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number of voyages the vessel may 

 make, at least if she has not touched 

 at her own port during the course 

 of a year. 



With regard to the cargo, the 

 proofs shall be certificates contain- 

 ing an account of the place from 

 which the vessel has sailed, and that 

 to which she is bound ; so that pro- 

 hibited and contraband goods may 

 be distinguished by certificates, 

 which certificates shall have been 

 made by the officers of the place 

 from which the vessel shall have 

 sailed, in the usual form of the coun- 

 try ; and if these passports, or cer- 

 tificates, or either of them, have 

 been destroyed by accident, or 

 seized by violence, the want of 

 them may be supplied by all the 

 other proofs of property admissible 

 according to the general usage of 

 nations. 



For other than merchant ships, 

 the proofs shall be the commission 

 which they bear. 



This article shall tate effect from 

 the date of the signature of the pre- 

 sent convention ; and if, after the 

 date of the said signature, property 

 shall be condemned, contrary to the 

 spirit of the said convention, before 

 this stipulation is known, the pro- 

 perty thus condemned shall, with- 

 out delay, be restored, or paid for. 



Art. 5. The debts contracted by 

 one of the two nations to indivi- 

 duals of the other, or by indivi- 

 duals of the one, to individuals of 

 the other, shall be paid, or their 

 payment shall be sued for, as if 

 there had been no misunderstand- 

 ing between the two states ; but 

 this clause shall not extend to in- 

 demnities claimed for captures or 

 condemnations. 



6th. The commerce between 

 the two parties shall be free ; the 



vessels of the two nations, and their 

 privateers, as well as their prizes, 

 shall be treated, in the respective 

 ports, as those of the most favoured 

 nations ; and in general the two 

 parties shall enjoy in the ports of 

 each other, in what respects com- 

 merce and navigation, all the pri- 

 vileges of the most favoured na- 

 tions. 



7th. The citizens and inha- 

 bitants of the United States shall 

 be allowed todispose, by testament, 

 gift, or otherwise, of their pi'operty, 

 real and personal, possessed in the 

 European territories of the French 

 republic ; and the citizens of the 

 French republic shall have the same 

 power with regard to real and per- 

 sonal property possessed in the ter- 

 ritories of the United States, in 

 favour of such persons as to them 

 shall seem good. The citizens and 

 inhabitants of one of the two states 

 who shall be heirs to property, real 

 or personal, situated in the other, 

 shall succeed ah intestato, without 

 there being occasion for letters of 

 naturalization, and without it be- 

 ing possible for the effect of this sti- 

 pulation to be denied or disputed 

 under any pretext whatsoever; and 

 the said heirs, whether by will or 

 ab intestato, shall, in both nations, be 

 free from every tax. It is stipu- 

 lated that this article shall, in no 

 wise, infringe the laws which are 

 now in force in the two nations, or 

 which may hereafter be enacted 

 against emigration; and likewise, 

 that in case the laws of one of the 

 two states should limit the rights of 

 foi'eigners to real property, it shall 

 be lawful to sell such property, or 

 to dispose of it otherwise, in favour 

 of the inhabitants or citizens of 

 the country in which it is situated; 

 and the other nation shall be at li- 



