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 [92 CONVENTION WITH FRANCE. 1800. port of that prince or state, from which they have received their commissions. p,,,,,,,, ,0 be Am-. XXVI. It is further agreed, that both the said contracting pmprqbibimd en- ties shall not only refuse to receive any pirates into any of their ports, “)“l‘§ ‘h° P?"s havens or towns, or permit any of their inhabitants to receive, protect, ° mm mmm' harbor, conceal or assist them in any manner, but will bring to condign punishment all such inhabitants as shall be guilty of such acts or offences The snaps and And all their ships, with the goods or merchandises, taken by them z9<>d¤ ¢¤k¢¤ by and brought into the port of either of the said parties, shall be seized §g;;§“ °° b° as far as they can be discovered, and shall be restored to the owners or ` their factors or agents duly authorised by them; (proper evidence being first given before competent judges for proving the property;) even in case such effects should have passed into other hands by sale, if it be proved that the buyers knew or had good reason to believe, or suspect that they had been piratically taken. The lislieries Am-. XXVH. Neither party will intermeddle in the fisheries of the ¤l` ¤i¤h¢¤t>¤¤v other on its coasts, nor disturb the other in the exercise of the rights which it now holds or may acquire on the coast of Newfoundland, in the ' Gulph of St. Lawrence, or elsewhere, on the American coast, northward of the United States. But the whale and seal fisheries shall be free to both in every quarter of the world. Ratification; This convention shall be ratified on both sides in due form, and the gsighizngiid xatifications exchanged in the space of six months or sooner if possible. months' In faith whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the above articles both in the French and English languages, and they have thereto ellixed their seals: declaring nevertheless that the signing in the two languages shall not be brought into precedent, nor in any way operate to the prejudice of either party. Done at Paris the eighth day of Vendemaire of the ninth year of the French Republic, the thirtieth day of September, Anno Domini eighteen hundred. (Signed,) J. BONAPARTE. (1.. s.) C. P. FLEURIEU. 1.. s.) ROEDBRER. r.. s.) O. ELLSWORTH. 1.. s.) W. R. DAVIE. (r.. s.) W. V. MURRAY. (1. s.) Arm wnennas, the Senate of the United States did by their resolution, on the 3d day of this present month of February, two thirds of the Senators then present concurring, consent `to and advise the ratification of the said convention: Provided the second article be expunged, This conven. and that the following article be added or inserted: “It is agreed that the ¤i¤¤¤<> bein present convention shall be in force for the term of eight years from wmfor mgm thi? time of UIC 6X0h3i1gé of the l'atil“lcz1tions," Now Trrrznrtronrz, I, John Adams, President of the United States of America, having seen and considered the Convention and additional article above recited, do, in pursuance of the aforesaid advice and con— sent of the Senate of the said United States, by these presents accept, ratify and confirm the said Convention and additional article and every clause and article thereof, as the same are herein before set forth, saving and excepting the second article of the said Convention, which I hereby declare to be expunged and of no force or validity; and I do moreover hereby declare, that the said Convention, saving the second article as X.