XIV. “Second Form Proposed on the Part of the United States.”
XIV. “Second Form Proposed on the Part of the United States.”
Convention entre le R.T.C. et les E.U. de l’Amerique….1
Art. II. Les consuls et viceconsuls jouiront d’une pleine et entiere immunité pour leur chancellerie, et les papiers qui y seront renfermés….2
Art. VIII. Les consuls et vice consuls auront, abord des batimens de leur nation respective, tout pouvoir et jurisdiction en matiere civile: et à cet effet ils pourront s’y transporter sans qu’aucun officier ou autres personnes puissent les en empecher….3
Art. XI. Lorsque les dits coupables feront partie de l’equipage de l’un des batimens de leur nation, ils ne pourront ensuite etre mis en liberté qu’aprés que le consul ou viceconsul en aura eté prevenu, et ils lui seront remis, s’il le requiert, pour etre reconduits sur les batimens ou ils auroient eté arretés, ou autres de leur nation, et etre renvoyés hors du pays.
Art. XII. [To be omitted altogether]….4
Tr (DNA: PCC, No. 87, ii); entirely in TJ’s hand; at head of text: “No. 4. Second form proposed on the part of the United states” (see TJ to Jay, 14 Nov. 1788, for numbered enclosures, of which this was the fourth); accompanied by an English translation; brackets in MS. PrC (DLC). In DLC: TJ Papers, 45: 7627–7638 there is a PrC in Short’s hand, containing corrections in TJ’s hand corresponding with those indicated in notes 2 and 3 of Document XIII. The missing Tr of this PrC is evidently that which TJ enclosed in his letter to Rayneval, 16 Sep. 1788. Article XII is omitted from this PrC.
1. The text of title, preamble, and Art. I in Tr is omitted at this point because it is identical with the text of the French “Counterproposition” (Document XI), save for minor differences in capitalization, punctuation, &c.
2. The text of remainder of Art. II and of Arts. iii-vii is omitted here because, with minor differences of capitalization, punctuation, and two clerical errors made by TJ in transcribing, it is the same as the corresponding text in the French “Counterproposition” (Document xi). The alterations stipulated by TJ in his “Observations” (Document xiii) concerning Art. v are, of course, incorporated in text of Tr.
3. The text of Arts. ix and x is omitted here for the same reason, the text of Art. ix in Tr being altered in accordance with TJ’s stipulation in “Observations” (Document xiii).
4. The text of Arts. xiv-xvii in tr is omitted here for the same reason.