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ARTICLE XXVII.

OTHER ARTICLE DEMANDED BY THE FRENCH GENERAL.

Governor Stuart ſhall deliver up to-morrow, the 8th of September, 1778, the poſts at Prince Rupert's Bay, after the Capitulation is ſigned. Fort Young ſhall be delivered directly into the hands of the firſt company of grenadiers; the forts and batteries of the town ſhall be delivered up at the ſame time, and all other fortreſſes of the colony, as ſoon as it poſſibly can be done.

Granted by Governor Stuart.


We the Governor-general of the French Windward iſlands in America, for his moſt Chriſtian Majeſty the King of France; and the Lieutenant-governor and Commander in Chief of Dominica, for his Britannic Majeſty, the King of England, do ratify theſe Articles

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