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1782, and the 14th day of January, 1784, and who have not borne 

 arms against the said United States; and that persons of anj T other 

 description shall have free liberty to go to any part or parts of any 

 of the thirteen United States, and therein to remain twelve months 

 unmolested in their endeavors to obtain the restitution of such of 

 their estates, rights, and properties as may have been confiscated; 

 and it is also hereby earnestly recommended to the several States 

 to reconsider and revise all their acts or laws regarding the premises, 

 so as to render the said laws or acts perfectly consistent, not only 

 with justice and equity, but with that spirit of conciliation which, 

 on the return of the blessings of peace, should universally prevail; 

 and it is hereby also earnestly recommended to the several States 

 that the estates, rights, and properties of such last-mentioned persons 

 should be restored to them, they refunding to any persons who may 

 be now in possession the bona fide price (where any has been given) 

 which such person may have paid on purchasing any of the said lands, 

 rights, or properties since the confiscation. 



Ordered, That a copy of the proclamation of this date, together 

 with the recommendation, be transmitted to the several States by 

 the secretary. 



PROCLAMATION OF JANUARY 30, 1819, RELATING TO THE TREATY 



OF OCTOBER 20, 1818. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



A PROCLAMATION. 



Whereas a convention between the United States of America and 

 his majesty the king of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ire- 

 land, was made and concluded at London, on the 20th day of Octo- 

 ber, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 

 by Albert ( ml latin, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary 

 of the United States to the court of France, and Richard Rush, their 

 envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the court of his 

 Britannic majesty, and the right honorable Frederick John Robin- 

 son, treasurer of his majesty's navy and president of the privy coun- 

 cil for trade and plantations, and Henry Goulburn, esq., one of his 

 majesty's under secretaries of state, fully authorized and empowered 

 by their respective governments: And whereas the said convention 

 was duly ral ilied by Ids royal highness the prince regent, in the name 

 and on behalf of his Britannic majesty, on the second day of Novem- 

 ber, in t he year of our Lord one t hoiisand eight hundred and eighteen : 

 and by the president of the United States, by and with the advice 

 and consent of the lenate thereof, on the twenty-eighth day of Janu- 

 ary following: And whereas the ratifications of the two governments 

 were exchanged, in the city of Washington, on the thirtieth day of 

 the present month of .January, by -John Quincy Adams, secretary of 

 state of the United States, on the pari of the I'nited States, and the 

 right, hon. Charles Bagot, his Britannic majesty's envoy extraordi- 

 nary ami minister plenipotentiary near the I'nited States, on the 

 part of his Britannic majesty; the articles of which convention are, 

 word for word, as follows: 



[Here follow the articles of the treaty.] 



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