of France as on the part of the proprietors of this paper; which Commiffaries or Deputies fhall be allowed to afk, through the Magiftrate who adminifters the oath, fuch queftions of the deponent as they fhall judge neceffary, relative to the object of the oath.

VI. Each declaration fhall contain only what belongs to one holder, whether they are his own property, or held by him for account of other; mentioning therein his name, quality, and place of abode; and this declaration fhall be made conformable to the model annexed to the prefent convention.

V. Duplicates fhall be made of these declarations, certified to be true, figned by the holders of the faid papers, and previously delivered to the English and French Commiffaries or Deputies, who fhall be obliged, three days after receiving these declarations, to affift at the taking of the oath before the Magiftrate appointed for that purpose.

VI. As this paper may, fince the laft treaty of peace, have paffed into the hands of three different claffes of proprietors, namely, the actual proprietors, the intermediate and the original; the form of an oath fuitable for each clafs of proprietors fhall be prescribed in the three following articles.

I

VII. The actual proprietors, who are not original proprietors, having been intermediate purchasers, with a guaranty of their being British property, fhall take the following oath underneath the declaration of their paper: affirm and folemnly fwear, on the Holy Evangelifts, that the papers mentioned in the foregoing declaration, are the fame, (or part of the fame) that I have purchased of B with a guaranty of their being British property; and that I hold them on my own account, (or on account of

the

So help me God. VIII. The intermediate proprietors, who have been purchafers and fellers, with a guaranty of their property being British, shall take, by indorsement on their declaration, an oath in the following form:

I affirm and folemnly fwear, on the Holy Evangelifts, that I did purchase of C

on

the

the to

day of

(or

fundry Canada papers, amounting and that I did fell the fame,

of the fame,) to D

which were

guarantied to, and by me, to be British property.

So help me God.

This oath to be repeated by each intermediate purchafer back to the perfon who brought them, or received them, from Canada.

IX. The Canadian proprietors, or those who reprefent them in London, being the actual poffeffors, or no longer fo, fhall take the following oath, with the modifications expreffed, fuitable to the different circumftances under which they may find themselves :

I

affirm and folemnly fwear, on the Holy Evangelifts, that the papers mentioned in the foregoing declaration.

[If the property of a Canadian] are my own property, having had them in my poffeffion at the date of the last treaty of peace, (or having bought them in Canada, from whence I brought them.)

[If in the poffeffion of a British reprefentative of a Canadian fubject] are my own property, having bought them (or received them) from Canadian fubjects.

[If not in his poffeffion] were my own property, having bought them, (or received them) from Canadian fubjects, and that I fold the fame, (or part of the fame)

[If thefe papers came from France, or elsewhere, being the property of Canadian or British fubjects] were fent to me from France, (or.elsewhere) on account of

as British property.

to

If fold] and that I fold the fame, (or part of the fame)

the

[Foreigners, who fhall have fent them to England, fhall take the fame oath as the intermediate proprietors, as expreffed in the eighth article preceding.]

[Foreigners who fhall have received them from Canada, or Great Britain.]

I

affirm and folemnly fwear, on the Holy Evangelifts, that at the date of the laft treaty of peace, I held in truft, or that fince that date I have received

from

in Canada (or in Great Britain) fundry

from.
Canada papers, amounting to
proper account of
fubject, and that I have fold,
fame, (or part of the fame) to
property.

on the an actual British Canadian (delivered) (or fent) the as British

On thefe different oaths being judicially and legally made, the respective Commiffaries fhall be obliged to grant to the holders of the papers that fhall have come from France, (or elsewhere) a certificate of their being British property, as well as to the holders who shall have received them directly from Canada.

of

[If the papers have been brought from Canada, on account of any other than the perfon who fent them] have been fent to me directly by in Canada, who purchased them from British Canadian fubjects, upon commiffion, for account of

of

[Laftly, If the papers are for account of Canadians, and tranfmitted by them] of

from

that I received them in Canada, and for his account. [All indifferently are to add.]

