DESPATCHES, BEPOBTS, COBEESPONDENCE, ETC. 155 



The vessels of either of the two parties employed in the trade pro- 

 vided for by this article shall be admitted in the ports of the other 

 party, as above mentioned, without paying any other or higher duties 

 or charges than those payable in the same ports by the vessels of such 

 other party. The same duties shall also be paid, respectively, in the 

 dominions of both parties, on the importation and on the exportation 

 of the articles which may be imported or exported, by virtue of this 

 article; and the same bounties shall also be allowed on the exporta- 

 tion thereof, whether such importation or exportation shall be in 

 vessels of the United States or in British vessels. 



ARTICLE E. 



Whereas it was agreed by the first article of the treaty of Ghent, 

 that " all territory, places, and possessions whatsoever, taken by either 

 party from the other during the war, or which may be taken after the 

 signing of this treaty, excepting only the islands hereinafter men- 

 tioned, shall be restored without delay, and without causing any de- 

 struction, or carrying away any of the artillery, or other public prop- 

 erty, originally captured in the said forts or places, and which shall 

 remain therein upon the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty, 

 or any slaves or other private property;" and whereas doubts have 

 arisen whether certain slaves, originally captured in certain forts and 

 places belonging to the United States, and removed therefrom, but 

 remaining within the territories of the United States, or on board the 

 ships of His Britannic Majesty, lying within the harbours of the 

 United States at the time of the exchange of the ratifications of the 

 said treaty, are to extend under the above-recited provisions of the 

 said treaty, the high contracting parties do hereby agree to refer the 

 said doubts to some friendly Sovereign or State, to be named for that 

 purpose ; and the high contracting parties engage to consider the de- 

 cision of such friendly Sovereign or State to be final and conclusive 

 on all the matters so referred. 



91 No. 36. 1818, October 7 : Extract from Remarks on Articles 

 from Messrs. Gallatin and Rush to Messrs. Robinson and 

 Goulburn. 



LONDON, October 7, 1818. 



Mr. Gallatin and Mr. Rush present their compliments to Mr. 

 Robinson and Mr. Goulburn, and beg leave to send them the en- 

 closed paper, containing some remarks on the articles handed to them 

 at the conference yesterday. They are to be considered as unofficial, 

 according to the intimation given yesterday, when they were prom- 

 ised, and have been drawn up merely under the hope that, by pos- 

 sessing the British plenipotentiaries of some of the views of the 

 American plenipotentiaries before the next meeting on the 9th, the 

 progress of the negotiation may be accelerated. 



Fisheries. 



The American plenipotentiaries are not authorised by their in- 

 structions to assent to any article on that subject which shall not 



