Tratado
de Paris de 1783
Firmado
en el Hotel d'York, ubicado en el 56 de la rue Jacob, en París, el 3 de
septiembre de ese Año. Fue ratificado posteriormente por el Congreso de
Annapolis.
En el nombre de la Santísima e indivisible Trinidad.
Es haber honrar a la Divina Providencia por disponer los corazones de los más
serenos y más potentes Príncipe Jorge III, por la gracia de Dios, rey de Gran
Bretaña, Francia e Irlanda, defensor de la Fé, duque de Brunswick y Luneburgo, tesorero
mayor y príncipe elector del Sacro Imperio Romano, etc, y de los Estados Unidos
de América, a olvidar todas las incomprensiones del pasado y las diferencias
que han interrumpido por desgracia la buena correspondencia y amistad que desean
mutuamente restaurar, y establecer una relación tan beneficiosa satisfactoria
entre los dos países sobre la base de ventajas recíprocas y la conveniencia
mutua como puede promover y asegurar a la paz y la armonía perpetua; y que han
para este fin deseable sentado las bases de la paz y la reconciliación en los
Estatutos provisionales firmados en París el 30 de noviembre de 1782, por los
comisionados habilitados de cada parte, los artículos acordados para ser
insertado y constituir el Tratado de Paz propuesto que deberá celebrarse entre
la Corona de la Gran Bretaña y los Estados Unidos, pero que dicho tratado no serán
efectivos hasta que los términos de la paz deban ser acordados entre Gran
Bretaña y Francia y su Majestad Británica debería estar listo para concluir un
tratado en consecuencia; y el tratado entre Gran Bretaña y Francia desde que se
haya celebrado, su Majestad Británica y los Estados Unidos de América, a fin de
llevar a pleno efecto los Estatutos provisionales antes mencionados y de
acuerdo con el tenor de los mismos, han constituido y nombrado, es decir su
Majestad Británica, por su parte, David Hartley, Lcdo., miembro del Parlamento
de Gran Bretaña y los Estados Unidos, por su parte, John Adams, Lcdo., comisionado
de los Estados Unidos de América en la corte de Versalles, delegado en el
Congreso del Estado de Massachusetts y jefe de justicia de dicho estado, y
ministro plenipotenciario de los citados Estados Unidos ante el gran poderío de
los Estados Generales de los Países Bajos Unidos; Benjamin Franklin, Esq., delegado
en el Congreso del estado de Pennsylvania, presidente de la convención de dicho
estado, y ministro plenipotenciario de los Estados Unidos de América en la
corte de Versalles; John Jay, Esq., ex presidente del Congreso y presidente del
Tribunal Supremo del estado de Nueva York, y ministro plenipotenciario de
dichos Estados Unidos en la corte de Madrid; siendo plenipotenciarios para la conclusión
y la firma del presente tratado definitivo; quienes después de haberse
comunicado mutuamente sus respectivos plenos poderes han acordado y confirmado
los siguientes artículos.
ARTÍCULO I: Su Majestad Británica reconoce que los citados Estados Unidos, a saber: New
Hampshire, Massachusetts, las Plantaciones de Providence y Rhode Island,
Connecticut, Nueva York, Nueva Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland,
Virginia, Carolina del Norte, Carolina del Sur y Georgia, son estados libres,
soberanos e independientes, que él tratará con ellos como tales, y para él, sus
herederos y sucesores, renuncia a todas las reclamaciones al gobierno, la
propiedad, y los derechos territoriales de los mismos y cada parte de los
mismos.
ARTÍCULO II: Y que todas las disputas que puedan
surgir en el futuro sobre el tema de los límites de dichos Estados Unidos se puedan
prevenir, pues se ha declarado y acordado, que los siguiente son y serán sus
límites, a saber: desde el ángulo noroeste de Nueva Escocia, a saber, el ángulo
que se forma por una línea trazada rumbo norte desde el origen del río St.
