It terminated in the treaty of July 4, 1831, recognizing
the justice of our claims in part and promising payment to the amount
of 25,000,000 francs in six annual installments.
The ratifications of this treaty were exchanged at Washington on the
2d of February, 1832, and in five days thereafter it was laid before
Congress, who immediately passed the acts necessary on our part to
secure to France the commercial advantages conceded to her in the
compact. The treaty had previously been solemnly ratified by the King of
the French in terms which are certainly not mere matters of form, and of
which the translation is as follows:
We, approving the above convention in all and each of the dispositions
which are contained in it, do declare, by ourselves as well as by our
heirs and successors, that it is accepted, approved, ratified, and
confirmed, and by these presents, signed by our hand, we do accept,
approve, ratify, and confirm it; promising, on the faith and word of a
king, to observe it and to cause it to be observed inviolably, without
ever contravening it or suffering it to be contravened, directly or
indirectly, for any cause or under any pretense whatsoever.
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