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 TREATY WITH GREAT BRITAIN. JULY 17, 1854. 1103 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. July 1y, 1854. A PROCLAMATION. lVhcreas a convention between the United States of America and her Britannic Majesty, was concluded and signed by their respective plenipotentiaries, at Washington, on the seventeenth day of July last, which convention is, word for word, as follows :— Whereas a convention was concluded on the 8th day of February, 1853, Preamble. between the United States of America and her Britannic Majesty, for the settlement of outstanding claims, by a mixed commission, limited to endure ,,1,,,,,, P_ ggg_ for twelve months from the day of the hrst meeting of the commissioners: and whereas doubts have arisen as to the practicability of the business of the said commission being concluded within the period assigned, the President of the United States, and her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, are desirous that the time originally fixed for the duration of the commission should be extended, and to this end have named plenipotentiaries to agree upon the best mode of effecting this object - that is to say: the President of the United States, the Honorable William L. Marcy, Secretary of State of the United States; and her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, John Fiennes Crampton, Esq., her Majesty’s envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Washington, who have agreed as follows: Anrronn 1. The high contracting parties agree that the time limited _ Time for ter in the convention above referred to for the termination of the commission, ’!Q}Q;E:§“0‘;f °°m shall be extended for a. period not exceeding four months from the 15th claims extended. of September next, should such extension be deemed necessary by the commissioners, or the umpire, in case of their disagreement; it being agreed that nothing contained in this article shall in anywise alter or extend the time originally fixed in the said convention for the presentation of claims to the commissioners. Anrrrcmc 2. The present convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at London, as soon as possible within four months from the date thereofl In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have aflixed thereto the seals of their arms. Done at Washington, the seventeenth day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. W. L. MARCY, P.. s.] JOHN F. CRAMPTON, L. s.] And whereas the said convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the respective ratifications of the same were exchanged at London on the eighteenth ultimo, by James Buchanan, Esq., envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Great Britain, and the Earl of Clarendon, her Britannic Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on the part of their respective governments :—-— Now, therefore, be it known, that I, FRANKLIN PIERCE, President of the United States of America, have caused the said convention to be made public, to the end that the same, and every clause and article thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United _ States, and the citizens thereof ·