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from its source directly north, to the aforesaid highlands which 

 divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean, from those which 

 fall into the River St. Lawrence; comprehending all islands within 

 twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States, and 

 lying between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the 

 aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part and East 

 Florida on the other shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy, 

 and the Atlantic Ocean; excepting such islands, as now are, and 

 heretofore have been within the limits of the said province of Nova 

 Scotia. 



Article 3d. It is agreed, that the people of the United States shall 

 continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on 

 the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also 

 in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where 

 the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish. 

 And also that the inhabitants of the United States shall* have liberty 

 to take fish of every kind on such part of the coast of Newfoundland, 

 as British fishermen shall use, (but not to dry or cure the same on 

 that island), and also on the coasts, bays, and creeks of all other of 

 His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America, and that the Ameri- 

 can fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the 

 unsettled bays harbours and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, 

 and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled; but so 

 soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be law- 

 ful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement, with- 

 out a previous agreement for that purpose with the inhabitants pro- 

 prietors or possessors of the ground. 



Article 4th. It is agreed that creditors on either side shall meet 

 with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in ster- 

 ling money of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted. 



Article 5th. It is agreed that the Congress shall earnestly recom- 

 mend it to the legislatures of the respective States, to provide for the 

 restitution of all estates, rights, and properties which have been con- 

 fiscated, belonging to real British subjects; and also of the estates 

 rights and properties of persons resident in districts in the possession 

 of His Majesty's arms; and who have not borne arms against the said 

 United States : And that persons of any other description shall have 

 free liberty to go to any part or parts of any of the thirteen United 

 States, and therein to remain twelve months unmolested in their en- 

 deavours to obtain the restitution of such of their estates, rights and 

 properties as may have been confiscated ; and that Congress shall also 

 earnestly recommend to the several States a reconsideration and revi- 

 sion of all acts or laws regarding the premises, so as to render the 

 said laws or acts perfectly consistent not only with justice and equity, 

 but with that spirit of conciliation which on the return of the bless- 

 ings of peace should universally prevail. And that Congress shall 

 also earnestly recommend to the several States, that the estates rights 

 and properties of such last mentioned persons shall be restored to 

 them ; they refunding 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, rights, or prop- 

 erties since the confiscation. 



109 And it is agreed that all persons who have any interest in 

 confiscated lands, either by debts, marriage settlements or 



