512 Journal and Correspondence.

January 20
Liber C. B.

No. 24
p. 482

of the Thirteen United States, and therein to remain twelve months
unmolested in their endeavors to obtain the restitution of such of
their Estates, rights and Properties, as may have been confiscated ;
and that Congress shall also earnestly recommend to the several States
a reconsideration and revision of all Acts or Laws regarding the
premises, so as to render the said Laws or Acts perfectly consis-
tent, not only with Justice and equity, but with that Spirit of con-
ciliation, which on the return of the Blessings of Peace should uni-
versally prevail. And that Congress shall also earnestly recommend
to the several States, that the Estates, rights and properties of such
last mentioned persons shall be restored to them; the refunding to
any persons who may be now in the possession the bona fide price

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(where any has been given) which such persons may have paid on
purchasing any of the said Lands, rights or Properties since the Con-
fiscation. And it is agreed that all persons who have any Interests in
Confiscated Lands, either by Debts, Marriage Settlements, or other-
wise, shall meet with no Lawful impediment in the prosecution of
their just rights.
"Article 6th. That there shall be no future Confiscations made nor
any Prosecutions commenced against any person or persons for or
by reason of the part which he or they may have taken in the present
War; and that no person shall on that Account, suffer any future
Loss or Damage, either in his person, Liberty or Property, and that
those who may be in confinement on Such Charges, at the time of the
ratification of the Treaty in America, shall be immediately Set at
Liberty, and the Prosecutions so commenced be discontinued.
"Article 7th. There shall be a firm and perpetual Peace between
his Britannic Majesty and the said States, and between the Subjects
of the one, and the Citizens of the other, wherefore all Hostilities
both by Sea and Land shall from henceforth cease : all Prisoners on
both sides shall be set at Liberty, and his Britannic Majesty shall
with all convenient speed and without causing any Destruction, or
carrying away any Negroes, or other Property of the American In-
habitants, withdraw all his Armies, Garrisons and Fleets from the
said United States, and from every Post place and Harbour within
the same, leaving in all Fortifications the American Artillery that
may be therein, and shall also order and cause all archives, Records,
Deeds and Papers, belonging to any of the said States, or their Citi-
zens, which in the course of the War may have fallen into the Hands
of his Officers, to be forthwith restored and delivered to the proper
States and persons to whom they belong.
"Article 8th. The navigation of the River Mississippi, from it's
Source to the Ocean shall forever remain free and open to the Sub-
jects of Great Britain and the Citizens of the United States.
"Article 9^th In case it should so happen that any place or Terri-
tory belonging to Great Britain or the United States, should have