ARTICLE II. to the For the payment of the sum of sixty millions of francs, mentioned in the preceding article, the United States shall create a stock A stock to be creaof eleven millions two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, 60,000,000 of francs, bearing an interest of six per cent. per annum, payable half &c. yearly in London, Amsterdam, or Paris, amounting by the half year, to three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars, according to the proportions which shall be determined by the French Government to be paid at either place; the principal of the said stock to be reimbursed at the Treasury of the United States, in annual payments of not less than three millions of dollars each, of which the first payment shall commence fifteen years after the date of ments shall be made. the exchange of ratifications: this stock shall be transferred to the Government of France, or to such person or persons as shall be authorized to receive it, in three months at most after the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty, and after Louisiana shall be taken possession of in the name of the Government of the United States. When the first pay French governme selling stock in E It is further agreed, that if the French Government should be desir ous of disposing of the said stock to receive the capital in Europe, at shorter terms, that its measures for that purpose shall be taken so as to favor, in the greatest degree possible, the credit of the United States, and to raise to the highest price the said stock. ARTICLE III. rope, to do it upon the best terms for United States. It is agreed that the dollar of the United States, specified in the present convention, shall be fixed at five francs 3333 livres eight sous tournois. 10000 or five Value of the dollar of United States referred to, fixed. The present convention shall be ratified in good and due form, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in the space of six months to date from this day, or sooner if possible. When convention must be ratified and exchanged. In faith of which, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the above articles, both in the French and English languages, declaring, nevertheless, that the present treaty has been originally agreed on and written in the French language; to which they have hereunto affixed their seals. Done at Paris the tenth of Floréal, eleventh year of the French Republic, (30th April, 1803.) ROBT. R. LIVINGSTON. [L. S.] L. S. [L. S.] CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. CONCLUDED APRIL 30, 1803. The President of the United States of America and the First Consul of the French Republic, in the name of the French people, having by a treaty of this date terminated all difficulties relative to Louisiana, and established on a solid foundation the friendship which unites the two nations, and being desirous, in compliance with the second and fifth articles of the convention of the eighth Vendémiaire, ninth year of the French Republic, (30th September, 1800,) to secure the payment of the sums due by France to the citizens of the United States, have respect ively nominated as Plenipotentiaries, that is to say: the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of their Senate, Robert R. Livingston, Minister Plenipotentiary, and James Monroe, Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary of the said States, near the Government of the French Republic; and the First Consul, in the name of the French people, the citizen Francis Barbé Marbois, Minister of the Public Treasury; who, after having exchanged their full powers, have agreed to the following articles : Debts due from ARTICLE I. The debts due by France to citizens of the United States, contracted before the 8th of Vendémiaire, ninth year of the French France to citizens of Republic, (30th September, 1800,) shall be paid according to to the following regulations, with interest at six per cent., to fixed regions. commence from the periods when the accounts and vouchers e presented to the French Government. United State be paid according Debts provided for ARTICLE II. The debts provided for by the preceding article are those whose result is comprised in the conjectural note annexed to the by the preceding ar present convention, and which, with the interest, cannot exceed the sum of twenty millions of francs. The claims comprised in the said note which fall within the exceptions of the following articles, shall not be admitted to the benefit of this provision. ticle. How the said debts are to be paid. ARTICLE III. The principal and interests of the said debts shall be discharged by the United States, by orders drawn by their Minister Plenipotentiary on their treasury; these orders shall be payable sixty days after the exchange of ratifications of the treaty and the con ventions signed this day, and after possession shall be given of Louisiana by the commissaries of France to those of the United States. What debts are ARTICLE IV. It is expressly agreed that the preceding articles shall comprehend no debts but such as are due to citizens of the United States, comprehended by the Who have been and are yet creditors of France, for supplies, preceding articles. for embargoes, and prizes made at sea, in which the appeal has been properly lodged within the time mentioned in the said convention, 8th Vendémiaire, ninth year, (30th September, 1800.) To what cases they apply. ARTICLE V. The preceding articles shall apply only, 1st, to captures of which the council of prizes shall have ordered restitution, it being well are particularly to understood that the claimant cannot have recourse to the United States, otherwise than he might have had to the Government of the French Republic, and only in case of insufficiency of the captors; 2d, the debts mentioned in the said fifth article of the convention contracted before the 8th Vendémiaire, an 9, (30th September, 1800,) the payment of which has been heretofore claimed of the actual Government of France, and for which the creditors have a right to the protection of the United States; the said fifth article does not comprehend prizes whose condemnation has been or shall be confirmed: