Vizir (minister of state) Hassan Bashaw, the Dey of Algiers, and Joseph Donaldson, Jr. Ambassador to Algiers, sign a Treaty with Algeria, agreeing to the payment of 1,000,000 Dollars as ransom for 115 Sailors captured by the Barbary pirates, and to resume yearly tribute payments.
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Authority:
Article II, Section 2 [Clause 2]
ccc-2point0.com/constitution-for-the-united-states
References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 51.
Avalon Project – The Barbary Treaties 1786-1815 – Treaty of Peace and Amity, Signed at Algiers September 5, 1795
avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/bar1795t.asp#art22
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