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and in compliance with their request for a conference, shall be 

 happy to receive them at the Chartreux to-morrow at 12 o'clock. 



The undersigned request the American plenipotentiaries to ac- 

 cept the assurance of their high consideration. 



GAMBIER, 



HENRY GOULBURN, 

 WILLIAM ADAMS. 

 Ghejvt, JVov. 3oth, 1814. 



Protocol of a conference, held the \st December, 1814, a< Ghent, 



At a conference held this day, the American plenipotentiaries 

 proposed the following alterations in their project, as amended by 

 the British plenipotentiaries. 



1. In article 1st, strike out the alteration consisting of the words 

 " belonging to, and taken by," and preserve the original reading, 

 viz. '* taken by either party from the other." 



This alteration was objected to by the British plenipotentiaries, 

 and after some discussion, reserved by them for the consideration 

 of their government. 



2. Transpose alteration consisting of the words " originally cap- 

 tured in the said forts or places, and which shall remain therein 

 upon the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty," after the 

 words " public property." 



Agreed to by the British plenipotentiaries. 



3. Article 2d. The term to be fifteen days in the Channel, in 

 the North Seas, in all parts of the Atlantic ocean to the equinoctial 

 line or equator, and in all parts of the Mediterranean. Two months 

 in the Atlantic ocean, to the latitude of the Cape of Good Hope, 

 and three months in all other parts of the world. 



In lieu of this alteration, the British plenipotentiaries proposed 

 the following, viz. " That all vessels and effects which may be taken 

 after the space of twelve days from the period of the exchange of 

 the said ratifications, upon all parts of the coasts of North America^ 

 from the latitude of 23 deg. north, to the latitude of 47 deg. north 

 and as far eastward in the Atlantic ocean as the 65 deg. of west 

 longitude from the meridian of Greenwich, shall be restored on 

 each side. That the term shall be thirty days in all other parts of 

 the Atlantic ocean, as fiir eastward as the entrance of the British 

 Channel, and southward as far as the equinoctial line or equator, 

 and the same time for the Gulf of Mexico and all parts of the West 

 Indies. Forty days for the British Channel and the North Seas. 

 The same time for all parts of the Mediterranean, and one hun- 

 dred and fifty days for ^1 other parts of the world, without excep- 

 tion." Which was reserved by the American plenipotentiaries 

 for consideration. 



4. Article 3d. After the words " all islands within twenty leagues 



