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The undersigned renew to the British plenipotentiaries the as 

 surance of their high consideration. 



JOHN qUINCY ADAMS, 

 JAMES A. BAYARD, 

 HENRY CLAY, 

 JONATHAN RUSSELL, 

 ALBERT GALLATIN. 



To the Plenipotentiaries of his Britannic 



majesty, &c. &c. &c. 



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 ratifica 

 tions of this treaty, until the decision respecting the title to the said 

 islands shall have been made* in conformity with the 4th article of 

 this treaty. But if such decision shall not have taken place within 



years after the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty, 



such islands shall be restored to, and until such decision may take 

 place, shall be retained by, the party who had possession of the 

 same at the commencement of the war. No disposition made by 

 this treaty of the intermediate possession of the islands and territo 

 ries, claimed by both parties, shall, in any manner whatever, be 

 construed to affect the right of either. 



British Note jVo. 10, in answer to American JVo. 8. 



The undersigned have had the honour to receive the note of the 

 American plenipotentiaries, dated on the 14th instant, stating their 

 consent to except the Passamaquoddy Islands from the mutual re 

 stitution of territory captured during the war, provided the claim of 

 the United States shall not be in any manner affected thereby. To 

 the article proposed by the American plenipotentiaries, so far as it 

 is adapted to this object, the undersigned are willing to agree ; but 

 they object, as before intimated by them, to that part of the pro 

 posed article which would make it imperative on the commission 

 ers to decide the question within any fixed time, trusting that on 

 this head the American plenipotentiaries will be satisfied with their 

 declaration, that it is the intention of his majesty s government to do 

 ail that belongs to them to obtain a decision without loss of time. 

 The project of the article subjoined, will be found to omit the clause 

 intended to enforce a decision within some limited time, and to con 

 tain a slight alteration in the third clause, by substituting in the 

 place of the words &quot; intermediate possession,&quot; the words, &quot; as to 

 such possession.&quot; 



0^=[So far as regards the substitution proposed by the undersign 

 ed, for the last clause of the 8th article, as it was offered solely with 

 the hope of attaining the object of the amendment tendered by the 

 American plenipotentiaries at the conference of the 1st instant, no 



