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day fixed with the land and sea 
forces. 
7. These succours shall be en- 
tirely placed at the disposal of the 
requiring power, which may leave 
them in the ports and on the ter- 
ritory of the power called on, or em- 
ploy them in any expeditions it may 
think fit to undertake, without be- 
ing obliged to give an account of 
the motives by which it may have 
been determined. 
8. The demand of the souccours 
stipulated in the preceding articles, 
made by one of the powers, shall 
suffice to prove the need it has of 
them, and shall bind the other 
power to dispose of them, without 
its being necessary to enter into any 
discussion relative to the question 
whether the war it proposes be 
offensive or defensive ; or without 
any explanation being required, 
which may tend to elude the most 
speedy and exact accomplishment 
of what is stipulated. 
9. The troops and ships de- 
manded shall continue at the dis- 
posal of the requiring power during 
the whole duration of the war, 
without its incurring in any case 
any expence. The power called 
on shall maintain them in all 
places where its ally shall cause 
them to act, as ifit employed them 
directly for itself. It is simply 
agreed on, that during the whole 
of the time when the aforesaid 
troops or ships shall be on the terri- 
tory or in the ports of the requiring 
power, it shall furnish from its 
magazines. er arsenals whatever 
may be necessary to them, in the 
same way and at the same price as 
it supplies its own troops and 
ships. 
10. The power called on shall 
immediately replace the ships it 
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furnishes, which may be lost be 
accidents of war or of the sea. | 
shall also repair the losses the troop: 
it supplies may suffer. 
11. Jf the aforesaid succours 
are found to be, or should become’ 
insufficient, the two contracting 
powersshall put on foot the greatest 
forces they possibly can, as well by 
sea as by land, against the enemy 
of the power attacked, which shall 
employ the aforesaid forces, cither | 
by combining them, or by causing 
them to act separately, and this | 
conformably to a plan concerted 
between them. 
12. The succours stipulated by 
the preceding articles shall be 
furnished in all the wars the con- 
tracting powers may haye to main- 
tain, even in those in which the 
party called on may not be directly 
interested, and may act merely as 
a simple auxiliary. 
13. In the case in which the mo- 
tives of hostilities being prejudicial 
to both parties, they may declare 
war with one common assent against 
one or several powers, the limita- 
tions established in the preceding | 
articles shall cease to take place, | 
and the. two contracting powers | 
shall be bound to bring into action 
against the common enemy the 
whole of their land and sea forces, 
and to concert their plans so as to 
direct them towards the most con- 
venient points, either separately or: 
by uniting them. They equally 
bind themselves, in the cases point- 
ed out in the present article, not 
to treat for peace unless with one 
common consent, and in such a 
way as that each shall obtain the 
satisfaction which is its due. 
14, In the case in which one o 
the powers shall act merely as an 
auxiliary, the power whichal one 
shall 
