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duction, at such time and places, 
and under such conditions, as 
shall be awarded by the same 
commissioners. 
22. The two high contracting 
parties, hoping that the good cor, 
respondence and friendship which 
happily reigns between them, will 
be further increased by this treaty, 
and that it will contribute to aug- 
ment their prosperity and opulence, 
will in future give to their mutual 
commerce all the extension and fa- 
vour which the advantages of both 
countries may require, 
And in consequence of the sti- 
pulations contained in the fourth 
article, his Catholic majesty will 
permit the citizens of the United 
States, for the space of three years 
from this time, to deposit their 
merchandizes and effects in the 
port of New Orleans, and to ex- 
port them from thence without 
paying any other duty than a fair 
price for the hire of the stores ; 
and his majesty promises, either to 
continue this permission, if he finds, 
during that time, that it is not pre- 
judicial to the interest of Spain, or 
if he should not agree to continue, 
he will assign to them, on another 
part of the banks of the Mississip- 
pi, an equivalent establishment, 
23. The present treaty shall not 
be in force until ratified by the 
contracting parties, and the ratifi- 
cations shall be exchanged in six 
months from that time, or sooner, 
if possible. 
In witness whereof, we the under- 
written plenipotentiaries of his Ca- 
tholic majesty and of the United 
States of America have signed this 
present treaty of friendship, limits, 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1795. 
to be paid in specie, without de- 
and navigation, and have there. 
unto affixed our seals respettively. 
Done at San Lorenzo et Real, 
Oétober 297, 1795. 
(L.S.) Tuomas Pinckney. 
(L.S.) Prince pe LA,Paz. 
Abstra& of the Treaty between Great 
Britain and the United States of 
America. 
THIS Treaty consists of twenty- 
eight articles : 
The first article establishes peace 
and friendship between his Britan. 
nic majesty and the United States. 
In the second, his majesty con- 
sents to withdraw all his troops 
-and garrisons from all posts and 
places within the boundary lines 
assigned by the treaty of peace ta 
the United States. The evacuation 
is to take place onor before the rst 
of June, 1796. 
The third article allows to his 
majesty’s subjeéts and the citizens 
of the United States, and to the 
Indians dwelling on either side of 
the said boundary line, freely to, 
pass and repass by land or inland 
navigation into the respective ter- 
ritories of the two parties. The 
country within the limits of the 
Hudson’s Bay Company is excepted. 
Vessels belonging to the United 
States are not to be admitted into 
the ports of his majesty’s said ter- 
ritories, nor British vessels from 
the sea into the rivers of the 
United States beyond the highest 
ports of entry for foreign vessels 
from the sea. The navigation of 
Mississippi, however ts to beentirely 
free. Goods and merchandize 
shall be conveyed into the territories 
of 
