[center][u]The Seward-La Valette Treaty Revised[/u][/center] [b]Article I.[/b] 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. In exchange the United States has been given the rights for all of its ships, military or civilian, to travel through the Suez Canal. [b]Article II.[/b] 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 Ulysses S. Grant of the United States of America [X] - Sir John Alexander Macdonald, Prime minister of The Canadian Confederation.