PROVISIONS RELATING TO FISHERIES 



BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND 

 GREAT BRITAIN. 



TREATY OF SEPTEMBER 3, 1783. 



In the name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity. 



It having pleased the Divine Providence to dispose the hearts of the 

 most serene and most potent Prince George the Third, by the Grace 

 of God King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the 

 Faith, Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg, Arch-Treasurer and Prince 

 Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, &ca., and of the United States 

 of American, to forget all past misunderstandings and differences 

 that have unhappily interrupted the good correspondence and friend- 

 ship which they mutually wish to restore; and to establish such a 

 beneficial and satisfactory intercourse between the two countries, 

 upon the ground of reciprocal advantages and mutual conveniences, 

 as may promote and secure to both perpetual peace and harmony: 

 And having for this desirable end already laid the foundation of 

 peace and reconciliation, by the provisional articles, signed at Paris, 

 on the 30th of Nov'r, 1782 by the commissioners empowered on each 

 part, which articles were agreed to be inserted in and to constitute 

 the treaty of peace proposed to be concluded between the Crown of 

 Great Britain and the said United States, but which treaty was not 

 to be concluded until terms of peace should be agreed upon between 

 . ireat Britain and France, and His Britannic Majesty should be ready 

 to conclude such treaty accordingly; and the treaty between Great 

 Britain and France having since been concluded, His Britannic Maj- 

 esty and the United States of America, in order to carry into full 

 effect the provisional articles above mentioned, according to the 

 tenor thereof, have constituted and appointed, that is to say, His 

 Britannic Majesty on his part, David Hartley, esqr., member of the 

 Parliament of Great Britain; and the said United States on their 

 part, John A-dams, esqr., late a commissioner of the United States 

 of America at the Court of Versailles late Delegate in Congress from 

 the State <>f Massachusetts, and chief justice of the said State, and 

 Minister Plenipotentiary of the said United Slates to their High 

 Mightinesses the States General of the United Netherlands; Ben- 

 jamin Franklin, esq're, late Delegate in Congress from the State 

 of Pennsylvania, presidenl of the convention of the said Slate, and 

 Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America at the 

 ( 'on it of Versatile : John Jay. esq're, late president of ( longress, and 

 chief justice of the State of New York, and Minister Plenipotentiary 



from the said United Slates at the Court of Madrid, to be (lie Pleni- 

 potentiaries for the concluding and signing the present definitive 



treaty: who. after having reciprocally comniunicaled their respective 

 full powers, have agreed upon and confirmed the following articles: 



23 



