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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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ARTICLE III.

It is agreed that within [OMITTED] years previous to the expiration
of the aforesaid term of [OMITTED] years due provision
shall be made for amicably adjusting and tracing the boundary
between the territories of the United States Westward of the
Mississippi and the territories of his Catholic Majesty, which
boundary shall then be established according to the true and
just extent of Louisiana as ceded by Spain to France and by
France to the United States; uninfluenced in the smallest
degree or in any manner whatever by the delay, or by any
arrangement or circumstance contained in or resulting from
this Convention.