Croix a las tierras altas; a lo largo de las citadas montañas que dividen a los
ríos que desembocan en el río San Lorenzo, de los que caen en el Océano
Atlántico, a la cabeza más al noroeste del Río Connecticut; desde allí a lo
largo del medio de ese río hasta el cuadragésimo quinto grado de latitud norte;
desde allí por una línea hacia el oeste en dicha latitud hasta que corta los
ríos Iroqués o Cataraquy; finalmente, por medio de dicho río en el Lago
Ontario; por el centro de dicho lago hasta que golpea la comunicación por agua
entre ese lago y el lago Erie; por medio de dicha comunicación en el Lago Erie,
por el centro de dicho lago, hasta que llega a la comunicación fluvial entre
ese lago y el lago Huron; por medio de dicha comunicación el agua en el lago
Hurón, y desde allí a través de la mitad de dicho lago para la comunicación
entre el agua de ese lago y el Lago Superior; desde allí a través del lago
Superior al norte de las islas Real y Phelipeaux al Lago Largo; desde allí por
el centro de dicho Lago Largo y la comunicación fluvial entre éste y el Lago de
los Bosques, a dicho Lago de los Bosques; desde allí a través de dicho lago
hasta el punto más noroccidental del mismo, y de allí en un rumbo al oeste por
el río Mississippi; desde allí por una línea que se elaborará a lo largo de la
mitad del dicho río Mississippi hasta que se corte la parte más septentrional
del trigésimo primer grado de latitud norte, al sur, por una línea que se
dibuja hacia el este desde la determinación de la línea mencionada en último
lugar en la latitud de treinta y un grados del ecuador, en la mitad del río
Apalachicola o Catahouche; por medio de los mismos hasta su unión con el río
Flint, y desde allí directamente a la cabeza del río de Santa María; y desde
allí a lo largo del centro de Río de Santa María con el Océano Atlántico; al
este, por una línea que se elaborará a lo largo del medio del río Santa Cruz,
desde su desembocadura en la Bahía de Fundy a su fuente, y de su fuente
directamente al norte a las tierras altas antes mencionadas que dividen los
ríos que caen en el océano Atlántico desde las que caen en el río San Lorenzo;
comprendiendo todas las islas dentro de las veinte leguas de cualquier parte de
las costas de Estados Unidos, y que se extiende entre las líneas que se
elaborará el este desde los puntos en los que los límites mencionados entre
Nueva Escocia, por una parte y el este de la Florida en el otro deberán,
respectivamente, tocar la bahía de Fundy y el Océano Atlántico, a excepción de
las islas como son ahora, o hasta ahora han estado dentro de los límites de la
dicha provincia de Nueva Escocia.
ARTÍCULO III: Se ha acordado que el pueblo de los
Estados Unidos continuará gozando sin ser molestado del derecho de tomar toda
clase de peces en el Gran Banco y en el resto de los bancos de Terranova,
también en el Golfo de San Lorenzo y en todos los otros lugares de la mar, donde
los habitantes de ambos países solían en cualquier momento hasta la fecha pescar.
Y también que los habitantes de los Estados Unidos deben tener la libertad para
tomar toda clase de peces en esa parte de la costa de Terranova como los pescadores
británicos utilizarán, (pero no para secar o curar los mismos en esa isla), y
también en las costas, bahías y calas de todos los demás de los dominios de su
Majestad Británica en América; y que los pescadores estadounidenses tendrán
libertad para secar y curar el pescado en cualquiera de las bahías sin habitar,
puertos y calas de Nueva Escocia, las Islas de la Magdalena, y Labrador,
siempre que las mismo se mantengan inhabitadas, pero tan pronto como las mismas
o alguna de ellas se habitara, no será legal para los pescadores secar o curar pescado
en tales asentamientos sin un acuerdo previo para tal fin con los habitantes,
propietarios o poseedores de la tierra.
