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Ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence comprehend- 

 ing all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of 

 the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from 

 the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the 

 one part, and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the 

 Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean; excepting such islands as 

 now are, or heretofore have been, within the limits of the said prov- 

 ince of Nova Scotia. 



ARTICLE III. 



It is agreed that the people of the United States shall continue to 

 enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand 

 Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also in the Gulph 

 of Saint Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea where the in- 

 habitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish. And 

 also that the inhabitants of the United States shall have liberty to 

 take fish of every kind on such part of the coast of Newfoundland as 

 British fishermen shall use (but not to dry or cure the same on that 

 island) and also on the coasts, bays, and creeks of all other of His 

 Britannic Majesty's dominions in America; and that the American 

 fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the un- 

 settled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, 

 and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled; but so 

 soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be law- 

 ful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement, with- 

 out a previous agreement for that purpose with the inhabitants, pro- 

 prietors, or possessors of the ground. 



ARTICLE IV. 



It is agreed that creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful 

 impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money, of all 

 bona fide debts heretofore contracted. 



ARTICLE V. 



It is agreed that the Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the 

 legislatures of the respective States, to provide for the restitution of 

 all estates, rights, and properties which have been confiscated, be- 

 longing to real British subjects, and also of the estates, rights, and 

 properties of persons resident in districts in the possession of His 

 Majesty's arms, and who have not borne arms against the said United 

 States. And that persons of any 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 

 endeavours to obtain the restitution of such of their estates, rights, and 

 properties as may have been confiscated; and that Congress shall 

 also earnestly recommend to the several States a reconsideration and 

 revision of all 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 that Congress shall also 



