This treaty to be

ARTICLE XI.

This treaty, when the same shall have been ratified on both sides, without alteration by either of the contracting parties, and biting when ran the ratifications mutually exchanged, shall be binding on both parties, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington, in the space of four months from this day, or sooner if practicable.

cations exchanged.

In faith whereof we, the respective Plenipotentiaries, have signed this treaty, and have thereunto affixed our seals.

Done, in triplicate, at Ghent, the twenty-fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.

GAMBIER.

HENRY GOULBURN.

WILLIAM ADAMS.

[L. S.

L. S.

L. S.

A CONVENTION TO REGULATE THE COMMERCE BETWEEN THE TERRITORIES OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF HIS BRITANNICK MAJESTY. CONCLUDED JULY 3, 1815; RATIFICATIONS EXCHANGED DECEMBER 22, 1815. The United States of America and His Britannick Majesty being desirous, by a convention, to regulate the commerce and 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 pow ers 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 Adams, Henry Clay, and Albert Gallatin, citizens of the United States; and His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, has named for his Plenipotentiaries the Right Honourable Frederick John Robinson, Vice-President of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations, Joint Paymaster of His Majesty's Forces, and a member of the Imperial Parliament, Henry Goulbourn, Esquire, a member of the Imperial Parliament, and Under Secretary of State, and William Adams, Esquire, Doctor of Civil Laws;

And the said Plenipotentiaries, having mutually produced and shown. their said full powers, and exchanged copies of the same, have agreed on and concluded the following articles, videlicet:

ARTICLE I.

There shall be between the territories of the United States of AmerReciprocal liberty ica, and all the territories of His Britannick Majesty in of commerce. Europe, a reciprocal liberty of commerce. The inhabitants of the two countries, respectively, shall have liberty freely and securely

to come with their ships and cargoes to all 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 warehouses for the purposes of their commerce; and, generally, the merchants and traders of each nation respectively shall enjoy the most complete protection and security for their commerce, but subject always to the laws and statutes of the two countries, respectively. ARTICLE II.

No higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into the United States of any articles the growth, produce, or Duties on producmanufacture of His Britannick Majesty's territories in tions of each country. Europe, and no higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into the territories of His Britannick Majesty in Europe of any articles the growth, produce, or manufacture 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 Britannick 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 exportation or importation of any articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States, or of His Britannick Majesty's territories in Europe, to or from the said territories of His Britannick Majesty in Europe, or to or from the said United States, which shall not equally extend to all other nations.

No higher or other duties or charges shall be imposed in any of the ports of the United States on British vessels than those payable in the same ports by vessels of the United States;

Equality of duties.

nor in the ports of any of His Britannick Majesty's territories in Europe on the vessels of the United States than shall be payable in the same ports on British vessels.

The same duties shall be paid on the importation into the United States of any articles the growth, produce, or manufacture

Duties on produc

of His Britannick Majesty's territories in Europe, whether tions. such importation shall be in vessels of the United States or in British vessels, and the same duties shall be paid on the importation into the ports of any of His Britannick Majesty's territories in Europe, of any article the growth, produce, or inanufacture of the United States, whether such importation shall be in British vessels or in vessels of the United States.

Equality of duties,

The same duties shall be paid, and the same bounties allowed, on the exportation of any articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of His Britannick Majesty's territories in Europe to &c. the United States, whether such exportation shall be in vessels of the United States or in British vessels; and the 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 Britannick Majesty's territories in Europe, whether such exportation shall be in British vessels or in vessels of the United States.

It is further agreed that in all cases where drawbacks are or may be allowed upon the re-exportation of any goods the Drawbacks the same. growth, produce, or manufacture of either country, respect

ively, the amount of the said drawbacks shall be the same, whether the

said goods shall have been originally imported in a British or an American vessel; but when such re-exportation shall take place from the United States in a British vessel, or from the territories of His Britannick Majesty in Europe in an American vessel, to any other foreign nation, the two contracting parties reserve to themselves, respectively, the right of regulating or diminishing, in such case, the amount of the said drawback.

Intercourse with

The intercourse between the United States and His Britannick Majesty's possessions in the West Indies, and on the continent the British West In- of North America, shall not be affected by any of the proican continental pos- Visions of this article, but each party shall remain in the complete possession of its rights, with respect to such an

dies and North Amer

sessions.

intercourse.

Trade with Calcutta,

ARTICLE III.

His Britannick Majesty agrees that the vessels of the United States of America shall be admitted and hospitably received at the &c., direct. principal settlements of the British dominions in the East Indies, videlicet: Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, and Prince of Wales' Island; and that the citizens of the 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, respectively, to and from the said territories, shall not be entirely prohibited; provided only, that it shall not be lawful for them, in any time of war between the British Government and any State or Power whatever, to export from the said territories, without the special permission of the British Government, any military stores, or naval stores, or rice. The citizens of the United States shall pay for their vessels, when admitted, no higher or other duty or charge than shall be payable on the vessels of the most favor'd European nations, and they shall pay no higher or other duties or charges on the importation or exportation of the cargoes of the said vessels than shall be payable on the same articles when imported or exported in the vessels of the most favored European

nations.

Articles must be

But it is expressly agreed that the vessels of the United States shall not carry any articles from the said principal settlements to any port or place, except to some port or place in the United States of America, where the same shall be unladen.

conveyed direct to

United States and be

unladen.

Coasting trade in

dies.

