[Illegible Text — Some or all of the pages of this file are wholly or in part illegible. We have not been able either to locate a better copy of the document, or to enhance its legibility electronically] [endorsement page — notation rotated, partially legible: [undecipherable] [seal]] C1793, Aug. 23 [undecipherable] the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Attorney General at [undecipherable] [undecipherable] agreed to — [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] I the annual arming and outfitting of vessels [undecipherable] the belligerent [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] Military [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] is deemed unlawful. II [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] the sale of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and to the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] is deemed Careful. III [undecipherable] [undecipherable] a war in the cause of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] parties which [undecipherable] [undecipherable] every appricable act [undecipherable] caused [undecipherable] effect — [undecipherable] have made [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of finance coming in [undecipherable] progress [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] pursuant to the 17^th [undecipherable] article of [undecipherable] treaty of Amity and commerce with [undecipherable] IV [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] arming [undecipherable] such aid doubtful [undecipherable] [undecipherable] need appricable also to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] lawful [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] V Equipments in the Case of the Belligerates which are doubtful or [undecipherable] as being appricable to Commerce [undecipherable] are deemed Careful. VI Equipments of every kind in their Sale of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] the Powers at War in France [undecipherable] or [undecipherable] [undecipherable] VII [undecipherable] Equipments of the [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to an [undecipherable] [undecipherable] are deemed unlawful [undecipherable] the 18 [undecipherable] hundred [undecipherable] reached [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] four treaty with france they [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] treaty with France the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] act [undecipherable] VIII [undecipherable] citizens [undecipherable] are [undecipherable] not armed — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] any [undecipherable] orders may [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] articles [undecipherable] except [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in France and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]