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 232 PUBLIC TREATIES. Lawrence, or elsewhere on the American coast northward of the United States. But the whale and seal nsheues shall be free to both In ex ery quarter of the world. _ _ _ Ratincatious. This convention shall be ratified on both sides in due form, and the ratiilcations exchanged in the space of six months, or sooner it possible. _ _ Signatures. In faith whereof the respective Plenipotentnaries have signed the above articles both in the French and English languages, and they have thereto ailixed their seals: declaring, nevertheless, that thesigning in the two languages shall not be brought into precedent, nor in any way operate to the prejudice of either party. _ _ _ Date. Done at Paris the eighth day of Veudémiaire of the ninth year of the French Republic, the thirtieth day of September, anno Dominz eighteen hundred. J. BONAPARTE. L.. C. P. FLEURIEU. L. s. ROEDERER. L. S. O. ELLSWORTH. rn s. j W. R. DAVIE. L. s.! W. V. MURRAY. [L. s.] [The Senate of the United States did, by their resolution on the 3d day of February, 1801, consent to and advise the ratification of the convention : Provided, The second article be expunged, and that the following article be added or inserted : “It is agreed that the present convention shall be in force for the term of eight years from the time of the exchange of the ratitications." Bonaparte, irst Consul, in the name of the French people, consented on the 31st July, 1801, “to accept, ratify, and confirm the above convention, with the addition importing that the convention shall bein force for the space of eight years, and with the retrenchment of the second article: Provided, That by this retrenchment the xo lSt:tes renounce the respective pretentious, which are the object of the said 10 B. These ratificatipns, having been exchanged at Paris on the 31st of July, 1801, were again submitted to the Senate of the United States, which on the 19th of December, 1801, declared that it considered the convention fully ratined, and returned it to the President for promulgation.] FRANCE, 1803. April 30, 1803. TREATY WITH FRANCE FOR THE CESSIOY OF LOUIS N, L ——————— AT PARIS APRIL :l0, 1803: RATIFICATION 2D VISED BYISEblATgI?1C%TIC1SER 20. 1803; RATIFIED BY PRESIDENT OCTOBER 21, 1803; RATIFICATIONS g1XC8E5§1NGED AT WASHINGTON OCTOBER 21, 1803; PROCLAIMED OCTOBER , - Treaty between the United States of America and the French Rqublic. _ Contracting par- The President of the United States of America, and the First Consul remove all source of misunderstanding relative to objects of discussion [SW Articles H mentioned in the second and fifth articles of the convention of the 8th and v' convention Vendém1a1re,an 9 (30th September, 1800) relative to the rights claimed of 1800, Pp_ 225, by the United States, in virtue of the treaty concluded at Madrid, the 2z4s; aut ·· Spain," 27th of October, 1795, between his Catholic Majesty and the said United treaty ¤f 1795-] States, and willing to strengthen the union and friendshi p which at the time of the said convgntmn was gaptpily re-established between the two _ na ions, ave respec we y name t cir Pleni otent'·to `t: th N°8°**°*°”- President of the United States, [of America,]pby anduivcdh theladvicg andeouseut of the Senate of the said States, Robert R. Livingston, Munster Plenipotentiary of the United States, and James Monroe, Minister Pleuipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary of the said States, near the Government of the French Republic; and the First Consul, in the name of the French people, Citizen Francis Barbé Marbois, Minister of the Public Treasury; who. after having respectively exchanged their full powers, have agreed to the following articles:
 * ¤*=¤· of the French Republic, in the name of the French people, desiring to