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meet with no impediment to the recovery of the same; they refund- 

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

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

 have paid on purchasing any of the said lands since the con- 

 fiscation. 



Supplemental Modification. To be added to either of the four 

 before mentioned. It is agreed, that all persons who have any inter- 

 est in confiscated lands, either by debts or marriage settlements, shall 

 meet with no lawful impediment in the prosecution of their just 

 rights. 



N. B. In case this article cannot be obtained, without some further 

 modification, to propose the following as a separate and secret article 

 to be added at the end of the treaty. 



Separate and Secret Article. 



The King of Great Britain undertakes and agrees, that none of the 

 persons specified in the list hereunto annexed, shall at any time claim 

 any restitution of lands, or any other benefit under the 5th article of 

 this treaty; His Majesty being willing to make provision for them, 

 in such other manner as he shall think fit. And such of the persons 

 specified in the said list as may be in America at the time of the 

 ratification of the treaty by the United States shall be allowed six 

 months thereafter, to remove to any part of the world, and also at 

 their election to dispose of, within the said term, or to carry with 

 them their goods and effects^ and shall during the said six months 

 enjoy full security for their lives, persons, and effects.] 



Art. 6th. There shall be a full and entire amnesty of all acts 

 and offences which have been, or may be supposed to have been 

 committed on either side by reason of the war, and in the course 

 thereof; and no one shall hereafter suffer in life or person, or be 

 deprived of his property for the part he may have taken therein. 

 All persons in confinement on that account shall immediately on 

 the ratification of the treaty in America be set at liberty ; all prosecu- 

 tions which may be depending in consequence of any of the said 

 offences shall cease, and no fresh prosecutions shall at any time here- 

 after be commenced thereupon. 



Art. 7th. 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 then immediately cease: all prisoners 

 on both sides shall be set at liberty; and His Britannic Majesty shall, 

 with all convenient speed and without causing any destruction, with- 

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

 and from every post, 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, deeds, and papers belonging 

 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 forth- 

 with restored, and delivered to the proper States and persons to 

 whom they belong. 



7th. That any person adhering to the British Government, having 

 claim to property within the United States, and who may not choose 

 to go there in person, shall have liberty to send or employ one or 



