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 T R E A T Y Of Amity and Commerce between their Hgh Mightinesses the States General of the United Awtherlands, and the United States of America, to wit: New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticuté, New- York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia. (a) QW 8» Y/82- Tnmrt High Mightinesses the States General of the United Nether- ` lands, and the United States of America; to wit: New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Connectrcutt, New~York, New-Jersey, Pcnsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, .North·Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, desiring to ascertain in a permanent and equitable manner, the rules to be observed relative to the commerce and correspondence, which they intend to establish between their respective states, countries and inhabitants, have judged that the said end cannot be better obtained, than by establishing the most perfect equality and reciprocity for the basis of their agreement, and by avoiding all those burthensome preferences, which are usually the sources of debate, embarrassment and discontent; by leaving also each party at liberty to make, respecting commerce and navigation, such ulterior regulations as it shall iind most convenient to itself; and by founding the advantages of commerce solely upon reciprocal utility, and the just rules of free intercourse, reserving withal to each party the liberty of admitting at its pleasure other nations to a participation of the same advantages. On these principles their said High Mightinesses the States General of the United Netherlands, have named for their plenipotentiaries, from the midst of their assembly, Messieurs, their deputies for the foreign affairs; and the said United States of America, on their part, have furnished with full powers, Mr. John Adams, late commissioner of the United States of America at the court of Versailles, heretofore delegate in Congress from the state of Massachusetts-Bay, and chief justice of the said state, who have agreed and concluded as follows, to witt: ARTICLE I. 96,,,,,, und There shall be a firm, inviolable and universal peace and sincere Yriondship be- friendship, between their High Mightinesses, the Lords the States Gene- between the subjects and inhabitants of the said parties, and between the countries, islands, cities and places, situated under the jurisdiction of the, said United Netherlands, and the said United States of America, their subjects and inhabitants, of every degree, without exception of persons or places. ARTICLE II. The subjects of the said States General of the United Netherlands, _"`-ii. (4) This treaty was ratified on the 22:1 .Tanuaryi1783. T (32)
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