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“* Demerara, Essequibo, and Ber- 
“ bice, shall have freedom to trade 
“‘ between the forenamed esta-~ 
“blishments and _ the territory of 
“his said Majesty in Europe, un- 
“‘ der certain conditions :” 
Have named as their Plenipo- 
tentiaries,viz. hisMajesty the King 
of theNetherlands,H.Baron Fagel, 
Ambassador extraordinary at the 
British Court; and his Majesty the 
King of the United Kingdom of 
Great Britain and Ireland, Henry 
Earl Bathurst, one of his princi- 
pal Secretaries of State; who hav- 
ing communicated their respective 
full powers, and found them in 
good and due form, have agreed 
upon the following Articles :— 
Article I. The foresaid trade 
shall, for the period of five years, 
beginning with the 1st of January, 
1816, he carried on with ships 
being the property of subjects of 
his Majesty the King of the Ne- 
therlands, wherever built, and 
without any stipulation or re-. 
striction as to the seamen that na- 
vigate them ; but on the expira- 
tion of the said five years, or 
sooner, if his Majesty the King 
of the Netherlands think fit, the 
said trade shall be confined exclu- 
sively to ships of Dutch built, and 
three-fourths of the crew of which 
are subjects of the King of the 
Netherlands. 
If. The King of the Nether- 
Jands retains to himself the right 
of imposing such duties on the 
import of the produce of the said 
colonies into his European States, 
and vice versa on the export, as 
his Majesty shall think fit to ap- 
point; but the duties which are 
levied in the colonies, shall apply « 
equally to Dutch as to English 
trade. 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1815 
Ill. Subjects of his Majesty the — 
King of the Netherlands, being 
proprietors of land in the said co-« 
lonies, shall enjoy full liberty to 
proceed to and return from the 
said colonies, without being sub- 
jected to any delay or difficulty in 
this respect ; they may also ap- 
point persons in their name to 
carry on their business in this 
trade, or to hold the oversight of 
their property there; the said 
persons, however, during their 
residence in the foresaid colonies, 
being always subject to the laws 
and ordinances there in force.— 
They shall also enjoy full liberty 
to dispose of their property in 
such way as they shall judge pro- 
per; with this understanding, 
that, in regard to the Negroes, 
they are subject to the same. re- 
gulations as British subjects. 
IV. In order to protect the own- 
ers of plantations in the aforesaid 
colonies fromthe destructive con- 
sequences which might follow an 
immediate execution of the mort- 
gages, for which they may be in- 
debted to subjects of his Majesty 
the King of the Netherlands, the 
High Contracting parties further 
agree, that in every case where 
the owner of a plantation shall 
present to a holder of a mortgage 
on that plantation, earlier than 
the Ist of January, 1814, (such 
mortgage-holder being a subject 
of the King of the Netherlands), 
the hereafter mentioned security, 
that mortgage-holder shall not be 
at liberty to proceed to the imme- 
diate execution of the said mort- . 
gage; it being, however, well 
understood, that in all cases where 
such security shall not be offered . 
by the owner, the mortgage-holde | 
shall enjoy all the rights to pro 