ARTÍCULO IV: Se ha acordado que los acreedores de
cada lado se reunirán sin ningún impedimento legal para la recuperación de la
totalidad del valor en moneda esterlina de todas las deudas de buena fe hasta
ahora contraídas.
ARTÍCULO V: Se ha acordado que el Congreso deberá
recomendar seriamente a las legislaturas de los estados respectivos para prever
la restauración de todas las propiedades, derechos y propiedades que han sido
confiscadas pertenecientes a súbditos británicos reales; y también de las
propiedades, derechos y propiedades de las personas que residen en los
distritos de la posesión de las armas de Su Majestad y que no han tomado las
armas contra dichos Estados Unidos. Y que las personas de cualquier otra
descripción tendrán libertad libre de ir a cualquier parte o partes de
cualquiera de los trece Estados Unidos y ahí permanecer doce meses sin ser
molestados en sus esfuerzos para obtener la restitución de tales fincas,
derechos y propiedades que pudieran haber sido confiscadas; y que el Congreso
también deberá recomendar encarecidamente a los diversos estados una
reconsideración y revisión de todos los actos o leyes con respecto a los
locales, a fin de hacer dichas leyes o actos perfectamente coherentes no sólo
con la justicia y la equidad, sin también con ese espíritu de conciliación que
en la devolución de las bendiciones de la paz universal debe prevalecer. Y que
el Congreso también debe recomendar encarecidamente a los diversos estados que
las fincas, derechos y propiedades de esas últimas personas mencionadas serán
restaurados a ellas, la devolución a toda persona que pueda estar ahora en
posesión del precio de buena fe (donde se haya dado) que dichas personas pueden
haber pagado en la compra de cualquiera de los mencionados terrenos, derechos o
propiedades, desde la confiscación.
Y se acordó que todas las personas que tengan algún
interés en las tierras confiscadas, ya sea por deudas, capitulaciones
matrimoniales, o de otra manera, se reunirán sin ningún impedimento legal en la
persecución de sus justos derechos.
ARTÍCULO VI: Que no habrá futuras confiscaciones ni
enjuiciamientos iniciados en contra de cualquier persona o personas para, o por
razón de, la parte que él o ellos pudieran haber tomado en la guerra actual, y
que ninguna persona será por eso objeto de sufrimiento o pérdida futura, ya sea
en su persona, libertades o propiedades; y que aquellos que puedan estar en
confinamiento por dichos cargos al momento de la ratificación del tratado en
los Estados Unidos serán inmediatamente puestos en libertad, y los
procesamientos iniciados interrumpirse.
ARTÍCULO VII: Habrá una paz firme y perpetua entre
su Majestad Británica y dichos Estados, y entre los sujetos de una y los
ciudadanos de la otra, por lo cual todas las hostilidades, tanto por mar y
tierra cesarán desde ahora. Todos los prisioneros de ambas partes serán puestos
en libertad, y su Majestad Británica hará con la diligencia debida, y sin
causar la destrucción, la devolución de cualesquier Negros u otros bienes a los
habitantes de América, retirar todas sus tropas, las guarniciones y las flotas
de dichos Estados Unidos y desde todos los puestos, posiciones, y puertos dentro
de los mismos; dejando en todas las fortificaciones la artillería
estadounidense que pueda haber en los mismos; y también ordenará y transferirá
todos los archivos, registros, actas y documentos que pertenecen a cualquiera
de dichos estados o sus ciudadanos que en el curso de la guerra hayan caído en
manos de sus oficiales, para ser inmediatamente restaurados y entregados a los
estados y las personas adecuadas a las que pertenecen.
ARTÍCULO VIII: La navegación del río Mississippi,
desde su nacimiento hasta el mar, permanecerá siempre libre y abierta a los
súbditos de la Gran Bretaña y los ciudadanos de los Estados Unidos.
