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shall have paid the ordinary duties on such articles so imported for 

 home consumption ; and, on re-exportation, shall, after the drawback, 

 remain subject to a duty equivalent to not less than one percent, ad 

 valorem ; and that the said goods and the vessels conveying the same 

 shall, from the time of their clearance from the American port, be 

 bona fide the property of citizens and inhabitants of the United 

 States ; and in like manner that all articles, not being contraband of 

 war, and being the growth and produce of the enemy's colonies, may 

 be brought to the United States, and after having been there landed, 

 may be freely carried from thence to any port of Europe not block- 

 aded, provided such goods shall previously have been entered and 

 landed in the said United States, and shall have paid the ordinary 

 duties on colonial articles so imported for home consumption ; and, on 

 reexportation, shall, after the drawback, remain subject to a duty 

 equivalent to and not less than two per cent ad valorem; and pro- 

 vided that the said goods and the vessel conveying the same be bona 

 fide the property of citizens and inhabitants of the United States. 



Provided always, That this article, or any thing therein contained, 

 shall not operate to the prejudice of any right belonging to either 

 party ; but, that after the expiration of the time limit for the article, 

 the rights on both sides shall revive and be in full force. 



ART. 12. And whereas it is expedient to make special provisions re- 

 specting the maritime jurisdiction of the high contracting parties on 

 the coast of their respective possessions in North America on account 

 of peculiar circumstances belonging to those coasts, it is agreed that 

 in all cases where one of the said high contracting parties shall be 

 engaged in war. and the other shall be at peace, the belligerent Power 

 shall not stop except for the purpose hereafter mentioned, the vessels 

 of the neutral Power, or the unarmed vessels of other nations, within 

 five marine miles from the shore belonging to the said neutral Power 

 on the American seas. 



Provided That the said stipulation shall not take effect in favor of 

 the ships of any nation or nations which shall not have agreed to 

 respect the limits aforesaid, as the line of maritime jurisdiction of 

 the said neutral state. And it is further stipulated, that if either of 

 the high contracting parties shall be at war with any nation or 

 nations which shall not have agreed to respect the said special limit 

 or line of maritime jurisdiction herein agreed upon, such contracting 

 party shall have the right to stop or search any vessel beyond the 

 limit of a cannon shot, or three marine miles from the said coast of 

 the neutral Power, for the purpose of ascertaining the nation to 

 which such vessel shall belong; and with respect to the ships and 

 property of the nation or nations not having agreed to respect the 

 aforesaid line of jurisdiction, the belligerent ower shall exercise 

 the same rights as if this article did not exist ; and the several pro- 

 visions stipulated by this article shall have full force and effect only 

 during the continuance of the present treaty. 



ART. 13. With respect to the searching of merchant ships, the 

 commanders of ships of war and privateers shall conduct themselves 

 as favorably as the course of the war then existing may possibly 

 permit towards the most friendly Power that may remain neuter, 

 observing as much as possible the acknowledged principles and rules 

 of the law of nations; and for the better security of the respective 



