manner directed with respect to those mentioned in the next preceding Article. The said commissioners shall meet at St. Andrews, in the province of New Brunswick, and shall have power to adjourn to such other place or places as they shall think fit. The said commissioners shall have power to ascertain and determine the points above mentioned, in conformity with the provisions of the said Treaty of Peace of 1783; and shall cause the boundary aforesaid, from the source of the river St. Croix to the river Iroquois or Cataraguy, to be surveyed and marked, according to the said provisions. The said commissioners shall make a map of the said boundary, and annexed to it a declaration under their hands and seals, certifying it to be the true map of the said boundary, and particularising the latitude and longitude of the north-west angle of Nova Scotia, of the north-westernmost head of Connecticut River, and of such other points of the said boundary as they may deem proper; and both parties agree to consider such map and declaration as finally and conclusively fixing the said boundary; and in the event of the said two commissioners differing, or both or either of them refusing, declining, or wilfully omitting to act, such reports, declarations, or statements, shall be made by them, or either of them, and such reference to a friendly sovereign or state shall be made in all respects as in the latter part of the Fourth Article is contained, and in as full a manner as if the same was herein repeated. Article VI. Whereas by the former Treaty of Peace, that portion of the boundary of the United States, from the point where the forty-fifth degree of north latitude strikes the river Iroquois, or Cataraguy, to the Lake Superior, was declared to be "Along the "middle of said river into Lake Ontario, through the middle of "said lake, until it strikes the communication by water between "that lake and Lake Erie, thence along the middle of said com"munication into Lake Erie, through the middle of said lake, "until it arrives at the water-communication into the Lake Hu"ron, thence through the middle of said lake, to the water-com"munication between that lake and Lake Superior;" and whereas doubts have arisen what was the middle of the said river, lakes, and water-communications, and whether certain islands lying in the same were within the deminions of his Britannic Majesty or of the United States-in order, therefore, finally to decide these doubts, they shall be referred to two commissioners, to be appointed, sworn, and authorised to act, exactly in the manner directed with respect to those mentioned in the next preceding Article, unless otherwise specified in this present Article. The said commissioners shall meet, in the first instance, at Albany, in the state of New York, and shall have power to adjourn to such other place or places as they shall think fit. The said commissioners shall, by a report or declaration under their hands and seals, designate the boundary through the said river, lakes, and watercommunications, and decide to which of the two contracting parties the several islands lying within the said rivers, lakes, and watercommunications do respectively belong, in conformity with the true intent of the said Treaty of 1783; and both parties agree to consider such designation and decision as final and conclusive. And in the event of the two said commissioners differing, or both or either of them refusing, declining, or wilfully omitting to act, such reports, declarations, or statements, shall be made by them, or either of them, and such reference to a friendly sovereign or state, shall be made in all respects as in the latter part of the fourth Article is contained, and in as full a manner as if the same was herein repeated. Article VH. It is further agreed, that the said two last-mentioned commissioners, after they shall have executed the duties assigned to them in the preceding Article, shall be, and they are hereby authorised upon their oaths, impartially to fix and determine, according to the true intent of the said Treaty of Peace of 1783, that part of the boundary between the dominions of the two powers which extends from the water-communication between Lake Huron and Lake Superior, to the most western point of the Lake of the Woods; to decide to which of the two parties the several islands lying in the lakes, water-communications, and rivers forming the said boundary, do respectively belong, in conformity to the true intent of the said Treaty of Peace of 1783, and to cause such parts of the said boundary as require it, to be surveyed and marked. The said commissioners shall, by a report or declaration under their hands and seals, designate the boundary aforesaid, state their decision on the points thus referred to them, and particularise the latitude and longitude of the most north-western point of the Lake of the Woods, and of such other parts of the said boundary as they may deem proper. And both parties agree to consider such desig nation and decision as final and conclusive. And in the event of the said two commissioners differing, or both or either of them refusing, declining, or wilfully omitting to act, such reports, declarations, or statements, shall be made by them, or either of them, and such reference to a friendly sovereign or state, shall be made in all respects as in the latter part of the fourth Article is contained, and in as full a manner as if the same was herein repeated. Article VIII. The several boards of two commissioners, mentioned in the four preceding articles, shall respectively