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excepted as are at that time besieg- 
ed, blocked up, or invested. And 
except the places in which any ship 
‘of war or squadron shall, in conse- 
quence of storms or other accidents 
at sea, be under the necessity of 
taking the cargo of any trading 
vessel or vessels, in which case they 
may stop the said. vessel or vessels, 
and furnish themselves with neces- 
saries, givinga receipt, in order that 
the power to whom the said ship 
of war belongs, may pay for the ar- 
ticle so taken, according to the 
price thereof, at the port to which 
they may appear to have been des- 
tined by the ship’s papers ; and the 
two contracting parties engage, 
that the vessels shall not be detain- 
ed longer than may be absolutely 
necessary for the said ships to sup- 
ply themselves with necessaries ; 
that they will immediately pay the 
value of the receipts, and indemnify 
the proprietor. tor all losses which 
he may have sustained in conse- 
quence of such transactions. 
17. Lo the end that all manner 
of dissentions and quarrels may be 
avoided and prevented on one side, 
and.on the other, it is agreed, that 
in case either of the parties hereto 
should. be engaged in a war, the 
ships and vessels belonging to sub- 
jets or people of the. other party, 
must be furnished with sea letters 
or passports expressing the name, 
property, afd bull of the ship, as 
also the name and place of habita- 
tion of the master or commander 
of the said ships, that it may appear 
thereby that the ships really and 
truly belong to subjeéts of one of 
the parties y which passport shall 
be made out and granted according 
to the form annexed to this treaty. 
‘They. shall likewise be recalled 
every year, that is, if the ship hap. 
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pens to return home within the 
space of a year, 
It is likewise agreed that suclt 
ships being laden, are to be pro- 
vided not only with passports, as 
above-mentioned, but also with cer- 
tificates, containing the several par- 
ticulars of the cargo, the place 
whence the ship sailed, that so it 
may be known whether any for- 
bidden or contraband goods be on 
board the same; which certificates 
shall be made out by the officers of 
the place whence the ships sailed 
in the accustomed form; and if 
any one shall think it fit or advis- 
able to express in the said certi-+ 
ficates the person to whom the 
goods on board belong, he may do 
so; without which requisites they 
may he sent. to one of the ports of 
the other contraéting party, and 
adjudged by the competent tribu- 
nal, according to what is above 
set forth, that all the circumstances 
of this omission having been weil 
examined, they shall be adjudged 
to be legal prizes, unless they shall 
give legal satisfaction of their pro. 
perty by testimony equally equiva~ 
lent. 
18. ‘If the ships of the. said 
subje&ts, people or inhabitants of 
either of the parties, shall be met» 
with, either sailing along the coasts, 
or on the high seas, by any ships 
of war of the other, or by any pri. 
vateer, the said ship of war or pri- 
vateer, for avoiding any disorder, 
shall remain out of cannon shot, 
and may send their boats on board 
the merchant ship which they shalk 
so meet with, and may enter her 
to the number of two or three men: 
only, to whom the master_or com-, 
mander of such ship or vessel. shall 
exhibit his passports concerning the 
property of the, ship, made out 
’ aceording 
