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 262 PUBLIC TREAT} ES. untill it strikes the communication by water between that lake and Lake Erie; thence along the middle of said comrnunication into Lake Erie, through the middle of said lake untill it arrives at the water commnnication between that lake and Lake Huron; thence along the nuddle of said water communication into the Lake liluron; thence through the middle of said lake to the water commnmcation between that lake and Lake Superior; thence through Lake Superior northward of theisles Royal and Phelippeaux, to the Long Lake; thence through the middle of said Long Lake, and the water communication between it and the Lake of the Woods, to the said Lake of the Woods; thence through the said lake to the most northwestern point thereof, and from thence on a due west course to the river Mississippi; thence by a line to be drawn along the middle of the said river Mississippi untill it shall intersect the northernmost part of the 31st degree of north latitude. South, by a line to be drawn due east from the determination of the line last mentioned, in the latitude of 31 degrees north of the equator, to the middle of the river Apalachicola or Catahouche; thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint River; thence straight to the head ot St. Mary’s River; and thence down along the middle of St. Mary’s Biver to the Atlantic Ocean. East, byaline to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean, from those which fall into the river St. Laurence; comprehending all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part, and East Florida on the,other, shall respectively touch the bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean; excepting such islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the limits of the said province of Nova Scotia. Amrroma III. Rig1qt¤ff¤1¤¤ry· It is agreed that the people of the United States shall continue to enjoy nnmolested the right to take iish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland; also in the Gulph of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at-any time heretofore to fish; and also that the inhabitants of the United States shall have, liberty to take ilsh of every kind on such part of the coast of Newfoundland as British iishermen shall use, (but not to dry or cure the same on that island;) and also on the coasts, bays, and creeks of all other of his Britannic Majesty’s dominions in America; and that the American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled; but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure iish at such settlement, without a previous agreement for that purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground. Aivricnm IV. Reeeveryofdebts. _ It 18. agreed that creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money of all bona iide debts heretofore contracted. Anrionn V. Bestitntion or It is agreed that the Congress shall earnestl recommend i the ¢¤>¤¤¤¤¤¢¤<l ¤¤¤¤t¤¤·· legislatures of the respective States to provide fa; the restitutioh tgt all estates, rights, and properties which have been contiseated, belonging to real British subjects, and also of the estates, rights, and properties