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Article 7:
There shall be a firm and perpetual peace between his Brittanic Majesty and the said states, and between the subjects of the one and the citizens of the other, wherefore all hostilities both by sea and land shall from henceforth cease. All prisoners on both sides shall be set at liberty, and his Brittanic Majesty shall with all convenient speed, and without causing any destruction, or carrying away any Negroes or other property of the American inhabitants, withdraw all his armies, garrisons, and fleets from the said United States, and from every post, place, and harbor within the same; leaving in all fortifications, the American artilery that may be therein; and shall also order and cause all archives, records, deeds, and papers belonging to any of the said states, or their citizens, which in the course of the war may have fallen into the hands of his officers, to be forthwith restored and delivered to the proper states and persons to whom they belong.
Article 8:
The navigation of the river Mississippi, from its source to the ocean, shall forever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States.
Article 9:
In case it should so happen that any place or territory belonging to Great Britain or to the United States should have been conquered by the arms of either from the other before the arrival of the said Provisional Articles in America, it is agreed that the same shall be restored without difficulty and without requiring any compensation.
Article 10:
The solemn ratifications of the present treaty expedited in good and due form shall be exchanged between the contracting parties in the space of six months or sooner, if possible, to be computed from the day of the signatures of the present treaty. In witness whereof we the undersigned, their ministers plenipotentiary, have in their name and in virtue of our full powers, signed with our hands the present definitive treaty and caused the seals of our arms to be affixed thereto.
Done at Paris, this third day of September in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three.
D. HARTLEY (SEAL) JOHN ADAMS (SEAL) B. FRANKLIN (SEAL) JOHN JAY (SEAL)
The Treaty of Paris isn't quite as long, read how it's dictated to us by the King of England who lost the war!
Originally posted by Rockpuck
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
Any reason you don't care when Congress enters into Treaties that include secret agreements, using secret committees of Congress to negotiate and agree to them?
Well if they entered into them secretly to pass secret laws that go with secret accords mentioned on secret footnotes.. I can't very well be for or against it.. because it's so secretive I have no idea what it is. Just that.... it's a secret. And apparently has something to do with Rome running the world with the Pop-God-King as a front for the secret Rome (because rome isn't rome it's the secret rome under rome that runs rome) that is really the Holy Roman Empire *to which no one has said who the current emperor is....* ..
So I guess I will just have to take your (uncited) word for it.
Originally posted by Rockpuck
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
Right.. well since you've become increasingly snippy and show signs of agitation, resorting to insulting me instead.. I'll take my leave.
Continue on your way, hating innocent people, making up stories, doing what ever you have to do to get away with not having to understand the topics at hand, or gravitating attention, either one. Or both.
See you around Proto.
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
No you didn't that's not the Entire Treaty of Paris, that's the basic Cover agreement, the actual Treaty goes into indepth detail on everything agreed upon.
Originally posted by devildogUSMC
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
I think you have been pretty spot on. Outstanding work Proto. I sent a few friends I talk to at work links to this thread and they all became ATS members because of how interesting and well-written and put together it was. Keep em' coming
Originally posted by Rockpuck
reply to post by PhyberDragon
... the trust is so vague and uncertain that the bequest was void and falls into the residue
however, you are wrong, very wrong that God is Germanic.. or that is derives from "Good"?
Your second source dictates laws against blasphemy are unconstitutional, an infringement of free-speech.
The Pope is the ruler of the Vatican, which is a Sovereign State. He has no legal jurisdiction over anyone anywhere else.. he is a spiritual leader, figuratively. The Holy See refers only to the Vatican Government.
Why does the Holy See sound kinda like Christian Monarchies of Europe? Because the Vatican IS an Absolute Monarchy.. the Pope being King.
Sounds like the Pope is legally God to me, and sounds like treaties are contracts upheld through the ages.
Originally posted by schrodingers dog
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
No you didn't that's not the Entire Treaty of Paris, that's the basic Cover agreement, the actual Treaty goes into indepth detail on everything agreed upon.
I'm a little confused PT, I looked at your Treaty of Paris link in the OP and it's the same text that RP quoted. I also tried to locate what you refer to as the "actual" treaty without success. Could you help in this regard?
Originally posted by Rockpuck
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
ARTICLE 1
His Brittanic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz., New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, to be free sovereign and independent states, that he treats with them as such, and for himself, his heirs, and successors, relinquishes all claims to the government, propriety, and territorial rights of the same and every part thereof.
Well there ya go, we can take that literally.
Originally posted by HothSnake
I didn't make it through the whole thread, but I will in time. I did read the OP's first few pages of comments, and I am impressed. I was going to post something along these lines, but thanks to the OP, and his vast knowledge of this subject, I am spared the precious time. Star and Flag to you, my friend.
