366 A. D. 1762. 



There were coined at the mint in the courfe of the year 

 II .850 pounds of gold, value - - X^553, 691 5 o 



and 1,020 pounds of filver - - - 3,162 o o 



/^556,853 5 o 

 1763 — The definitive treaty of peace was concluded at Paris on the 

 10th of February ; and it was proclaimed with the ufual folemnities at 

 London on the 22d of March, and in all other parts of the Britifh do- 

 minions as foon as the proclamation arrived at them. 

 By this treaty 



Article IV) France ceded to Great Britain Nova-Scotia (or Acadia) 

 with all its dependencies, Canada with all its dependencies, Cape Breton, 

 and all the iflands in the gulf of St. Laurence ; the French inhabitants 

 having their option to remain and become Britifh fubjeds, with liberty 

 to enjoy their own religion, ' as far as the laws of Great Britain per- 

 * mit,' or to fell their eftates to Britifh fubjeds, fettle their affairs, and 

 depart with their moveable property within eighteen months, to be 

 computed from the ratification of the treaty. 



V) The French had liberty to fifli and to dry their fifli on a part of 

 the coafl of Newfoundland, as fpecified in the 13th article of the treaty 

 of Utrecht, and to fifli in the Gulf of St. Laurence at the diflance of at 

 leafl three leagues from all the coafts and iflands belonging to Great 

 Britain, and in the fea adjacent to Cape Breton, which ifland they were 

 not to approach within fifteen leagues ; the fifhery on the coall of Nova- 

 Scotia and other places not adjacent to the Gulf of St. Laurence rC'^ 

 mainina; as fettled in former treaties. 



VI) The iflands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, (near Newfoundland) 

 Avere ceded to the French for a flielter to their fifliermen, with an ex- 

 prefs engagement, however, that no fortifications fhould be ereded, nor 

 any military force be flationed on them, except a guard of fifty men, 

 merely for the police. 



VII) la order to prevent all difputes concerning boundaries, a line, 

 drawn through the middle of the river Miflifippi, from its fource down to 

 the branch, or mouth, of it called the Iberville, and through the middle of 

 that branch and the lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain to the fea, was de- 

 clared to be the fixed and irrevocable limit, the port of Mobile with all 

 the country on the eaft fide belonging to Great Britain, and New Or* 

 leans with its ifland and the countrv on the v/efl fide belonajing to 

 France ; the navigation of the Miflifippi being perfedly free to both na- 

 tions from its fource to the fea, notvvithftanding that both its banks 

 near its mouth are in the territory referved to France. 



VIII) The iflands of Guadaloupe, Marie-galante, Defirade, and Mar- 

 tinique, in the Weft-Indies, and Belle-ifle near the coaft of France were 

 j-eftorcd to France, the Britifh fubjeds fettled in them Imving eighteen 



