to be bound by the same condition of not
serving during the present contest in North America.

X.

Passports to be immediately granted for three officers, not
exceeding the rank of captains, who shall be appointed by
Lieutenant-General Burgoyne to carry despatches to Sir William
Howe, Sir Guy Carleton, and to Great Britain, by the way of New
York; and Major-General Gates engages the public faith that these
despatches shall not be opened. These officers are to set out
immediately after receiving their despatches, and are to travel
the shortest route and in the most expeditious manner.

XI.

During the stay of the troops in Massachusetts Bay the officers
are to be admitted on parole, and are to be allowed to wear their
side arms.

XII.

Should the army under Lieutenant-General Burgoyne find it
necessary to send for their clothing and other baggage to Canada,
they are permitted to do it in the most convenient manner, and
the necessary passports granted for that purpose.

XIII.

These articles are to be mutually signed and exchanged to-morrow
morning at nine o'clock, and the troops under Lieutenant-General
Burgoyne are to march out of their intrenchments at three o'clock
in the afternoon.

Horatio GATES, Major-General.
J. BURGOYNE, Lieutenant-General.

Saratoga, October 16, 1777.

To prevent any doubts that might arise from Lieutenant-General
Burgoyne's name not being mentioned in the above treaty,
Major-General Gates hereby declares that he is understood to be
comprehended in it as fully as if his name had been specifically
mentioned.

Horatio GATES.

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_Thomas Jefferson to Colonel Humphreys._ (p. 013)

To
Colonel HUMPHREYS, Paris, December 4, 1785.
London.

Dear Sir: I inclose a letter from Gatteaux, observing that there
will be an anachronism if, in making a medal to commemorate the
victory of Saratoga, he puts on General Gates the insignia of the
Cincinnati, which did not exist at that date. I wrote him, in
answer, that I thought so, too, but that you had the direction of
the business; that you were now in