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1. Cannons, mortars, howitzers, swivels, blunderbusses, muskets, fuses, 

 rifles, carbines, pistols, pikes, swords, sabers, lances, spears, halberds, bombs, 

 grenades, powder, matches, balls, and all other things belonging to, and ex- 

 pressly manufactured for, the use of these arms. 



2. Infantry belts, implements of war and defensive weapons, clothes cut 

 or made up in a military form and for a military use. 



3. Cavalry belts, war saddles and holsters. 



4. And generally all kinds of arms and instruments of iron, steel, brass, 

 and copper, or of any other materials manufactured, prepared, and formed 

 expressly to make war by sea or land. 



Note B. 



Proposition {translated) of the Delegation of tlie United States at The 

 Hague Conference of 1907 on Contraband of War: 



1. Absolute contraband shall consist of arms, munitions of war, provi- 

 sions, and articles employed solely for a military purpose or for military 

 establishments. 



2. Conditional contraband shall consist of provisions, materials and arti- 

 cles which are employed for the double purpose of peace and of war, but 

 which by reason of their nature or special qualities, or their quantity, or by 

 their nature, quality and quantity are suitable and necessary for a military 

 purpose, and which are destined for the use of the armed forces or the mili- 

 tary establishments of the enemy. 



3. The list of articles and of provisions which shall be included in each 

 of the aforesaid classes must be duly published and notified to neutral gov- 

 ernments, or to their diplomatic agents, by the belligerents, and no article 

 shall be seized or confiscated under the head of conditional contraband as to 

 which such advice has not been given. (" Deuxieme Conference de la Paix," 

 Actes et Documents, III., 1160.) 



Note C. 



Treaty of the Pyrenees, November 7, 1759. 



XII. By . . . Contraband-Goods, are only understood all sorts 

 of Fire-Arms, and all things belonging to them ; as Cannons, Muskets, 

 Mortar-pieces, Petards, Bombs, Granadoes, Saucidges, Pitch'd-circles, Car- 

 riages, Forks, Bandaliers, Gunpowder, Cords, Saltpeter, Bullets, Pikes, Swords, 

 Casks, Head-pieces, Cuirasses, Halberts, Javelins, Horses, Saddles for Horses, 

 Holsters for Pistols, Belts, or any other warlike Furnitures. 



XIII. In that kind of Contraband-Goods, shall not be comprehended 

 Wheat, Corn, or other Grains, Pulse, Oils, Wines, Salt, nor generally anything 

 belonging to the nourishment and sustentation of Life; but they shall remain 

 free, as all other Merchandizes and Commoditys, not comprehended in the 

 foregoing Article : And the transportation of them shall be free, even to 

 Places in enmity with the Crown of Spain, except Portugal, as aforesaid, and 

 the Towns and Places besieged, block'd up, or surrounded. (Treaty of the 



