19 12.] MOORE— CONTRABAND OF WAR. 49 



Art. XV. All other merchandises and things not comprehended in the 

 articles of contraband explicitly enumerated and classified as above, shall be 

 held and considered as free, and subjects of free and lawful commerce, so that 

 they may be carried and transported in the freest manner by both the con- 

 tracting parties, even to places belonging to an enemy, excepting only those 

 places which are at that time besieged or blocked up ; and, to avoid all doubt in 

 this particular, it is declared that those places only are besieged or blockaded 

 which are actually attacked by a belligerent force capable of preventing the 

 entry of the neutral. 



PROC. AMER. PHIL. SOC, LI. 20I D, PRINTED MARCH 25, I912. 



