Excerpt from The American Remembrancer, Vol. 2: Or an Impartial Collection of Essays, Resolves, Speeches, &C. Relative, or Having Affinity, to the Treaty With Great Britain The juflice or policy of the'afi'umption of the debts of indi viduals, by the United States, muft be determined by a refer? Ence to the treaty of Paris, ' and the fubfequent meafures of the United States. Bythe sth article of thattreaty, it was agreed, '6 That creditors on eit/jer/ia'e (hall meet with no lawful impe dimeni to the recovery of the full value in fierling money of all bona fide debts heretofore contraeled. It is obfervable, that this article gives the, creditors on_neither fide any claim upon, the Rates, but leaves them'to proicente the individual, and the. Ordinary courts of law to determine their rights. In confequence of which, fome debtors have difcharged all that was due others have been more negligent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.