[centre]
[u]The Seward-La Valette Treaty[/u]
[/centre]
Article I. For an annual fee of £250, all ports in the United States territory of Columbia will be open to French merchant shipping with lowered import tariffs. Overland trade routes shall be opened for French importers carrying goods across Columbia to the rest of Canada. 

Article II. The treaty shall remain intact for a period of ten years, upon which all nations involved shall renegotiate the terms for renewal of the treaty.

[X] - Emperor Napoleon III of the Second French Empire.
[X] - President Schuyler Colfax of the United States of America
[X] - Sir John Alexander Macdonald, Prime minister of The Canadian Confederation.