It is also understood that the permission granted by this article is not to extend to allow the vessels of the United States to the British East In Carry on any part of the coasting trade of the said British territories; but the vessels of the United States having, in the first instance, proceeded to one of the said principal settlements of the British dominions in the East Indies, and then going with their original cargoes, or part thereof, from one of the said principal settlements to another, shall not be considered as carrying on the coasting trade. The vessels of the United States may also touch may touch for re- for refreshment, but not for commerce, in the course of freshment, &c. their voyage to or from the British territories in India, or to or from the dominions of the Emperor of China, at the Cape of Good Hope, the island of St. Helena, (a) or such other places as may be in the possession of Great Britain, in the African or Indian seas; it being well understood that in all that regards this article the citizens of the United States shall be subject, in all respects, to the laws and regulations of the British Government from time to time established.

American vessels

(a) "Declaration" at the end of this convention.

ARTICLE IV.

Consuls.

It shall be free for each of the two contracting parties, respectively, to appoint Consuls for the protection of trade, to reside in the dominions and territories of the other party; but before any Consul shall act as such, he shall, in the usual form, be approved and admitted by the Government to which he is sent; and it is hereby declared that, in case of illegal or improper conduct towards How they may be the laws or Government of the country to which he is sent, punished. such Consul may either be punished according to law, if the laws will reach the case, or be sent back, the offended Government assigning to the other the reasons for the same.

It is hereby declared that either of the contracting parties may except from the residence of Consuls such particular places as such party shall judge fit to be so excepted.

ARTICLE V.

Particular places excepted from the residence of Consuls.

This convention to

years.

This convention, when the same shall have been duly ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of their Senate, and by His Britannick Majesty, and be obligatory for four the respective ratifications mutually exchanged, shall be binding and obligatory on the said United States and His Majesty for four years from the date of its signature ;(a) and the ratifications shall be exchanged in six months from this time, sooner if possible.

Exchange of ratifications. or

Done at London this third day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.

Declaration of 24th

The undersigned, His Britannick Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires in the United States of America, is commanded by His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the be- Nov., 1815. half of His Majesty, to explain and declare, upon the exchange of the ratifications of the convention concluded at London on the third of July of the present year, for regulating the commerce and navigation. between the two countries, that, in consequence of events which have happened in Europe subsequent to the signature of the convention aforesaid, it has been deemed expedient, and determined, in conjunction with the allied sovereigns, that St. Helena shall be the place allotted for the future residence of General Napoleon Bonaparte, under such regulations as may be necessary for the perfect security of his person; and it has been resolved, for that purpose, that all ships All vessels, except and vessels whatever, as well British ships and vessels as those of the East others, excepting only ships belonging to the East India claded from approach Company, shall be excluded from all communication with, or approach to, that island.

India Company, ex

ing the island.

(a) Continued for ten years by the fourth article of the convention of London of 20th October, 1818.

It has therefore become impossible to comply with so much of the third article of the treaty as relates to the liberty of touching for refreshment at the island of St. Helena, and the ratifications of the said treaty will be exchanged under the explicit declaration and understanding that the vessels of the United States cannot be allowed to touch at, or hold any communication whatever with, the said island, so long as the said island shall continue to be the place of residence of the said Napoleon Bonaparte.(a)

WASHINGTON, November 24, 1815.

ANTHONY ST. JNO. BAKER.

ARRANGEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN, MADE BY RICHARD RUSH, ESQ., ACTING AS SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE, AND CHARLES BAGOT, HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY, &c. CONCLUDED APRIL 28, 1817.

The naval force to be maintained upon the American lakes by His Proclamation of Majesty and the Government of the United States shall the President of the henceforth be confined to the following vessels on each side

United States, April 28, 1818.

that is

;

On Lake Ontario, to one vessel not exceeding one hundred tons burthen, and armed with one eighteen-pound cannon.

On the upper lakes, to two vessels, not exceeding like burthen each, and armed with like force.

On the waters of Lake Champlain, to one vessel not exceeding like Naval force on the burthen, and armed with like force.

lakes.

All other armed vessels on these lakes shall be forthwith dismantled, and no other vessels of war shall be there built or armed. If either party should hereafter be desirous of annulling this stipulation, and should give notice to that effect to the other party, cease on six months it shall cease to be binding after the expiration of six months from the date of such notice.

Stipulation may

notice.

The naval force so to be limited shall be restricted to such services as will, in no respect, interfere with the proper duties of the armed vessels of the other party.

Naval force.

DECLARATION OF THE COMMISSIONERS UNDER THE FOURTH ARTICLE OF THE TREATY OF GHENT. NOVEMBER 24, 1817.

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Declaration of the Commissioners companying their decision.

NEW YORK, November 24, 1817.

SIR: The undersigned Commissioners, appointed by virtue of the fourth article of the treaty of Ghent, have attended to the duties assigned them; and have decided that Moose Island, Dudley Island, and Frederick Island, in the Bay of Passamaquoddy, which is part of the Bay of Fundy, do each of them belong to the United States of America; and that all the other islands in the Bay of Passamaquoddy, and the Island of Grand Menan, in the Bay of Fundy, do each of them belong to His Britannic Majesty, in conformity with the true intent of the second article of the treaty of peace of one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three. The Commissioners have the honor to enclose herewith their decision.

(a) In consequence of the death of Napoleon Bonaparte, the British Government notified the Minister of the United States at London of the cessation of this restriction, on the 30th July, 1821.