1000 CONSULAR CONVENTION WITH FRANCE. FEB. 23, 1853. the twenty-third day of February, de Fevrier, Anno Domini mille huit Anno Domini one thousand eight cent cinquante-trois. hundred and fifty-three. EDWARD EVERETT. L. s.] SARTIGES. [L. SARTIGES. - L. s.] EDWARD EVERE'I`T.[L. s.] And whereas the said Convention, as amended, has been duly ratified on both parts, and the respective ratiiications of the same were exchanged at Washington, on the eleventh instant, by WIl.LIAM L. MARCY, Secretary of State of the United States, and the Count de Sartiges, Commander of the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honor, &c., &c., &c., and Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the Emperor of the French, near the Government of the United States, on the part of their respective Governments : Now, therefore, be it known that I, FRANKLIN PIERCE, President of the United States of America, have caused the said 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, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this twelfth day of August, in L S the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty- [ three, and of the Independence of the United States the seventy·-eighth. FRANKLIN PIERCE. Br rm: PRESIDENT2 W. L. MARCY Secrcteny of State.
