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n►etrcing front the 22d of March, 1816, shall he
inscribed as a timil of. guarantee, in the Great
Book of the Public Del): of France, in the nau►e
of tWo or four Commissioners, the one half Ett-
glish and time other half Drench, chosen by tliteir
-respective Governments. - These Commissioners
shall receive the said interest front the 224 of
Alarch, 1816,, every six months ; 'they shall hold
it in deposit, without having the power of nego-
ciating it, and they shall further be bound to
place the amount of it in the Pnblie Funds,
and to" receive the accumulated and Compound
interest of the -same for the profit of the cre-
ditors. In case the three millions five hundred
thousand francs of interest shall 'be insufficient,
there shall be delivered to the said Commis,
sioners InseriptionS- for larger sums, -until their
amount shall be equal to what may be necessary
to pay all the debts mentioned in the present
Act. These additional Inscriptions, if there
shall be any, shall be delivered, heating interest
from the same period as the 3,500,000 francs;
above stipulated, and shall.be adthinistered by the
Cpnimissioners, according to the same princi-
ples, so. that the claims which shall r•emaitt to be
paid, shall be paid with the sameprnportion of
accumulated and compound interest, as if the fund
of guarantee'had bleu from the first sufficient,
aitri
,as soon as all the payments due to the credi-
tors shall ha-ve been made, the surplus of the in-
terest fund not employed, with the proportion of
accumulated anti compound interest which. shall
belong thereto, shall, if• there be any, be given
up to the disposal of the French Government.
Art. X. In proportion as the liquidation shall
be effected, and as the claims shall be allow-
ed, distinction being made between the sums
representing the capitals, and the sums arising
front time arrears or interest, the Commission of
Liquidation, which shall be mentioned in the fol-.
lowing Articles, shall deliver to the Creditors,
allowed to be such, two Certificates for the value'
of the whole Inscription to be made, bearing in-
terest from the 22d of March, 1816, inclusive;
one of the Certificates relating to the Capital of
the Debt, and the other relating to the arrears,
or interest . liqu►dated up to the 22d of March,
1816, exclusively.

Art. XI. The certificates above-mentioned shall
be delivered over to the Commissioners holding
the Annuities in deposit, who shall check the
same, in order that they be immediately inscribed
into the Great Book of the Public Debt of France,
to the debit of the deposit fund, and teithe ctedit
of the new creditors, acknowledged as such,
bearers of the said certificates, care being taken
to diStingoish the Perpetual from the Life An-
nuities. And the 'said creditors shall be autho-
rised, friiin the day of the definitive liquidation of
their claims, to receive, for their profit, front the
said Commissioners, the interests which are due
to Out, together with tke aectunulated and com-
poitml interests, it there he air!, as well as such
portion of the capital ns shall have been paid, ac-
cording to what has been regulated by the •pre-
ceding Articles.

Art. XII. A further delay shall be allowed, af.
ter the signature of the present Convention, to the
subjects of his Britannic Majesty, who shall have
claims tipim the Freuch Government, for thc mat-
ters specified in the present Act, in order that
they may bring forward their claims .and produce
their titles.

This delay shall be extended to three months
for the'creditors r,siding in Flotrope, six months
for such as are resideZat in the Western Colonies,
and twelve months for such as are resident in the
East Indies, or in other countries equally distant.
Atter the expiration of these periods, the said sub-
jects of his Britannic Majesty shall no longer
have the benefit of tl►e presznt
Art. XIII. In order to proceed in the. !hoick,
tion and allowance of the charms mentioned in the
preceding Articles, there shall be formed a COM=
mission, composed of two Vrench a►►d two Eng-
lish Commissioners, who shall he non►inafed and
appointed -by their respective Oovernmentss.
These Commissioners, after they shall have
allowed and admitted the titles to the claitus, shall
proceed, according to the prinOples pointed out,
to the allowance, liquidation, and determination
Of the sums which sh all be due to each coeditor.

In propor:ion as the claims shall be allowed and
ascertained, they deliver to the creditors the
two certificates mentioned in the 10th Article,
one for the'_eapiral, tlke other for the interests.

Art. XIV. A coinucHsi,yn of Arbitrators sha.q
at the aiame time be mi.,. ed , composed of four
Members, two of whom shall be mimed by the,
British Government and two by the French Go-
vernment.

If it shall be ni'.'essary to call upon the Arbi-
trators, in case of an equality of votes on any
point, the four names of the Arbitrators, English
and French, 6611 be put into an urn, and the one
of the four whose name shall be drawn first shall
be the Arbitrator of the particular 'affair upon
•which there shall have been such equality of votes.
Each ,of the Commissioners of the Liquidation
sh:lll,in his turn take from the urn tile ticket
.which to point out the Arbitrator. A Proces-
verbal shall be made of this operation, and shall
be annexed to the one which shall be drawn tip
for the liquidation and determination of the par-
titular claim.

If a vacancy shall take place; either in the
Commission of Liquidation, or in that olArbitra-
tion, the Government, which ought to provide
for .the nomination of a new Menth,er, shall pro-
ceed to that nomination. withdut delay, in order
that the two Commissions may always remain as
far as possible complete. '
If one of the ConimisSioners of Liquidation
shall be absent, he shall be,replaced, during his
absence, by one of the Arbitrators of this Nation ;
and as in that case there %% ill remain but one Ar-
bitrator of that Nation, the ;two Arbitrators of
the other Nation shall also be reduced to one by
kt. And if one of the Arbitrators should absent
himself, the same operation shall take place,- in
order to reduce to one the two Arbitrators of the
other Nation. It. is generally understood, that.
in order to obviate all manner of delay in this
business, the liquidation and adjudication shall
not be suspended, provided there shall be pre-
sent, and. in activity, one Comtn;ssioner and one
Arbitrator of each Nation, :the prinziple of equa-