NORTH AMERICA. 
bis Majefty and the United States are defirous of continuing 
their efforts to promote its entire abolition, it is hereby 
agreed, that both the contrafting parties (hall ufe their 
bell endeavours to accompliffi fo deiirablean objeft. 
Done in triplicate at Ghent, the twenty-fourth day of 
December, onethoufand eight hundred and fourteen. 
Gambier. H. Goulburn. Wm. Adams, 
J. Q. Adams. J. A. Bayard. H. Clay. Jon. Russell. 
Albert Gallatin. 
The doubtful boundaries, and fome other matters in 
litigation between the two nations, having been fettled, 
the particulars were included in a Convention, publilhed 
in the form of a 
Proclamation by the President of the United 
States of America. 
Whereas a Convention between the United States of 
America and his Majefty the King of the United King¬ 
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, was made and conclu¬ 
ded at London, on the 20th day of Oftober, in the year 
of our Lord i8j8, by Albert Gallatin, Envoy Extraor¬ 
dinary and Minifter Plenipotentiary of the United States 
to the Court of France, and Richard Rufti, their Envoy 
Extraordinary and Minifter Plenipotentiary to the Court 
of his Britannic Majefty; and the Right Honourable 
John Robinfon, Treafurer of his Majefty’s Navy and Pre- 
iident of the Privy Council for Trade and Plantations, 
and H. Goulburn, Efq. one of his Majefty’s Under Secre¬ 
taries of State ; fully authorifed and empowered by their 
refpeftive Governments; and whereas the faid Convention 
was duly ratified by his Royal Highnefs the Prince Regent, 
in the name and on the behalf of his Britannic Majefty, 
on the 2d day of November, in the year of our Lord 1818 ; 
and by the Prefident of the United States, by and with the 
advice and confent of the Senate thereof, on the 28th of 
January following. And whereas the ratifications of 
the two governments were exchanged, in the city of 
Wafhington, on the 30th day of the prefent month of Ja¬ 
nuary, by John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State of the 
United States, on the part of the United States, and the 
Right Hon. Charles Bagot, his Britannic Majefty’s En¬ 
voy Extraordinary and Minifter Plenipotentiary to the 
United States, on the part of his Britannic Majefty, the 
Articles of which Convention are, word for word, as 
follow : 
Art. I. Whereas differences have arifen refpefting the 
liberty claimed by the United States for the inhabitants 
thereof to take, dry, and cure, fifh, on certain coafts, bays, 
harbours, and creeks, of his Britannic Majefty’s domi¬ 
nions in America; it is agreed between the high contrac¬ 
ting parties, that the inhabitants of the faid United States 
lhall have, for ever, in common with the fubjedts of his 
Britannic Majefty, the liberty to take fifh of every kind 
on that part of the coaft of Newfoundland which extends 
from Cape Ray to the Rameau iflands, on the weftern 
and northern coaft of Newfoundland, from the faid Cape 
Ray to the Quirpon Iflands, on the fhores of the Magda¬ 
len Iflands, and alfo on the coafts, bays, harbours, and 
creeks, from Mount Joly, on the fouthern coaft of La¬ 
brador, to and through the Straits of Belleifle, and 
thence northwardly indefinitely along the coaft, without 
prejudice, however, to any of the excluiive rights of the 
Hudfon Bay Company ; and that the American fifhermen 
lhall alfo haveliberty, for ever, to dry and cure fifh in any 
of the unfettled bays, harbours, and creeks, of the fouth¬ 
ern part of the coaft of Newfoundland, hereabove del'cri- 
bed, and of the coaft of Labrador ; but, fo foon as the 
fame, or any portion thereof, fliall be fettled, it lhall not 
be lawful for the faid fifhermen to dry or cure fifh at fuch 
portion fo fettled, without previous agreement for fuch 
purpofe with the inhabitants, proprietors, or poffeifors of 
the ground. And the United States hereby renounce for 
ever, any liberty heretofore enjoyed or claimed by the 
inhabitants thereof, to take,, dry, or cure, fifh, on or 
within three marine miles of any of the coafts, bays^creeks, 
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or harbours, of his Britannic Majefty’s dominions in 
