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Kiver Yassons, where it unites with the Mississippi, due east to the 

 River Apalachicola.] 



Art. 3d. The citizens of the United States shall have the liberty 

 of taking fish of every kind on all the banks of Newfoundland, and 

 also in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and also to dry and cure their fish 

 on the shores of the Isle of Sables, and on the shores of any of the 

 unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of the Magdalen Islands in the 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence, so long as such bays, harbours and creeks shall 

 continue and remain unsettled. On condition that the citizens of the 

 said United States do not exercise the said fishery, but at the distance 

 of Three leagues from all the coasts belonging to Great Britain, as 

 well those of the continent, as those of the islands situated in the Gulf 

 of St. Lawrence. And as to what relates to the fishery on the coasts 

 of the island of Cape Breton out of the said gulf, the citizens of the 

 said United States shall not be permitted to exercise the said fishery, 

 but at the distance of fifteen leagues from the coasts of the island of 

 Cape Breton. 



Art. 4th. It is agreed, that the British creditors shall meet with no 

 lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money 

 of such bond fide as were contracted by any persons who are citizens 

 of the said United States before the year 1775. 



Art. 5th. It is agreed, that persons whose estates, rights and prop- 

 erties in America have been confiscated at any time during the war 

 shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the same, 

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

 bond fide price (where any has been given) which such persons may 

 have paid on purchasing any of the said lands since the confiscation. 



[In case this article cannot be obtained in its full extent, to propose 

 the following modifications, in the order they stand : 



First modification. It is agreed, that real British subjects, and 

 persons who during the war have continued to reside in districts now 

 in the possession of His Majesty's arms, and persons who have not 

 actually borne arms against the said United States, and whose 

 lands have been confiscated at any time during the war, shall meet 

 with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the same, they refund- 

 ing to any persons who may be now in possession the bond fide price 

 (where any has been given) which such persons may have paid on 

 purchasing any of the said lands since the confiscation. 



Second modification. It is agreed, that real British subjects, and 

 all persons who left America before the 1st January, 1777, and whose 

 lands have been confiscated at any time during the war, shall meet 

 with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the same, they refund- 

 ing 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 since the confiscation. 



Third modification. It is agreed that real British subjects and 

 persons who left America before the 1st January, 1775, and whose 

 estates have been confiscated at any time during the war, shall meet 

 with no lawful impediment in the recovery of the same; they re- 

 funding to any persons who may be now in possession the bond fide 

 price (where any has been given) which such persons may have paid 

 on purchasing any of the said lands since the confiscation. 



Fourth Modification. It is agreed, that real British subject?, 

 whose estates have been confiscated at any time during the war, shall 



