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 206 CONVENTION WITH FRANCE. 1803. Done at Paris, the tenth day of Floreal, in the eleventh year of the French Republic, and the 30th of April, 1803. (Signed) ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON, (1.. s.) JAMES MONROE, 1.. s. F. BARBE MARBOIS, 21.. s.; C 0 N V E N T I O N Between the United States ry' America and the French Republic. A,,,.,, 80, 1g0S_ Tim President of the United States of America and the First Consul —-—-———— of the French Republic, in the name of the French people, in consequence of the treaty of cession of Louisiana, which has been signed this day, wishing to regulate definitively every thing which has relation to the said cession, have authorized to this effect the plenipotentiaries, that is to say: the President of the United States has, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the said States, nominated for their lenipotentiaries, Robert R. Livingston, minister plenipotentiary of the Ilnited States, and James Monroe, minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary of the said United States, near the government of the French Republic; and the First Consul of the French Republic, in the name of the French people, has named as plenipotentiary of the said Republic, the citizen Francis Barbé Marbois; who, in virtue of their full powers, which have been exchanged this day, have agreed to the following articles: U_ g_ gngngg Amr. I. The government of the United States engages to pay to the Wvgy 60,000.· French government, in the manner specified in the following article, %Qm;';“°§,°;’ the sum of sixty millions of francs, independent of the sum which shall ’be fixed by another convention for the payment of the debts due by France to citizens of the United States. Agtgcktpbe Am. II. For the payment of the sum of sixty millions of francs, created <><1¤¤l¢¤ mentioned in the preceding article, the United States shall create a 2}‘}g?,£,°°£2? stock of eleven millions two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, bearing ' an interest of six per cent. per annum, payable half yearly in London, Amsterdam or Paris, amounting by the half year, to three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars, according to the proportions which shall be determined by the French government to be paid at either place: the principal of the said stock to be reimbursed at the Treasury of the United States, in annual payments of not less than when,],,,;;,,, three millions of dollars each; of which the first payment shall com- B¤Yment shall mence fifteen years after the date of the exchange of ratifications: this °‘"“d°‘ stock shall be transferred to the government of France, or to such person or persons as shall be authorized to receive it, in three months at most after the exchange of the ratitications of this treaty, and after Louisiana shall be taken possession of in the name of the government of the United States. French $0.,,,,,,. It is further agreed, that if the French government should be desirous rrwm sci ing of disposing of the said stock to receive the capital in Europe, at shorter "°°k"‘E““’l"’· terms, that its measures for that purpose shall be taken so as to favor,