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troops of the republic, by his royal 
highness or his subjeéts, they shall 
be paid for at a price agreed upon. 
7. The troops of the republic 
shall enjoy a free passage through 
the states of the infant duke of 
Parma. 
&. One of the contracting powers 
shall not grant a free passage to the 
troops of the enemy of the other. 
9. The French republic and his 
royal highness the infant duke of 
Parma desiring to establish and aug- 
ment by stipulations, reciprocally 
advantageous, the commercial re- 
lations that existed between their 
citizens and respective subjects, de- 
termined as follows: 
10. Silks, grain, rice, olive oil, 
cattle, cheese, wines, and other 
articles, the produce of the estates 
of his royal highness, shall be ex- 
ported to the territories of the re- 
public without any restriétions be- 
yond those which the exigencies of 
the country may render necessary. 
The said restrictions shall never 
attach solely and especially upon 
the French citizen. There shall 
“even be granted every degree of 
preference for the purchase of the 
objeéts (mentioned or alluded to in 
the present article) of which cir- 
cumstances may suspend or restrain 
the exportation. 
11. Allarticles being the produce 
of the republic, its colonies or 
fisheries, shall be imported, free of 
duty, into the states of his royal 
highness, and exported from France, ’ 
subjeét only to such restriétions as 
local circumstances may render ne- 
cessary. 
12. All articles of French manu- 
facture shall likewise be imported 
to the states of his royal highness, 
unless he may deem it expedient, 
for the prosperity of his own ma- 
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nufaétures, to impose certain re« 
strictions or prohibitions; but these 
restrictions shall in no case operate 
against French manufactures exclu- 
sively, to which his royal highness 
even undertakes to give all the pre- 
ference he can consistently with the 
prosperity of the manufactures of 
his own states. 
The above articles shall be exe- 
cuted with the most scrupulous re- 
ciprocity for the introduction of 
the manufactures of his royal high- 
ness’s states into France. . 
13. The mutual duties on ex- 
ports and imports shall be regulated 
by a separate convention : in case 
that such convention should not 
be ratified by the republic, it is 
expressly agreed that the said du- 
ties shall be reciprocally ascertain- 
ed and collected in the mode ob- 
served with the countries the most 
favoured by the republic, 
14. The produce of the lands of 
the republic, her colonies and fish 
eries, shall be conveyed freely 
through the states of his royal high- 
ness, or lodged in warehouses on 
their way to the other states of Italy, 
without the payment of customs, 
and liable only to a certain toll on 
their passage, for the support of the 
highways; which shall be regulated 
with all possible dispatch, and 
founded on a moderate footing bes 
tween the contracting parties, at 
so much per quintal per league. 
The toll shall be payable at the 
first office for entering the goods. 
The above article shall also be in 
force in all parts of the republic ; 
_and all goods‘and merchandize the 
produce of the states of his royal 
highness the infant duke of Parma 
shall be subject to the same regula 
tionsasabove. And, . 
As the right of toll above mene 
tioned 
