TREATY WITH GREAT BRITAIN. 1814. 2l9 quoddy as are c aimed by both parties, shall remain in the possession of the party in whose occupation they may be at the time of the exchange of the ratilications of this treaty, until the decision respecting the title to the said islands shall have been made in conformity with the fourth article of this treaty. No disposition made by this treaty, as to such possession of the islands and territories claimed by both parties, shall, in any manner whatever, be construed to affect the right of either. ARTICLE THE SECOND. Immediately after the ratifications of this treaty by both parties, as Immediately hereinafter mentioned, orders shall be sent to the armies, squadrons, °“d’““H°%”°”· officers, subjects and citizens, of the two powers, to cease from all hos- sg aigilgsyigiivi tilities. And to prevent all causes of complaint which might arise on to cease hostiliaccount of the prizes which may be taken at sea after the said ratifica- "°S· tions of this treaty, it is reciprocally agreed, that all vessels and effects which may be taken after the space of twelve days from the said ratifications, upon all parts of the coast of North America, from the latitude of twenty-three degrees north, to the latitude of fifty degrees north, and as far eastward in the Atlantic ocean, as the thirty-sixth degree of west longitude from the meridian of Greenwich, shall be restored on each side : That the time shall be thirty days in all other parts of the Atlantic ocean, _Limitation of north of the equinoctial line or equator, and the same time for the British ?‘“‘d?,,f’f °°?’,“:T° and Irish channels, for the Gulf of Mexico and all parts of the West igdéswcn up Indies: Forty days for the North seas, for the Baltic, and for all parts of the Mediterranean: Sixty days for the Atlantic ocean south of the equator, as far as the latitude of the Cape of Good Hope: Ninety days for every other part of the world south of the equator: And one hundred and twenty days for all other parts of the world, without exception. ARTICLE THE THIRD. All prisoners of war taken on either side, as well by land as by sea, Prisoners of shall be restored as soon as practicable after the rutifications of this wsrtybs *°‘ treaty, as hereinafter mentioned, on their paying the debts which they mm ' may have contracted during their captivity. 'I`he two contracting parties respectively engage to discharge, in specie, the advances which may have been made by the other for the sustenance and maintenance of such prisoners. ARTICLE THE FOURTH. Whereas it was stipulated by the second article in the treaty of peace, ,F<>£¤*'€¤§° °f of one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, between His Britannic ;S?,,bE;,T,,§l,’,, Majesty and the United States of America, that the boundary of the the treaty of United States should comprehend all islands within twenty leagues of 1783- 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 Nova Scotia, 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 Nova Scotia; and whereas the several islands in the Bay of Passarnaquoddy, which is part of the Bay of Fundy, and the island of Grand Menan in the said Bay of Fundy, are claimed by the United States as being comprehended within their aforesaid boundaries, which said islands are claimed as belonging to his Britannic Majesty, as having been at the time of, and previous to, the aforesaid treaty of one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, within the limits of the province of Nova Scotia: In order, therefore, finally to decide upon these claims, it is agreed that they shall be referred to two commissioners to MOSIC Of dw . . . . · · appointment of be appointed in the following manner, viz: one commissioner shall be w,,m,iSs,Om,m appointed by his Britannic Majesty, and one by the president of the
