703 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1809. 



placed on the property or revenues 

 of the respective inhabitants therein 

 situated. 



XIV. The debts, both public 

 and private, contracted by the Fins 

 in Sweden, and vice versa, by the 

 Swedes in Finland, shall be dis- 

 charged on the terms and condi- 

 tions stipulated. 



XV. The subjects of either of 

 the high contracting parties, to 

 whom inheritances may fall in the 

 states of one or the other, may, 

 without obstacle, take possession of 

 the same, and enjoy it under the 

 protection of the laws. The ex- 

 ercise of this right, however, in 

 Finland, is subject to the stipula- 

 tions of article X. in virtue of 

 which the proprietor shall either 

 fix his residence in the country, or 

 sell the inheritance within three 

 years. 



XVI. The duration of the treaty 

 of commerce between the high 

 contracting parties being limited 

 to the 17 (29) Oct. 1811, his 

 majesty the emperor of Russia 

 consents not to reckon its interrup- 

 tion during the war; and that the 

 said treaty shall continue in force 

 until the 1st (13th) February, 

 1813, with respect to every thing 

 not contrary to the dispositions of 

 the commercial manifesto issued at 

 St. Petersburgh, Jan. 1st, 1809. 



XVII. The territories incorpo- 

 rated with the Russian empire, in 

 virtue of this treaty, being attached 

 to Sweden, by commercial rela- 

 tions, which long intercourse, neigh- 

 bourhood, and reciprocal wants 

 have renderedalmost indispensable, 

 the high contracting parties, de- 

 sirous of preservnig to their sub- 

 jects these means of mutual advan- 

 tage, agree to make such arrange- 

 ments as may be necessary for con- 



solidating them. In the mean 

 time, until they come to an under- 

 standing on this subject, the Fins 

 shall have the power of importing 

 from Sweden, ore, smelted iron, 

 lime, stones for building srpelting 

 furnaces, and in general all the 

 other productions of the soil of 

 Sweden. 



In return the Swedes may export 

 from Finland, cattle, fish, corn, 

 cloth, pitch, planks, wooden-uten- 

 sils of all kinds, wood for building, 

 and, in general, all the other pro- 

 ductions of the soil of the grand 

 duchy. 



This traffic shall be re-establish- 

 ed and maintained to the 1st (13th) 

 of October, 1811, precisely on the 

 same footing as it was before the 

 war, and shall be liable to no in- 

 terruption or burden, with the re- 

 servation of such restrictions as the 

 political relations of the two states 

 may render necessary. 



XVIII. The annual exportation 

 of 50,000 schetwerts of corn, pur- 

 chased in the ports of the Gulf of 

 Finland, or of the Baltic, belonging 

 to Russia, is granted to his majesty 

 the king of Sweden, free of the 

 export duty, on proof being shown 

 that the purchase has been made 

 on his account, or in virtue of his 

 authority. 



Years of scarcity, in which the 

 exportation shall be prohibited, are 

 excepted, but the quantity in ar- 

 rear, in consequence of such order, 

 may be made up when the prohi- 

 bition shall be removed. 



XIX. With respect to salutes at 

 sea, the two high contracting par- 

 ties agree to regulate them on the 

 footing of the most perfect equality 

 between the two crowns. When 

 their vessels of war meet at sea, the 

 salutes shall take place in conform- 



