this article to trade with the British East Indies, without any discriminating tonnage duties, or other duties, provided that they shall not carry any article exported from the said territories "to any port or place except to some port or place in America. "

ARTICLE XIV.-(Trade with the British dominions in Europe.) -With the British dominions in Europe, there is to be entire freedom of commerce and navigation, with no discriminating duties of any kind.

ARTICLE XVI.-(Consuls.)-Consuls may be appointed for the protection of trade; but they shall be amenable to the laws of their place of residence.

ARTICLE XVII.-Relates to captures or detentions of neutral vessels.

ARTICLE XVIII.-(Contraband.)-" In order to regulate what is in future to be esteemed contraband of war, it is agreed that under the said denomination shall be comprised all arms and implements serving for the purposes of war, by land or sea, such as cannon, muskets, mortars, petards, bombs, grenades, carcasses, saucisses, carriages for cannon, musket-rests, bandoliers, gunpowder, match, saltpetre, ball, pikes, swords, head-pieces, cuirasses, halberts, lances, javelins, horse-furniture, holsters, belts, and generally all other implements of war, as also timber for ship-building, tar or rozin, copper in sheets, sails, hemp, and cordage, and generally whatever may serve directly to the equipment of vessels, unwrought iron and fir planks only excepted; and all the above articles are hereby declared to be just objects of confiscation whenever they are attempted to be carried to an enemy.

"And whereas the difficulty of agreeing on the precise cases in which alone provisions and other articles not generally contraband may be regarded as such, renders it expedient to provide against the inconveniences and misunderstandings which might thence arise: It is further agreed that whenever any such articles so becoming contraband, according to the existing laws of nations, shall for that reason be seized, the same shall not be confiscated, but the owners thereof shall be speedily and completely indemnified; and the captors, or, in their default, the Government under whose authority they act,

shall pay to the masters or owners of such vessels the full value of all such articles, with a reasonable mercantile profit thereon, together with the freight, and also the demurrage incident to such detention."

ARTICLE XIX.-Regulations for the protection of citizens from men-of-war, or privateers. Privateers to give security, etc. See Plan of Treaties, XVIII.

ARTICLE XX.-See Plan of Treaties, XIX.

ARTICLE XXI.-Subjects or citizens of the one party shall not accept commissions from a foreign State at war with the other. See Plan of Treaties, XXIV.

ARTICLE XXII.-Reprisals shall not be authorized, until a statement of grievances has been made.

ARTICLE XXIII.-Regulation of rights of ships of war in foreign ports.

ARTICLE XXIV.-Foreign privateers. See Plan of Treaties, XXV.

ARTICLE XXV.-Ships of war may enter with their prizes the ports of either country. See Plan of Treaties, XX.

ARTICLE XXVI.-In case of war between the two nations the citizens or subjects of one residing in the other shall be allowed to remain unmolested so long as they remain peaceable; or they shall have twelve months in which to remove.

ARTICLE XXVII.-(Extradition.)-Persons charged with the crimes of murder or forgery in one State and fleeing to the other shall be delivered up on demand.

ARTICLE XXVIII. (Limitation of the treaty.)-The first ten articles shall be permanent, and the subsequent articles, except the twelfth, shall be limited in duration to twelve years, to be computed from the day of the exchange of ratifications.

GRENVILLE.
JOHN JAY.

ADDITIONAL ARTICLE.

"It is further agreed, between the said contracting parties, that the operation of so much of the twelfth article of the said treaty as respects the trade which his said Majesty thereby consents may be carried on between the United States and his islands in the West Indies, in the manner and on the terms and conditions therein specified, shall be suspended." 1

1 In accordance with the provisions of the 5th article, the commissioners met at Halifax, in March, 1798, and determined the river St. Croix, but left unsettled the place of its source; this was left in dispute till 1842.

