STAT EXSPAPESRS. 
vessels, or their consignees, by 
them signed and certified on oath ; 
the liberty of franquin still, how- 
ever, to remain as heretofore, for 
ali vessels that shall require it, 
according to therules as established 
by the custom-house of this city ; 
suppressing all other duties, and 
revoking all and whatever dispo- 
sitions that may oppose or infringe 
on the liberty and freedom, which 
are to constitute the advantages of 
the establishment. 
Further to animate and promote 
in this capital, a concurrence and 
abundance of articles of the first 
necessity, I am pleased to declare 
that all qualities of grain, meat, 
and food, which are free from 
paying duties inward, shall not 
only enjoy the free liberty of ex- 
portation, but shall be also free 
from payment of the aforesaid con- 
tribution imposed on other goods, 
and continue to be received and 
dispatched through the same de- 
partments as heretofore. 
In case it should happen that the 
crown of Portugal should enter into 
war (which God forbid) with any 
power whose subjects might be 
interested in goods in the free 
port, in which condition it is to 
be understood the aforesaid grain, 
meat and food, are included, no 
arrest, embargo, sequestration, or 
reprisal, shall on that account be 
made thereon ; ‘but on the contrary, 
they shall remain in the utmost 
freedom and security, as if each 
individual had them placed in his 
own house, to dispose of them as 
he may judge most suited to his 
interest. 
The administration of the afore- 
_ said free port shall be constituted 
under the superintendance of a 
general comptroller, with the ne- 
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cessary officers under him that I 
may be pleased to appoint ; and 
it is my will to order, that he shall 
be independent of all and every 
jurisdiction, and only subordinate 
to the tribunal of the royal board of 
commerce, through which will 
be forwarded the necessary orders 
to meet occurring circumstances, 
and bring up to my royal presence 
all representations tending to main- 
tain, and preserve inviolate, the 
good faith of this establishment, ia 
due conformity to the particular 
regulations which I have ordered 
to be formed for the government of 
the aforesaid administration, and 
officers employed in conducting it 5 
and also to serve as a guidance to 
all captains of ships and their con- 
signees, for their conduct on the 
entry and shipping of all goods 
claiming the benefit of this insti- 
tution. 
Dated at the palace of Queliez, 
May 13, 1796. 
Manifesto, or Declaration of the 
Queen of Portugal, aguinst the 
Republic of the United States of 
the Netherlands. 
WHEREAS the Portuguese en- 
voy extraordinary with the repub- 
lic of the United States of the Ne- 
therlands, has, in his report of the 
15th of June, transmitted to her 
majesty the copy of a letter which 
he received from the committee lor 
foreign affairs of the republic, in 
which has been notified to him the 
fixed resolution of abstaining from 
all political communication with 
him, as representative of her ma- 
jesty, the queen of Portugal, till 
the conclusion ofa peace with the 
French republic. 
Besides which, the said envoy 
ultimately signifies, in his letter, 
2 that 
