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berty to establish similar regula- 

 tions. 



8th. In order mutually to pro- 

 mote the operations of commerce, 

 it is agreed, that if (which the 

 Lord forbid !) war should break out 

 between the two countries, there 

 shall be allowed, mutually, to the 

 merchants and other citizens, or 

 respective inhabitants, six months 

 after the declaration of war, during 

 which period they will have the 

 permission to retire with such goods 

 and effects as they may be able to 

 carry off, or to sell the whole, 

 agreeably to their own option, with- 

 out the interposition of any re- 

 straint. Not only their goods, 

 much less their persons, can be 

 seized on, during the prescribed 

 period of six months. On the con- 

 trary, they shall be furnished with 

 passports, to secure their safe re- 

 turn home. These passports shall 

 avail them as guarantees against 

 every insult and seizure on the part 

 of privateers who may attempt to 

 capture their goods or their persons ; 

 and if, within the term above men- 

 tioned, they should sustain from 

 any of the parties, their fellow- 

 citizens, or abettors, any damage 

 or injury, either in their persons 

 or property, they shall receive com- 

 plete satisfaction thereof. 



9th. The debts due by the indi- 

 viduals of one or the other na- 

 tion to the individuals of the other, 

 shall not, in any case of hostility or 

 national disagreement, be seques- 

 trated or confiscated, no more than 

 the deposits that are placed in the 

 public funds, or in the houses of 

 public or private bankers. 



10th. The two contracting 

 parties may appoint, for the pro- 

 tection of commerce, commercial 

 agents, who shall reside in France 



and In the United States. Each 

 party may point out the spot where 

 they may wish their agents to be 

 placed. Before any agent can ex- 

 ercise his functions, he must be re- 

 ceived in the usual forms by the 

 party among whom he is to reside ; 

 and when he is received, and pro- 

 vided with his exequatur, he shall 

 enjoy the rights and privileges 

 that are to be enjoyed by the most 

 favoured nations. 



1 1th. The citizens of the French 

 republic shall not pay in the ports, 

 harbours, creeks, islands, districts, 

 or in any part of the United States, 

 any higher imposts on entries of 

 whatsoever nature or denomina- 

 tion than those that are or must 

 be paid by the most favoured na- 

 tions, and they shall enjoy all the 

 rights, liberties, privileges, immu- 

 nities, and exemptions, as far as re- 

 gards trade, navigation, and com- 

 merce, whether in passing from any 

 one of the ports to the other of the 

 said United States, or in going 

 thither or coming from thence, or 

 whether they be destined for any 

 other part of the world, provided 

 the above-mentioned powers are 

 participants, or may participate 

 therein. And, reciprocally, the 

 citizens of the United States shall 

 enjoy within the territory of the 

 French republic in Europe, the 

 same privileges, immunities, &c. 

 &c. not only with regard to their 

 persons and property, but also as 

 to what relates to trade, naviga- 

 tion and commerce. 



12th. The citizens of the two 

 nations may convey their ships and 

 merchandise, excepting always con- 

 traband goods, into any port be- 

 longing to the enemy of the other 

 country. They may navigate and 

 trade, in full freedom and security. 



