1827. July 4

Separate Article.

Certain relations of proximity and ancient connexions havSeparate article ing led to regulations for the importation of the products of the Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway into the Grand Duchy of Finland, and that of the products of Finland into Sweden and Norway, in vessels of the respective countries, by special stipulations of a treaty still in force, and whose renewal forms, at this time, the subject of a negotiation between the courts of Sweden and Norway and Russia, said stipulations being, in no manner, connected with the existing regulations for foreign commerce in general, the two high contracting parties, anxious to remove from their commercial relations all kinds of ambi

and tenth arti

cable to the commerce of

Finland.

Eighth, ninth, guity or motives of discussion, have agreed that the eighth, cles not appli- ninth, and tenth articles of the present treaty shall not be applicable either to the navigation and commerce above mentioned, nor, consequently, to the exceptions in the general tariff of custom-house duties, and in the regulations of navigation resulting therefrom, nor to the special advantages which are, or may be granted to the importation of tallow and candles from Russia, founded upon equivalent advantages granted by Russia on certain articles of importation from Sweden and Norway.

The present separate article shall have the same force and value as if it were inserted, word for word, in the treaty signed this day, and shall be ratified at the same time.

In faith whereof, we, the undersigned, by virtue of our
respective full powers, have signed the present separate
article, and affixed thereto the seals of our arms.
Done at Stockholm, the fourth of July, one thousand eight
hundred and twenty-seven.

J. J. APPLETON,
G. COUNT DE WETTERSTEDT,

[L. S.

Article Séparé.

Des rapports de proximité et d'anciennes relations ayant fait régler l'importation des productions des royaumes des Suède et de Norvège dans le grand duché de Finlande, et celle des productions de la Finlande en Suède et en Norvège sur les bâtimens des pays respectifs, par des stipulations spéciales d'un traité encore en vigueur, et dont le renouvellement forme un objet de négociation actuelle, entre les cours de Suède et de Norvège et de Russie, sans que lesdites stipulations soient liées aux réglemens existants pour le commerce étranger en général, les deux hautes parties contractantes voulant écarter de leurs relations commerciales tout espèce d'équivoque ou de motif de discussion, sont tombées d'accord que le articles huit, neuf et dix du présent traité, ne seront point applicables ni à la navigation et au commerce susmentionnés, et par conséquent aux exceptions dans les tarifs généraux des douanes, et dans les réglemens de navigation qui en résultant, ni aux avantages speciaux qui sont ou pourroient être donnés à l'importation du suif et des chandelles de Russie, motivés par des avantages équivalens accordés en à des articles d'importation de Suède et de Norvège.

Le présent article séparé aura la même force et vigueur que s'il était inséré mot à dans le traité signé aujourd'hui, et sera ratifié en même tems.

En foi de quoi, nous soussignés, en vertu de nos pleins pouvoirs respectifs, avons signé le présent article séparé, et y avons apposé le cachet de nos armes.

Fait à Stockholm, le quatre Juillet, mil huit cent vingt sept.

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ticles between the U. States and Great Britain.

TREATIES AND CONVENTIONS

BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND GREAГ

BRITAIN.

Provisional ar- No. 1.-Articles agreed upon, by and between Richard Oswald, esquire, the commissioner of his Britannic majesty, for treating of peace with the commissioners of the United States of America, in behalf of his said majesty, on the one part, and John Adams, Benj Franklin, John Jay, and Henry Laurens, four of the commissioners of the said states for treating of peace with the commissioners of his said majesty, on their behalf, on the other part, 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 is not to be concluded until terms of a peace shall be agreed upon between Great Britain and France; and his Britannic majesty shall be ready to conclude such treaty accordingly:

Equity and reciprocity declared to be the

basis of this treaty.

Whereas reciprocal advantages and mutual convenience are found by experience to form the only permanent foundation of peace and friendship between states; it is agreed to form the articles of the proposed treaty, on such principles of liberal equity and reciprocity, as that partial advantages, (those seeds of discord,) being excluded, such a beneficial and satisfactory intercourse between the two countries may be established, as to promise and secure to both, perpetual peace and harmony.

His Britannic ART. 1. His Britannic majesty acknowledges the said Unimajesty acknowledges the ted States, viz: New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode thirteen United Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, sovereign, and New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, independent. North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sov

States to be free

ereign, and independent states; that he treats with them as such; and for himself, his heirs and successors, relinquishes all claims to the government, propriety, and territorial rights of the same, and every part thereof. 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:

ART. 2. From the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, viz. that & their territo- angle which is formed by a line drawn due north from the ries defined and source of St. Croix river to the highlands, along the said

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The boundaries

tories defined

Atlantic ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut river, thence down along the middle of that river, to the forty- November 30. fifth degree of north latitude; from thence, by a line due west on said latitude, until it strikes the river Iroquois or Ca- of the U. States taraquy; thence along the middle of said river into lake On- and their territario, through the middle of said lake until it strikes the com- and admitted. munication by water between that lake and 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 and 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 and lake Superior; thence through lake Superior northward of the isles Royal and Philipeaux, to the Long Lake; thence through the middle of said Long Lake and the water communication between it and 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 to 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 straight 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, and 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.

Акг. 3. It is agreed that the people of the United States The people of shall continue to enjoy unmolested, the right to take fish of have the right every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of to take fish on

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the Grand and

Newfoundland; also in the gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all November 30. other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish; and also that the other banks of inhabitants of the United States shall have liberty to take fish Newfoundland, of every kind on such part of the coast of Newfoundland as in the gulf of St. Lawrence, on British fishermen shall use (but not to dry or cure the same on

the coast of Newfoundland,

dland, that island) and also on the coasts, bays and creeks of all other &c. and to dry of his Britannic majesty's dominions in America; and that the and cure them, for the present, American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in baye anseted any of the unsettled bays, harbors, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia, &c Magdalen islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall

in the

No impediment allowed to the

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.

ART. 4. It is agreed that creditors on either side, shall recovery of meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full debts on either value in sterling money, of all bonâ fide debts heretofore

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commend to the

contracted.

Congress to re- Акт. 5. It is agreed that the congress shall earnestly recomrespectivestates mend it, to the legislatures of the respective states, to provide to provide the

restitution of

for the restitution of all estates, rights, and properties, which confiscated pro have been confiscated, belonging to real British subjects, and perty belonging also

to real

of the estates, rights and properties of persons resident in subjects and o- districts in the possession of his majesty's arms, and who have thers, &c.

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 endeavors to obtain the restitution of such of their estates, rights, and 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 have paid on purchasing any of the said