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225 In the actual service of the said enemies Art 8 This Liberty of navigation and commerce shall extend to all kinds of Merchandizes except those only which are expressed in the following article and are distinguished by the name of contraband goods Art 9 Under the name of contraband or prohibited goods shall be comprehended arms, great guns, cannon balls, arguebuses, Musquets, bombs, petards, granadoes, saucisses, pitch Balls, carriages for ordnance, musquet rests, bandoliers, cannon powder, matches, salt petre, sulpher, bullets, pikes, sabres, swords, morions, helmets, cuirasses, halbords, Javelins, pistols, holsters, belts, bayonets, horses with their harness, and all other likes kinds of Arms and instruments of war for the use of troops Art 10 These which follow shall not be reconed in the Number of prohibited goods that is to say all sorts of cloaths and all other manufactures of wool, flax, silk, cotton, or any other materials all kinds of wearing apparel, together with the things of which they are commonly made, gold, silver, coined or uncoined, brass, iron, lead, copper, latten, coals, wheat, barley an all sorts of corn or pulse, tobacco all kinds of Spices Salted or smoaked flesh, salted fish, cheese, butter, beer, oil, wines, sugar, all sorts of salt and provisions which serve for the nourishment and sustenances of man, all kinds of cotton, hemp, flax, tar, pitch, ropes, cables, sails, sail cloth, anchors and any parts of anchors, ship masts, planks, boards, bearns, and all sorts of trees and other things proper for building or repairing ships nor shall any goods be considered contraband which have not been worked into the form of any instrument or thing for the purpose of war by land or by sea much less such as have been prepared or wrought up for any other use All which shall be rec^k^oned free goods as likewise all others which are not comprehended and particularly mentioned in the foregoing article so that they shall not by any pretended interpretation be comprehended among prohibited or contraband goods on the contrary they may be freely transported by the subjects of the king and of the United States even to places belonging to an enemy such places only excepted as are besieged blocked or invested and those places only shall be considered as such which are nearly surrounded by one of the belligerent powers Art 11 In order to avoid and prevent on both sides all disputes and discord it is agreed that in case one of the parties shall be engaged in a war the ships and vessels belonging to the subjects or inhabitants of the other shall be furnished with sea letters or passports expressing the name property and ports of the vessel and also the name and place of abode of the master or commander of the said vessel in order that it may thereby appear that the said vessel realy and truly belongs to the subjects of the one or the other party These passports which shall be drawn up in good and due form shall be renewed every time the vessel returns home in the course of the year it is also agreed that the said vessels when loaded shall be provided not only with sea Letters but also with certificates containing a particular account of the cargo the place from which the vessel sailed and that if her distination in order that it may be known whether they Carry any of the prohibited or contraband merchandizes mentioned in the 9 article of the present treaty which certificates shall be made out by the Officers of the place from which the Vessel shall depart Art 12 Although the Vessels of the one and of the other party may navigate freely and with all safety as is expained in the 7.th Article they shall nevertheless be bound at all times when required to exhibit as well on the high sea as in port their passports and certificates above (mentioned) |
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