In consideration of this stipulation, which shall be binding on the United States for ten years, the French Government abandons the reclamations which it had formed in relation to the eighth article of the treaty of cession of Louisiana.

It is time that the present owners of the land begin the reclamation of our 326,000,000 acres of cut-over timberlands.

All such collisions tend to excite misapprehensions, and possibly to produce mutual reclamations between nations which have a common interest in preserving peace and friendship.

lime in the soil renders reclamation very easy compared with similar work in the dense clays of Egypt.