82 DEFINITIVE TREATY WITH GREAT BRITAIN. 1783. and Phelipeaux, to the Long Lake.; thence through the middle of said Long Lake, and the water-communication between it and the Lake of the Woods, to the said Lake of the Woods; thence through the said lake to the most north-western point thereof and from thence on a due west course to the river Missisippi ; thence by a line to be drawn along the middle of the said river Missisippi until it shall intersect the northernmost part of the thirty-first degree of north latitude. South by a line to be drawn due east from the determination of the line last mentioned, in the latitude of thirty-one degrees north of the Equator, to the middle of the river Apalachicola or Catahouche ; thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint river; thence strait to the head of St. Mary’s river; and thence down along the middle of St. Mary’s river to the Atlantic ocean. East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the Bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid Highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean, from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence; comprehending all islands within twenty leagues of 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 heretofbre have been within the limits of the said province of N ova-Scotia. ARTICLE III. rR;€l§1;g,HSh°‘ It is agreed that the people of the United States shall continue to yenjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland; also in the gulph of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish; and also that the inhabitants of the United States shall have liberty to take fish of every kind on such part of the coast of Newfoundland as British fishermen shall use (but not to dry or cure the same on that island); and also on the coasts, bays and creeks of all other of his Britannic M:nesty’s dominions in America; and that the American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours and creeks of Nova·Scotia, Magdalen islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled; but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement, without a previous agreemlent for téiat purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors or possessors of t e groun . ARTICLE IV. Debts to beIt is agreed that creditors on either side, shall meet with no lawful l”“d· impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money, of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted. ARTICLE V. Congress ,0 It is agreed that the Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the gegogngigpgegpi legislatures of the respective states, to provide for the restitution of all mm Ofcmms: estates, rights and- properties, which have been confiscated, belonging med ,,8,,,% to real British subjects, and also of the estates, rights and properties of persons resident in districts in the possession of his Majesty’s arms, and who have not borne arms against the said United States. And that persons of any other description shall have free liberty to go to any part or parts of any of the thirteen United States, and therein to remain twelve months, unmolested in their endeavours 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 recrarding the premises, so as to render the said laws or acts perhrctlvccrvt-
