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fisheries in the Pacific Ocean, or in the South Seas, or in landing- on the 

 coasts of those seas, in phices not ah-eady occupied, for the purpose of 

 carrying on their commerce witli the natives of the country, or of making- 

 settlements there; the wbole subject, nevertheless to the restrictions 

 and provisions specified in the three following Articles. 



IV. His Britannic Majesty engages to take the most effectual meas- 

 ures to prevent the navigation and fishery of His subjects in the Pa(;ific 

 Ocean, or in the South Seas, from being made a pretext for illicit 

 trade with the Spanish settlements; and, with this view, it is more- 

 over expressly stipulated, that British subjecits shall uot navigate, or 

 carry on their fishery in the said seas, within the space of ten sea 

 leagues from any part of the coasts already occupied by Spain. 



V. It is agreed, that as well in the places Avliich are to he lestored to 

 the British subjects, by virtue of the 1st Article, as in all other parts 

 of the north-western coasts of j^orth America, or of tlie islands adja- 

 cent, situated to the north of the parts ot the said coast already occu- 

 pied by Spain, wherever the subjects of either of the two Powers 

 shall have made settlements since the month of April, 1789, or shall 

 hereafter make any, the subjects of the other shall have free access, and 

 shall carry on their trade, without any disturbance or molestation. 



VI. It is further agreed, with respect to the eastern and western 

 coasts of vSonth America, and to the islands adjacent, that no settle- 

 ment shall be formed hereafter, by the respective subjects, in sucli parts 

 ot those coasts as are situated to the south of those parts of the same 

 coasts, and of the islands adjacent, which are already occui^ied by 

 Spain: j)rovided that the said respective subjects shall retain the lib- 

 erty of landing- on the coasts and islands so situated, for the puri)oses 

 of their fishery, and of erecting thereon huts, and other temporary 

 buildings, serving only for those purposes. 



VII. In all cases of complaint or infraction of the Articles of the 

 present Convention, the officers of either Party, without jDermitting 

 themselves jireviously to commit any violence or act of force, shall be 

 bimnd to make an exact report of the affair and of its circiimstances, to 

 their respective Courts, Avho will terminate such differences in an ami- 

 cable manner. 



VIII. The present Convention shall be ratified and confirmed in the 

 space of six weeks, to be computed from the day of its signature, or 

 sooner if it can be done. 



In witness whereof, we, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries of Their 

 Britannic and Catholic Majesties, have, in their names, and in virtue 

 of our respective full Powers, signed the present Convention, and set 

 thereto the seals of our arms. 



Done at the Palace of St. Laurence, the 28th of October, 1790. 



Alleyne Fitz-Herbert, 



g El Conde de Floridablanca, [l. s.] 



L. S. 



