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 TREATY—FRANCE. stipulations of the Treaties made between the United States and the Bey of Tunis in August 1797, and in February 1824, and that it will refrain from claiming for its Consuls and citizens in Tunis other rights and privileges than those which belong to them in virtue of international law or which belong to them in France by reason of treaties in existence between the United States and France.

The Government of the French Republic agrees on its side to assure these rights and privileges in Tunis to the Consuls and citizens of the United States and to extend to them the advantage of all treaties and conventions existing between the United States and France.

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The present convention shall be ratified and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible. In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the foregoing Articles and have affixed their seals.

Done in duplicate at Washington, in the English and French languages, the 15th day of March, in the year 1904.

des traités conclus entre les Etats-Unis et le Bey de Tunis en Août 1797, et en Février 1824, et qu'il s’abstiendra de réclamer en Tunisie, pour ses Consuls et ses nationaux, d’autres droits et privilèges que ceux qui leur appartiennent en vertu du droit international ou qui leur sont acquis en France en vertu des traités en vigueur entre les Etats-Unis et la France.

Le Gouvernement de la République Française s’engage, de son côté, à assurer en Tunisie ces droits et privilèges aux Consuls et aux nationaux des Etats-Unis et à y étendre l'effet de tous les traités et conventions en vigueur entre les Etats-Unis et la France. . La présente convention sera ratifiée, et les ratifications seront échangées à Washington aussitôt que faire se pourra. En foi de quoi, les Plénipotentiaires respectifs ont signé les Articles ci-dessus, et y ont apposé leurs sceaux. Fait à Washington, en double expédition, en langues anglaise et française le 15 mars de l'an 1904.

And whereas the said Convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the ratifications of the two governments were exchanged in the City of Washington, on the seventh day of May, one thousand nine hundred and four;

Now, therefore, be it known that I, Theodore Roosevelt, President 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 testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and twenty-eighth.

By the President: Secretary of State.