is followed in detail by Wharton, Digest of Intern. Law (ed. 1887), III., 892-956; compare John Jay, in Winsor's Narrative and Critical History, VII., 89–169, and correspondence of William Jay and J. Q. Adams in Mag. of Amer. Hist., III., 39-45. There are valuable notes in Winsor, op. cit., VII., 170-184, on fisheries and northern boundaries under the treaty. Later correspondence regarding the non-execution of certain provisions of the treaty relative to loyalists' estates and the rights of British creditors in United States courts, is in Amer. State Papers, Foreign Relations, I., 188-243. His Britannic 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 and successors, relinquishes all claims to the government, propriety and territorial rights of the same, and every part thereof. ARTICLE II. 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 north-west 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 and 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 and 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 and Phelipeaux, to the Long Lake; thence through the middle of said Long Lake, and the water-communication between it and 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 north 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 strait to the head of St. Mary's river; and thence down along the middle of St. Mary's river to the Atlantic ocean. East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. 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 St. 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 NovaScotia 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 III. 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 gulph of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time e same on that island); and also on the coasts, all other of his Britannic Majesty's dominand that the American fishermen shall have ure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours -Scotia, Magdalen islands, and Labrador, so all remain unsettled; but so soon as the same hall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the ry or cure fish at such settlement, without a for that purpose with the inhabitants, prors of the ground. ARTICLE IV. creditors on either side, shall meet with no to the recovery of the full value in sterling fide debts heretofore contracted. ARTICLE V. the Congress shall earnestly recommend it to he respective states, to provide for the restirights and properties, which have been conɔ real British subjects, and also of the estates, es of persons resident in districts in the posesty's arms, and who have not borne arms ited States. And that persons of any other ve free liberty to go to any part or parts of United States, and therein to remain twelve in their endeavours to obtain the restitution tes, rights and properes, as may have been at Congress shall also earnestly recommend a reconsideration and revision of all acts or >remises, so as to render the said laws or acts not only with justice and equity, but with s who have any interest in confiscated lands, either riage settlements, or otherwise, shall meet with no nent in the prosecution of their just rights. ARTICLE VI. hall be no future confiscations made, nor any prose- ARTICLE VII. be a firm and perpetual peace between his Briy and the said States, and between the subjects of sation. No. 53. 1,1784, the Virginia eral assembly of that to the United States the citizens of the other, wherefore all hostilities, by an act of April 23 _nd land, shall from henceforth cease: all prisoners shall be set at liberty, and his Britannic Majesty convenient speed, and without causing any destrucng away any negroes or other property of the Ameri next three years vari tforward. July 11 setts was chairman, of the United States ding slavery in the t ed States, and from every port, place and harbour States continued the ts, withdraw all his armies, garrisons and fleets from the bill became a lar me; leaving in all fortifications the American artil y be therein; and shall also order and cause all ded the main provisio territory south of the C ENCES.-Text in Revise ords, deeds and papers, belonging to any of they and the deed of len into the hands of his officers, to be forthwith, 109, 110; r their citizens, which in the course of the war, 427, 428. The The detailed history of the Jeffers Cutler, were first shov delivered to the proper states and persons to whom P "D. Hartley, John remain free and open to the subjects of Greatzens of the United States. ARTICLE IX. so happen that any place or territory belongn or to the United States, should have been ms of either from the other, before the arrival nal articles in America, it is agreed, that the red without difficulty, and without requiring Virginia delegates in Congress, in pursuance of an act of that State, passed Dec. 20, 1783, executed a deed 1 States of the northwestern territory claimed by VirApril 23 Congress provided a temporary government. ears various plans for the government of the territory July 11, 1787, a committee, of which Nathan Dane hairman, reported an ordinance for the government of ed States northwest of the Ohio River; on the 12th a ry in the territory was added as an amendment; and ame a law. By act of Aug. 7, 1789, the Congress of nued the ordinance in effect; and the act of May 25, n provisions of the ordinance, except the anti-slavery h of the Ohio River. t in Revised Statutes (ed. 1878). The act of the Vire deed of cession are in Poore's Federal and State 128. The act of 1784 is in the Journal of Congress o; Jefferson's plan is in Randall's Jefferson, I., 397– ory of the ordinance of 158- and the next nloved hu |