America, not included within the above-mentioned li¬ 
mits ; provided, however, that the American fifhermen ■ 
fliall be permitted to enter fuch bays or harbours, for the 
purpofe of lhelter and of repairing damages therein, of 
purchafing wood, and of obtaining water, and for no 
other purpofe whatever. But they fliall be under fuch 
reftridlions as may be neceflary to prevent their taking, 
drying, or curing, fifh therein, or in any other man¬ 
ner whatever abufing the privileges hereby relerved to 
them 
II. It is agreed that a line drawn from the tnoft north- 
weftern point of the Lake of the Woods, along the 49th 
parallel of north latitude, or, if the faid point fliall not be 
in the 49th parallel of north latitude, then that a line 
drawn from the faid point due north orfouth, as the cafe 
may be, until the faid line fliall interfedl the faid parallel 
of north latitude, an^ from the point of fuch interfedlion 
due weft along and with the laid parallel, fliall be the line 
of demarcation between the territories' of the United 
States and thofe of his Britannic Majefty; and that the 
faid line (hall form the northern boundary of the faid 
territories of the United States, and the fouthern boun¬ 
dary of the territories of his Britannic Majefty, from the- 
• Lake of the Woods to the Stony Mountains. 
III. It is agreed, that any country that may be claimed 
by either party on the north-weft coaft of America, weft- 
ward of the Stony Mountains, fliall, together with its har¬ 
bours, bays, and creeks, and the navigation of all rivers 
within the fame, be free and open, for the term of ten 
years from the date of the fignature of the prefent Con¬ 
vention, to the veflels, citizens, and fubjedts, of the two 
powers ; it being well underftood that this agreement is 
not to be conftrued to the prejudice of any claim which 
either of the two high contradling parties may have to- 
any part of the faid country, nor fliall it be taken to af- 
fedt the claims of any other power or ftate to any part oft 
the laid country, the only objedt of the high contradting 
parties, in that refpedf, being to prevent difputes and dif¬ 
ferences among themfelves. 
IV. All the provilions of the “ Convention to regulate 
the Commerce between the territories of the United- 
States and of his Britannic Majefty,” concluded at Lon¬ 
don, on the 3d day of July, in the year of our Lord 1815, 
with the exception of the claufe which limited its dura¬ 
tion to four years, and excepting, alfo, fo far as the fame 
was affedfed by the declaration of his majefty refpedfing; 
the Ifland of St. Helena, are hereby extended and conti¬ 
nued in force for the term of ten years from the date of> 
the fignature of the prefent Convention* in the fame’ 
manner as if all the provilions of the faid Convention 
were herein fpecially recited. 
V. Whereas it was agreed by the firft article of the 
Treaty of Ghent, that “All territory, places, and pof- 
leffions, whatfoever, taken by either party from the other 
during the war, or which may be taken after the figning. 
of this Treaty, excepting only the iflands hereinafter 
mentioned, fliall be rellored without delay, and without 
caufing any deftrudtion, or carrying away any of the ar¬ 
tillery or other public property originally captured in the> 
laid forts or places, which fliall remain therein upon the 
exchange of the ratifications of this Treaty, or any' 
Haves or other private property;” and whereas, under 
the aforefaid article, the United States claim for their 
citizens, and as their private property, the reftitution of* 
or full compenfation for, all flaves who, at the date of the 
exchange of the ratifications of the faid Treaty, were in 
any territory, places, or pofleflions, whatfoever, diredted 
by the faid Treaty to be rellored to the United States, 
but then 1 'till occupied by the Britilh forces, whether fuch 
flaves were, at the date aforefaid, on-ihore, or on-board any 
Britilh veil'd, lying in waters within the territory or ju- 
rifdidlion of the United States; and whereas differences 
have arifen, whether, by the true intent and meaning of 
the aforefaid article of the treaty of Ghent, the United.- 
States 
