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^* to that time,*' and insert " previous to the commenGement of the 

 war ;" so that the line would read " all grants of land made pre- 

 vious to the coramencement of the war." 



Agreed to. 



The British plenipotentiaries proposed the inaertion of the fol- 

 lowing article relative to the slave trade. 



*' Whereas the traffic in slaves is irreconcileable with the prin- 

 ciples of humanity and justice, and whereas both hii? majesty and 

 the United States are desirous of continuing their efforts to promote 

 its entire abolition, it is hereby agreed that both the contracting 

 parties shall exert every means in their power to accomplish so 

 desirable an object.'' 



Received for consideration. , 



The British plenipotentiaries proposed the following provision : 



*' That the citizens or subjects of each of the contracting parties 

 •may reciprocally sue in the courts of the other, and shall meet 

 with no impediment to the recovery of all such estates, rights, pro- 

 perties, or securities, as may be due to them by the laws of the 

 country in whose courts they shall sue." 



Received for consideration. 



The British plenipotentiaries proposed in the preamble to the 

 project of the treaty to omit the words " Admiral of the White 

 5?quadron," and insert *' late Admiral of the White, now Admiral 

 of the Red," in lieu of them. 



Agreed to. 



The American plenipotentiaries stated that possibly doubts 

 might arise as to the geographical accuracy of the words at the be- 

 ginning of the 8th article — " a line drawn due west from the Lake 

 of the Woods along the 49th parallel of north latitude." 



It was agreed that an alteration should be made to guard against 

 such possible inaccuracy. 



The American plenipotentiaries proposed the following altera- 

 tion in the draft delivered to them by the British plenipotentiaries, 

 relative to the manner of filling up the blanks in article 2d : " Ex- 

 tend the term of 12 days to 50 degrees norlh latitude, and to the 

 36th west longitude ; include the British and Irish channels in the 

 term of 30 days ; include the Baltic in the term of 40 days ; instead 

 of term of 150 days, insert 60 days for the Atlantic, as far as tlie lati- 

 tude of the Cape of Good Hope ; 90 days for every other part of the 

 world south of the equator; 120 days for all other parts of the world." 



The conference then ended. 



Protocol of Conference on December ^2th, 1814. 



The Protocol of the preceding conference, held on the 10th in^ 

 5tant, was settled. 



0:^[After much discussion relative to the 1st and 8th articles, the 

 conference ended by the American plenipotentiaries undertaking 

 to return an answer, in writing, to the propositions brought forward 

 by the British plenipotentiaries, at the last conlereuce. j 



