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BY THE PRESIDENT

OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS a Convention for terminating certain differences which had arisen between the United States of America and the French Republic, was concluded and signed by the Plenipotentiaries of the two nations, duly and respectively authorised for that purpose, and was duly ratified and confirmed by the President of the United States, with the advice and consent of the Senate, which convention so ratified is in the form following: JOHN ADAMS, President of the United States of AmericaTo all and singular to whom these presents shall come, GREETING

WHEREAS a certain Convention between the United States of America and the French Republic was concluded and signed between their Plenipotentiaries, the honorable Oliver Ellsworth, William Richardson Davie, and William Vans Murray, Esquires, their envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to the French Republic, and the plenipotentiaries of the French Republic, the citizens Joseph Bonaparte, Charles Pierre Claret Fleurieu, and Pierre Louis Ræderer, at Paris, on the 30th day of September last past, which convention is word for word, as follows, to wit:

CONVENTION

ENTRE

LA REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE

ET

LES ETATS-UNIS D'AMERIQUE.

BONAPARTE, PREMIER CONSUL, AU NOM DU PEUPLE FRANÇAIS, les CONSULS DE LA REPUBLIQUE ayant vu et examiné la Convention conclue, arrettée et signée à Paris le huit Vendémaire an neuf de la République Française (Trente Septembre, Mil huit cent) par les Citoyens Joseph Bonaparte, Fleurieu et Roederer, Conseillers d'Etat, en vertu des pleinspouvoirs qui leur avaient été conférés à cet Effet, avec Messieurs Ellsworth, Davie et Murray, Ministres Plénipotentiaires des Etats-Unis, également munis de pleinspouvoirs, de laquelle Convention la teneursuit.

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