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 50 TREATY WITH SWEDEN. 1783. States North-America, have signed the present declaration, and have atlixed thereto the seal of our arms. Versailles, 20th of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty- th. M (sigma) Jop11;rA.ap&1¥11p, p. S.; B., 1.. s. th st and twenty-see0nd 0 the Preliminary Articles between Whzme hhid Great-Brithin, signlfd at Versailles the tweniieth January, 1783. Ama 1. As soon as the preliminaries shall be signed and ratified, sincere friendship shall be re-established between his most Christian Majesty and his Britannic Majesty, their kingdoms, states, and subjects by sea and by land, in all parts of the world.; orders shall be sent to the armies and squadrons, as well as to the subjects of the two powers, to cease all hostilities, and to live in the most perfect union, forgetting the past, according to the order and example of their sovereigns; and for the execution of this article, sea-passes shall be given on each side to the ships which shall be dispatched to carry the news to the possessions of the said powers. _ _ _ Aar. 22. To prevent all the causes of complaint and dispute which might arise on account of the prizes which may be taken at sea after the signing of these preliminary articles, it is reciprocally agreed, that the vessels and effects which may be taken in the Channel and in the North Seas, alter the space of twelve days, to be computed from the ratification of the present preliminary articles, shall be restored on each side. That the term shall be of one month from the Channel and the North Seas to the Canary Islands inclusively, whether in the Ocean or in the Mediterranean; of two months from the said Canary Islands to the Equinoxial Line or Equator; and lastly, of live months in all other parts of the world, without any exception, nor other more particular distinction of times and places. TREATY OF AMITY AND COMMERCE, Concluded between his Majesty the King if Sweden and the United States y` North-America. (a) April 3, 1783. Tm: King of Sweden, of the`Goths and Vandals, dsc. &.c. &.c..and ' """"`°"‘ the Thirteen United States of North-America; to wit: New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New- Jersey, Pennsylvania, the counties of New-Castle, Kent and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, desiring to establish, in a stable and permanent manner, the rules which ought to be observed relative to the correspondence and commerce which the two parties have judged necessary to establish between their respective countries, states and subjects; his Majesty and the United States have thought that they. could not better accomplish that end, than by taking for a basis of their arrangements the mutual interest and advantage of both nations, thereby avoiding all those bur- ___ thensome preferences, which are usually sources of debate, embarrass- 'l`heTenis ihS, —N_ »_ ·‘itt ·r...¥y LF Aldril ¤.l$S§I’ h"" *’°`“‘ 'lthe Treaty of September 4. 1816; post, 232. 'lhc 'l`rcn¤y ofluly 4, 1827; pass, 346.