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VI. Amendment to Article 4: A Translation
Docno: PJA13d204
Recipient: JA
Date: 1782-08-29
[dateline] [29 August 1782]
The addition at the end of Article 4 should be done in the following manner.
And the two contracting parties shall provide, each one in his jurisdiction, that their respective subjects and inhabitants may henceforward obtain the requisite certificates in cases of deaths in which they shall be interested.
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; endorsed: “Amendment of the 4. Article proposed to me, by the grand Pensionary Bleiswick 29. Aug. 1782 & agreed to the Same day.” Beside the Dutch text is a French translation by C. W. F. Dumas. Filmed at [22–29 Aug.], Adams Papers, Microfilms, Reel No. 357.
1. This word is in JA’s hand, and the amendment was incorporated verbatim into Art. 4 of the final version of the treaty (No. VIII, below).
Cite web page as: Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2007.
http://www.masshist.org/ff/
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