ARTÍCULO IX: En caso de que debería ocurrir que
cualquier lugar o territorio perteneciente a Gran Bretaña o los Estados Unidos
deberían haber sido conquistado por las armas del bien del otro antes de la
llegada de los citados artículos provisionales en América, se ha acordado que
la misma deberá ser restaurado sin dificultad y sin necesidad de ningún tipo de
indemnización.
ARTÍCULO X: Las ratificaciones solemnes del presente
tratado expedido en buena y debida forma, se intercambiarán entre las partes
contratantes en el espacio de seis meses, o antes, si es posible, computándose
desde el día de la firma del presente tratado. En fe de lo cual los abajo
firmantes, sus ministros plenipotenciarios, que en su nombre y en virtud de
nuestros plenos poderes, firmamos con nuestras manos el presente tratado
definitivo e imprimamos los sellos de nuestras armas para ser fijados al mismo.
Hecho en París, el día tres de septiembre del año de
Nuestro Señor Mil Setecientos Ochenta y Tres.
D. HARTLEY
(SEAL)
JOHN ADAMS
(SEAL)
B. FRANKLIN (SEAL)
JOHN JAY (SEAL)
In the Name of the most Holy & undivided Trinity.
It having pleased the Divine Providence to dispose the Hearts of the most Serene and most Potent Prince George the Third, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick and Lunebourg, Arch- Treasurer and Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Empire etc.. and of the United States of America, to forget all past Misunderstandings and Differences that have unhappily interrupted the good Correspondence and Friendship which they mutually wish to restore; and to establish such a beneficial and satisfactory Intercourse between the two countries upon the ground of reciprocal Advantages and mutual Convenience as may promote and secure to both perpetual Peace and Harmony; and having for this desirable End already laid the Foundation of Peace & Reconciliation by the Provisional Articles signed at Paris on the 30th of November 1782, by the Commissioners empowered on each Part, which Articles were agreed to be inserted in and constitute the Treaty of Peace proposed to be concluded between the Crown of Great Britain and the said United States, but which Treaty was not to be concluded until Terms of Peace should be agreed upon between Great Britain & France, and his Britannic Majesty should be ready to conclude such Treaty accordingly: and the treaty between Great Britain & France having since been concluded, his Britannic Majesty & the United States of America, in Order to carry into full Effect the Provisional Articles above mentioned, according to the Tenor thereof, have constituted & appointed, that is to say his Britannic Majesty on his Part, David Hartley, Esqr., Member of the Parliament of Great Britain, and the said United States on their Part, - stop point - John Adams, Esqr., late a Commissioner of the United States of America at the Court of Versailles, late Delegate in Congress from the State of Massachusetts, and Chief Justice of the said State, and Minister Plenipotentiary of the said United States to their High Mightinesses the States General of the United Netherlands; - stop point - Benjamin Franklin, Esqr., late Delegate in Congress from the State of Pennsylvania, President of the Convention of the said State, and Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America at the Court of Versailles; John Jay, Esqr., late President of Congress and Chief Justice of the state of New York, and Minister Plenipotentiary from the said United States at the Court of Madrid; to be Plenipotentiaries for the concluding and signing the Present Definitive Treaty; who after having reciprocally communicated their respective full Powers have agreed upon and confirmed the following Articles.
Article 1st:
His Brittanic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz., New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, to be free sovereign and Independent States; that he treats with them as such, and for himself his Heirs & Successors, relinquishes all claims to the Government, Propriety, and Territorial Rights of the same and every Part thereof.