I do have an interesting story that goes along with the title of this thread. It is rumored that Lincoln went to see a presentation of "Julius Ceasar", as he was known to frequent the theater, and during the presentation the main actor that was portraying the seuth sayer gave the famous line "beware the Ides of March", only he said "beware the Ides of April". Lincoln picked up on this supposed mistake and made a comment that the guy was an idiot or something to that effect. Of course, Lincoln died on April 15, 1865. Was it a real mistake or was it deliberate?
Also, I'll add that 1791 was also the year that President Washtington created the District of Columbia, which was soon followed by the Whiskey Tax and Rebellion.
DEFINITIVE TREATY OF PEACE Between- the United States if America and his Britannia Majesty. (cz) Sept. 3, 1783. In the name of the Most; Holy and Uudivided Trinity. """""‘ Ir having pleased the Divine Providence to dispose the hearts of the most serene and most potent Prince Gaosca the Third, by the Grace of God King of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of. the Faith, Duke of Brunswick and Lunebourg, Arch-Treasurer and Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, &.c. and of the Unxwan S1·A·rt—:s or Ammms, to forget all past misunderstandings and differences that have unhappily interrupted the good correspondence and friendship which they mutually wish to restore; and to establish such a beneficial and satisfactory intercourse between the two_countries, upon the ground of reciprocal advantages and mutual convenience, as may promote and (a) The decisions of the Courts of the United States in cases arising under the Definitive Treaty of Peace with Great Britain of September 3, 1783, have been: _ _ The fifth article of the treaty of peace of 1783, between the United States and Great Britain, concludin with this clause: "And it is agreed, that all persons who have any interest in confiscated lands, cidier by debts, marriage settlements, or otherwise, shall meet with no lawful impediment in the proseoution of theirjust righte;" applies to those cases where an actual confiscation has taken place; and sti ulates, that in sutdr cases, the interest of all persons having a lien upon such lands shall be preserved. Tliat clause of the treaty preserved the lien of a. morégagee of confiscated lands, which, at the time of the treaty, remained unso d. _Higgimtm v. Mein, 4 ranch, 415; 2 Cond. Rep._155. _ The treaties with Great Britain, of 1783 and 1794, only dprovide for titles exisnnfg at the time those treaties were made, and not for titles subsequently acquire . Actual possession o property is not ne-
$0 give the party the benetit of the treaty. Bltghfs Lessee v. Rochester, 7 Wheat. 535; 5 Cond.
ep. . Where I. D., an alien and British subject, came into the United States subseguent to the treatly of 17§3, and, before the treaty of 1794 was signed, died seised of lands, it was hel that the title o his hetrs to the land was not protected by the treaty of 1794. Ibid. Thomas Scott, a native of South Carolina, died in 1782, intestate, seised of land on James Island, having two daughters, Ann and Sarah, both born in South Carolina before the declaration of independence. Sarah married D. P. a citizen of South Carolina and died in 1802, entitled to one half of the estate. The British tcokdpossession of James Island and Charleston in February and Iilsg, 1780; and in 1781 Ann Scott marrie Joseph Shanks, a British officer; and at the evacuation of harleston in 17§2. she we¤t_to England with her husband, where she remained until her death in 1801. She left five children, born in Eng and. They claimed the other moiety of the real estate of Thomas Scott, in right of their mother, under the ninth article of the treaty of peace between this country and Great Britain of the 19th of November, 1794. Held, that they were entitled to recover and hcl the same. Shanks ct d. v. Qupont et al. 3 Peters, 242. All Bntish_born subjects, whose allegiance Great Britain has never renounced, ought, upon general principles of tntenuretation, to be held within the intent, as they certainly are within the words, of the treaty of 1794. bid. 250. The treaty of 17:33, acted upon the state of things as it existed at that period. It took the actual state of things as its basis. All those, whether natives or otherwise, who then adhered to the American states, were virtually ebsolved from all alleviance to the British crown; all those who then adhered to the British crown were deemed and held suhjects of that crown. The treaty of peace was a treaty operating between states and the inhabitants thereof Ibid. 274. The several states which complose this Union, so far at least as regarded their municipal regulations, became entttled,from the time w en_ they declared themselves independent, to all the rig ts and powers of sovereign states; and dtd not denve them from concessions of the British king. The treaty of peace contains s recognition of the independence of these states, not a grant of it. The laws of the several state gpvernments, passed after the declaration of independence, were the laws of sovereign states, and as saic Rwerzgbligatory upon tho people of each state. 1\1’Ilvaine v. Cozz’s Lessee, 4 Cranch, 209 ; 2 on . ep. . The property of British corporations, in this country, is protected by the sixth article of the treaty of Hence of 1783, in the same manner as those of natural persons; and their title, thus protected, is conrrned hy the ninth article of the treaty of 1794, so that it could not be forfeited by any intermediate legislative act, or othwroceeding for the defect of alienage. The Society Gfor Propagating the Gospel. th:. v. New Haven, 8 heat. 464; 5 Cond. Rep. 489. See also, post, p. 11 , n. (80)