The writings of James Madison, comprising his public papers and his private correspondence, including numerous letters and documents now for the first time printed. |
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The boundary between the Territories ceded and reserved
by France shall be a continuation of that already defined
above the 31st degree of North Latitude viz, the middle of the
channel or bed of the river, thro' the said South pass to the
sea. The navigation of the river Mississippi in its whole
breadth from its source to the ocean, and in all its passages to
and from the same shall be equally free and common to citizens
of the United States and of the French Republic.
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