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 246 PUBLIC TREATIES. Aarrcrn III. Indemnity to The Government of the United States, on nts_ part, for the purpose or F¤>¤¤h G0 V ¤ P ¤· being liberated completely from all the reclamations presentedby France m°“*‘ on behalf of its citizens, or of the Royal Treasury, (either for ancient supplies or accounts, the liquidation of which had been reserved, or tor unlawful seizures, captures, detentions, arrests, or destruetions of French vessels, cargoes, or other property,)_engages to pay to the Government of His Majesty (which shall make distribution of the same in the mauner and according to the rules to be determined by it) the sum of one million five hundred thousand francs. Anrrcm IV. Payments. The sum of one million five hundred thousand francs, stipulated in the preceding article, shall be payable in six annual instalments, of two hundred and fifty thousand francs; and the payment of each of the said instalments shall be effected by a reservation of so much out of the annual sums which the French Government is bound, by the second article above, to pay to the Government of the United States. To the amount of each of these instalments shall be added interest at four per cent. upon the instalment then paid, as well as upon those still due; which payments of interest shall be euected by means of a reservation, similar to that already indicated for the payment of the principal. The said interest shall be computed from the day of the exchange of the ratihcations of the present convention. Anrrcnn V. other claims. As to the reclamations of French citizens against the Government of the United States, and the reclamations of citizens of the United States against the French Government, which are of a diferent nature from those which it is the object of the present convention to adjust, it is understood that the citizens of the two nations may prosecute them in the respective countries before the competent judicial or administrative authorities, in complying with the laws and regulations of the country, the dispositions and benefit of which shall be applied to them, in like manner as to native citizens. ARTICLE VI. Documents mm.- The French Government and the Government of the United States ins. to ¤1¤i¤¤¤· reciprocally engage to communicate to each other, by the intermediary of the respective legations, the documents, titles, or other informations proper to facilitate the examination and liquidation of the reclamations comprised in the stipulations of the present convention. Anrrcm VII. French wines. The wines of France, hom and after the exchange of the ratincations of the present convention, shall be admitted to consumption in the ,States of the Union at duties which shall not exceed the following rates, by the gallon, (such as it is used at present for wines in the United States,) to wit: six cents for red wines in casks; ten cents for white wines in casks, and twenty-two cents for wines of all sorts in bottles. The proportion existing between the duties on French wines thus reduced, and the general rates of the tariff which went into operation the first of January, 1829, shall be maintained, in case the Government of the United States should think proper to diminish those. general rates in a new taritil