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The American plenipotentiaries also intimated their willingness 

 to omit Article 8th altogether, if that course should appear more 

 advisable to the British plenipotentiaries.] 



The American plenipotentiaries further proposed, in conformity 

 with their note of November 30th, indemnifications for ships de- 

 tained in British ports on the breaking out of the war, and after- 

 wards condemned ; which was resisted by the British plenipoten- 

 tiaries. 



After much discussion on this point, the conference was ad- 

 journed. 



Protocol of Conference on December 10th y 1814. — Ghent. 



The Protocol of the preceding conference, held on the 1st 

 instant, was settled. 



The British plenipotentiaries stated that their government could 

 not consent to omit the words in article 1st, "belonging to either 

 party and taken by the other,'' unless some modification should be 

 introduced, either by excepting from mutual restitution all those 

 territories which are made by any articles of the treaty the subject 

 of reference to commissioners, or by excepting the Passamaquoddy 

 Islands alone. - 



Received by the American plenipotentiaries for consideration. 



(fcJp[The British plenipotentiaries then stated, that with respect 

 to the 8th article, their government offered, in lieu of the America» 

 proposals, to retain the amended article as far as the words *' Stony 

 Mountains," and to insert the following stipulation : 



'* His Britannic majesty agrees to enter into negotiation with the 

 United States of America respecting the terms, conditions, and re- 

 gulations, under which the inhabitants of the said United States 

 shall have the liberty of taking fish on certain parts of the coast of 

 Newfoundland, and other his Britannic majesty's dominions in North 

 America, and of drying and curing fish in the unsettled bays, har- 

 bours, and creeks, of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador^ 

 as stipulated in the latter part of the 3d article of the treaty of 1783, 

 in consideration of a fair equivalent, to be agreed upon between his 

 majesty and the said United States, and granted by the said United 

 States for such liberty aforesaid. 



." The United States of America agree to enter into negotiation 

 with his Britannic majesty respecting the terms, conditions, and re- 

 gulations, under which the navigation of the river Mississippi, from 

 its source to the ocean, as stipulated in the 8th article o<the treaty 

 of 1783, shall remain free and open to the subjects of Great Bri- 

 tain, in consideration of a fair equivalent, to be agreed upon be- 

 tween his majesty and the United States, and granted by his ma- 

 jesty."] 



Received by the American plenipotiaries for consideration. 



In the 7th article the British plenipotentiaries proposed, after 

 the v;ords " all grants of land made previous to," to omit the words 