have power to employ a secretary, and such surveyors, or other persons, as they shall judge necessary. Duplicates of all their respective reports, declarations, statements, and decisions, and of their accounts, and of the journal of their proceedings, shall be delivered by them to the agents of his Britannic Majesty, and to the agents of the United States who may be respectively appointed and authorized to manage the business on behalf of their respective governments. The said commissioners shall be respectively paid in such manner as shall be agreed between the two contracting parties, such agreement being to be settled at the time of the exchange of the ratifications of this Treaty-and all other expences attending the said commissioners shall be defrayed equally by the two parties. And in the case of death, sickness, resignation, or necessary absence, the place of every such commissioner respectively shall be supplied in the same manner as such commissioner was first appointed, and the new commissioner shall take the same oath or affirmation, and do the same duties. It is further agreed betwixt the two contracting parties, that in case any of the islands mentioned in any of the preceding Articles, which were in the possession of one of the parties prior to the commencement of the present war between the two countries, should, by the decision of any of the boards of commissioners aforesaid, or of the sovereign or state so referred to, as in the four next preceding Articles contained, fall within the dominions of the other party, all grants of land made previous to the the commencement of the war, by the party having had such possession, shall be as valid as if such island, or islands, had by such decision or decisions been adjudged to be within the dominions of the party having had such possession. Article IX. The United States of America engage to put an end, immediately after the ratification of the present Treaty, to hostilities with all the tribes or nations of Indians with whom they may be at war at the time of such ratification, and forthwith to restore to such tribes or nations respectively, all the possessions, rights, and privileges, which they may have enjoyed, or been entitled to, in 1811, previous to such hostilities. Provided always that such tribes or nations shall agree to desist from all hostilities against the United States of America, their citizens, and subjects, upon the ratification of the present Treaty being notified to such tribes or nations, and shall so desist accordingly. And his Britannic Majesty engages on his part, to put an end, immediately after the ratification of the present Treaty, to hostilities with all the tribes or nations of Indians, with whom he may be at war at the time of such ratification, and forthwith to restore to such tribes or nations respectively, all the possessions, rights, and privileges which they may have enjoyed, or been entitled to, in 1811, previous to such hostilities. Provided always that such tribes or nations shall agree to desist from all hostilities against his Britannic Majesty and his subjects, upon the ratification of the present Treaty being notified to such tribes or nations, and shall so desist accordingly. Article X. Whereas the traffic in slaves is irreconcilable with the principles of humanity and justice, and whereas both his Majesty and the United States are desirous of continuing their efforts to promote its entire abolition, it is hereby agreed that both the contracting parties shall use their best endeavours to accomplish so desirable an object. Article XI. This Treaty, when the same shall have been ratified on both sides, without alteration by either of the contracting parties, and the ratifications mutually exchanged, shall be binding on both parties, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington in the space of four months from this day, or sooner, if practicable. In faith whereof, we, the respective plenipotentiaries, have signed this Treaty, and have thereunto affixed our seals. Done in triplicate, at Ghent, the twenty-fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen. (L. S.) GAMBIER. (L. S.) J. A. BAYARD. (L. S.) H. GOULBOURN. (L. S.) (L. S.) WM. ADAMS. (L. S.) JOHN RUSSELL. (L. S.) JOHN Q. ADAMS. (L. S.) ALB. GALLATIN XVI. NEW TREATY OF THE ALLIED POWERS. The following Treaty was concluded on the 25th of March, between Russia, Austria, Prussia, and Great Britain, in consequence of the entrance of Napoleon Bonaparte into France : In the Name of the Holy and undivided Trinity: Their Majesties the Emperor of all the Russias, the Emperor of Austria, the King of Prussia, and the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, considering the consequences which the entrance of Bonaparte into France, and the present situation of that kingdom, may have with respect to the security of Europe, Europe, have determined, in these weighty circumstances, to carry into effect the principles consecrated in the Treaty of Chaumont. They have therefore agreed, by a solemn Treaty, mutually signed by each of the four powers, to renew the engagement that they will defend the so happily restored order of things in Europe against all violation, and to adopt the most effectual measures for carrying this engagement into effect, and also to give it that necessary extension which existing circumstances imperiously demand. (Here follow the appointments, in the usual form, of the different plenipotentiaries whose names are undersigned.) Article I. The high contracting powers solemnly engage to unite the resources of their