48 MOORE— CONTRABAND OF WAR. [February 2, 



Treaty between the United States and Prussia, July 11, 1799 (signed on the 

 part of the United States by John Quincy Adams), Art. XIII. 



Article XIII. And in the same case of one of the contracting parties 

 being engaged in war with any other Power, to prevent all the difficulties and 

 misunderstandings that usually arise respecting merchandise of contraband, 

 such as arms, ammunition, and military stores of every kind, no such articles 

 carried in the vessels, or by the subjects or citizens of either party, to the 

 enemies of the other, shall be deemed contraband, so as to induce confiscation 

 or condemnation and a loss of property to individuals. Nevertheless, it shall 

 be lawful to stop such vessels and articles, and to detain them for such 

 length of time as the captors may think necessary to prevent the inconveni- 

 ence or damage that might ensue from their proceeding, paying, however, a 

 reasonable compensation for the loss such arrest shall occasion to the pro- 

 prietors; and it shall further be allowed to use in the service of the captors 

 the whole or any part of the military stores so detained, paying the owners 

 the full value of the same, to be ascertained by the current price at the place 

 of its destination. But in the case supposed of a vessel stopped for articles 

 of contraband, if the master of the vessel stopped will deliver out the goods 

 supposed to be of contraband nature, he shall be admitted to do it, and the 

 vessel shall not in that case be carried into any port, nor further detained, 

 but shall be allowed to proceed on her voyage. 



All cannons, mortars, fire-arms, pistols, bombs, grenades, bullets, balls, 

 muskets, flints, matches, powder, saltpetre, sulphur, cuirasses, pikes, swords, 

 belts, cartouch boxes, saddles and bridles, beyond the quantity necessary for 

 the use of the ship, or beyond that which every man serving on board the 

 vessel, or passenger, ought to have ; and in general whatever is comprised 

 under the denomination of arms and military stores, of what description so- 

 ever, shall be deemed objects of contraband. 



Note /. 



Treaty betzveen the United States and Colombia, October 3, 1824, Arts. 



XIV., XV. 



Art. XIV. This liberty of navigation and commerce shall extend to all 

 kinds of merchandises, excepting those only which are distinguished by the 

 name of contraband; and under this name of contraband or prohibited goods 

 shall be comprehended — 



First. Cannons, mortars, howitzers, swivels, blunderbusses, muskets, 

 fusees, rifles, carbines, pistols, pikes, swords, sabres, lances, spears, halberds 

 and grenades, bombs, powder, matches, balls and all other things belonging to 

 the use of these arms ; 



Secondly. Bucklers, helmets, breast-plates, coats of mail, infantry belts, 

 and clothes made up in the form and for a military use; 



Thirdly. Cavalry belts and horses with their furniture; 



Fourthly. 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. 