Article 2d:
And that all Disputes which might arise in future on the subject of the Boundaries of the said United States may be prevented, it is hereby agreed and declared, that the following are and shall be their Boundaries, viz.; from the Northwest Angle of Nova Scotia, viz., that Angle which is formed by a Line drawn due North from the Source of St. Croix River to the Highlands; along the said Highlands which divide those Rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost Head of Connecticut River; Thence down along the middle of that River to the forty-fifth Degree of North Latitude; From thence by a Line due West on said Latitude until it strikes the River Iroquois or Cataraquy; Thence along the middle of said River into Lake Ontario; through the Middle of said Lake until it strikes the Communication by Water between that Lake & Lake Erie; Thence along the middle of said Communication into Lake Erie, through the middle of said Lake until it arrives at the Water Communication between that lake & Lake Huron; Thence along the middle of said Water Communication into the Lake Huron, thence through the middle of said Lake to the Water Communication between that Lake and Lake Superior; thence through Lake Superior Northward of the Isles Royal & Phelipeaux to the Long Lake; Thence through the middle of said Long Lake and the Water Communication between it & the Lake of the Woods, to the said Lake of the Woods; Thence through the said Lake to the most Northwestern Point thereof, and from thence on a due West Course to the river Mississippi; Thence by a Line to be drawn along the Middle of the said river Mississippi until it shall intersect the Northernmost Part of the thirty-first Degree of North Latitude, South, by a Line to be drawn due East from the Determination of the Line last mentioned in the Latitude of thirty-one Degrees of the Equator to the middle of the River Apalachicola or Catahouche; Thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint River; Thence straight to the Head of Saint Mary's River, and thence down along the middle of Saint Mary's River to the Atlantic Ocean. East, by a Line to be drawn along the Middle of the river Saint Croix, from its Mouth in the Bay of Fundy to its Source, and from its Source directly North to the aforesaid Highlands, which divide the Rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean from those which fall into the river Saint Lawrence; comprehending all Islands within twenty Leagues of any Part of the Shores of the United States, and lying between Lines to be drawn due East from the Points where the aforesaid Boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one Part and East Florida on the other shall, respectively, touch the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean, excepting such Islands as now are or heretofore have been within the limits of the said Province of Nova Scotia.
Article 3d:
It is agreed that the People of the United States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the Right to take Fish of every kind on the Grand Bank and on all the other Banks of Newfoundland, also in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and at all other Places in the Sea, where the Inhabitants of both Countries used at any time heretofore to fish. And also that the Inhabitants of the United States shall have Liberty to take Fish of every Kind on such Part of the Coast of Newfoundland as British Fishermen shall use, (but not to dry or cure the same on that Island) And also on the Coasts, Bays & Creeks of all other of his Brittanic Majesty's Dominions in America; and that the American Fishermen shall have Liberty to dry and cure Fish in any of the unsettled Bays, Harbors, and Creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled, but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said Fishermen to dry or cure Fish at such Settlement without a previous Agreement for that purpose with the Inhabitants, Proprietors, or Possessors of the Ground.
Article 4th:
It is agreed that Creditors on either Side shall meet with no lawful Impediment to the Recovery of the full Value in Sterling Money of all bona fide Debts heretofore contracted.
Article 5th:
It is agreed that Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the Legislatures of the respective States to provide for the Restitution of all Estates, Rights, and Properties, which have been confiscated belonging to real British Subjects; and also of the Estates, Rights, and Properties of Persons resident in Districts in the Possession on his Majesty's Arms and who have not borne Arms against the said United States. And that Persons of any other Description shall have free Liberty to go to any Part or Parts of any of the thirteen United States and therein to remain twelve Months unmolested in their Endeavors to obtain the Restitution of such of their Estates – Rights & Properties as may have been confiscated. And that Congress shall also earnestly recommend to the several States a Reconsideration and Revision of all Acts or Laws regarding the Premises, so as to render the said Laws or Acts perfectly consistent not only with Justice and Equity but with that Spirit of Conciliation which on the Return of the Blessings of Peace should universally prevail. And that Congress shall also earnestly recommend to the several States that the Estates, Rights, and Properties of such last mentioned Persons shall be restored to them, they refunding to any Persons who may be now in Possession the Bona fide Price (where any has been given) which such Persons may have paid on purchasing any of the said Lands, Rights, or Properties since the Confiscation.
