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ed States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, 

 has appointed John Quincy Adams, James A. Bayard, Henry Clay,, 

 Jonathan Russell, and Albert Gallatin, citizens of the United States. 

 who, after a reciprocal communication of their respective full 

 powers, have agreed upon the following articles : 



ARTICLE I. There shall be a firm and universal ponce between 

 his Britannic Majesty and the United States, and between their 

 respective countries, territories, cities, towns, and people of every 

 degree, without exception of persons or places. AH hostilities 

 both by sea and land shall immediately cease. All prisoners on both 

 sides shall be set at liberty. All territory, places, and possessions, 

 without exception, taken by either party from the other during the 

 war, or which may be taken after the signing of this treaty, shall 

 be restored without delay, and without causing any destruction^ or 

 carrying away any artillery or other public property, or any slaves 

 or other private property ; and all archives, records, deeds, and 

 papers, either of a public nature or belonging to private persons, 

 which, in the course of the war, may have fallen into the hands of 

 the officers- of either party, shall be forthwith restored and deliver 

 ed to the proper authorities and persons, to whom they respective 

 ly belong. 



ARTICLE II. Immediately after the respective ratifications of 

 this treaty, orders shall be sent to the armies, squadrons, officers, 

 subjects, and citizens of the two powers, to cease from all hos 

 tilities. And to prevent all causes of complaint which might 

 arise on account of the prizes which may be taken at sea after the 

 signing of this treaty, it is reciprocally agreed that the vessels and 

 enVtlft which may be taken in the Channel and in the North Seas af 

 ter the space of from that of the signature hereof, shall be 



restored on each side : that the term shall be from the Chan 

 nel and the North Seas to the Canary Islands, inclusively, whether 



in the ocean or the Mediterranean : of from the said Canary 



Islands to the equinoctial line or equator, and of in all other 



parts of the world, without exception. 



ARTICLE III. Whereas that portion of the boundary between the 

 dominions of his Britannic Majesty in North America, and those of 

 the United States, from the mouth of the river St. Croix, (as the 

 said mouth was ascertained by the commissioners appointed for 

 that purpose,) to the bay of Fundy, has not yet been regulated and 

 determined ; and, whereas, the respective rights and claims of his 

 Britannic Majesty and of the United States, to the several islands in 

 the bay of Passamaquoddy, and to the island of Grand Menan, have 

 never been finally adjusted and determined, the said islands being 

 claimed on the part of the United States as lying within twenty 

 leagues of their shores, and south of aline drawn due east from the 

 mouth of the river St. Croix ; and on the part of his Britannic Ma- 

 }esty, as having been, at or before the former treaty of peace, be 

 tween the two boundaries within the limits of the province of Nova 

 Scotia : In order, therefore, finally to decide these several ques- 



