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to such tribes or nations respect- 
ively, all the possessions, rights, 
and privileges which they may 
have enjoyed or been entitled to in 
1811, previous to such hostilities. 
Provided always, that such tribes 
or nations shall agree to desist 
from all hostilities against the 
United States of America, their 
citizens and subjects, upon the 
| Yatification of the present Treaty 
being notified to such tribes or 
nations, and shall so desist accord- 
ingly. 
And his Britannic Majesty en- 
gages, on his part, to put an end 
immediately after the ratification 
of the present Treaty, to hostili- 
ties with all the tribes or nations 
of Indians with whom he may be 
at war at the time of such ratifi- 
cation, and forthwith to restore to 
such tribes or nations respective- 
ly, all the possessions, rights, and 
privileges, which they may have 
enjoyed or been entitled to in 
181], previous to such hostilities. 
_ Provided always, that such tribes 
‘or nations shall agree to desist 
from all hostilities against his 
Britannic Majesty, and his sub- 
jects, upon the ratification of the 
present Treaty being notified to 
such tribes or nations, and shall 
‘so desist accordingly. 
Art. X.—Whereas the traffic in 
slaves is irreconcileable with the 
principles of humanity and jus- 
tice, and whereas both his Ma- 
jesty and the United States are 
desirous of continuing their ef- 
forts to promote its entire aboli- 
tion, it is hereby agreed that both 
the contracting parties shall use 
their best endeavours to’ accom- 
plish so desirable an object. 
Art. XI—This Treaty, when 
the same shall have been ratified 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1815. 
on both sides without alferation 
by either of the contracting par- 
ties, and the ratifications mutu- 
ally exchanged, shall be binding 
on both parties; and the ratifica- 
tions shall be exchanged at Wash- 
ington, in the space of four 
months from this day, or sooner 
if practicable. . 
In faith whereof, we the re-. 
spective Plenipotentiaries, have 
signed this Treaty, and have 
thereunto affixed our seals. 
Done in triplicate at Ghent, the 
twenty-fourth day of December, 
one thousand eight hundred and 
fourteen. 
(L. S.) GamBIER. 
(L. 8.) H. Goutsurn. 
(L. 8S.) Wu. Apams. 
.S.) Jonn Quincey Apams 
J. A. Bayarp. 
-) Jon. Russet. 
-.) ALBERT GALLATIN. 
Declaration relative to the Slave 
Trade. 
The Plenipotentiaries of the 
Powers who signed the Treaty-of 
Paris, the 30th of May, 1814, as- 
sembled in Congress :— 
Having taken into considera- 
tion that the traffic known under 
the name of the African Slave 
Trade has been regarded by 
just and enlightened men of 
all ages, as repugnant to the 
principles of humanity and of uni- 
versal morality; that the particu- 
lar circumstances to which this 
traffic owes its origin, and the dif- 
ficulty of abruptly interrupting its 
progress, have, to a certain de- 
gree, lessened the odium of conti- 
nuing it; but that at last the pub- 
