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the treaty of peace signed this day, and by the declaration likewise 

 delivered to-day, by His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador Extra- 

 ordinary and Plenipotentiary; and His Majesty declares, that he is 

 fully satisfied on this head. 



In regard to the fishery between the Island of Newfoundland and 

 those of St. Pierre and Miquelon, it is not to be carried on, by either 

 party, but to the middle of the channel; and His Majesty will give 

 the most positive orders, that the French fishermen shall not go be- 

 yond this line. His Majesty is firmly persuaded that the King of 

 Great Britain will give like orders to the English fishermen. 



No. 9. 1783, September 3: Treaty between His Britannic Majesty 

 and the United States. 



Definitive Treaty of Peace and Friendship between His Britannic 

 Majesty and the United States of America. Signed at Paris, the 

 3rd of September, 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 Lunenburg, Arch-Treasurer 

 and Prince Elector of the Holy Koman Empire, &c., and of the 

 United States of America, to forget all past misunderstandings and 

 differences that have unhappily interrupted the good correspondence 

 and friendship which they mutually wish to restore : and to establish 

 such a beneficial and satisfactory intercourse between the 2 Countries, 

 upon the ground of reciprocal advantages and mutual convenience, 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 November, 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 

 Great 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 

 Majesty 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, Esq., Member 

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

 their part, John Adams, Esq., late a Commissioner of the United 

 States of America at the Court of Versailles, late Delegate in Con- 

 gress from the State of Massachusetts, and Chief Justice of the said 

 State, and Minister Plenipotentiary of the said United States to 

 Their High Mightinesses the States General of the United Nether- 

 lands; Benjamin Franklin, Esq., late Delegate in Congress from the 

 State of Pennsylvania, President of the Convention of the said State, 



