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ART. 22. To prevent all the causes of complaint and dispute which might arise on account of the prizes which may be taken at sea after the figning of thefe preliminary articles, it is reciprocally agreed, that the veffels and effects which may be taken in the Channel and in the North Seas, after the space of twelve days, to be computed from the ratification of the prefent preliminary articles, fhall be reftored on each fide. That the term fhall be of one month from the Channel and the North Seas to the Canary Islands inclufively, whether in the Ocean or in the Mediterranean; of two months from the faid Canary Islands to the Equinoxial Line or Equator; and lastly, of five months in all other parts of the world, without any exception, nor other more particular distinction of times and places.

ART. 22. Pour prevenir tous les fujets de plaintes et de conteftation qui pourroient naitre à l'occafion des prifes qui pourroient être faites en mer depuis la fignature de ces articles préliminaires, on eft convenu reciproquement que les vaiffeaux et effets qui pourroient être pris dans la Manche et dans les Mers du Nord, après l'efpace de douze jours à compter depuis la ratification des préfens articles préliminaires, feront de part et d'autre restitués; Que le terme fera d'un mois depuis la Manche et les Mers du Nord, jufqu'aux Ifles Canaries inclufivement, foit dans l'ocean, foit dans la Mediterrannée; de deux mois depuis les dites Ifles Canaries, jufqu'à la ligne Equinoxiale ou l'Equateur; et enfin de cinq mois dans tous les autres endroits du monde, fans aucune exception ni autre distinction plus particuliere de tems et de lieux.

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Articles of a Treaty

BETWEEN THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

AND THE

SACHEMS AND WARRIORS

OF THE

SIX NATIONS.

ORIGINAL.

ARTICLES

Concluded at Fort Stanwix, on the twenty-fecond Day of October, one thousand feven hundred and eighty-four, between Oliver Wolcott, Richard Butler, aud Arthur Lee, Commiffioners Plenipotentiary from the United States, in Congress affembled, on the one Part, and the Sachems and Warriors of the Six Nations, on the other.

THE

HE United States of America give peace to the Senecas, Mohawks, Onondagas and Cayugas, and receive them into their protection upon the following conditions:

ARTICLE I.

Six hostages shall be immediately delivered to the commiffioners by the said nations, to remain in poffeffion of the United States, till all the prisoners, white and black, which were taken by the faid Senecas, Mohawks, Onondagas and Cayugas, or by any of them, in the

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Poffeffion

late war, from among the people of the United States, fhall be delivered up.

ARTICLE II.

The Oneida and Tufcarora nations fhall be

of lands fe- fecured in the poffeffion of the lands on which they are fettled.

cured.

Bounda

ries.

Goods

given to the In

dians.

ARTICLE III.

A line fhall be drawn, beginning at the mouth of a creek about four miles east of Niagara, called Oyonwayea, or Johnston's Landing-Place, upon the lake named by the Indians Ofwego, and by us Ontario; from thence foutherly in a direction always four miles east of the carrying-path, between Lake Erie and Ontario, to the mouth of Tehoferoron or Buffaloe Creek on Lake Erie; thence fouth to the north boundary of the state of Pennsylvania; thence weft to the end of the faid north boundary; thence fouth along the weft boundary of the faid ftate, to the river Ohio; the faid line from the mouth of the Oyonwayea to the Ohio, fhall be the western boundary of the lands of the Six Nations, fo that the Six Nations fhall and do yield to the United States, all claims to the country weft of the faid boundary, and then they fall be fecured in the peaceful poffeffion of the lands they inhabit east and north of the fame, referving only fix miles fquare round the fort of Ofwego, to the United States, for the fupport of the fame.

ARTICLE IV.

The Commiffioners of the United States, in confideration of the prefent circumftances of the Six Nations, and in execution of the humane and liberal views of the United States upon the signing of the above articles, will

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