<Li> Recognizing the lawful contracted debts to be paid to creditors on either side; </Li> <Li> The Congress of the Confederation will "earnestly recommend" to state legislatures to recognize the rightful owners of all confiscated lands and "provide for the restitution of all estates, rights, and properties, which have been confiscated belonging to real British subjects" (Loyalists); </Li> <Li> United States will prevent future confiscations of the property of Loyalists; </Li> <Li> Prisoners of war on both sides are to be released; all property of the British army (including slaves) now in the United States is to remain and be forfeited; </Li>

In the peace treaty that ended the american revolution