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 |94 CONVENTION WITH FRANCE. 1800. aforesaid, and the said additional article, form together one instrument, and are a convention between the United States of America, and the French Republic, made by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof In rnsrtmonrr whereof, I have caused the seal of the United (I" S') States of America to be hereto afiixed. Grvmu under my hand at the City of Washington,·this 18th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and one, and of the Indepegigencelpf the said Statgzggeq zgne . By the President, JOHN MARSHALL, Acting as Secretary of State. And whereas the said convention was on the other part ratified and confirmed by the First Consul of France in the form of which the following is a translation from the French language, to wit; Bonaparte, First Consul, in the name of the French People--The consuls of the Republic, having seen and examined the Convention concluded, agreed to, and signed at Paris, the Sth Vendemiaire, 9th year of the French Republic, (g0th September 1800) by the citizens Joseph Bonaparte, Fleurieu and oederer, counsellors of state, in virtue of the full powers which have been given to them to this effect, with Messieurs Ellsworth, Davie, and Murray, ministers plenipotentiarycf the United States, equally furnished with full powers, the tenor of which Convention folloivs:— [Here follows the Treaty.] Approves the above Convention in all and each og the pirtéclesgvhich are therein contained· declares that it is accepte, rati e an confirmed, and promises that it shall be inviolably observed. · _ ’ The government of the United States having added in its ratificationé that the Convention should be in force for the space of eight years an having omitted the second article, the government of the French Republic consents to accept, ratify and confirm the above convention, with the addition importing that the Convention shall be in force for the space of eight years, and with the retrenchment of the second article: `Provided that y this retrenchment the two States renounce the respective pretentious, which are the object of the said article. In mi·ri—i whereof these presents are giwen. Signed, countersigned and sealed with the great seal of the epublic, at Paris,the twelfth Thermidor, ninth year of the Republic (31st July 1801.) (Signed) BON APARTE. The Minister of Exterior Relations, (Signed) CH MAU. TALLEYRAND. By the First Consul, The Secretary of State, (Signed) HUGUES B. MARET. Fiimiratifica- Wnicn ratifications were duly exchanged at Paris on the 31st day i‘;“£;f°‘“b°' of July in the present year, and having been so exchanged were again `submitted to the Senate of the United States, who on the 19th day of the present month resolved that they considered the said Convention as fully ratified, and returned the same to the President for the usual promulgation. New rtiiaueroan to the end that the said convention may