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been detained, according to the receipts and attested accounts, and 

 other authentic vouchers, which shall be furnished on each side; and 

 sureties shall be reciprocally given for the payment of the debts which 

 the prisoners may have contracted in the countries where they may 

 have been detained until their entire release. And all ships, as well 

 men of war as merchant ships, which may have been taken since the 

 expiration of the terms agreed upon for the cessation of hostilities 

 by sea, shall likewise be restored bona fide, with all their crew and 

 cargoes. And the execution of this acticle shall be proceeded upon 

 immediately after the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty. 



ART. IV. His majesty the king of Great Britain is maintained in 

 his right to the island of Newfoundland, and to the adjacent islands, 

 as the whole were assured to him by the thirteenth article of the 

 treaty of Utrecht ; excepting the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, 

 which are ceded in full right by the present treaty to his most Chris- 

 tian majesty. 



ART. V. His majesty the most Christian king, in order to prevent 

 the quarrels which have hitherto arisen between the two nations of 

 England and France, consents to renounce the right of fishing, which 

 belongs to him in virtue of the aforesaid article of the treaty of 

 Utrecht, from Cape Bonavista to Cape St. John, situated on the 

 eastern coast of Newfoundland, in fifty degrees north latitude; and 

 his majesty the king of Great Britain consents on his part, that the 

 fishery assigned to the subjects of his most Christian majesty, begin- 

 ning at the said Cape St. John, passing to the north, and descending 

 by the western coast of the island of Newfoundland, shall extend to 

 the place called Cape Raye, situated in forty-seven degrees, fifty 

 minutes latitude. The French fishermen shall enjoy the fishery 

 which is assigned to them by the present article, as they had the right 

 to enjoy that which was assigned to them by the treaty of Utrecht. 



ART. VI. With regard to the fishery in the gulf 01 St. Laurence, 

 the French shall continue to exercise it conformably to the fifth ar- 

 ticle of the treaty of Paris. 



ART. VII. The king of Great Britain restores to France the island 

 of St. Lucia, in the condition it was in when it was conquered by the 

 British arms : and his Britannic majesty cedes and guaranties to his 

 most Christian majesty the island of Tobago. The Protestant in- 

 habitants of the said island, as well as those of the same religion, who 

 shall have settled at St. Lucia, whilst that island was occupied by 

 the British arms, shall not be molested in the exercise of their wor- 

 ship : and the British inhabitants, or others who may have been sub- 

 jects of the king of Great Britain in the aforesaid islands, shall retain 

 their possessions upon the same titles and conditions by which they 

 have acquired them; or else they may retire in full security and 

 liberty, where they shall think fit, and shall have the power of selling 

 their estates, provided it be to subjects of his most Christian majesty, 

 and of removing their effects, as well as their persons, without being 

 restrained in their emigration, under any pretence whatsoever, ex- 

 cept on account of debt, or of criminal prosecutions. The term 

 limited for this emigration is fixed to the space of eighteen months, 

 to be computed from the day of the exchange of the ratifications of 

 the present treaty. And for the better securing the possessions of the 

 inhabitants of the aforesaid island of Tobago, the most Christian 



