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 CONVENTION WITH BELGIUM. JULY 17, 1858. 1049 tioned; and it is agreed that after et il est oonvenu, qu’apres les douze the expiration of the twelve months mois de prolongation, acoordés de of prolongation accorded on both part et d’autre, ce traité et toutes les sides, this treaty and all its stipula- stipulations qu’il renferme cesseront tions shall cease to be in force. d’étre obligatoires. ARTICLE XVIII. ARTICLE xvm. This treaty shall be ratified, and Ce traité sera ratitié et les ratifi· Ratilications, the ratifications shall be exchanged cations serovnt échangées awashing- m,;*e*gb° °‘ at Washington, within the term of ton, dans le terme de neuf mois g ` nine months after its date, or sooner apres sa datxz ou plutdt si faire se if possible. peut. In faith whereof; the respective _ En foi de quoi, les plénipotenplenipotentiaries have signed the tiaires respectifs ont signé le présent present treaty, in duplicate, and have traité par duplicata, et y ont apposé athxed thereto their seals, at Wash- leurs sceaux a Washington, le dixington, the seventeenth of July, eigh- sept J uillet, mil huit cent cinquante teen hundred and fifty-eight. huit. LEW. CASS. [L. s.] H. BOSCH SPENCER. [L. S.} H. BOSCH SPENCER. [L. s.]. LEW. CASS. [L. s. And whereas the said convention has been duly ratified on both parts, Ruiiiicaiioim and the respective ratihcations of the same were exchanged in the city of exchanged, April Washington, on the 16th instant, by Lewis Cass, Secretary of State of the 16* IS"' United States, and Henry- W. T. Mali, consul-general of Belgium in the United States, on the part of their respective governments: Now, therefore, be it known that I, JAMES BUCHANAN, President Proclamation of the United States of America, have caused the said convention to be AP6! 1*% N59- 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 thereofl _ In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done in the city of Washington, this nineteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and [SEAL.] fifty-nine, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-third. JAMES BUCHANAN. By the President: LEWIS CASS, Secretary of State.