ART: XVIII. The present convention shall remain in force for the space of ten years counting from the day of the exchange of the ratifications which shall be exchanged at Berlin within the period of six months. In case neither party gives notice, twelve months before the expiration of the said period of ten years, of its intention not to renew this convention, it shall remain in force one year longer, and so on from year to year, until the expiration of a year from the day on which one of the parties shall have given such notize. In faith whereof the Plenipotentiaries have signed and sealed this Convention. Berlin the 11. of December 1871. GEO BANCROFT SEAL. SEAL. PROTOCOL.1 The Undersigned met this day in order to effect the exchange of the ratifications of the Consular Convention signed on the 11th day of December 1871 between the United States of America and Germany. Before proceeding to this Act, the Undersigned, Envoy extraordinary and Minister plenipotentiary of the United States of America, declared: 1. that, in accordance with the instruction given him by his government, with the advice and consent of the Senate, the expression "property" used in the English text of articles III and IX is to be construed as meaning and intending "real estate:" 4 2. that, according to the laws and the Constitution of the United States, Article X applies not only to persons of the male sex but also to persons of the female sex. After the Undersigned, President of the office of the Chancellor of the Empire had expressed his concurrence with this declaration, the Acts of ratification, found to be in good and due form, were exchanged, and the present protocol was in duplicate executed. Berlin, the 29. April 1872. GEO. BANCROFT DELBRUECK. By resolution of April 24, 1872, the Senate advised and consented to the execution of this protocol. 2 Page 193. 3 Page 195. 'Page 195. GREAT BRITAIN. (UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.) The treaties leading to the establishment of peace between the United States and Great Britain, forming such an important factor in settling the territory and establishing the Government of the United States, are reprinted, although many of the articles have been abrogated by subsequent wars or modified by later conventions. 1782. PROVISIONAL TREATY OF PEACE. Concluded at Paris November 30, 1782; proclamation ordered by Congress April 11, 1783. (Treaties and Conventions, 1889, p. 370.) (As the provisions of all the articles except the separate articles are repeated in the definitive treaty of peace, only the titles of the articles are here given.) 1783. DEFINITIVE TREATY OF PEACE. Concluded at Paris September 3, 1783; ratified by Congress January 14, 1784; proclaimed January 14, 1784. (Treaties and Conventions, 1889, p. 375.) In the Name of the most Holy & undivided Trinity. It having pleased the divine Providence to dispose the Hearts of the most Serene and Most Potent Prince George the third, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, & Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg, Arch-Treasurer, and Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Empire &c., and of 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 beneficial and satisfactory Intercourse between the two Countries upon the Ground of reciprocal Advantages and mutual Convenience as may promote and secure to both perpetual Peace & harmony; and having for this desirable End already laid the Foundation of Peace & Reconciliation, by the Provisional Articles signed at Paris, on the 30th of Nov., 1782, by the Commissioners empower'd 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 to be concluded until Terms of Peace should be agreed upon between Great Britain & France, and his Britannic Majesty should be ready to conclude such Treaty accordingly: and the Treaty between Great Britain & France having since been concluded, His Britannic Majesty & the United States of America, in Order to carry into full Effect the Provisional Articles above mentioned, according to the Tenor thereof, have constituted & 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, Esqre late Delegate in Congress Federal cases: Respublica v. Gordon, 1 Dall., 233; Georgia v. Brailsford, 3 Dall., 1; Ware v. Hylton, 3 Dall., 199; Hunter v. Fairfax, 3 Dall., 305; Hopkirk v. Bell, 3 Cranch, 454, 4 Cranch, 164; M'Ilvaine v. Coxe's Lessee, 4 Cranch, 209; Higginson v. Mein, 4 Cranch, 415; Owings v. Norwood's Lessee, 5 Cranch, 344; Smith v. Maryland, 6 Cranch, 286; Fairfax v. Hunter, 7 Crauch, 603; Martin v. Hunter's Lessee, 1 Wheat., 304; Orr v. Hodgson, 4 Wheat., 453; Blight's Lessee v. Rochester, 7 Wheat., 535; Society for Propagation of the Gospel v. New Haven, 8 Wheat., 464; Harcourt v. Gaillard, 12 Wheat., 523; Shanks v. Dupont, 3 Pet., 242; Carver v. Jackson, 4 Pet., 1; U. S. v. Repentigny, 5 Wall., 211; Hylton's Lessee v. Brown, 1 Wash. C. C., 298, 343; Gordon's Lessee v. Kerr, 1 Wash. C. C., 322; Fisher v. Harnden, 1 Paine C. C., 55; Jones v. Walker, 2 Paine C. C., 688; Dunlop v. Alexander, 1 Cranch C. C., 498. from the State of Pennsylvania, President of the Convention of the sd State, and Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America at the Court of Versailles; John Jay, Esqre, late President of Congress, and Chief Justice of the State of New-York & Minister Plenipotentiary from the said United States at the Court of Madrid; to be the Plenipotentiaries for the concluding and signing the present Definitive Treaty; who after having reciprocally communicated their respective full Powers, have agreed upon and confirmed the following Articles: ARTICLE 1st His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the s United States, viz. New-Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode-Island & Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina & Georgia, to be free sovereign & Independent States; that he treats with them as such, and for himself his Heirs and Successors, relinquishes all claims to the Government Propriety & Territorial Rights of the same & every Part thereof. ARTICLE 24 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 hereby agreed and declared, that the following 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 Saint 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 Northwesternmost Head of Connecticut River: Thence down along the middle of that River, to the forty fifth 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 said River into Lake Ontario; through the Middle of said Lake until it strikes the Communication by Water between that Lake & 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 & Lake Huron; Thence along the middle of said Water-Communication into the Lake Huron, thence through the middle of said Lake to the Water Communication between that Lake & Lake Superior, thence through Lake Superior Northward of the Isles Royal & Phelipeaux, to the Long Lake; Thence through the Middle of said Long-Lake, and the Water Communication between it & the Lake of the Woods, to the said Lake of the Woods; Thence through the said Lake to the most Northwestern 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 thirty first 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 thirty one 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 strait 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 fall into the River St. Lawrence; comprehending all Islands within twenty Leagues of any Part of the Shores of the United States, & 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. ARTICLE 3d It is agreed that the People of the United States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the Right to take Fish of every kind on the Grand Bank and on all the other Banks of New-foundland, also in the Gulph of St Lawrence, and at all other Places in the Sea where the Inhabitants of both Countries used at any time heretofore to fish. And also that the Inhabitants of the United States shall have Liberty to take Fish of every kind on such Part of the Coast of New-foundland as British Fishermen shall use, (but not to dry or cure the same on that Island) and also on the Coasts Bays & Creeks of all other of his Britannic Majesty's Dominions in America, and that the American Fishermen shall have Liberty to dry and cure Fish in any of the unsettled Bays, Harbours and Creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long 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 Settlement, without a previous Agreement for that purpose with the Inhabitants, Proprietors or Possessors of the Ground. ARTICLE 4th 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 bona fide Debts heretofore contracted. ARTICLE 5th 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 thirteen United States and therein to remain twelve Months unmolested in their Endeavours to obtain the Restitution of such of their Estates Rights & 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 earnestly 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 bonâ fide Price (where any has been given) which such Persons may |