respective states, for the maintenance of the Treaty of Peace concluded at Paris on the 30th of May 1814, as well as that of the Congress of Vienna-to carry into full effect the dispositions contained in these Treaties-inviolably to observe their ratified and subscribed agreements, according to their full import--to defend them against every attack, and especially against the projects of Napoleon Bonaparte. Towards this end they bind themselves, should the King of France desire it, and in the spirit of the Declaration issued on the 13th of March, with common consent and mutual agreement, to bring to justice all such as may have already joined, or shall hereafter join, the party of Napoleon, in order to compel him to relinquish his projects, and to render him incapable in future of disturbing the tranquillity of Europe and the general peace, under the protection of which the rights, the freedom, and the independence of nations have been established and secured. Article II. Although so great and salutary an object does not permit that the means destined to its attainment should be limited, and although the high contracting powers have resolved to devote to this object all such resources as they can, in their respective situations, dispose of; yet they have nevertheless agreed, that every one of them shall constantly have in the field 150,000 men com plete, of whom at least one-tenth shall be cavalry, with a proportionate artillery (not reckoning garrisons), and to employ them in active and united service against the common enemy. Article III. The high contracting parties solemnly engage not to lay down their arms but in agreement with each other, nor until the object of the war assigned in the 1st article of the present Treaty shall have been attained; nor until Bonaparte shall be wholly and completely deprived of the power of exciting distur bances, and of being able to renew his attempts to obtain the chief power in France. Article IV. As the present Treaty principally relates to the present circumstances, the engagements in the Treaty of Chaumont, and particularly that contained in the 16th article, shall again recover their full force, as soon as the present object shall be attained. Article V. Every thing relating to the command of the allied armies, the maintenance of the same, &c. shall be regulated by a special convention. Article VI. The high contracting parties shall have the right reciprocally to accredit with the generals, commanders of their armies, officers who shall be allowed the liberty of corresponding with their governments, in order to inform them of the military events, and of all that relates to the operations of the armies. Article VII. As the engagements entered into by the present Treaty Treaty have for object to maintain the general peace, the high contracting powers agree to invite all the powers of Europe to accede to them. Article VIII. As the present Treaty is simply and solely entered into with a view to support France and every other threatened country, against the attempts of Bonaparte and his adherents, his most Christian Majesty shall be specially invited to accede thereto; and in the event of his Majesty's claiming the force specified in Article II. he shall make known what assistance his circumstances enable him to contribute towards the object of the present Treaty. Article IX. The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged within the period of one month, or sooner if possible. In testimony whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed (L. S.) L. S.) L. S.) BARON WESSENBERG. (L. S.) PRINCE HARDENBERG. (L. S.) BARON HUMBOLDT. (L. S.) WELLINGTON. At Vienna, the 25th of March 1815. XVII. TREATY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND RUSSIA, RESPECTING THE IONIAN ISLANDS. Article I. The islands of Corfu, Cephalonia, Zante, Maura, Ithaca, Cerigo, and Paxo, with their dependencies, such as they are described in the Treaty between his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias and the Ottoman Porte, of the 21st March 1800, shall form a single, free, and independent state, under the deno mination of the United States of the Ionian Islands. Article II. This state shall be placed under the immediate and exclusive protection of his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his heirs and successors. The other contracting powers do consequently renounce every right or particular pretension which they might have formed in respect to them, and formally guarantee all the dispositions of the present Treaty. Article III. The United States of the Ionian Islands shall, with the approbation of the protecting power, regulate their internal organization; and in order to give all the parts of this organization the necessary consistency and action, his Britannic Majesty will employ a particular solicitude with regard to the legislation and the general administration of these states. His Majesty will therefore appoint a lord high commissioner to reside there, invested with all the necessary power and authority for this purpose. Article IV. In order to carry into execution, without delay, the stipulations mentioned in the articles preceding, and to ground the political re-organization which is actually in force, the lord high commissioner of the protecting power shall regulate the forms of convocation of a legislative assembly, of which he shall direct the proceedings, in order to draw up a new constitutional charter for the states, which his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland shall be requested to ratify. |