it is the express intention of the contracting parties not to extend the benefit of the present convention to reclamations of American citizens, who shall have established houses of commerce in France, England, or other countries than the United States, in partnership with foreigners, and who by that reason and the nature of their commerce ought to be regarded as domiciliated in the places where such houses exist. All agreements and bargains concerning merchandize, which shall not be the property of American citizens, are equally excepted from the benefit of the said convention, saving, however, to such persons their claims in like manner as if this treaty had not been made. ARTICLE VI. Ministers Plenipo States to appoint And that the different questions which may arise under the preceding article may be fairly investigated, the Ministers Plenipotentiary of the United States shall name three persons, who tentiary of United shall act from the present and provisionally, and who shall commissioners to act have full power to examine, without removing the docu- provisionally. ments, all the accounts of the different claims already liquidated by the bureaus established for this purpose by the French Republic, and to ascertain whether they belong to the classes designated by the present convention and the principles established in it; or if they are not in one of its exceptions and on their certificate, declaring that the debt is due to an American citizen or his representative, and that it existed before the 8th Vendémiaire, 9th year, (30th September, 1800,) the debtor shall be entitled to an order on the treasury of the United States, in the manner prescribed by the third article. ARTICLE VII. To examine the The same agents shall likewise have power, without removing the documents, to examine the claims which are prepared for verification, and to certify those which ought to be admitted claims, &c., and to by uniting the necessary qualifications, and not being com- ought to be admittel. prised in the exceptions contained in the present convention. ARTICLE VIII. certity those which The same agents shall likewise examine the claims which are not prepared for liquidation, and certify in writing those which in their judgment ought to be admitted to liquidation. ARTICLE IX. To examine those not prepared for liqui dation, &c. In proportion as the debts mentioned in these articles shall be admitted, they shall be discharged with interest, at six per cent., by the treasury of the United States. ARTICLE X. Debts discharged at the Treasury of United States with interest. Commercial agent And that no debt which shall not not have the qualifications above mentioned, and that no unjust or exorbitant demand may be admitted, the commercial agent of the United States at Paris, of United States at or such other agent as the Minister Plenipotentiary of the the examination of United States shall think proper to nominate, shall assist at the operations of the bureaus, and co-operate in the examination of the Paris to assist in claims, &c. claims; and if this agent shall be of opinion that any debt is not completely proved, or if he shall judge that it is not comprised in the prin ciples of the fifth article above mentioned, and if, notwithstanding his opinion, the bureaus established by the French Government should think that it ought to be liquidated, he shall transmit his observations to the board established by the United States, who, without removing documents, shall make a complete examination of the debt and vouchers which support it, and report the result to the Minister of the United States. The Minister of the United States shall transmit his observations, in all such cases, to the Minister of the Treasury of the French Republic, on whose report the French Government shall decide definitively in every case. The rejection of any claim shall have no other effect than to exempt the United States from the payment of it, the French Govto exempt United ernment reserving to itself the right to decide definitively States from paying it. on such claim so far as it concerns itself. Rejection of a claim ARTICLE XI. Every necessary decision shall be made in the course of a year, to commence from the exchange of ratifications, and no reclamation shall be admitted afterwards. Decisions made, &c. to be Claims since 30th pursued, and pay ARTICLE XII. In case of claims for debts contracted by the Government of France with citizens of the United States since the 8th Vendémiaire, Sept. 1800, may be ninth year, (30th September, 1800,) not being comprised in ment demanded. this convention, may be pursued, and the payment demanded in the same manner as if it had not been made. ARTICLE XIII. The present convention shall be ratified in good and due form, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in six months from the tion must be ratified, date of the signature of the Ministers Plenipotentiary, or sooner if possible. When this conven &c. In faith of which, the respective Ministers Plenipotentiary have signed the above articles both in the French and English languages, declaring, nevertheless, that the present treaty has been originally agreed on and written in the French language; to which they have hereunto affixed their seals. Done at Paris, the tenth of Floréal, eleventh year of the French Republic, 30th April, 1803. TABLEAU GENERAL DES RÉCLAMATIONS AMERICAINES. Liquidation générale de la dette publique, 4me direction, 1re section. CRÉANCES RECONNUES PAR L'EX-COMMISSION DE LA COMPTABILITÉ INTERMÉDIAIRE. Noms des propriétaires et des fondés Objets des réclamations. Sommes liquidées Numéros. Observations. 2 Maurice Girard, par James Swan. Riz et farines versés à Paris.. Germinal 12 3, 459, 778 13 6 Fourniture réglée par le ministre de l'inté Pour solde. Na. Il avait été payé sur cette Créance réglée par le cen. Rozier, vice-consul Pour solde, le tiers ayant été payé d'avance en Indépendamment d'un à-compte reçu de 32,987. L'autre moitié payée en l'an 4. Une partie de cette fourniture a été payée en Pour solde, un quart payé en l'an 3. Payé en l'an 4, 40,726. Pour autant dû à sa maison particulière pour Cette liquidation est la dernière arrêtée par la |