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VOL. IL ‘.r MIST*» WBBKLY, , v- ST BODGE V MDON.'tZLL. 1 *** r v% - conditions, v; f • r ■ 2lt The Annual Sobscriprionwiil be Ttau . dollars, lialf hi advance., • . ■», - iJ| * 23. Subscribers living ocit of the Stare will pay the whole subscription upon the delivery of the first number. ‘•;/ . Vjl : ‘ > & v’^ ,w y* - ■■J' y-i *,V , ■ + ;-5 3*l. No Subscriptions will be received for less than one year; and no paper shall be dis continued until arrearages are paid. 4th- Advertisements will be .inserted at the customary rates. ; %y , V’ fry* Letters addressed to the Edi- WOBS t must be post paid, TREATY OF PEACE . , ] ..., v.. % 1,1 »<W": w ’ <:> JVasmjngToh, February 18. JAMES MADISON. President of the United States or America. To aft and singular to whom t ‘test present: shall come greeting : Whereas a Treaty of Peace and ty between the United States of Ame rica, and his Britannic majesty w<♦.? Signed at Ghent) on the 24th day of De cember, one thousand eight hundred & fourteen, by Plenipotentiaries respec ti /cly appointed for that purpose / ant the said treaty having been, by and with the advice and consent of the United States, duly accepted, ratified, and con* firmed, on the seventeenth day of Feb ruary, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen; and ratified copies thereof hav. ing been exchanged agreeably to the tenor of the said treaty, which is in the words following, to wit; TREATY or PEACE & AMITY br y tween his BRITANNIC MAJES TY and THE UNI lED STATES or AMERICA. , His Britannic majesty and the Un ; ted States of America, desirous of terming, •ting the war which has unhappily sub stated between the two countries, and bf restoring. upon principles of perfect reciprocity, peace, friendship, and good understanding between them, have, for that purpose, appointed their respective frtenipotentiarieii, that is to say s his Britannic Majesty, on his part, has ap pointed the Tight honorable James Gord Gambier, late admiral of the white, now admiral of the red squadron of his ma jesty's fleet, Henry Goulburn, Esq. a member of the imperial parliament and under secretary of state, and William Adams, Esq. doctor of civil lafr* ; And the President of the United States, and with the advice and consent, of tliie Senate thereof, has appointed John Q. Adams, James A. Bayard, Henry Clay, Jonathan Russel and Albert Gallatin, citizens of the United States, who, af ter a reciprocal communication of their, respective full have agreed up on the following articles: \ ARTICLE FOlSti There shall be a fitm and universal Peace, between his Britannic Majesty •nd the United States, and between their respective countries, territories, cities, towns. fit people, of every degree, with out exception of places or persons All hostilities, both by sea and land, shall cease as soon as this treaty shall have been ratified by both parties, as herein after mentioned. All territory, places, and possessions whatsoever, taken from either party by the other, during the war,’ or which may be taken after the signing of this treaty, excepting only the islands hereinafter mentioned. shall be restored without delay, and without causing any destruction, or carrying away any of the artillery or Other public property origin ally captured in the said forts or places, and which shall remain therein upon the exchange of the ratifications of this i treaty, or any slaves or other private property. - And all archive?, records, deeds and papers, either of a public na ture, or belonging to private persons, which, in the course ot the war. may have fallen into the hands of the officers of either party, shall be, as far as may ha practicable, .forthwith restored and delivered to the proper authorities and persons to whom they respectively be- Such of the islands in the Bay of Passamaquoddy as are claimed by both parties, shall nemam in, the possession ! Jtf the party in whose occupation they ; ATHENS, THURSDAY, MARCH 16,1815. be at the time, of the exchange of the ratifications of this Treaty, until the decision respecting the title to the islands, shall have been made in confor mity With the fourth article of this treaty. No disposition made by this treaty, as to such possession of the isl ands and teriitoriefc claimed by both parties, shall, in any manner whatever, ne construed to affect the right of hi ther. ‘ARTICLE THE SECOND. Immediately after the of this treaty by both parties, as hereinaf ter mentioned, orders shall be sent to die armies, squadrons, officers, subject* nd citizens, of the two powers to ceast from all hostilities. And to prevent all causes of complaint which might arise on account of the prizes which may taken at sea after the said ratifications oi this treaty, it is reciprocally agreed, that all vessels and effects which may be taken after the space of twelve days from the said ratifications, upon all parts of the coast of North America, from ihe latitude of twenty-three degrees north, and as far eastward in the Atlan tic ocean, as the thirty-sixth degree of west longitude from th t meridian of Greenwich, shall be restored on each aide : i hat the time shall be thirty days in all other parts of the Atlantic ocean* north of the eq» ,; hoctial line or equator, and the same time for the British and Irish channels, for the Gulf ot Mexico and all parts of the West Indies : Forty days for the North Seas, for the Baltic* Jmd for all parts of the