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406 CONVENTION WITH DENMARK. 1830. ARTICLE rv. No f,,,,;,.,, In con ideration of the renunciation and payments mentioned in Ani. claims shall be cle I and II, on the part of His Majesty the King of Denmark, the Fg°§¤*°d by Government of the United States declares itself entirely satisfied, not `only in what concerns the said Government, but algo lin nihat concerns the citizens of the said United States, on account o the c aims hitherto preferred, or which may hereafter be preferred, relating to the seizure, detention, condemnation or confiscation, of their vessels, cargoes, or ro ert whatsoever which in the last maritime war of Denmark, have fakgn place under the dag of Denmark, or in the States subject to the Danish sceptre; and the said claims shall consequently be regarded as definitively and irrevocably terminated. ARTICLE V. The intention of the two high contracting parties being solely to tercblltlvgrlltighebldly minate, definitively and irrevocably, all the claims which have hitherto ”PPl’°':,’il°‘9lh° been preferred, they expressly declare, that the present Convention is 3i2Q0n;:;'" only applicable to the cases therein mentioned; and, having no other object, can never, hereafter, be invoked by one party or the other as a precedent or rule for the future. ARTICLE VI. {cbc mm d The present Convention shall be duly ratified by the high contracting within ten 6 parties, and the ratitications shall be exchanged at Washington, in the months. space of ten months, or sooner if possible. In faith thereof, and in virtue of our respective full powers, we have signed the present Convention, and have thereunto set the seals of our arms. Done at Copenhagen, this 28th day of March, 1830. E. H. SCHIMMELMANN, r.. s. STEMAN N, r.. s.