TREATY OF JULY 3, 1815, BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE 



UNITED STATES. 



[Ratifications exchanged, December 22, 1815.] 



The United States of America and His Britannick Majesty being 

 desirous, by a convention, 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, 

 Have respectively named Plenipotentiaries and given them full 

 powers to treat or and conclude such Convention that is to say 



The President of the United States by and with the advice and 

 consent of the Senate thereof hath appointed for their Plenipoten- 

 tiaries John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and Albert Gallatin Citi- 

 zens of the United States, And His Royal Highness the Prince 

 Regent acting in the name & on the behalf of His Majesty has named 

 for His Plenipotentiaries The Right Honourable Frederick John 

 Robinson Vice President of the Committee of Privy Council for 

 Trade and Plantations, Joint Paymaster of His Majesty's Forces, 

 and a Member of the Imperial Parliament, Henry Goulburn Esquire, 

 a Member of the Imperial Parliament and Under Secretary of State, 

 and William Adams Esquire, Doctor of Civil Laws, 



And the said Plenipotentiaries having mutually produced and 

 shewn their said full powers, and exchanged copies of the same, have 

 agreed on and concluded the following articles, vide licet. 



ARTICLE THE FIRST. 



There shall be between the Territories of the United States of 

 America and all the Territories of His Britannick Majesty in Europe 

 a reciprocal liberty of commerce. The Inhabitants of the two coun- 

 tries, respectively shall have liberty freely and securely to come 

 with their ships and cargoes to all such places Ports and Rivers in 

 the Territories aforesaid to which other Foreigners are permitted to 

 come, to enter into the same, and to remain and reside in any parts 

 of the said Territories respectively, also to hire and occupy Houses 

 and warehouses for the purposes of their commerce, and generally 

 the Merchants and Traders of each Nation respectively shall enjoy the 

 most complete protection and security for their Commerce but subject 

 always to the laws and statutes of the two countries respectively 



ARTICLE THE SECOND. 



No higher or other Duties shall be imposed on the importation 

 into the United States of any articles the growth, produce or Manu- 

 facture of His Britannick Majesty's Territories in Europe and no 

 higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importations into the 

 Territories of His Britannick Majesty in Europe of any articles the 

 growth produce or manufacture of the United States than are or shall 



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