ARTICLE X
The present treaty shall be ratified in good and due form, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in the space of six months after the date of the signature by the Ministers Plenipotentiary, or sooner if possible.
In faith whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed these articles in the French and English languages; declaring nevertheless that the present treaty was originally agreed to in the French language; and have thereunto affixed their seals.
Done at Paris the tenth day of Floréal, in the eleventh year of the French Republic, and the 30th of April, 1803.
ROBT. R. LIVINGSTON (L. S.)
JAS. MONROE(L. S.)
F. BARB? MARBOIS (L. S.)