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 2I0 CONVENTION WITH FRANCE. 1803. Debtspmvided whose result is comprised in theconjectural note (a) annexed to the {bf PY fh¤_P¤¢- present convention, and which, with the interest, cannot exceed the °°d'"g °"’°l°‘ sum of twenty millions of francs. The claims comprised in the said note which fall within the exceptions of the following articles, shall not be admitted to the benefit of this provision. How the said Ama III. The principal and interests of the said debts shall be dis. debts uw iv by charged by the United States, by orders drawn by their minister plem. p°’d' potentiary on their treasury; these orders shall be payable sixty days after the exchange! offltratrfications oil, qheb treaty ancfl Idieconveptiolns signed this day an a er possession s a Ie owen o ouisiana y the commissaries of France to those of the United States. What debts Arun IV. It is expressly agreed, that the preceding articles shall comgm g°a“£'°‘h prehend no debts but such as are due to citizens of the United States, pggmiingyaié who have been and are yet creditors lof France, for supplies, for emcles. bargoes, and prizes made at sca, rn which the appeal has been properly lodged within the time mentioned in the said convention, Sth Vendemiaire, ninth year, (30th September, 1800.) To what cam ART. V. Thepreceding articles shall apply only, lst, to captures of they ¤¤‘¤ P=¤'~ which the council of prizes shall have ordered restttutron, it being well
 * "“}'"lY ‘° understood that the claimant cannot have recourse to the United States,

pp y' otherwise than he might have had to the government of (the French Republic, and only in case of insufficiency of the captors; 2, the debts mentioned in the said fifth article of the convention contracted before the 8th Vendemiaire, an. 9 (30th September, 1800,) the payment of which has been heretofore claimed of the actual government of Franco, and for which the creditors have a right to the protection of the United States; the said fifth article does not comprehend prizes whose condemnation has been or shall be confirmed: it is the express intention df the contracting parties not to extend the benefit of the present, convention to reclamations of American citizens, who shall have established houses of commerce in France, England, or other countries than the United States in partnership with foreigners and who by that reason and the nature of their commerce, ought to be regarded as domiciliated in the places where such houses exist. All agrements and bargains concerninv merchandize which shall not be the property of American citizens, acfe equally excepted from the benefit of the said convention, saving, however, to such persons their claims in like manner as if this treaty had not been made. Ministers ple- ART. VI. And that the different questions which may arise underthe 'GPg°:*“°'Y Qf preceding article may be fairly investigated, the ministers plempotentiary ,,,,,,,,,,,g8?g,l:;:t of the United States shall name three persons, who shall act from the to act provi- present and provisionally, and who shall have full power to examine, °l°¤°U>'· without removing the documents, all the accounts of the different claims already liquidated by the bureaus established for this purpose by the French Republic, and to ascertain whether they belong to the classes designated by the present convention and the principles established rn it; or if they are not in one of its exceptions and on their certificate, declaring that the debt is due to an American citizen or his representative, and that it existed before the Sth Vendemiaire, 9th year (30th September, 1800) the debtor shall be entitled to an order on the Treasury of the United States, in the manner prescribed by the third article. Aivr. VII. The same agents shall likewise have power, without rehte) {This "_c0p}ecwr¤il n0m" was not deposited inlfhe State until May 17, 1832, and is t cre ore omitte xero.