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pens, and shall pay the same charges 

 and dues onlj' as the said inhabi- 

 tants would be subject to pay in a 

 like case ; and if the operations of 

 repair shall require that the whole 

 or any part of the cargo be unload- 

 ed, they shall pay no duties, char- 

 ges, or fees upon the part which 

 they shall reload and carry away. 

 — The ancient and barbarous 

 right to wrecks of the sea shall be 

 entirely abolished with respect to 

 the subjects or citizens of the two 

 contracting parties. 



Art. 10. The citizens or subjects 

 of each party shall have power to 

 dispose of their personal goods with- 

 in the jurisdiction of the other, by 

 testament, donation, or otherwise; 

 and their representatives, being sub- 

 jects or citizens of the other party, 

 shall succeed to their said personal 

 goods, Avhether by testament or ab 

 intestato, and may take possession 

 thereof, cither by themselves or by 

 others acting for them, and dispose 

 of the same at their will, paying 

 such dues only as the inhabitants of 

 the country wherein the said goods 

 are, shall be subject to pay in like 

 eases. And in case of the absence 

 of the representative, such care shall 

 be taken of the said goods as would 

 be taken of the goods of a native in 

 like case, until the lawful owner 

 may take measures for receiving 

 them. And if question should ari.se 

 among several claimants, to which 

 of them the said goods belong, the 

 same .shall be decided finally by the 

 laws and judges of the land wherein 

 the said goods are. And where, on 

 the death of any ])erson, holding 

 real estate within tlie territories of 

 the one party, such real estate would, 

 by the laws of the land, descend on 

 a citizen or subject of the other, 

 were he not disqualined by alienage. 



such subject shall be allowed a rea- 

 sonable time to sell the same, and 

 to withdraw the proceeds, without 

 molestation, and exempt from all 

 rights of detraction on the part of 

 the governments of the respective 

 states. But this article shall not 

 derogate in any manner from the 

 force of the laws already published, 

 or hereafter to be published by his 

 majesty the king of Prussia, to pre- 

 vent the emigration of his subjects. 



Art. 11. The most perfect free- 

 dom of conscience and of worship 

 is granted to the citizens or subjects 

 of either party, within the jurisdic- 

 tion of the other, and no person 

 shall be molested in that respect, for 

 any cause other than an insult on 

 the religion of others. Moreover, 

 when the subjects or citizens of the 

 one party shall die within the juris- 

 diction of the other, their bodies 

 shall be buried in the usual burying 

 grounds, or other decent and suit- 

 able places, and shall be protected 

 from violation or disturbance. 



Art. 12. Experience having pro- 

 ved, that the principle adopted in 

 the twelfth article of the treaty of 

 1785, according to which free ships 

 make free goods, has not been suf- 

 ficiently respected during the two 

 last wars, and especially in that 

 which still continues, the two con- 

 tracting parties propose, after the 

 return of a general peace, to agree 

 either .separately between them- 

 selves, or jointly with other powers 

 alike interested, to concert with the 

 great maritime powers of Europe, 

 such arrangements and such per- 

 manent principles as may serve to 

 consolidate the liberty and the safety 

 of the neutral navigation and com- 

 merce in future wars. And if, in 

 the interval, either of the contract- 

 ing parties should be engaged in a 



