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or from the United States to any part of the world except the United 

 States, reasonable sea-stores excepted. Provided, also, that it shall 

 and may be lawful, during tin same period, for British vessels to 

 import from the said islands into the United States, and to export 

 from the United States to the said islands, all articles whatever, being 

 of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the said islands, or of the 

 United States respectively, which now may, by the laws of the said 

 States, be so imported and exported. And that the cargoes of the said 

 British vessels shall be subject to no other or higher duties or charges, 

 than shall be payable on the same articles if so imported or exported 

 in American vessels. 



It is agreed that this article, and every matter and thing therein 

 contained, shall continue to be in force during the continuance of the 

 war in which His Majesty is now engaged; and also for two years 

 from and after the day of the signature of the preliminary or other 

 articles of peace, by which the same may be terminated. 



And it is further agreed that, at the expiration of the said term, the 

 two contracting parties will endeavour further to regulate their com- 

 merce in this respect, according to the situation in which His Majesty 

 may then find himself with respect to the West Indies, and with a 

 view to such arrangements as may best conduce to the mutual advan- 

 tage and extension of commerce. And the said parties will then also 

 renew their discussions, and endeavour to agree, whether in any and 

 what cases, neutral vessels shall protect enemy's property; and in 

 what cases provisions and other articles, not generally contraband, 

 may become such. But in the meantime, their conduct towards each 

 other in these respects shall be regulated by the article hereinafter 

 inserted on those subjects. 



ARTICLE XIII. 



His Majesty consents that the vessels belonging to the citizens of 

 the United States of America shall be admitted and hospitably re- 

 ceived in all the sea-ports and harbours of the British territories in 

 the East Indies. And that the citizens of the said United States 

 may freely carry on a trade between the said territories and the said 

 United States, in all articlei of which the importation or exportation 

 respectively, to or from the said territories, shall not be entirely pro- 

 hibited. Provided only, that it shall not be lawful for them in any 

 time of war between the British Government and any other Power or 

 State whatever, to export from the said territories, without the 

 special permission of the British Government there, any military 

 stores, or naval stores, or rice. The citizens of the United States 

 shall pay for their vessels when admitted into the said ports no other 

 or higher tonnage duty than shall be payable on British vessels when 

 admitted into the ports of the United States. And they shall pay no 

 other or higher duties or charges, on the importation or exportation 

 of the cargoes of the said vessels, than shall be payable on the same 

 articles when imported or exported in British vessels. But it is 

 expressly agreed that the vessels of the United States shall not carry 

 any of the articles exported by them from the said British territories 

 to any port or place, except to some port or place in America, where 

 the same shall be unladen and such regulations shall be adopted by 

 both parties as shall from time^to time be found necessary to enforce 



