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majesties shall not have acceded to the present pacification, or con- 

 cluded a separate accommodation, their said majesties shall not give 

 them any assistance, directly or indirectly, against the British or 

 French possessions, or against the ancient possessions of their re- 

 spective allies, such as they were in the year 1776. 



ART. XVII. The king of Great Britain, being desirous to give to 

 his most Christian majesty a sincere proof of reconciliation and 

 friendship, and to contribute to render solid the peace reestablished 

 between their said majesties, consents to the abrogation and suppres- 

 sion of all the articles relative to Dunkirk, from the treaty of peace 

 concluded at Utrecht in 1713, inclusive, to this day. 



ART. Xyill. Immediately after the exchange of the ratifications, 

 the two high contracting parties shall name commissaries to treat 

 concerning new arrangements of commerce between the two nations, 

 on the basis of reciprocity and mutual convenience; which arrange- 

 ments shall be settled and concluded within the space of two years, 

 to be computed from the first of January, in the year 1784. 



ART. XIX. All the countries and territories which may have been, 

 or which may be conquered in any part of the world whatsoever, by 

 the arms of his Britannic majesty, as well as by those of his most 

 Christian majesty, which are not included in the present treaty, 

 neither under the head of cessions, nor under the head of restitutions, 

 shall be restored without difficulty, and without requiring any com- 

 pensation. 



ART. XX. As it is necessary to appoint a certain period for the 

 restitutions and evacuations to be made by each of the high contract- 

 ing parties, it is agreed that the king of Great Britain shall cause to 

 be evacuated the Islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, three months 

 after the ratification of the present treaty, or sooner, if it can be done ; 

 St. Lucia, (one of the Charibee islands) and Goree in Africa, three 

 months after the ratification of the present treaty, or sooner, if it 

 can be done. The king of Great Britain shall in like manner, at the 

 end of three months after the ratification of the present treaty, or 

 sooner, if it can be done, enter again into the possessions of the islands 

 of Grenada, the Grenadines, St. Vincent's, Dominica, St. Christo- 

 pher's, Nevis, and Montserrat. France shall be put in possession of 

 the towns and factories which are restored to her in the East Indies, 

 and of the territories which are procured for her, to serve as addi- 

 tional dependencies to Pondicherry, and to Karikal, six months after 

 the ratification of the present treaty, or sooner, if it can be done. 

 France shall deliver up, at the end of the like term of six months, the 

 towns and territories which her arms may have taken from the Eng- 

 lish, or their allies, in the East Indies. In consequence whereof, the 

 necessary orders shall be sent by each of the high contracting parties, 

 with reciprocal passports for the ships which shall carry them, imme- 

 diately after the ratification of the present treaty. 



ART. XXI. The decision of the prizes and seizures made prior to 

 the hostilities shall be referred to the respective courts of justice; so 

 that the legality of the said prizes and seizures shall be decided ac- 

 cording to the law of nations, and to treaties, in the courts of justice 

 of the nation which shall have made the capture, or ordered the 

 seizures. 



ART. XXII. For preventing the vevival of the law-suits which have 

 been ended in the islands conquered by either of the high contracting 

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