TREATIES AND AGREEMENTS 



earnestly recommend to the several States, that the estates, rights, 

 and properties of such last mentioned persons, shall be restored to 

 them; they refunding to any persons who may be now in possession, 

 the bona fide price (where any has been given) which such persons 

 may have paid on purchasing any of the said lands, rights, or prop- 

 erties, since the confiscation. And it is agreed, that all persons who 

 have any interest in confiscated lands, either by debts, marriage set- 

 tlements, or otherwise, shall meet with no lawful impediment in the 

 prosecution of their just rights. 



ARTICLE VI. 



That there shall be no future confiscations made, nor any prosecu- 

 tions commenc'd against any person or persons for, or by reason of the 

 part which he or they may have taken in the present war ; and that no 

 person shall, on that account suffer any future loss or damage, either 

 in his person, liberty, or property; and that those who may be in con- 

 finement on such charges, at the time of the ratification of the treaty 

 in America, shall be immediately set at liberty, and the prosecutions 

 so commenced be discontinued. 



ARTICLE VII. 



There shall be a firm and perpetual peace between His Britannic 

 Majesty and the said States, and between the subjects of the one and 

 the citizens of the other, wherefore all hostilities, both by sea and 

 land, shall from henceforth cease: All prisoners on both sides shall 

 be set at liberty, and His Britannic Majesty shall, with all conven- 

 ient speed, and without causing any destruction, or carrying away 

 any negroes or other property of the American inhabitants, withdraw 

 all his armies, garrisons and fleets from the said United States, and 

 from every port, place, and harbour within the same ; leaving in all 

 fortifications the American artillery that may be therein : And shall 

 also order and cause all archives', records, deeds, and papers, belong- 

 ing to any of the said States, or their citizens, which, in the course of 

 ,the war, may have fallen into the hands of his officers, to be forthwith 

 restored and deliyer'd to the proper States and persons to whom they 

 belong. 



ARTICLE VIII. 



The navigation of the river Mississippi, from its source to the 

 ocean, shall for ever remain free and open to the subjects of Great 

 Britain, and the citizens of the United States. 



ARTICLE IX. 



In case it should so happen that any place or territory belonging 

 to Great Britain or to the United States, should have been conquer'd 

 by the arms of either from the other, before the arrival of the said 

 provisional articles in America, it is agreed, that the same shall be 

 restored without difficulty, and without requiring any compensation. 



