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. tioned has been retained only with 
a view to contribute to the support 
of the bridges and highways, it is 
expressly stipulated that the goods 
and merchandize conveyed by the 
rivers and navigable canals shall be 
reciprocally exempt from duties of 
every description. 
The contraéting parties respec- 
tively shall adopt the necessary mea- 
sures for the due execvtion of the 
present and preceding articles. 
15. In ‘conformity to the sixth 
article of the treaty concluded at 
the Hague,the 22d F loreal, 3d year, 
the peace concluded by the present 
treaty isdeclared common with the 
Batavian Republic. . 
16, The present treaty shall be 
ratified, and the ratifications ex- 
changed in-one month at most from 
the present day, exclusively. 
Done at Paris, inthe 5th year of 
the French republic, one an 
indivisible. g 
(Signed) Cu. Deracroix. 
Count Pour. 
- Louis Botta. 
SEPARATE ARTICLE. 
His royal highness stipulates to 
grant a remission of one-fourth of 
the rights of importation on the 
goods and merchandize, being the 
produce of the republic, her colo- 
nies, fisheries, and .manufac¢tures, 
destined for the home consumption 
ofthe states, and also the right of 
exportation on the goods and mer- 
chandise, the produce of the statés, 
and destined for the foreign poses- 
sions of the republic; provided the 
French republic agree to a recipro- 
cal diminution of duties, 
I, On the goods and merchan- 
dise arising from the states of his 
royal highness, at their entry on 
the territory of the republic. 
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II. On all goods and merchane 
dise, the produce of the republic 
on being exported for the states of 
his royal highness. 
Done at Paris, the day and year 
as above. 
(Signed) Cu. Detacrorx. 
Cownt Pouiti+ 
Louis Boris. 
‘A Proclamation by F. Santhonax,J. 
Raymond, M. Giraud, G. Leb- 
lanch, and P. Romme, Commis- 
stoners delegated by the French 
Government to the Windward 
Islands of St. Domingo, 
To all the Citizens of the colony, 
and to all those who compose the 
Land and Sea Forces destined for 
1ts defence. x 
Citizen 
AFTER so many storms and 
critical emergencies, inseparable 
concomitants of a revolution, 
France enjoys at least a constitution 
worthy of a people whe know how 
to value liberty. 
Already under a truly republican 
government, the French people 
begin to rest from their long and 
arduous toil, and to enjoy the 
happy effects of the liberty which 
they have attained. 
Firmly resolved to cause the con. 
stitution to be executed, the exe. 
cutive direétory is constantly ems 
ployed in searching out means to 
lave it established in all parts o 
the Republie. j 
The sixth article of the consti-« 
tion states, That the French colo- 
nies are inseparable parts of the 
Republic, and subjected to the 
same constitutional law. 
It is particularly for the execution 
of that article, that we have re- 
ceived from the government the 
honourable mission intrusted to us; 
and at the same time,'to let you 
3 . know 