I farther fwear, that the faid papers were neither purchased, nor have been negociated, in France as French property, nor acquired directly nor indirectly from natives of France, who were the proprietors of them at the date of the last treaty of peace; and that no part of these papers were carried from Europe to Canada, in order to give French property the sanction of British property: which I affirm and folemnly fwear.

So help me God.

X. Nevertheless, in cafe the actual proprietors, or holders, produce Bordereaux in good form, registered heretofore in Canada, in confequence of the orders of the English Governors, or declared in France as British property, and not liquidated within the time (for thofe declared in France) that the registers for the declarations were open for the French, it fhall be fufficient that the proprietors or holders, fo circumftanced, take the following oath :

I

affirm and folemnly fwear, on the Holy Evangelifts, that the papers mentioned in my foregoing

decla

declaration, have been registered in Canada, (or in France) conformably to the annexed Bordereaux, which I certify to be true.

So help me God.

XI. After the administration of the oaths, there fhall, within the space of three days, be delivered to each actual proprietor or holder, a certificate of its being British property by the Magiftrate who adminifters the oaths; which certificate fhall be revised and figned by the respective Commiffaries or Deputies, and fhall contain an account of each fort of paper which fhall have been therein proved British property, in order that, by means of this voucher, the poffeffor may prefent his paper to the office of the Commiffion at Paris, there to be examined, revised, liquidated, and converted into reconnoiffances, or rent contracts, according to the reduction fixed and agreed upon: every thing fhall meet with all poffible difpatch, and the holders of this paper fhall be at no expence whatsoever.

XII. In cafe any unforeseen accident fhall have deprived any actual proprietor of this paper of an intermediate proof between him and the first proprietor who received it from Canada, fo as that the proofs which precede and follow that which ought to join them, and which is miffing, feem to have report and belong to each other; in that cafe only the refpective Commiffaries or Deputies fhall be empowered to admit the paper it relates to as British property, if they think proper, notwithstanding the deficiency which fhall have broke the link of the proof and if the refpective Commiffaries or Deputies fhall chance to differ in opinion, the decifion of the object in queftion fhall be referred to his Britannick Majefty's Secretary of State, and to the Ambaffador of his Moft Chriftian Majesty.

XIII. In virtue of the foregoing arrangement, the Court of France grants to the British proprietors of this paper an indemnification of premium of three millions of livres Tournois, payable in the following manner, viz. the fum of five hundred thousand livres Tournois, which fhall be paid in fpecie to his Britannick Majefty's Ambaffador at Paris in the course of the month of April next;

and

and the fum of two millions five hundred thousand livres Tournois, in reconnoiffances or rent contracts, of the fame nature as those which shall be given for the fifty and twenty-five per cent. on the capitals of the bills of exchange, cards, ordonnances, &c. but the intereft of which fhall only run from the 1ft of January, 1766; which fum of two millions and a half of livres Tournois fhall be delivered to the aforefaid Ambaffador immediately after the ratification and exchange of the prefent convention, in reconnoiffance of one thousand livres Tournois each, on the exprefs condition, that all the Canada paper belonging to British subjects, not liquidated, fhall fhare the fame fate for its reimbursement as French paper, and fhall come in courfe of payment with the debts of the State, the reconnoiffances or rent contracts whereof shall be paid as the other debts, without being fubjected to any reduction whatsoever; and on the farther condition, that all the English proprietors of the faid paper fhall give up every particular indemnification from any caufe and pre

text whatsoever.

XIV. The folemn ratifications of the prefent convention shall be exchanged in good and due form, in this city of London, between the two Courts, within the fpace of one month, or fooner if it be poffible, to be reckoned from the day of figning the prefent convention.

In witnefs whereof, we the under-written Ministers Plenipotentiary of the faid two Courts, have figned in their names, and by virtue of our full powers, the prefent convention, and caused it to be fealed with our arms. Done at London, this 29th day of March, 1766.

(L. S.) H. S. CONWAY,

Canada