VI.
The United States, in consideration of the Cession of Territory
made by this Treaty shall pay to France———
millions of livres Tournois, in the manner following, viz,
They shall pay———millions of livres tournois immediately
on the exchange of the ratifications hereof: they
shall assume in such order of priority as the Government of
the United States may approve, the payment of claims, which
have been or may be acknowledged by the French Republic
to be due to American citizens, or so much thereof as with
the payment to be made on the exchange of ratifications
will not exceed the sum of——and in case a balance
should remain due after such payment and assumption, the
same shall be paid at the end of one year from the final liquidation
of the claims hereby assumed, which shall be payable
in three equal annual payments, the first of which is to take
place one year after the exchange of ratifications or they shall
bear interest at the rate of six p Cent p annum from the date
of such intended payments; until they shall be discharged.
All the above mentioned payments shall be made at the
Treasury of the United States and at the rate of one dollar
and ten cents for every six livres tournois.
