2322 NOBTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHEBIES ARBITRATION. 



the respective Ambassadors and Ministers) the subjects of each of the 

 two Parties residing in the Dominions of the other, shall have the 

 privilege of remaining and continuing their trade therein, without 

 any manner of disturbance, so long as they behave peaceably, and 

 commit no offence against the laws and ordinances: and in case their 

 conduct should render them suspected, the respective Governments 

 should be obliged to order them to remove, the term of twelve months 

 shall be allowed them for that purpose, in order that they may 

 remove, with their effects and property, whether entrusted to indi- 

 viduals or to the State. At the same time it is to ~be understood that 

 this favour is not to be extended to those who shall act contrary to 

 the established laws" 



Portugal, 1810 (II, p. 63). 



Article XXXI. " For the future security of commerce and friend- 

 ship between the subjects of His Britannic Majesty and His Royal 

 Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal and to the end that their 

 mutual good understanding may be preserved from all interruption 

 and disturbance, it is concluded and agreed, that if at any time there 

 should arise any disagreement, breach of friendship, or rupture, 

 between the Crowns of the high Contracting Parties, which God for- 

 bid, (which rupture shall not oe deemed to exist until the recalling or 

 sending home of the respective Ambassadors and Ministers) the sub- 

 jects of each of the two Parties, residing in the Dominions of the 

 other, shall have the privilege of remaining, and continuing their 

 trade therein, without any manner of interruption, so long as they 

 behave peaceably, and commit no offence against the laws and ordi- 

 nances; and in case their conduct should render them suspected and 

 the respective Governments should be obliged to order them to re- 

 move, the term of twelve months shall be allowed them for that 

 purpose, in order that they may retire with their effects and property, 

 whether entrusted to individuals, or to the State. 



"At the same time it is to be understood that this favour is not to 

 be extended to those who shaU act in any manner contrary to the 

 established laws" 



Netherlands, 1815 (I, p. 371). 



Article III. " The subjects of His Majesty the King of the Nether- 

 lands, being proprietors in the said Colonies, shall be at perfect 

 liberty to go to the said Colonies, and to return, without being sub- 

 jected in this respect to any delay or difficulty ; or to appoint persons 

 to act for them in the management of the said intercourse, or of their 

 properties in the said Colonies; subject, however, during their resi- 

 dence there, to the laws and regulations of the same. They shall also 

 have full liberty to dispose of their property in any manner in which 

 they may think fit: but it is understood, that, in regard to Negroes, 

 they are to be subject to the same restrictions as British subjects." 



1402 France, 1815 (I, p. 271). 



Article VIII "His Britannic Majesty further engages to 



permit the subjects of his Most Christian Majesty in India, to con- 



