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 QONVEN TION.—FRAN CE—CLAlM S. JANUARY 15, 1880. 679 ARTICLE XII, Anrrom XII. The present Convention shall be La présente Convention sera rati- R,,,mgcm0,,_ ratined by the President of · the fiée par le President des Etats·Unis, United States, by and with the par et avec l’avis et consentement advice and consent of the Senate du Sénat, et par le President de la thereof, and by the President of République Francaise, et les ratifithe French Republic, and the rati- cations seront échangées a Washiications shall be exchanged at ington, an jour le plus rapproché Washington, at as early a day as qu’i1 sera possible dans les neuf may be possible within nine months mois a partiI· de la date du present from the date hereof acte. In testimony whereof the respect- En foi de quoi, les Plénitpotentfive Plenipotentiaries have signed aires respectifs ont signé la pré- the present Convention, in the En- sente Convention en langue franglish and French languages, in dn· eaise et anglaise en double original plicate, and hereunto affixed their et y ont apposé leur cachets rerespective seals. spectifs. Done at the city of Washington, Fait dans la ville de Washington the fifteenth day of January, in the le quinze Janvier de Pannée de year of our Lord one thousand eight Notre Seigneur dix-huit cent quatrehundred and eighty. vingts. WILLIAM MAXWELL EVAEIS. WILLIAM MAXWELL EVARTS.' Signatures. SEAL. SEAL. MAX OUTREY. {SEAL. MAX Oucranr. SEAL. And whereas the said Convention has been duly ratified on both parts, ' and the ratincations of the two governments were exchanged in the city of Washington on the twenty-third day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighty: _ _ Now, therefore, be it known that I, BUTHERFOBD B. HAYES, Pres1— Pr¤¤1¤m¤’¤w¤ dent of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every_ article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. _ Done at the city of Washington this twenty-fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighty, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States the one hundre and fourth. R. B. HAYES. By the President: WM. M. Evmms, Secretary of State.