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Berkeley And Jefferson Intelligencer
Martinsburg, Berkeley County, Virginia
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Official announcement in Washington City on July 4 that a treaty was signed on April 30 between U.S. and French ministers, granting the United States full sovereignty over New Orleans and all of Louisiana as held by Spain. Corrects misconception about paying for French spoliations; those claims relinquished, while other French claims from contracts with U.S. citizens are addressed.
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MONDAY, JULY 4.
OFFICIAL.
The Executive have received official information that a Treaty was signed on the 30th of April, between the ministers Plenipotentiary & Extraordinary of the United States and the Minister plenipotentiary of the French Government, by which the United States have obtained the full right to & sovereignty over New Orleans and the whole of Louisiana, as Spain possessed the same.
An erroneous opinion has gone abroad that in part purchase of Louisiana, we are to pay our merchants for French spoliations committed during the last war not so; the claims for these spoliations have been formally relinquished by treaty. The claims now provided for are understood to be those arising from purchases made by the French from our citizens of provisions and supplies for their fleets and armies in the West Indies indemnification for French bills drawn on Hamburgh and protested, &c. &c. in short for all contracts made between authorised agents of France and American citizens.
[New-York Herald.]
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Washington City
Event Date
30th Of April
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united states obtained full right to and sovereignty over new orleans and the whole of louisiana as spain possessed the same; claims for french spoliations relinquished by treaty; other claims from french contracts with american citizens provided for
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The Executive received official information that a treaty was signed between the ministers Plenipotentiary & Extraordinary of the United States and the Minister plenipotentiary of the French Government, granting the United States sovereignty over New Orleans and Louisiana. An erroneous opinion that the purchase includes payment for French spoliations is corrected; those claims are relinquished, while claims from purchases of provisions, supplies, protested bills, and other contracts between French agents and American citizens are addressed.