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The President of the United States Of America and the First Consul of the French Republic in the name of the French People desiring to remove all Source of misunderstanding relative to objects of discussion mentioned in the Second and fifth articles of the convention of the 8th Vende miaire an 9/30 September 1800 relative to the rights claimed by the United States in virtue of the Treaty concluded at Madrid the 27 of October1795, between His Catholic Majesty and the Said United States, and willing to strengthen the union and friendship which at the time of the Convention was happily reestablished between the two nations have respectively named their Plenipotentiaries to wit The President Of the Said States; Robert R. Livingston Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States and James Monroe Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy extraordinary of the Said States near the Government of the French Republic; And the First consul I the name of the French people, Citizen Francis Barbe Marbois Minister of the public treasury who after having respectively exchanged their full powers have agreed to the following Articles.

Article I

Whereas by the Article the third of the Treaty concluded at St Ildefonso the 9th Vende miaire an 9/1st October 1800 between the First Consul of the French Republic and his Catholic Majesty it was agreed follows.
"His Catholic majesty promises and engages on his part to cede to the French Republic six months after the full and execution of the conditions and stipulations herein relative to his Royal Highness the Duke of Parma, The Colony or Province of Louisiana with the Same extent that it now has in the hand of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it and such as it should be after the Treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States."And whereas in pursuance of the Treaty and particularly of the third article the French Republic has an incontestible title to the domain and to the ...