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ize, without a vifible neceflity, and without the ' prefence and confent 

 of the cuftom-houfe officers. 



VII) The merchants, mariners, &c. of both parties ihall not import 

 into the other party's country the goods of an enemy to that party. 



VIII) If it fhall happen, that a fhip of either of the contrading parties 

 be wrecked on the fhores of the other party, though there iTiall not be 

 found therein aUve either man, woman, cat, dog, or cock *, yet the 

 goods in the faid fliip fhall be preferved, and laid up for a year and a 

 day, by the proper officers of the place ; within which time the proper 

 owners may come and make out their claim, and receive the goods, 

 paying the requifite expeiifes for recovering and keeping the fame. 



IX) The merchants of both parties fhall have proper houfes for them- 

 felves and their merchandize, in the feveral towns and cities of the 

 other party, with the fame privileges and immunities as have been 

 cuftomary before the laft fifty years ; and fhall, in all refpefts, be as 

 kindly treated as any other foreign nation refiding there. 



X) The officers in either country, appointed for I'earching for con- 

 traband goods, fliall perform it civilly, without fpoiling them, or break- 

 ing the cheffs, barrels, packs, or facks, under pain of one month's 

 imprifonment. And when the fearchers fhall have opened them, they 

 Ihall aflxfl in the flmtting and mending of them, &c. Nor lliall they 

 compel the owners to fell or difpofe of the fame againfl; their own in- 

 clinations. 



XI) If the Englifh refiding in the Netherlands fliall fufpccT: a debtor 

 there to intend an elopement, the debtor may be compelled to give 

 fecurity there for paying the debt ; and the Netherlanders in England 

 ihall enjoy the fame benefit. 



XII) Upon any damage or violence done to the fubjeds of either of 

 the contracting parties, the damaged party fliall not immediately take 

 aut letters of marque or repriials, nor arreft either the perfon or goods 

 of the accufed party ; but flaall firit warn and fummon him before his 

 refpedive prince, who alone ought to give redrefs to the injured party. 



XIII) All lettei-s of marque and reprifals fhall be called in, and ihall 

 remain i'ut'pended on both fiJes, unlefs it fhall be otherwiie determined 

 by a future congrefs of both parties. 



XIV) And as it is forbidd.:n to the Englifli and others to enter tli;i. 

 caflle of Sluys in Flanders ; it is now ftipulated, that in cafe, through 

 ignorance, or any other caufe not appearing to be fraudulent, any 

 jnerchants, or other fubjeds of the king of England, fhail happen to 

 enter the gate of the faid caftle, they fhall not, merely for that caufe, 

 be injured in their perfons nor goods. 



* Thio is an eul.irrjctne.it of i].e Cov.T.^r wreck- law in favour oftl-.c fufTcrers. 



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