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 208 CONVENTION WITH FRANCE. l803. to doit upon the in the greatest degree possible, the credit of the United States, and to ¥J°S§'°"“° f°' raise to the highest price the said stock. vm, or the Am. III. It is agreed that the dollar of the United States, speeiticd dollarof U. S. in the present convention, shall be fixed at live francs T’·*6¤6¤i6% or five £¥°"`°‘l i°· livres, eight sous tournois. ed. wh°,,,,0nm,_ The present convention shall be ratified in good and due form, and tion mustbc the ratitications shall be exchanged in the space of six months to date g;;?::;;? from this day, or sooner if possible. IN rarrn or wmcu, The respective plenipotentiaries have signed the above articles, both in the French and English languages, de. claring, nevertheless, that the present treaty has been originally agreed on and written in the French language; to which they have hereunto atlixed their seals. Done at Paris, the tenth of Floreal, eleventh year of the French Republic, (30th April, 1803.) ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON, (t.. s. JAMES MONROE, r.. s. BARBE MARBOIS. L. s. C 0 N V E N T I O N Between the United States of Ammon and the French Republic. Apr-A30, 1803. Tim President of the United States of America and the First Consul ' of the French Republic, in the name of the French people, having by a treaty of this date terminated all diiliculties relative to Louisiana, and established on a solid foundation the friendship which unites the two nations, and being desirous, in compliance with the second and iiith articles of the convention of the eighth Vendemiaire, ninth year of the French Republic (30th September, 1800,) to secure the payment of the sums due by France to the citizens of the United States, have respectively nominated as plenipotentiaries, that is to say : the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of their Senate, Robert R. Livingston, minister plenipotentiary, and James Monroe, minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary of the said states, near the government of the French Republic; and the First Consul, in the name of the French people, the citizen Francis Barbé Marbois, minister of the public treasury: who after having exchanged their full powers, have agreed to the following articles: Debts due Airr. I. The debts due by France to citizens of the United States, YE<1¤¤ F¤¤¤;<gfg contracted before the 8th of Vendemiaire, ninth year of the French Q°‘§:";,i’d aéf ‘ Republic (30th September, 1800) shall be paid according to the following cording to tired regulations, with interest at six per cent. to commence from the periods ¤‘¤8¤l¤¤°¤¤- when the accounts and vouchers were presented to the French government. Arvr. II. The debts provided for by the preceding article are those