Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1832-09-26


day Of the exchange of the notifications of the
present convention.
ARTICLE III.
The Government of the United States, on its
part, for the purpose of being liberated complete
ly from all the reclamations presented by France
on behalf of its citizens, or of the r. val Trea-
sury, (either for ancient supplies or accounts, the
! liquidation of which had been reserved, or for
unlawful seizures, captures, detentions, arrests,
or distinctions of French vessels, cargoes, or
other property engages to pay to the Govern
ment OF his Majesty which shall make distribu-
ton of the same in the manner and according to
the rules to be determined by it the sum of one
million five hundred thousand francs.
| ARTICLE "
| The sum Of one million five hundred thousand
francs, stipulated in the preceding article, shall
! be payable in six annual instruments, of two
hundred and fifty thousand francs; and the pay
ment of each of the said instalments shall be eff
lected by reservation of so much out of the an
nua sums which the French Government is
bound, by the second article above, to pay to the
government of the United States
10 the amount of each of these nstalments
shall be added interest at four per cent upon the
lnstalment then paid, as well as upon those still
due; which payments of interst shall be effected
by means OF a reservation, similar to that already
indicated for the payment of the principal The
said interest shall be computed from the day of
the exchange of the notifications of the present
convention
ARTICLE "
As to the reclamati,ns of French citizens "a
galnst the government Of the United States, and
the reclama ions of citizens of the United States
against the French government, which are of a
different nature from tn sc which it is the object
of the present convention to adjust, 1t is under
stood hat the citizens of the two nations ma,
prosecute them in The respective countries before
the competent ldcia or administrative authors
ties, in complying with the laws and regulations
of the country, the dispositions and benefit of
which, shall be applied to them in like manner as
to native citizens.
ARTICLE vi.
The French Government and the Government
of the United States reciprocallv engage to com
municate to each other, by the Intermediary of
the respective legations, the documents, titles, or
other informations proper to facilitate the exam
nation and liquidation of the reclamations com
prlsed IN the stpuations IF the present conven-
II ton. ARTICLE VII
The wines OF France, from and after the eX~
change of the ratifcations of the present conven-
uon, shall be admitted TO consumption in the Sta es
ut the Union at duties which shall not exceed The
following rates by the gallon, (such as it is used
at present for wines in the United S aes) to wit,
SIX cents for red wines in casks ten cents or white
wines wines in casks; and twenty two cents for
wines of all sorts in bottles. The proportion ex-
listing between the duties on French wines thus
reduced, and the general rates of the tariff which
went into operation the first January 1929, shall
be maintained, in case the Government of the
United States should think proper to diminish
those general rates in new tariff.
In consideration of this stipulation, which shall
he binding on the United States for ten years. the
! French Government abandons the reclamations
which it had formed in relation to the Sih article
of the treaty of tession of Louisiana Ii en-
cages, moreover, to establish on The long staple
cottons of the United States, which, after The
eXch ge Of theratifcations IF the present con, en-
ton, sh..i be brought directly thence to France Y
the vessels of the United States, or by Fren h
vessels, the same duties as short staple cottons
ARTICLE VIII.
! The present convention shall be ratified, and
the Publications shall be exchanged at Washing.
ton, in the space of eight months, or sooner, if
possible.
In faith of which, the respective plenipoten-
fiares have signed these articles, and thereto set
their seals.
Done at Paris, the fourth day of the month of
July, one thousand eight hundred and ihirty-one.
w. c. RIVES IL. 81
HORACE SEBASTIANI H.. ST.
| AND WHEREAS the said Convention has been
duly ratified on both parts, and the respective
notifications of the same were exchanged on the
second day of February, 1882, at the city of
Washington, by Edward Livingston, Secretary OF
State of the United States, and Louis Charles
Seruier, Officer of the Legion of Honor, Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary Of
his Majesty the King of the French in the said
United States, on the part of their respective
1 Governments.
Now therefore, be it known, that l, ANDREW
JACKSON. President of the United States of A.
merica, have caused the sand Convention to be
made public, to the end that the same, and every
clause and article thereof, may be observed and
fulfilled with good faith by the United States, and
the citizens thereof.
In witness whereof, l have hereunto set my
hand, and caused the seal of the United States tc
1 be affixed.
Done at Washington, the thirteenth day OF
July, in the year of our Lord one
r. -, thousand eight hundred and thirty
l-'''l two, and of the independence of the
United States the fifty seventh
ANDREW JACKSON.
BY the President:
| EDWARD LIVINGSTON