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language they chufe. In cafe of books being brought mto court as evid- 

 ence, the judge {hall have liberty to examine only the accounts relat- 

 ing to the matter in difpute, with as much more as may ferve to verify 

 the books : and they fhall upon no account be detained from the 

 merchant, unlefs in cafe of bankruptcy. Britifli fubjeds in France are 

 not obliged to vi^rite their accounts, &c. upon {lamped paper, except 

 their day-book, which in order to have validity muft be indorfed and 

 attefted gratis by the judge. 



18) Britifh merchants and commanders of veffels have full liberty to 

 manage their own bulinefs in the ports of France, or to employ whom 

 they think proper, without any obligation to pay any thing to inter- 

 preters or brokers, unlefs they chufe to employ them. Neither are they 

 obliged to employ the people appointed by public authority to load and 

 unload ve{rels ; but may do their v/ork by their own people, or by any 

 others they may chufe to employ : nor {hall they be forced to unload 

 into other veflels, nor to receive any merchandize into their own, nor 

 to wait for their loading longer than they pleafe. And the fubjeds of 

 France are to enjoy equal privileges and liberties in the B'riti{h ports. 



1 9) In Cafe of a loaded velTel belonging to either country being forced 

 by a {lorm into a port in the other, flie {liall not be obliged to unload 

 her cargo, or to pay any duties, unlefs it be nece{rary to iell a part of 

 the cargo to pay the expenfe of refitting, or to purchafe neceffaries ; 

 whereupon, leave being obtained from the proper o{Bcer, a part of the 

 cargo may be landed, and duties are to be paid for that part only. 



20, 21, 22) The fubjefts of either power have full liberty to navigate 

 to and from the ports, and alfo from port to port, in the dominions of 

 any princes or {tates at war with the other, and to carry all kinds of 

 goods, the property of any perfon or nation, except thofe which are 

 hereby declared to be contraband, viz. ' arms, cannon, harquebu{res, 

 ' mortars, petards, bombs, grenades, fauci{res, carca{res, carriages for 

 ' cannon, mufket-refls, bandoleers, gun-powder, match, faltpetre, ball, 

 ' pikes, fwords, head-pieces, helmets, cuira{res, halberds, javelins, hol- 

 ' {lers, belts, horfes and harnefs, and all other like kinds of arms and 

 ' warlike implements {it for the ufe of troops,' and ' foldiers, actually ' 

 * in the fervice of the enemies, and on their voyage for the purpofe of 

 ' being employed in a military capacity.' 



23) All other goods, not comprehended in the preceding enumeration, . 

 and even naval flores, mafl:s, yards, and timber, and all other {lores for 

 building or fitting out fhips, are accounted free, and may be carried to 

 or from any port, belonging to the enemies of one of the contrading 

 powers, by the fubjeds of the other, except only fuch ports as are be- 

 fieged, blocked up, or inve{ted *. 



* Tlie articles from the 24''' to the 36''' incluf- ations fur the exaniination of v,;fu.-l3 at fc-a, for re- 

 ive, and lome of the following ones, contain regul- captures, Sec. in cafe of one of the powers being 



engaged 



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