CONVENTION

Bet7ceen The. United Stater Of Atnfrira
and biz bigbnejG HAM6T CART
MALLI, Balbaq0 Of TripoE.
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Con IS INFINITE.


ARTICLE |. here (hall be a
firm and perpetual peace and free in
tcrcourfe between the Government
of the United States Of America, and
his highne1s Hamet Caramalli, baih-
aw, the legitimate fovereign of the
kingdom Of lriPoh, and between the
citizens Of the one and the fubicGts
of the other.


III. The Government Of the Uni
ted States fhall nte their utmoit ex-
erticns, 70 far as comports with their
own honor and interef, their fubfit-
ing treaties and the acknowledged
laws of nations, to re -efabliih the
faid TIamet BafAaw in the poflefion
Of his fovereignty of 'Tripoh, againtt
the Pretentions of Jofeph Baihaw,
who obtained faid iovereignty by rrca-
fon, and who now holds it by ufur-
patton, and who is engaged in a6tu-
al war agalnit the Uhited States.


III. The United States ihall, IS
circumstances may require, in addi-
ton to the Operations they are car
rying OH by fea, furni{h the laid
Hamet Balhaw on loao, fupPlies Of
cath, ammunition and proviGons, and
if necefary require, debarcations Of
troops, ALTO to aid and give effect to
the operations of the iaid Hamct
Bafhaw, by land againIt the COM
mon enemy.


w. In confederation of which,
friendly officers, once rendered ef
feCfual, his highnefs Hamet Caram-
ali Bafhaw engages, on Bis part. to
releale to the commander in chief Of
the forces of the United States in
the Mediterranean, without ranfom,
all American prifoners who are, or
may hereafter BE, in sAe hands Of
the ufurPer, faid Joleph Baihaw.


V. In order TO indemnify the Uni
trd States againf all expenfe, the,
have or fhall incur in carrying into
-xecution their engagements exprefT-
ed in the I'd and Sd articles of this
convention, the faid Hamet Bafhlw
transfers and Conf 5ns to the United
'tates, the tribute stipulated BY the
laf treaties of his najeity the king Of