The commission provided for by the 6th article in respect to British debts, met in Philadelphia, and disposed of a number of claims, but on account of a disagreement the sessions of the commission were discontinued in 1798. On the 19th of March, 1798, Congress appropriated three millions of dollars for the payment of the awards up to that time. The remaining claims were settled by a convention signed in London by Rufus King, January 8, 1802, the United States agreeing to pay 600,000 pounds sterling.

The commission provided by the 7th article met in London, in 1796, and after many disputes and interruptions, finished its work the 24th of February, 1804. The awards against Great Britain amounted to about 1,284,177 pounds sterling, those against the United States to nearly 200,000 pounds (See Davis's notes, on Great Britain.)

When the commercial articles of the Jay treaty were about to expire in 1806, a new treaty was negotiated with England by Monroe and Pinckney; but because it contained no clause abandoning the claim to the right of "impressment," Jefferson declined to submit it to the Senate for its approval.

GREAT BRITAIN, 1814.

TREATY OF PEACE AND AMITY.

Concluded December 24, 1814. Ratifications exchanged at Washington February 17, 1815. Proclaimed February 18, 1815.

ARTICLE I. (Declaration of amity-restoration of territory.) All territory and places, except certain islands in Passamaquoddy Bay, to be restored, " and without causing any destruction or carrying away any of the artillery or other public property originally captured in the said ports or places, and which shall remain therein upon the exchange of ratifications of this treaty, or any slaves or other private property." All archives, records, deeds, etc., taken by either party to be restored.

The islands mentioned to remain in the possession of the occupier at the date of ratification until a decision thereon in accordance with the fourth article of this treaty.

ARTICLE II.-Hostilities to cease upon the ratification of the treaty, and prizes taken after that date to be restored, but with a time allowance for the intelligence of the peace to reach various parts of the seas of the world.

ARTICLE III.-Prisoners to be restored.

ARTICLE IV.-(Boundaries-islands.)-Provides for the appointment of two commissioners to settle the disputed question of the Passamaquoddy islands "in conformity with the true intent of the said treaty of peace of one thousand seven hundred and eighty three." If the commissioners cannot agree, the matter to be referred to a friendly sovereign or State for decision.

ARTICLE V. (Northeastern Boundary.)-Whereas neither that point of the highlands lying due north from the source of the river St. Croix, and designated in the former treaty of peace between the Powers as the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, nor the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River, has yet been ascertained; and whereas that part of the boundary line be

tween the two dominions of the two Powers which extends from the source of the river St. Croix directly north to the abovementioned northwestern angle of Nova Scotia, thence 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 northwesternmost head of Connecticut River, thence down along the middle of that river to the fortyfifth degree of north latitude; thence by a line due west on said latitude until it strikes the river Iroquois or Cataraquy, has not yet been surveyed: it is agreed that for these several purposes two Commissioners shall be appointed, sworn and authorized to act exactly in the manner directed with respect to those mentioned in the next preceding article, unless otherwise specified in the present article.

The said Commissioners shall make a map of the said boundary, and annex to it a declaration under their hands and seals, certifying it to be the true map of the said boundary, and particularizing the latitude and longitude of the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, of the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River, and of such other points of the said boundary as they may deem proper.

In

the event of the said two Commissioners differing. reference to a friendly sovereign or State shall be made in all respects as in the latter part of the fourth article.

ARTICLE VI.-(Boundary from river Iroquois or Cataraquy -St. Lawrence--to Lake Superior.)-To be referred to two commissioners, as in the preceding article.

ARTICLE VII.-(Boundary between Lake Superior and the Lake of the Woods.)-To be referred to the two commissioners named in the preceding article, with like conditions.

ARTICLE VIII.-Refers to details and proceedings of the various commissions mentioned in the four preceding articles. ARTICLE IX.-Hostilities with Indians to cease.

ARTICLE X.-(Abolition of the Slave trade.)-" Whereas the traffic in slaves is irreconcilable with the principles of humanity and justice, and whereas both His Majesty and the United States are desirous of continuing their 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."