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 [96 CONVENTION WITH GREAT BRITAIN. 1802. be observed and perigrnaed with_ goqd lfaith gn thelpart of ltliie Hniggd St t Ih ve cause thepremises 0 ema epuuc an_ _ o erely eniioiii, anda require all persons bearing office, civil oi military, within the United States, and all others, citizens or inhabitants thereof, or being within the same, faithfully to observe and fulfil the said Convention and every clause and article thereof In rnswrirouv whereof I have caused the seal of the United States to be aliixed to these presents, and signed the same with my (I" S') hand. Done at the city of Washington, the twenty-iirst day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and one, and of the sovereignty and independence of the United States the twenty- sixth. TH: JEFFERSON. By the President, JAMES MADISON ) Secretary of State. C O N V E N 'I` I O N Between the United States and Great-Britain. (a) ·T¤¤·8· 1802- Dirrrcumrns having arisen in the execution of the sixth article of p,.,,,,,,b;,,_ the treaty of amity, commerce and navigation, concluded at London on Treaty of 19th the fourth day of November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety- N"- 1791v "’· four,(b) between his Britannic majesty and the United States of Ame- ' rica, and in consequence thereof the proceedings of the commissioners under the seventh article of the same treaty having been suspended; the parties to the said treaty being equally desirous, as far as may be, to obviate such didiculties, have respective] named Plenipotentiaries to rea an agree respec mg e same; a is o say is ri annie mat t d i' th thi": h'B`t ‘ jesty has named for his plenipotentiary, the right,honorable Robert Banks Ienkinson, commonly called Lord Hawkesbury, one of his majesty’s most honorable Privy Council, and his principal Secretary of State for foreign affairs: and the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof has named, for their lenipotentiary Rufus King, Esquire, minister leni otentiar of the P . . . . . P P Y said United States to his Britanmc majesty, who have agreed to and concluded the following Articles: The sixth arti- Anrrcrn I. In satisfaction and discharge of the money which the gg‘c:“;‘“g‘;d·,hG United States might have been liable to pay in pursuance of the pro- U_Sl: ,,8,.,,,, ,0 visions of the said sixth article, which is hereby declared to be canpay $600,000 celled and annulled, except so far as the same may relate to the execux";;l‘;‘,§s:;‘,f*“‘ tion of the said seventh article, the United States of America hereby ,,,8,,,,, 0g1g20D_ engage to pay, and his Britannic majesty consents to accept for the use ’J00each. of the persons described in the said sixth article, the sum of six hun- ———‘ (a) See notes of the Treaties and  Grcatgairij ante, page 54. __- (b) Ante, page 116.