STATE PAPERS. 
that, with the addition of the list 
of Dutch Proprietors resident in 
the said colonies, they may serve 
to ascertain the whole amount of 
the Dutch population and pro- 
perty or interest in the aforesaid 
colonies. 
XI. His Majesty the King of 
the Netherlands, and his Britannic 
Majesty, having considered, that 
the Dutch Merchants and share- 
holders; known under the name 
of the Societect van de Berbice, 
have a just claim to certain plan- 
tations formerly cleared by them, 
in the coloriy of Berbice, and of 
which they were dispossessed by 
the Revolutionary Government of 
Holland, and which on the last 
occupation of the said colony by 
the British arms, were considered 
as Government property—his 
Britannic Majesty therefore binds 
himself to restore to the said 
Company of Berbice, within the 
period of six months after the 
exchanging of the ratifications of 
the present Convention, the plan- 
tations Dageraad, Dankbarrheid, 
Johanna,and Sandvoort, with their 
negroes and other appurtenances 
at present actually employed upon 
them; and this in full satisfaction 
of all claims which the said Com- 
patiy may have, or claim to have, 
chargeable on his Britannic Ma- 
jesty or his subjects, on the 
account of any property which for- 
merly belonged to the said Com- 
pany in the colony of Berbice. 
XII. All questions that may 
arise between private persons in 
relation to rights of property as 
determined by the present Con- 
vention shall be decided by the 
competent tribunal according to 
the laws in force in the said co- 
loniiés. 
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XIII, His Britannic Majesty 
engages, in all cases where the 
rights and interests of Dutch pro- 
prietors are concerned, to’ pro- 
ceed with the greatest equity and 
impartiality. 
XIV. The two contracting par- 
ties reserve to themselves the 
power to make, in future, such 
modifications of the present Con- 
vention as experience may sug- 
gest to be required by the inter- 
ests of both Powers. 
XV. Finally it is agreed, that 
the stipulations of this Conven- 
tion shall be of force from the day 
of the exchanging of the ratifica- 
tions of it. 
XVI. The present Convention 
shall be ratified, and the ratifica- 
tions exchanged at London, with- 
in three weeks after the signing of 
the same, or earlier if possible. 
In testimony whereof the re- 
spective Plenipotentiaries have 
signed the same, and thereto-af- 
fixed the seal of their arms. 
Done at London the 12th of 
August, in the year of our Lord 
1815. 
(L. S.) H. FaGet. 
Treaty between Great Britain and 
Russia respecting the Ionian 
Islands, signed at Paris the 5th 
of November, 1815. 
In the name of the Most Holy and 
Undivided Trinity. : 
His Majesty the King of the 
United Kingdom of Great Britain 
and Ireland, his Majesty the Em- 
peror of all the Russias, his Ma- 
jesty the Emperor of Austria, 
King of Hungary and Bohemia, 
and his Majesty the King of Prus- 
