Chapter III: Part 3

The Hospital Stores now in York and Gloucester shall be delivered for the Use of the British Sick & wounded—Passports will be granted for procuring them further Supplies from N York as Occasion may require—& proper Hospitals will be furnished for the reception of the Sick & wounded of the two Garrisons—

Article 12^th

Waggons to be furnished to carry the Baggage of the Officers attending the Soldiers, and to Surgeons when travelling on Acc^o of the Sick—attending the Hospitals at public Expense

Article 12^th

They will be furnished if possible—

Article 13^th

The Shipping & Boats in the two Harbours, with all their Stores, Guns, Tackling, & Apparel shall be delivered up in their present State, to an officer of the Navy, appointed to take possession of them—previously unloading the private property part of which had been on board for Security during the Siege.

Article 13^th

Granted.

Article 14^th

No Article of the Capitulation to be infringed on pretext of Reprisal, & if there be any doubtful Expressions in it, they are to be interpreted, according to the common Meaning & Acceptation of the Words.—

Article 14^th

Granted.—

Done at York in Virginia this 19^th day of October 1781

Cornwallis
Tho^s Symonds

[Done in the trenches before York Town in Virginia October 19 1781.

G. Washington
Le Comte de Rochambeau
Le Comte de Barras, en mon nom
& celui de Comte de Grasse]

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Footnotes

[1]In the Virginia State Library.

[2]From the Washington Papers, Library of Congress.

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