And it is agreed that all Persons who have any Interest in confiscated Lands, either by Debts, Marriage Settlements, or otherwise, shall meet with no lawful Impediment in the Prosecution of their just Rights.
Article 6th:
That there shall be no future Confiscations made nor any Prosecutions commenced against any Person or Persons for, or by Reason of the Part, which he or they may have taken in the present War, and that no Person shall on that Account suffer any future Loss or Damage, either in his Person, Liberty, or Property; and that those who may be in Confinement on such Charges at the Time of the Ratification of the Treaty in America shall be immediately set at Liberty, and the Prosecutions so commenced be discontinued.
Article 7th:
There shall be a firm and perpetual Peace between his Britanic Majesty and the said States, and between the Subjects of the one and the Citizens of the other, wherefore all Hostilities both by Sea and Land shall from henceforth cease: All prisoners on both Sides shall be set at Liberty, and his Britanic Majesty shall with all convenient speed, and without causing any Destruction, or carrying away any Negroes or other Property of the American inhabitants, withdraw all his Armies, Garrisons & Fleets from the said United States, and from every Post, Place and Harbour within the same; leaving in all Fortifications, the American Artillery that may be therein: And shall also Order & cause all Archives, Records, Deeds & Papers belonging to any of the said States, or their Citizens, which in the Course of the War may have fallen into the hands of his Officers, to be forthwith restored and delivered to the proper States and Persons to whom they belong.
Article 8th:
The Navigation of the river Mississippi, from its source to the Ocean, shall forever remain free and open to the Subjects of Great Britain and the Citizens of the United States.
Article 9th:
In case it should so happen that any Place or Territory belonging to great Britain or to the United States should have been conquered by the Arms of either from the other before the Arrival of the said Provisional Articles in America, it is agreed that the same shall be restored without Difficulty and without requiring any Compensation.
Article 10th:
The solemn Ratifications of the present Treaty expedited in good & due Form shall be exchanged between the contracting Parties in the Space of Six Months or sooner if possible to be computed from the Day of the Signature of the present Treaty. In witness whereof we the undersigned their Ministers Plenipotentiary have in their Name and in Virtue of our Full Powers, signed with our Hands the present Definitive Treaty, and caused the Seals of our Arms to be affixed thereto.
Done at Paris, this third day of September in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three.
D HARTLEY (SEAL)
JOHN ADAMS (SEAL)
B FRANKLIN (SEAL)
JOHN JAY (SEAL)
Original
It having pleased the Divine Providence to dispose the Hearts of the most Serene and most Potent Prince George the Third, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick and Lunebourg, Arch- Treasurer and Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Empire etc.. and of the United States of America, to forget all past Misunderstandings and Differences that have unhappily interrupted the good Correspondence and Friendship which they mutually wish to restore; and to establish such a beneficial and satisfactory Intercourse between the two countries upon the ground of reciprocal Advantages and mutual Convenience as may promote and secure to both perpetual Peace and Harmony; and having for this desirable End already laid the Foundation of Peace & Reconciliation by the Provisional Articles signed at Paris on the 30th of November 1782, by the Commissioners empowered on each Part, which Articles were agreed to be inserted in and constitute the Treaty of Peace proposed to be concluded between the Crown of Great Britain and the said United States, but which Treaty was not to be concluded until Terms of Peace should be agreed upon between Great Britain & France, and his Britannic Majesty should be ready to conclude such Treaty accordingly: and the treaty between Great Britain & France having since been concluded, his Britannic Majesty & the United States of America, in Order to carry into full Effect the Provisional Articles above mentioned, according to the Tenor thereof, have constituted & appointed, that is to say his Britannic Majesty on his Part, David Hartley, Esqr., Member of the Parliament of Great Britain, and the said United States on their Part, - stop point - John Adams, Esqr., late a Commissioner of the United States of America at the Court of Versailles, late Delegate in Congress from the State of Massachusetts, and Chief Justice of the said State, and Minister Plenipotentiary of the said United States to their High Mightinesses the States General of the United Netherlands; - stop point - Benjamin Franklin, Esqr., late Delegate in Congress from the State of Pennsylvania, President of the Convention of the said State, and Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America at the Court of Versailles; John Jay, Esqr., late President of Congress and Chief Justice of the state of New York, and Minister Plenipotentiary from the said United States at the Court of Madrid; to be Plenipotentiaries for the concluding and signing the Present Definitive Treaty; who after having reciprocally communicated their respective full Powers have agreed upon and confirmed the following Articles.
