114 ■^' ^* 1786. 



8) No goods are to be liable to confifcation on pretence of fraud or de- 

 fed; in making them : but the buyers and fellers are to be left to their- 

 own free liberty in fixing fuch prices as they can agree. 



9) Goods are not to be charged with duties for the weight of the cafics, 

 chefts, &c. : but the fair tare fhall be allowed for the weight of every 

 package. 



10) In cafe the mafter of a veflel, his interpreter, or fador, make any 

 niiflake in entering the cargo, if there is no manifefl: appearance of 

 fraud, neither veflel nor cargo ihall be forfeited ; but the miflake may 

 be redified without any penalty, imlefs when goods are landed without 

 making the due declaration. 



11) If either party fhall eftablifh prohibitions, or augment the import 

 duties upon the commodities of the other, not fpecified in the tariff, 

 fuch prohibitions or augmentation fhall in like manner affed the like 

 goods of the other moft favoured European nations : and any revoca- 

 tion of prohibition, or diminution of duties on the articles of any other 

 European nation fliall alfo be reciprocally extended to the fimilar arti- 

 cles produced or manufadured in France or Great Britain. 



13) Each party referves a power of adding to the duties, impofed by 

 this treaty, in confequence of bounties being granted by the other upon 

 the exportation of any particular article ; but not in confequence of 

 drawbacks, or reftitutions, of duties, allowed upon exportation. 



14) The advantages, granted to Britifli fubjeds in virtue of this treaty, 

 are to take efFed, as foon as the legiflatures of Great Britain and Ireland 

 pafs laws for fecuring the reciprocal advantages granted to the fubjeds- 

 of France *. 



15) It is agreed, that Britifli vefTels fhall not pay freight duty, or any 

 other fuch duty, in the ports of France : and French vefiels fhall be ex- 

 empted from the duty of sj, a-nd every fimilar charge, in the Britifh 

 ports. 



16) Foreign privateers, belonging to any prince or ftate at war with 

 either of the contrading powers, fhall not be permitted to fit out in the 

 ports of either kingdom, nor to fell their prizes, nor even to purchafe 

 viduals, except merely what may be neceflary to carry them to the 

 neareft port of their own country. 



1 7) Seamen belonging to one country are not to be permitted to de- 

 fert their vefTels, when in the ports of the other, on account of difputes 

 with their commanders : but the magiftrates of the place fhall require 

 the perfon accufed to give the accufer a declaration in writing, binding 

 himfelf to appear before a competent judge in his own country, which 



writing the magiftrate fhall witnefs The merchants are at liberty to 



keep their books as they think proper, and to write their letters in any 



* The commercial treaty was confirmed in the Briti(h parliament by the zR 27 Gm. ///, c. 13, pafT- 

 ed 25"' April 1787 



