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Third Set of Articles. 



November 25, 1782. 



The three commissioners, Adams, Franklin, and Jay, met at Mr. 

 Oswald's lodgings at the Hotel de Mnscovie, and after some confer- 

 ence Mr. Oswald delivered them the following articles, as fresh pro- 

 posals of the British ministry, sent by Mr. Strachey, viz : 



Articles agreed upon by and between Richard Oswald, the com- 

 missioner of his Britannic majesty for treat! g of peace with the 

 commissioners of the United States of America, in behalf of his said 

 majesty on the one part, and John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and 

 John Jay, three of the commissioners of the said States, for treating 

 of peace with the commissioner of his said majesty, on their behalf on 

 the other part, 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 is not to be concluded until 

 the terms of a peace shall be agreed upon between Great Britain and 

 France, and his Britannic majesty shall be ready to conclude such 

 treaty accordingly. 



Whereas reciprocal advantages and mutual convenience are found 

 by experience to form the only permanent foundation of peace and 

 friendship between states, it is agreed to form the articles of the pro- 

 posed treaty on such principles of liberal equity and reciprocity as 

 that partial advantages (those seeds of discord) being excluded, such 

 a beneficial and satisfactory intercourse between the two countries 

 may be established as to promise and secure to both perpetual peace 

 and harmony. 



Aim i' i.r. II T. The citizens of the said United States shall have the 

 liberty of taking fish of every kind on all the banks of New found- 

 land, and also in tin' Gulf of :- ; t. Lawrence; and also to dry and (aire 

 their fish on the shores of the tsle of Sables and on the shores of any 

 of the unsettled bay.-, harbors, and creeks of the Magdalen Islands, 

 in the Gulf <<!' St. Lawrence, so long as such bays, harbors, and creeks 

 .-hall continue anil remain unsettled; on condition that the citizens 

 of the said United States do not exercise the fishery, but at tin 1 dis- 

 tance of three Leagues from all the coast belonging to Great Britain, 

 as well those of the continent as those of the islands situated in the 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence. And as to what relates to the fishery on the 

 coast of the [aland of Cape Breton out of the said gulf, (he citizens 

 of the -:ii(l United States -hall not be. permitted to exercise the said 

 fishery, hut al the distance of fifteen leagues from the coasts of the 

 I land of ( Jape Breton. 



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Aiuici.i. VIII. The navigation of the Mi Lssippi, from its source 

 to the ocean, shall forever remain \'v<- and open to the subjects of 

 Great Britain and citizen of the United Stales. 



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