Thomas' Almanack for 1784

between Nova-Scotia on the one part, and East-Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the bay of Fundy on the Atlanick ocean, excepting such islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the limits of the said Province of Nova-Scotia.

ART. III. It is agreed that the people of the United States, shall continue to enjoy, unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on the 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 Britannick Majesty 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, Magalene 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 settlements without a previous agreement for that purpose, with the inhabitants, proprietors or possessors of the ground.

ART. IV. It is agreed that the creditors on either side, shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money, of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted.

ART. V. It is agreed that Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the legislatures of the respective States, to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights, and properties, which have been confiscated, belonging 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 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 en-