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where no officers of the customs are 

 stationed, but, moreover, no ship 

 or vessel coming from sea shall be 

 suffered to arrive there, except in 

 real distress (which must be pro- 

 Tcd al'terwanls), neither to take 

 her departure from thence, \vithout 

 a permit of the commissary of the 

 customs. That by offices of the 

 customs shall be here understood 

 offices of payment and no others : 

 and lastly, that for the belter at- 

 taining our manifested will and in- 

 tention, it is hereby reserved to 

 Tv'ithdraw and remove such offices 

 to other places, and to determine 

 through which of such offices It shall 

 be exclusively lawful to export the 

 articles mentioned in the 13th arti- 

 cle, both by water and by land, 

 such as will be judged needful and 

 expedient, in the same manner as 

 this is enacted respecting the impor- 

 tation in Art. XI. and under the 

 penalties therein mentioned. — ^Art. 

 XIX. Also, that a boundary shall 

 be drawn and determined along the 

 ■whole extent of this republic on the 

 landside, beyond which no maga- 

 zines, depots or store-houses, of 

 any wares, merchandizes, manufac- 

 tures, or whatever it may be, shall 

 be suffered to be kept, continued, 

 or established, under whatever 

 name or pretext it should be ; but, 

 on the contrary, those that are 

 there at present are to be emptied 

 and removed within the time of 

 three months, on pain of all such 

 magazines, depots, or store-houses 

 of aay sorts of wares, merchandizes 

 and manufactures, which, to the 

 contrary hereof, shall be found to 

 exist beyond the said limits, on the 

 territory of this republic, being 

 emptied by the officers of this coun- 

 try, asiistc d if need be, by military 

 force, and the goods, of being 



transported to the national ware- 

 houses, and confiscated, and such, 

 every time, repeatedly, as often as 

 any such are or may be discovered : 

 provided, however, that such boun- 

 dary shall not be further, on any 

 point, than one hour's walk from 

 the frontiers, and that no walled 

 cities will be considered lying be- 

 yond such limits, and also that care 

 be taken, that this regulation do 

 not extend to the corn or produc- 

 tions of any person's own cultivation, 

 nor to small articles necessary for 

 the use or maintenance of the inha- 

 bitants dwelling beyond such limits. 

 . — And all this without prejudice to 

 the regulations and directions con- 

 tained in the general placart on 

 levying the customs, enacted by their 

 high mightinesses on the 3 1st July, 

 1725. and subsequent publications, 

 in as far as the same are not deroga- 

 ted by these presents. — And we do 

 accordingly order and direct, that 

 these jjresents be puhlislied and af- 

 fixed wherever this ought to be, en- 

 joinii.g all whom it doth concern, 

 to see that the contents thereof be 

 strictly performed. 

 (Signed) 



R. J. Schimmelpenninck, 

 Raad-Pensionary. 

 (Countersigned) 



C. G. Hultman, 



Letter of his Majestj/ (he King of 

 Piitssidy ac/.nuiclcclgirig Napoleo7i 

 us Emptror of the French. Dated 

 Berlin, May ^Jlh, 1804. 



Sir and Brother, The desire 



to maintain and to cultivate those 

 relations of amity, and that perfect 

 good understanding, in which 1 have 

 hitherto had the pleasure of being 

 with the French government, and at 

 the same time to testify to yon my 



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