Article 1st:
His Brittanic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz., New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, to be free sovereign and Independent States; that he treats with them as such, and for himself his Heirs & Successors, relinquishes all claims to the Government, Propriety, and Territorial Rights of the same and every Part thereof.
Article 2d:
And that all Disputes which might arise in future on the subject of the Boundaries of the said United States may be prevented, it is hereby agreed and declared, that the following are and shall be their Boundaries, viz.; from the Northwest Angle of Nova Scotia, viz., that Angle which is formed by a Line drawn due North from the Source of St. Croix River to the Highlands; along the said Highlands which divide those Rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost Head of Connecticut River; Thence down along the middle of that River to the forty-fifth Degree of North Latitude; From thence by a Line due West on said Latitude until it strikes the River Iroquois or Cataraquy; Thence along the middle of said River into Lake Ontario; through the Middle of said Lake until it strikes the Communication by Water between that Lake & Lake Erie; Thence along the middle of said Communication into Lake Erie, through the middle of said Lake until it arrives at the Water Communication between that lake & Lake Huron; Thence along the middle of said Water Communication into the Lake Huron, thence through the middle of said Lake to the Water Communication between that Lake and Lake Superior; thence through Lake Superior Northward of the Isles Royal & Phelipeaux to the Long Lake; Thence through the middle of said Long Lake and the Water Communication between it & the Lake of the Woods, to the said Lake of the Woods; Thence through the said Lake to the most Northwestern Point thereof, and from thence on a due West Course to the river Mississippi; Thence by a Line to be drawn along the Middle of the said river Mississippi until it shall intersect the Northernmost Part of the thirty-first Degree of North Latitude, South, by a Line to be drawn due East from the Determination of the Line last mentioned in the Latitude of thirty-one Degrees of the Equator to the middle of the River Apalachicola or Catahouche; Thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint River; Thence straight to the Head of Saint Mary's River, and thence down along the middle of Saint Mary's River to the Atlantic Ocean. East, by a Line to be drawn along the Middle of the river Saint Croix, from its Mouth in the Bay of Fundy to its Source, and from its Source directly North to the aforesaid Highlands, which divide the Rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean from those which fall into the river Saint Lawrence; comprehending all Islands within twenty Leagues of any Part of the Shores of the United States, and lying between Lines to be drawn due East from the Points where the aforesaid Boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one Part and East Florida on the other shall, respectively, touch the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean, excepting such Islands as now are or heretofore have been within the limits of the said Province of Nova Scotia.
Article 3d:
It is agreed that the People of the United States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the Right to take Fish of every kind on the Grand Bank and on all the other Banks of Newfoundland, also in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and at all other Places in the Sea, where the Inhabitants of both Countries used at any time heretofore to fish. And also that the Inhabitants of the United States shall have Liberty to take Fish of every Kind on such Part of the Coast of Newfoundland as British Fishermen shall use, (but not to dry or cure the same on that Island) And also on the Coasts, Bays & Creeks of all other of his Brittanic Majesty's Dominions in America; and that the American Fishermen shall have Liberty to dry and cure Fish in any of the unsettled Bays, Harbors, and Creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled, but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said Fishermen to dry or cure Fish at such Settlement without a previous Agreement for that purpose with the Inhabitants, Proprietors, or Possessors of the Ground.
