1. The enclosed copy of the treaty with Algiers (18 pp.; DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Foreign Relations, 14B–B3; printed in ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States … (38 vols.; Washington, 1832–61). description ends , Foreign Relations, 4:4–6), in its first four articles, provided that each nation would enjoy the status of most favored nation with the other; that the dey would not exact tribute in any form from the United States; that both nations would immediately release the citizens or subjects held prisoner by the other; and that the dey would compensate Americans who had lost property or had been held captive in Algiers; he would also return “the whole of a quantity of bales of cotton” owned by former consul Tobias Lear and pay Lear “ten thousand Spanish dollars.” The remaining eighteen articles of the treaty imposed stipulations intended to reduce the sources of friction between Algerians and Americans and establish procedures for the resolution of disputes between them. Article 15 stated that “as the Government of the United States of America has, in itself, no character of emnity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity of any nation … it is declared by the contracting parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony between the two nations; and the Consuls and Agents of both nations shall have liberty to celebrate the rites of their respective Religions in their own houses.”

2. The enclosed copy of Capt. Stephen Decatur and William Shaler’s 4 July 1815 letter to James Monroe (6 pp.; DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Foreign Relations, 14B–B3; printed in ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States … (38 vols.; Washington, 1832–61). description ends , Foreign Relations, 4:6) referred to an enclosed copy of their undated note (1 p.) introducing themselves and their mission to the dey of Algiers and transmitting JM’s ca. 12 Apr. 1815 letter to him. Shaler and Decatur also recounted their discussions with the dey’s representatives in the harbor of Algiers on 29 and 30 June 1815, which resulted in the dey signing the treaty of peace as presented and immediately releasing his American prisoners. The single concession granted by Decatur and Shaler was a promise to return the Algerian frigate and brig captured by the American squadron, but this agreement was not included in the treaty. The document was subsequently translated with an official copy signed by the dey, which Decatur and Shaler enclosed.