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 238 PUBLIC TREATIES. Aurrom VIII. E¤¤¤¤*¤¤*i¤*l °f The same agents shall likewise examine the claims which are not pre ““P"’P“""‘l °1“"“" pared for liquidation, and certify in writing those which in their judgment ought to be admitted to liquidation. Aarrcmr lX. d-D§b'“;;]f" “’ b° In proportion as the debts mentioned in these articles shall be admitl°° Mbted, they shall be discharged with interest, at six per cent., by the treasury of the United States. Anrrcm X. Agent or United And that no debt which shall not not have the qualifications above S*•°°° ‘°. ”“€°° l" mentioned, and that no unjust or exorbitant demand may be admitted,
 * }',$g“'§;Q“°'°" °f the commercial agent of the United States at Paris, or such other agent

'as the Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States shall think proper to nominate, shall assist at the operations of the bureaus, and co-operate in the examination of the claims; and if this agent shall be of opinion _ that any debt is not completely proved, or if he shall judge that it is [8* A¤¤°l° V-] not comprised in the principles of the fifth article above mentioned, and if, notwithstanding his opinion, the bureaus established by the French Government should think that it ought tobe liquidated, be shall transmit his observations to the board- established by the United States, who, without removing documents, shall make a complete examination of the debt and vouchers which support it, and report the result to the Minister of the United States. The Minister of the United States shall transmit his observations, in all such cases, to the Minister of the Treasury of the French Republic, on whose report the French Government shall decide dehnitively in every case. Ilojo c tion or The rejection of any claim shall have no other edect than to exempt °*¤*¤¤- the United States from the payment of it, the French Government reservingto itself the right to decide definitively on such claim so tar as it concerns itseltl Anrrctm XI. Decisions and Every necessary decision shall be made in the course of a year, to ¤‘¤¤l¤·¤!¤¤¤¤<>¤¤· commence from the exchange of ratidcations, and no reclamation shall be admitted afterwards. Amicnu XII. sigfmhpwg _In case of claims for debts contracted by the Government of France 18W_ ’ with citizens of the United States since the 8th Vendemiaire, ninth year, (30th September, 1800,) not being comprised in this convention, may be pursued, and the payment demanded in the same manner as if 1t had not been made. Aarrcta XIII. R•M°***°”•- The present convention shall be ratified in good and due form, and the ratiiications shall be exchanged in six months from the date of the signature of the Ministers Plcnipotentiary, or sooner if possible. Signatures. In faith of which, the respective Ministers Plenipotentiary have signed the above articles both in the French and English languages, declaring, nevertheless, that the present treaty has been originally agreed on and
 * {]l;:i:Bsl;a5l;· the French language; to which they have hereunto aiiixed

Dm Done at Paris, the tenth of Floréal, l th. public, 30th April, 1803. e even year of the French Re ROBT. R. LIVINGSTON. [L. s. JAS. MONROE. 1.. sd BABBE MARBOIS. {1.. s.]