STATE PAPERS. 
and which shall remain therein 
upon the exchange of the Ratifi- 
cations of this Treaty, or any 
slaves or other private property. 
And all archives, records, deeds, 
and papers, either of a public na- 
ture, or belonging to private per- 
sons, which in the course of the 
war may have fallen into the 
hands of the officers of either 
party, shall be, as far as may be 
practicable, forthwith restored, 
and delivered to the proper autho- 
rities and persons to whom they 
respectively belong. 
Such of the islands in the Bay 
of Passamaquoddy as are claimed 
by both parties shall remain in 
the possession of the party in 
whose occupation they may be at 
the time of the exchange of the 
ratifications of this Treaty, until 
the decision respecting the title 
to the said islands shall have been 
made, in conformity with the 
fourth article of this Treaty. 
No disposition made by this 
Treaty, as to such possession of 
the islands and territories claimed 
by both parties, shall in any man- 
ner whatever be construed to af- 
' fect the right of either. 
Art. If.—Immediately after the 
ratifications of this Treaty by 
both parties as hereinafter-men- 
tioned, orders shall be sent to 
the armies, squadrons, officers, 
subjects, and citizens of the two 
powers, to cease from all hosti- 
lities. And to preventall causes of 
complaint which might arise on 
account of the prizes which may be 
taken at sea after the said ratifica- 
tions of this Treaty, it is recipro- 
cally agreed, that all vessels and 
effects which may be taken after 
the space of twelve days from the 
said ratifications, upon all parts 
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of the coast of North America, 
from the latitude of 23 degrees 
north, to the latitude of 50 de- 
grees north, and as far eastward 
in the Atlantic Ocean as the 36th 
degree of west longitude from the 
meridian of Greenwich, shall be 
restored on each side: that the 
time shall be thirty days in all 
other parts of the Atlantic Ocean 
north of the equinoctial line or 
equator, and the same time for 
the British and Irish Channels, 
for the Gulf of Mexico, and all 
parts of the West Indies: forty 
days for the North Seas, for the 
Baltic, and for all parts of the 
Mediterranean; sixty days for 
the Atlantic Ocean, south of the 
equator, as far as the latitude of 
the Cape of Good Hope; ninety 
days for every other part of the 
world south of the equator, and. 
one hundred and twenty days for 
all other parts of the world with- 
out exception. 
Art. I{I.—All prisoners of war 
taken on either side, as well by 
land as by sea, shall be restored 
as soon as practicable after the 
ratification of this Treaty as herein- 
after mentioned, on their paying 
the debts which they may have 
contracted during their captivity. 
The two contracting parties re- 
spectively engage to discharge in 
specie the advances which may 
have been made by the other for 
the sustenance and maintenance 
of such prisoners. 
Art. 1V.—Whereas it was sti- 
pulated by the 2nd Article in the 
Treaty of Peace of 1783, between 
his Britannic Majesty and the 
United States of America, that 
the boundary of the United States 
should comprehend “ all islands 
within twenty leagues of any part 
