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OF

Amity, Commerce, and Navigation,

BETWEEN

HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY

AND THE

UNITED STATES, OF AMERICA;

BY THEIR PRESIDENT,

WITH THE ADVICE AND CONSENT OF THE SENATE,

Nov. 19, 1794.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. DEBRETT, OPPOSITE BURLINGTON.

HOUSE, PICCADILLY.

1795.

[Price One Shilling.]

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TREATY

WITH THE

United States of America.

HIS Britannic Majefty and the United States of Ame

rica, being defirous by a Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, to terminate their differences in fuch a manner, as without reference to the merits of their respective complaints and pretenfions, may be the best calculated to produce mutual fatisfaction and good underftanding and alfo to regulate the commerce and navigation between their refpective countries, territories, and people, in fuch a manner as to render the fame reciprocal, beneficial, and fatisfactory; they have, refpectively, named their Plenipotentiaries, and given them full powers to treat of, and conclude the faid Treaty; that is to fay, His Britannic Majefty has named for his Plenipotentiary, the Right Hon. William Windham, Baron Grenville of Wotton, one of his Majefty's Privy Council, and His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for foreign affairs and the Prefident of the faid United States, by and with the advice and confent of the Senate thereof, hath appointed for their Plenipotentiary, the Hon. John Jay, Chief Juftice of the faid United States, and their Envoy Extraordinary to His Majefty, who hath agreed on, and concluded the following articles:

Art. I. There fhall be a firm, inviolable, and univerfal peace, and a true and fincere friendship between A 2 His

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His Britannic Majefty, his heirs and fucceffors, and the United States of America; and between their respective countries, territories, cities, towns, and people, of every degree, without exception of perfons or places.

Art. II. His Majefty will withdraw all his troops and garrifons from all posts and places within the boundary lines affigned by the Treaty of Peace to the United States. This evacuation fhall take place on or before the first day of June, 1796, and all the proper measures shall in the interval be taken by concert between the government of the United States, and His Majefty's Governor-general in America, for fettling the previous arrangements which may be neceffary refpecting the delivery of the faid posts: the United States, in the mean time, at their discretion, extending their fettlements to any part within the faid boundary line, except within the precincts or jurifdiction of any of the faid pofts. All fettlers and traders within the precincts or jurifdiction of the faid pofts fhall continue to enjoy, unmolefted, all their property of every kind, and fhall be protected therein they fhall be at full liberty to remain there, or to remove with all or any part of their effects; and it fhall alfo be free to them to fell their lands, houfes, or effects, or to retain the property thereof, at their difcretion; fuch of them as fhall continue to refide within the faid boundary lines, fhall not be compelled to become Citizens of the United States, or to take any oath of allegiance to the Government thereof, but they fhall be at full liberty fo to do, if they think proper, and they fhall make and declare their election within one year after the evacuation aforefaid. And all perfons who fhall continue there after the expiration of the faid year, without having declared their intention of remaining fubjects of His Britannic Majefty, fhall be confidered as having elected to become Citizens of the United States.

Art. III. It is agreed that it fhall at all times be free to His Majefty's fubjects, and to the Citizens of the United States, and alfo to the Indians dwelling on either fide of the faid boundary line, freely to pafs and repafs, by land or inland navigation, into the refpective territories and countries of the two parties on the Continent of

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America (the country within the limits of the Hudfon's Bay Company only excepted) and to navigate all the Lakes, Rivers, and Waters thereof, and freely to carry on Trade and Commerce with each other. But it is underftood, that this Article does not extend to the admiffion of veffels of the United States into the Sea Ports, Harbours, Bays, or Creeks of His Majefty's faid Territories; nor into fuch parts of the Rivers in His Majefty's faid Territories as are between the mouth thereof, and the highest port of entry from the Sea, except in fmall veffels trading bona fide between Montreal and Quebec, under fuch regulations as fhall be established to prevent the poffibility of any frauds in this refpect; nor to the admiffion of Britifh veffels from the Sea into the Rivers of the United States, beyond the higheft Ports of entry for foreign veffels from the Sea. The River Miffiffippi fhall, however, according to the Treaty of Peace, be entirely open to both parties; and it is farther agreed, that all the Ports and Places on its Eaftern Side, to which foever of the parties belonging, may freely be reforted to, and used by both parties, in as ample a manner as any of the Atlantic ports or places of the United States, or any of the ports or places of His Majesty in Great Britain.

All goods and merchandise whofe importation into His Majefty's faid Territories in America fhall not be entirely prohibited, may freely, for the purposes of Commerce, be carried into the fame in the manner aforefaid, by the Citizens of the United States, and fuch goods and merchandise fhall be fubject to no higher or other duties than would be payable by His Majefty's fubjects on the importation of the fame from Europe into the faid Territories. And in like manner, all goods and merchandife whose importation into the United States fhall not be wholly prohibited, may freely, for the purpose of Commerce, be carried into the fame, in the manner aforefaid, by His Majefty's fubjects; and fuch goods and merchandise fhall be fubject to no higher or other duties than would be payable by the Citizens of the United States on the importation of the fame, in American veffels, into the Atlantic ports of the faid States. And all goods not prohibited to be exported from the faid Territories refpectively, may, in like manner, be carried out of the fame by the two parties refpectively, paying duty as aforefaid.

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