Mediterranean ; Sixty days for the Atlantic ocean south of the equator as far as the latitude oi Gape oi Good Hope : Ninety days for every part cf the world south of the e quator : And one hundred and twenty days for all other parts of the world, without exception. Article \hird. All prisoners of war taken on eather side, as well by land as by sea, shall be restored as soon as practicable after the ratifications of this treaty, as hereinafter mentioned* on their paying the debts contracted during their captivity. The two contracting parties respectively eh* gage to ditf harge in specie, the advance winch may have been made by the other for the subststance & maintamancc of such prisoners Article the fourth, x- Whereas it was stipulated by the se cond article in the treaty of peace, one thousand seven hundred & eighty between his Britannic Majesty and the ; jjfhtited States of America, that the boundary of the United State's should comprehend all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United S’ates, and between lines tp be drawn due east from the po pts wfiet e the aforesaid boundaries, between Nova Scotia, on the one part, and East Flori da on the o h&r, shall respectively touch the Bay ofFuhday, & the Atlantic ocean, excepting snob islands as nßyf are, heretofore have been* within the limits of Nova-Scotia ; and whereas the sever al islands in the Bay of Passamaquoddy, which is part of the Bay of Fundy, and the island of Grand Menan in the said Bay ot Fundy, are claimed by the United States as being comprehended within their aforesaid boundaries, which said islands are claimed as belonging to his Britannic Majesty, as having been at the time of, and previous to, the a foresaid .treaty of one thousand seven hundred and eighty three within the limits of the province of Nova-Scotia— in order, therefore, finally to decide up on these claims, it is agreed that they shall be referred to two Commissioners to be appointed in the following man ner, viz. one Commissioner shall be say pointed by his Britannic Majesty, anu one by the President of the Uniteo States by and with the advice and con Sent of the Senate thereof, and the saro two commissioners so appointed shall be sworn impartially to examine and decide upon the said claims according to auch evidence as shall be laid before them on the part of bis B. Majesty and of the: U. Slates respectively. The said Com missioners shall meet at St. Andrews, in the province of New-Bruaswick, and shall have power to adjourn to such place ov places as they shall think fit * he said commissioners snail, by a de claratiua.or report under their hands k seals, decide to which of the two con* L parties the several islands a foresaid do respectively’ belong* in con formity with the true intent of the said Treaty of Peace .of one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three* And if the said commissioners shall agree in their ’ decision* both parties shall consider such decision as final and conclusive It is further agreed* that in the event'of the *two commissioners differing upon all or any of the matters so referred to them*, ofr m the event of both or either of tfie said commissioners refusing* or defining or wilfully omitting, to act as such, they shall make, jointly or Separately, a re port or reports* as well as to Ihe gov ernment of His Britannic Majesty as to that of the United States, stating, m detail the points on which they differ and the grounds upon Which their res peciive opinions have been formed, or; the grounds upon which they, or .either of them* have so refused, declined* o> omitted to act. And his Britannic Ma jesty, and the government of the Umted States hereby agree to refer the report or reports of the said commissioners, to some friendly sovereign or state , to be then named for that purpose, and who shall be requested to decide on the dif-* ferences. which may be stated in the said report or reports* or upon the report of one commissioner, together with the grounds upon which the other comrnis sioners shall have refused, declined, or omitted to act, as the case mav be— And if the commissioners so refusing, declining, or omitting to act, shall also wilfully omit to itate the grounds upon which they have so done, in such man ner that the said statement may be re ferred to such friendly sovereign or state, together with* the report of such other cmniissioner, then such sovereign or state shall decide ex parte upon the said report silone. And his Britannic majesty and the government of -he U. States engage tu consider the decision ,of some friendly sovereign or state to be such and conclusive on tflp mat tets so referred.. ARTICLE rttß FIFTH Whereas neither that point of the highlands lying due north from source of the river St Crqix, and desig nated in the former treaty Os peace \be ivireen the two p >wers as the northwest Nova-Scotia now the northwes ermost head of Connecticut river, v has yet been ascertained i and whereas that part of the boundary line between the dy? minion of the two powers which extends from the source of the river St. - Cioia directly north to the above-mentioned northwest 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 north westerihost head of Connecticut rivet thence down along the middle, of that river to the forty fifth degree of north latitude ; then by a line due vision said latitude until it strikes the river Irequois or Cataraguy, has not yet been survey-; ed .