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au prealable aucune violence ou voie de fait, seront tenus de faire un 

 rapport exact de Paffaire, et de ses circonstances, a leurs Cours re- 

 spectives, qui termineront a 1'amiable ces differends. 



ARTICLE VIII. 

 Ratifications. 



La presente Convention sera ratifiee et confirmee dans 1'espace de 6 

 semaines, a compter du jour de sa signature, ou plutot si faire se peut. 

 En foi de quoi, nous Soussignes Plenipotentiaires de Leurs Ma- 

 jestes Britannique et Catholique, avons signes, en leurs noms, et en 

 vertu de nos Pleinspouvoirs respectifs, la presente Convention, et y 

 avons appose les Cachets de nos Armes. 



Fait a San Loren el Real, le 28 Octobre, 1790. 



(L.S.) EL CONDE DE FLORIDABLANCA. 



(L.S.) ALLEYNE FITZ-HERBERT. 



16 No. 11. 1794, November 19: Treaty between His Britannic 

 Majesty and the United States ("Jay's Treaty"). 



Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, between His Britannic 

 Majesty and the United States of America, by their President, 

 with the advice and consent of their Senate. Concluded November 

 19, 1794; ratification exchanged October 28, 1795; proclaimed 

 February 29, 1796. 



His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, being 

 desirous, by a Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, to ter- 

 minate their differences in such a manner, as, without reference to 

 the merits of their respective complaints and pretentions, may be 

 the best calculated to produce mutual satisfaction and good under- 

 standing; and also to regulate the commerce and navigation between 

 their respective countries, territories, and people, in such a manner 

 as to render the same reciprocally beneficial and satisfactory; they 

 have, respectively, named their Plenipotentiaries, and given them full 

 powers to treat of, and conclude the said Treaty, that is to say : 



His Britannic Majesty has named for his Plenipotentiary, the 

 Right Honourable William Wyndham Baron Grenville of Wotton. 

 one of his Majesty's Privy Council, and his Majesty's Principal 

 Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ; and the President of the said 

 United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate 

 thereof, hath appointed for their Plenipotentiary, the Honourable 

 John Jay, Chief Justice of the said United States, and their Envoy 

 Extraordinary to His Majesty; 



Who have agreed on and concluded the following articles: 



ARTICLE I. 



There shall be a firm, inviolable and universal peace, and a true 

 and sincere friendship between His Britannic Majesty, his heirs and 

 successors, and the United States of America; and between their 



