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lands in the dominions of His Majesty, shall continue to hold them 

 according to the nature and tenure of their respective estates and 

 titles therein ; and may grant, sell, or devise the same to whom they 

 please, in like manne/as if they were natives; and that neither they 

 nor their heirs or assigns shall, so far as may respect the said lands 

 arid the legal remedies incident thereto, be regarded as aliens. 



ARTICLE X. 



Neither the debts due from individuals of the one nation to indi- 

 viduals of the other, nor shares, nor monies, which they may have in 

 the public funds, or in the public or private banks, shall ever in any 

 event of war or national differences be sequestered or confiscated, it 

 being unjust and impolitic that debts and engagements contracted 

 and made by individuals, having confidence in each other and in 

 their respective Governments, should ever be destroyed or impaired 

 by national authority on account of national differences and 

 discontents. 



ARTICLE XI. 



It is agreed between His Majesty and the United States of Amer- 

 ica, that there shall be a reciprocal and entirely perfect liberty of 

 navigation and commerce between their respective people, in the 

 manner, under the limitations, and on the conditions specified in the 

 following articles. 



ARTICLE XII. 



His Majesty consents that it shall and may be lawful, during the 

 time hereinafter limited, for the citizens of the United States to 

 carry to any of His Majesty's islands and ports in the West Indies 

 from the United States, in their own vessels, not being above the 

 burthen of seventy tons, any goods or merchandises, being of 

 90 the growth, manufacture, or produce of the said States, which 

 it is or may be lawful to carry to the said islands or ports from 

 the said States in British vessels; and that the said American vessels 

 shall be subject there to no other or higher tonnage duties or charges 

 than shall be payable by British vessels in the ports of the United 

 States; and that the cargoes of the said American vessels shall be 

 subject there to no other or higher duties or charges than shall be 

 payable on the like articles if imported there from the said States in 

 British vessels. 



And His Majesty also consents that it shall be lawful for the said 

 American citizens to purchase, load, and carry away in their said 

 vessels to the United States, from the said islands and ports, all such 

 articles, being of the growth, manufacture, or produce of the said 

 islands, as may now by law be carried from thence to the said States 

 in British vessels, and subject only to the same duties and charges on 

 exportation, to which British vessels and their cargoes are or shall be 

 subject in similar circumstances. 



Provided always, that the said American vessels do carry and land 

 their cargoes in the United States only, it being expressly agreed and 

 declared that, during the continuance of this article, the United States 

 will prohibit and restrain the carrying any molasses, sugar, coffee, 

 cocoa, or cotton in American vessels, either from His Majesty's islands 