* It is agreed, that for these several purposes two Commisatoners shall be amputated# sworn and authorised, to act exactly in the manner directed with res pect to those mentioned in the next pre ceding article* she said Commissioners shall meet at St. Andrews, in the pro vince of New Brunswick, and shall have power to adjourn to such other place or places as they shall think fit—-The said commissioners shall have power to as certain and determine the points above mentioned, in conformity with the pro visions. of the said treaty of peace of one thousand seven hundred fit eighty-three and shall cause the boundary aforesaid,’ from the source of the river St. Croix, 10 the river* Iroquois or Cataraguy, to be surveyed and marked according to tb* said provis ons. The >ai O uni eo• _r shall make a map oi t ’>* *wd n V and annex to it a declaration undei tueir imads and seals* certifying it to be th. the true map of the said boundary, and; particularizing the latitude and longi tude of thendrthwest angle of Nova-Sco tia, of the north wester moat head of Con necticut river, and of such other points of the said boundary as they may deem proper. And both parties agree tq con ; sider such map and declaration, as final ly and conclusively fixing the said boun dary* And in the event of the said two? commissioners differing, or both, or either of them, refusing or declining, or wilfully omitting to act. such reports, declarations or statements, shall be made by them, on either of them, and such reference to a friendly sovereign or state, shall be made,-in all respects as in the latter part of the fourth at?t;cle is contained and in as full a manner as if the same was herein repeated. ‘* . ARTICLE THE. SIXVH. H V* Whereas.. ( by the former treaty of peace that portion of the boundary if the United States from the point where the forty fifth degree of north latitude strikes ths river Iroquois or to the lake Sperior. was declared to be ** along the middle of *fi) river info *’ lake Ontario, through the commuica “ tiou by water between that lake and k * lake Erie, thence along the said com “ municauon into lake Erie., through *’ themiddle of said lake until in arrives k \ dt the watercommunication into the ** lake Huron, thence through the mid* * kl die of said lake to the water cotnmu “ nicatioa between that lake and lake “ Superior And whereas doubts have arisen what was the middle of said ri vers, lakes and communications) and whether ceartain islands .lying lit the same were within the dominions ot his Britannic majesty or of the Uni ted States : In order therefore,- finally to decide these doubts, they shall be referred to two commissioners, to he appointed, sworn and authorised to act exactly in the maqner directed with respect to thore mentioned in the next P l ’f c ® c^ n & article, unless otherwise spe cified in the present arftcle. The said Commissioners shall meet, in the first instance, at Alb ny in state of New- York, and shall have power to adlourn m such place or places as they J ,haU think fit: The said/ Commissioners shall, by a report or declaration; under their hands and seals* designate the boundary through and water communications, and decide to which of the two contracting parties the several islands lying withjn SB* rU H vers, lakes and water communications do respectively belong, in conformity With the of the said . treaty of ope th<3reand seven hundred, and eighty-three. M And both parties agree to consider sush designation or decision as.final. and. conclusive. r And . in the . vent of the said two eoramissiopers dif fering or wilfully omitting t,o act, reports declarations or statements, shall he, made by thespi or eihen of them, and *uch reference to a friendly sovereign or state shall be made in all respects a$L in-the latter part of the fourth article is* contained, and in as full a manner as if* the same was berem repeated* ARTICLE MB SEVENTH. It is further agreed that the saidi.jtwo last men ioned commissioneiw* after they shall have executed the duties as signed them in the preceding article. : fkaft be# and they are hereby authorisatk, upon their oaths impartially to fix and determine, according to ‘he true intent of the said treaty of peace, of one thou fnd seven hundred and that part of the boundary between the dominions of the two powers, which ex*, tends from the Water communication, lake Huron and lake to the most porth western point of thoT lake ot the Woodiii to decide to of the two parties the several Xslauds „ lying tn the lakes, water communicatt*. ons and risers, forming the said boon* daryf do respectively belong! in conform inily with- the true intent of the said’ treaty Os peate* of one thousand seven 1 nundred and eightydhreC j 8c to cause ’ such parts of the said said boundary, as J require to be surveyed and marked. % ihe said commissioners shall, by a re- * port or declaration, under their hand** and seals* designate the boundary afore said, state their decision on the points-* thus referred to them, and particularize the latitude and longitude of most 7 north western point of the lake of thuL Woods, and such other parts of the 1 said boundary as they may deem pro*, per And both parties agree to cpnsU der such designation and decision as fi-fe •*al and conclusive. And, in the event ’ of the said two commissioners differ*” »ng, or both, or either ofthem uocUmng or JnftjjjlyS omitting tfk.atw* .such reports, declarations* or statements* 1 NO tVII.
