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trade with the Indians during the period of this our grant, within the 

 limits aforesaid, or within that part thereof which shall not be com- 

 prised within any such colony or province as aforesaid." 



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Treaties and Conventions relative to the North-West 

 Territories of North America. 



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Convention between Great Britain and Spain, {commonly called the 

 Nootka Treaty,) signed at the Escurial, October 28th, 1790. 



Article 1. The buildings and tracts of land situated on the north- 

 west coast of the continent of North America, or on the islands adjacent 

 to that continent, of which the subjects of bis Britannic majesty were dis- 

 possessed about the month of April, 1789, by a Spanish officer, shall be 

 restored to the said British subjects. 



Art. 2. A just reparation shall be made, according to the nature of 

 the case, for all acts of violence or hostility which may have been com- 

 mitted subsequent to the month of April, 1789, by the subjects of either 

 of the contracting parties against the subjects of the other ; and, in case 

 any of the said respective subjects shall, since the same period, have been 

 forcibly dispossessed of their lands, buildings, vessels, merchandise, and 

 other property, whatever, on the said continent, or on the seas and islands 

 adjacent, they shall be reestablished in the possession thereof, or a just com- 

 pensation shall be made to them for the losses which they have sustained. 



Art. 3. In order to strengthen the bonds of friendship, and to pre- 

 serve in future a perfect harmony and good understanding, between the 

 two contracting parties, it is agreed that their respective subjects shall not 

 be disturbed or molested, either in navigating, or carrying on their fish- 

 eries, in the Pacific Ocean or in the South Seas, or in landing on the 

 coasts of those seas in places not already occupied, for the purpose of 

 carrying on their commerce with the natives of the country, or of making 

 settlements there ; the whole subject, nevertheless, to the restrictions 

 specified in the three following articles. 



Art. 4. His Britannic majesty engages to take the most effectual 

 measures to prevent the navigation and the fishery of his subjects in the 

 Pacific Ocean or in the South Seas from being made a pretext for illicit 

 trade with the Spanish settlements ; and, with this view, it is moreover 

 expressly stipulated that British subjects shall not navigate, or carry on 

 their fishery, in the said seas, within the space of ten sea leagues from 

 any part of the coasts already occupied by Spain. 



Art. 5. As well in the places which are to be restored to the British 

 subjects, by virtue of the first article, as in all other parts of the north- 



