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 TREATY WITH GREAT BRITAIN. 1794. 13] each other, according to the stipulations of the said third article of the treaty of amity, commerce and navigation. This explanatory article, when the same shall have been ratified by his Majesty, and by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of their Senate, and the respective ratilications mutually exchanged, shall be added to, and make a part of the said treaty of amity, commerce and navigation, and shall be permanently binding upon his Majesty and the United States. IN wuwsss whereof, we, the said Commissioners of his Majesty, the King of Great—Britain and the United States of America, have signed this present explanatory article, and thereto aflixed our seals. Done at Philadelphia, this fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six. P. BOND, (1.. s. TIMOTHY PICKERING, (1.. si hxrnauawonv Awrrcnm, to be added to the treaty of Amity, Com- M¤¤‘¢h15.l798· merce and Navigation, between the United States and his Britannic Majesty. Whereas by the twenty-eighth Article of the Treaty of Amity, Com- fI‘he commismerce and Navigation, between his Britannic Majesty and the United SL°“§‘,j umljl States, signed at London the nineteenth day of November, one thou- jefegéedamcnf sand seven hundred and ninety-four, it was agreed, that the contracting pariicalsrizing parties would from time to time, readily treat of and concerning such the lj*¤;,¤d¤,·;yld further articles, as might be proposed, that they would sincerely en-  Ojjhc ° deavour so to form such articles, as that they might conduce to mutual river intended convenience, and tend to promote mutual satisfaction and friendship; EY ‘l‘° Siand that such articles, after having been duly ratified, should be added mu' to and make a part of that Treaty: And whereas difiiculties have arisen with respect to the execution of so much of the Fifth Article of the said treaty, as requires that the commissioners, appointed under the same, should in their description particularize the latitude and longitude of the source of the river, which may be found to be the one truly intended in the treaty of peace between his Britannic Majesty and the United States, under the name of the river St. Croix, by reason whereof it is expedient, that the said commissioners should be released from the obligation of conforming to the provisions of the said article in this respect. The undersigned being respectively named by his Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, their plenipotentiaries for the purpose of treating of and concluding such articles as may be proper to be added to the said treaty, in conformity to the above-mentioned stipulation, and having communicated to each other their respective full powers, have agreed and concluded, and do hereby declare in the name of his Britannic Majesty and of the United States of America——That the commissioners appointed under the 5th article of the above-mentioned treaty shall not be obliged to particularize, in their description, the latitude and longitude of the source of the river, which may be found to be the one truly intended in the aforesaid treaty of peace, under the name of the river St. Croix, but they shall be at liberty to describe the said river, in such other manner, as they may judge expedient, which description shall be considered as a compleat execution of the duty required of the said commissioners in this respect by the article aforesaid. And to the end tl1at no uncertainty may hereafter exist on this subject, it is further agreed, That as soon as may be after the decision of the said commissioners, measures shall be concerted bewccn the government of the United States and his Britannic Majestyé