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rBY AUTHORITY.l
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.

w hcicdS CONVENTION between the
United States OF America and His Bril-
tanic Majesty was concluded and signed
at ST. Petersburg, under the mediation
OF the Emperor Of all the Russias, on
the twelfth day of July last, by the re-
spective Plenipotentiaries of the three
powers: And whereas the said Conven,
ton has been by them duly ratified, and
the respective raeihca,ions of the same
were exchanged at Washington, on the
tenth day of the present month, by
JOHN Quincy ADAMS, Secretary of State
OF the United STATES, the Right Honora-
BILE STAFFORD CANNING, Envoy Ex-
traortllnary and Minister Plenipotentiary
ofHls Bri;anic Majesty. and Mr.. GEoRGE.
ELLIsEN, Charge d'Afairs Of his lmpe-
rial Majesty, the Emperor of all the
Rnsslas, on the part of their several GO
vernments which Convention is in the
words following, to wit:
In the name of the most holy and ind-
visible Trinity:
The Presiden, Of the United States of
America, and HxBritanic Majesty the
King of the U'n8kd Kingdom of Grea,
Britain and Ireland, having agreed, in
pursuance of the fifth article of the Con-
vention concluded at London on the goth
day of October, 1878, 10 refer the dit
ferences which had arisen between the
two governments, upon the true con
struciion and meaning of the first article
OF the Treaty oil Peace and Am.y, con-
cluded at Client, on the 94,h December,
1914, to the friendly arbitration of HIS
Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias,
mutually engaging to consider his deci-
sion as, final and conclusive. And his
said Imperial Majesty having, after due
consideration, given his decision upon
these differences in the following terms,
TO wit:
THAT the United States Of America
"are entitled to claim from Great Bril-
"tain just decentralization for all pri-
vate properly, which the British Forces
smay have carried away; and as the
"qnestion relates TO slaves more espe-
cIally, for all the slaves tia, the Bril-
"tish forces may have carried away from
"places and territories of which The
" Treaty stipuiates the restitution, in
"quiting these same places and terrific
"ries.
That the United States are entitled
"to consider as having been so carried
away, all such slaves as may have been
6 transferred, from the above mentioned
" territories to British vessels within the
" waters Of the said territories, and who
g for this reason may not have been re-
" stored.
But that if there should be any
" American slaves who were carried
"away from territories of which the first
article OF the Treaty of Client has no,
stipulated the restitution to the United
States, the United States are nor emil
tied to claim an indemnic forthe
+" said slaves"
Now, for the purpose Of carrying into
effect this award Of His Imperial Maies-
~, as arbitrator, his good Offices have
beea farther invoked to assist in framing
such Convention or Articles of Agree
ment between the United States of
America and His Britanc Majesty, as
shall provide the mode of ascertainine
and determining the value of slaves and
OF other private property, which may
have been carried away in contrav ention
ofthe Treaty Of Ghent, and for which in
Identification is to be made TO the citi-
zens of the United States, in virtue of
HIS Imperial Majesty's said award, and
shall secure compensation to the suf-
ferers for their losses, so ascertained and
determined. And His Imperial Maies-
~ has consented to lend his mediation
tor the above purpose, and has constitute
ed and appointed CHARLES ROBERT
Count NEssrLRoDE, His Imperial Ma
jesty's Privy Councillor, Member of the
Council Of State, Secretary Of State d.
recting the Imperial Department of Fo-
reign Affairs, Chamberlain, Knight of
the Order Of St. Alexander N vsky,
Grand Cross Of the Order of ST. Viadi-
mir Of the FIRST class, Knight Of that of
the White Eagle Of Poland, Grand
Cross Of the Order Of ST. Stephen of
Hum airy, Of the Black and of the Red |
Eagle Of Prussia, of the Legion Of Hon
or ofFrance, Of Charles III. of Spain, Of
S.. Ferdinand and Of Merit of Naples, Of |
the Annunciation of Sardinia, of the Po-
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