Article 4th:
It is agreed that Creditors on either Side shall meet with no lawful Impediment to the Recovery of the full Value in Sterling Money of all bona fide Debts heretofore contracted.
Article 5th:
It is agreed that Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the Legislatures of the respective States to provide for the Restitution of all Estates, Rights, and Properties, which have been confiscated belonging to real British Subjects; and also of the Estates, Rights, and Properties of Persons resident in Districts in the Possession on his Majesty's Arms and who have not borne Arms against the said United States. And that Persons of any other Description shall have free Liberty to go to any Part or Parts of any of the thirteen United States and therein to remain twelve Months unmolested in their Endeavors to obtain the Restitution of such of their Estates – Rights & Properties as may have been confiscated. And that Congress shall also earnestly recommend to the several States a Reconsideration and Revision of all Acts or Laws regarding the Premises, so as to render the said Laws or Acts perfectly consistent not only with Justice and Equity but with that Spirit of Conciliation which on the Return of the Blessings of Peace should universally prevail. And that Congress shall also earnestly recommend to the several States that the Estates, Rights, and Properties of such last mentioned Persons shall be restored to them, they refunding to any Persons who may be now in Possession the Bona fide Price (where any has been given) which such Persons may have paid on purchasing any of the said Lands, Rights, or Properties since the Confiscation.
And it is agreed that all Persons who have any Interest in confiscated Lands, either by Debts, Marriage Settlements, or otherwise, shall meet with no lawful Impediment in the Prosecution of their just Rights.
Article 6th:
That there shall be no future Confiscations made nor any Prosecutions commenced against any Person or Persons for, or by Reason of the Part, which he or they may have taken in the present War, and that no Person shall on that Account suffer any future Loss or Damage, either in his Person, Liberty, or Property; and that those who may be in Confinement on such Charges at the Time of the Ratification of the Treaty in America shall be immediately set at Liberty, and the Prosecutions so commenced be discontinued.
Article 7th:
There shall be a firm and perpetual Peace between his Britanic Majesty and the said States, and between the Subjects of the one and the Citizens of the other, wherefore all Hostilities both by Sea and Land shall from henceforth cease: All prisoners on both Sides shall be set at Liberty, and his Britanic Majesty shall with all convenient speed, and without causing any Destruction, or carrying away any Negroes or other Property of the American inhabitants, withdraw all his Armies, Garrisons & Fleets from the said United States, and from every Post, Place and Harbour within the same; leaving in all Fortifications, the American Artillery that may be therein: And shall also Order & cause all Archives, Records, Deeds & Papers belonging to any of the said States, or their Citizens, which in the Course of the War may have fallen into the hands of his Officers, to be forthwith restored and delivered to the proper States and Persons to whom they belong.
Article 8th:
The Navigation of the river Mississippi, from its source to the Ocean, shall forever remain free and open to the Subjects of Great Britain and the Citizens of the United States.
Article 9th:
In case it should so happen that any Place or Territory belonging to great Britain or to the United States should have been conquered by the Arms of either from the other before the Arrival of the said Provisional Articles in America, it is agreed that the same shall be restored without Difficulty and without requiring any Compensation.
Article 10th:
The solemn Ratifications of the present Treaty expedited in good & due Form shall be exchanged between the contracting Parties in the Space of Six Months or sooner if possible to be computed from the Day of the Signature of the present Treaty. In witness whereof we the undersigned their Ministers Plenipotentiary have in their Name and in Virtue of our Full Powers, signed with our Hands the present Definitive Treaty, and caused the Seals of our Arms to be affixed thereto.
Done at Paris, this third day of September in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three.
D HARTLEY (SEAL)
JOHN ADAMS (SEAL)
B FRANKLIN (SEAL)
JOHN JAY (SEAL)
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