VIII. Persons belonging to the garrison of Fort Convention, possessing no landed property, but who exercised some profession or trade previous to the present capitulation, shall be allowed to continue their trade or calling; nor sent to France, provided their future conduct should not make such a measure necessary.—Answer. They are regarded in the same predicament with those in Article VI.
IX. The legal regulations of the constituted authorities shall be confirmed.—Answer. Refused.
X. The code of civil judicature in force through the island shall be continued for the space of two years.—Answer. Granted, till his Britannic Majesty's pleasure be known.
XI. The property of owners and captains of ships shall be secured to them on board and on shore.—Answer. Granted, as to their property in Fort Bourbon.
XII. The inhabitants of St. Pierre, embarked on English ships, shall be set at liberty, and their property, under seal, secured to them.—Answer. This article cannot come within the present capitulation. The claimants may apply to the commanders of the fleet and army.
XIII. The ordonateur and officers of administration shall have permission and time to regulate their accounts, and to take with them the papers relative to that end.—Answer. Granted.
XIV. There shall be an entire and absolute oblivion of the past, and an end to all animosities.—Answer. Granted, according to the proclamations.
XV. The rights of free citizens inrolled in the national guard shall be preserved.—Answer. Refused.
XVI. The liberty of individuals composing the companies of l'Enclume, d'Octavius, de la Croire, and de Pontouur, shall be confirmed.—Answer. Refused. The slaves must be restored to their owners.
XVII. A period shall be fixed for the taking possession of the fort, and the necessary time allowed for the garrison to take out their effects.—Answer. The two gates of Fort Bourbon to be delivered up to the troops of his Britannic Majesty immediately after the exchange of the present articles. The garrison will march out at the great gate, and be conducted to the place appointed for each corps, by the commissioners who have managed the present capitulation, and will lay down their arms at the place of their embarkation. Three days will be allowed for the evacuation of the fort, and the commissaries of artillery and stores will remain in the forts to take inventories of all the magazines.