Louisiana Purchase Treaty In 1803 the United States purchased a vast interior region of North America from France for $15 million.

« Government if it Shall take place in the United States; It is however well understood that the object of the above article is to favour the manufactures, Commerce,freight and navigation of France and of Spain So far as relates to the importations that the French and Spanish Shall make into the Said Ports of the United Stateswithout in any Sort affecting the regulations that the United States may make concerning the exportation of the produce and merchandize of the United States, or anyright they may have to make Such regulations. Art: VIII In future and for ever after the expiration of the twelve years, the Ships of France shall be treated upon the footing of the most favoured nations in the ports abovementioned. Art: IX The particular Convention Signed this day by the respective Ministers, having for its object to provide for the payment of debts due to the Citizens of the UnitedStates by the French Republic prior to the 30th Sept.

1800 (8th Vendé miaire an 9) is approved and to have its execution in the Same manner as if it had beeninserted in this present treaty, and it Shall be ratified in the same form and in the Same time So that the one Shall not be ratified distinct from the other. Another particular Convention Signed at the Same date as the present treaty relative to a definitive rule between the contracting parties is in the like manner approvedand will be ratified in the Same form, and in the Same time and jointly. Art: X The present treaty Shall be ratified in good and due form and the ratifications Shall be exchanged in the Space of Six months after the date of the Signature by theMinisters Plenipotentiary or Sooner if possible. In faith whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have Signed these articles in the French and English languages; declaring nevertheless that the present Treaty wasoriginally agreed to in the French language; and have thereunto affixed their Seals. Done at Paris the tenth day of Floreal in the eleventh year of the French Republic; and the 30th of April 1803. Robt R Livingston [seal] Jas.

Monroe [seal] Barbé Marbois [seal] A Convention Between the United States of America and the French Republic The President of the United States of America and the First Consul of the French Republic in the name of the French people, in consequence of the treaty of cessionof Louisiana which has been Signed this day; wishing to regulate definitively every thing which has relation to the Said cession have authorized to this effect thePlenipotentiaries, that is to say the President of the United States has, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the Said States, nominated for theirPlenipotentiaries, Robert R.

Livingston, Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States, and James Monroe, Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy-Extraordinary of theSaid United States, near the Government of the French Republic; and the First Consul of the French Republic, in the name of the French people, has named asPleniopotentiary of the Said Republic the citizen Francis Barbé Marbois: who, in virtue of their full powers, which have been exchanged this day, have agreed to thefollowings articles: Art: 1 The Government of the United States engages to pay to the French government in the manner Specified in the following article the sum of Sixty millions of francsindependant of the Sum which Shall be fixed by another Convention for the payment of the debts due by France to citizens of the United States. Art: 2 For the payment of the Sum of Sixty millions of francs mentioned in the preceeding article the United States shall create a Stock of eleven millions, two hundred andfifty thousand Dollars bearing an interest of Six per cent: per annum payable half yearly in London Amsterdam or Paris amounting by the half year to three hundredand thirty Seven thousand five hundred Dollars, according to the proportions which Shall be determined by the french Govenment to be paid at either place: Theprincipal of the Said Stock to be reimbursed at the treasury of the United States in annual payments of not less than three millions of Dollars each; of which the firstpayment Shall commence fifteen years after the date of the exchange of ratifications:—this Stock Shall be transferred to the government of France or to Such personor persons as Shall be authorized to receive it in three months at most after the exchange of ratifications of this treaty and after Louisiana Shall be taken possession ofthe name of the Government of the United States. It is further agreed that if the french Government Should be desirous of disposing of the Said Stock to receive the capital in Europe at Shorter terms that its measuresfor that purpose Shall be taken So as to favour in the greatest degree possible the credit of the United States, and to raise to the highest price the Said Stock. Art 3 It is agreed that the Dollar of the United States Specified in the present Convention shall be fixed at five francs 3333/100000 or five livres eight Sous tournois. The present Convention Shall be ratified in good and due form, and the ratifications Shall be exchanged the Space of Six months to date from this day or Sooner ifpossible. In faith of which the respective Plenipotentiaries have Signed the above articles both in the french and english languages, declaring nevertheless that the presenttreaty has been originally agreed on and written in the french language; to which they have hereunto affixed their Seals. Done at Paris the tenth of Floreal eleventh year of the french Republic/ 30th April 1803 ./ Robt R Livingston [seal] Jas.

Monroe [seal] Barbé Marbois [seal] Convention Between the United States of America and the French Republic. »