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tiiereto. From their nature, and from the peculiar character of 

 the treaty of 1783, by which they were recognised, no further 

 stipulation has been deemed necessary by the government of the 

 United States, to entitle them to the full enjoyment of all of them.] 



The undersigned have aready, in their last note, explicitly de- 

 clined treating on the basis of uti possidetis. They cannot agree 

 to any other principle than that of mutual restoration of territory, 

 and have accordingly prepared an article founded on that basis. 

 They are willing even to extend the same principle to the other 

 objects in dispute between the two nations ; and in proposing all 

 the other articles included in this project, they wish to be distinctly 

 understood, that they are ready to sign a treaty, placing the two 

 countries, in respect to all the subjects of difference between them, 

 in the same state they were in at the commencement of the present 

 war ; reserving to each party all its rights, and leaving whatever 

 may remain of controversy between them, for future and pacific 

 riegotiation. 



The British plenipotentiaries having, in their note of the 4th of 

 September, communicated the disposition of their government to 

 receive favourably a proposition which should acknowledge the 

 boundary from the Lake of the Woods to the Mississippi, or to dis- 

 cuss any other line of boundary which might be submitted for con- 

 sideration, the undersigned answered, that as soon as the proposi- 

 tion of Indian boundary should be disposed of, they would have no 

 objection, with the explanation given by the British plenipotentia- 

 ries, to discuss the subject. 



The government of the United States had, prior to the acquisi- 

 tion of Louisiana, been disposed to agree to the boundary, from the 

 Lake of the Woods to the Mississippi, from a wish not only to ar- 

 range that subject, but also to settle, m a definitive manner, the 

 differences respecting the boundary and islands in the Bay of Pas- 

 samaquoddy : and its assent to the proposed stipulation of that 

 boundary was refused on account of the acquisition of Louisiana, 

 the boundaries of which might have been affected by it. The un- 

 dersigned cannot agree to fix the boundaries in that quarter, unless 

 that of Louisiana be also provided for in the arrangement. They 

 accordingly submit for consideration the article on that subject 

 which appears to have been agreed on between the British and 

 American commissioners in the project of convention of the year 

 1807. 



In respect to the intended review of the other boundaries be- 

 tween the British and American territories, with the view to pre- 

 vent fiiture uncertainty and dispute, the undersigned propose the 

 reference of the whole subject to commissioners : and they pre- 

 sent accordingly five articles, drawn on the principles formerly- 

 adopted by the two powers for settling the question respecting the 

 river St. Croix 



The article already agreed on, respecting the Indian pacification, 

 is included in the project of the undersigned. In conformity with 



