BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND GEEAT BRITAIN. 23 



subjects and citizens of the contracting parties, and to prevent their 

 suffering injuries by the men of war or privateers of either party, 

 all commanders of ships of war and privateers, and all others, the 

 said subjects and citizens, shall forebear doing any damage to those 

 of the other party, or committing any outrage against them ; and if 

 they act to the contrary, they shall be punished, and shall also be 

 bound in their persons and estates to make satisfaction and repara- 

 tion for all damages, and the interest thereof, of whatever nature the 

 said damages may be. 



For this cause all commanders of privateers, before they receive 

 their commissions, shall hereafter be compelled to give, before a 

 competent judge, sufficient security by at least two responsible sure- 

 ties, who have no interest in the said privateer, each of whom, to- 

 gether with the said commander, shall be jointly and severally bound 

 in the sum of two thousand pounds sterling, or, if such ship be pro- 

 vided with above one hundred and fifty seamen or soldiers, in the 

 sum of four thousand pounds sterling, to satisfy all damages and 

 injuries, which the said privateers or officers, or men, or any of them, 

 may do or commit during their cruise, contrary to the tenor of this 

 treaty, or to the laws or instructions for regulating their conduct; 

 and further, that in all cases of aggressions, the said commissions 

 shall be revoked and annulled. 



It is also agreed, that whenever a Judge of a Court of Admiralty 

 of either of the parties shall pronounce sentence against any vessel, 

 or goods, or property, belonging to the subjects or citizens of the 

 other party, a formal and duly authenticated copy of all the pro- 

 ceedings in the cause, and of the said sentence, shall, if required, be 

 delivered to the commander of the said vessel, without the smallest 

 delay, he paying all legal fees and demands for the same. 



ART. 14. It is further agreed, that both the said contracting parties 

 shall not only refuse to receive any pirates into any of their ports, 

 havens, or towns, or permit any of their inhabitants to receive, pro- 

 tect, harbor, conceal or assist them in any manner, but will bring to 

 condign punishment all such inhabitants as shall be guilty of such 

 acts or offences. 



And all their ships, with the goods or merchandises taken by them 

 and brought into the ports of either of the said parties, shall be 

 seized, as far as they can be discovered, and. shall be restored to the 

 owners, or the factors or agents duly deputed, and authorized in 

 writing by them, (proper evidence being shown in the Court of Ad- 

 miralty for proving the property,) even in case such effects should 

 have passed into other hands by sale, if it be proved that the buyers 

 knew, or had good reason to believe, or suspect that they had been 

 piratically taken. 



ART. 15. It is likewise agreed, that the subjects and citizens of the 

 two nations shall not do any acts of hostility or violence against 

 each other, nor accept commissions or instructions so to act from 

 any foreign Prince or state, enemies to the other party ; nor shall the 

 enemies of one of the parties be permitted to invite, or endeavor to 

 enlist in the military service, any of the subjects or citizens of the 

 other party; and the laws against all such offences and aggressions 

 shall be punctually executed; and if any subject or citizen of the 

 said parties, respectively, shall accept any foreign commission or 



