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7) Goods bought in either country by the merchants of the other fliall 

 be paid for in the current money of the country, unlefs otherways ftip- 

 ulated in the contrad. 



8) The fubjeds of both powers have permiffion to load their veflels or 

 carriages in all the ufual pores of embarkation with the goods bought 

 by them, on paying the cuftoms, provided they conform themfelves to 

 the laws. 



9) They fhall pay no higher duties on either fide upon the importation 

 or exportation of their merchandize than are paid by the fubjeds of 

 other nations *. Goods imported clandeftinely into either country fnall 

 be confilcated ; and the merchants concerned in fmuggling fhall more- 

 over pay the fine directed by the law. 



10) The fubjeds of either power fliall be permitted to trade freely with 

 ftates which are at war with the other, provided they do not carry am- 

 munition to the enemy. But places adually blockaded or befieged, by 

 lea or land, are excepted from this permiffion. 



11) Cannons, mortars, fire-arms, bombs, grenades, balls, flints, matches, 

 powder, faltpetre, fulphur, pikes, fwords, belts, cartouch-boxes, faddles, 

 and bridles, beyond the quantities neceifary for the ufe of the people 

 onboard the vefTel, are declared to be warlike ftores, and feizable as con- 

 traband or prohibited goods. But neither the veflel, paffengers, nor 

 other goods, fliall be detained from proceeding on their voyage. 



1 2) In cafe of war breaking out between Great Britain and Ruflia, the 

 perfons, vefTels, and goods, of the fubjeds of either power fhall be per- 

 fedly at liberty, for the term of a year at leaft, to fell or carry away 

 their effeds, and at their departure to appoint attornies to fell their 

 goods and colled their debts, which the debtors fhall be obhged to pay. 



13) Every afliftance fliall be given to the unfortunate fufferers by ihip- 

 wreck, and all their goods fhall be preferved and retfored to them, they 

 paying a fuitable falvage to thofe who have aflifted in faving their ef- 

 feds. 



14) Britifli merchants may build, buy, fell, or hire, lioufes in any part 

 of Ruffia, except in thofe cities which have rights inconfifLent with fuch 

 liberty : and the houfes belonging to, and inhabited by, Britifh merch- 

 ants in Peterfburg, Mofcow, Archangel, Riga, Narva, and all the ports 

 of the Black fea, fliull be exempted from quartering fbldiers, but not 

 thofe in other towns. In like manner Ruliian merchants may build, 

 buy, fell, or hire, houfes in Great Britain and Ireland, as it is allowed 

 to the fubjeds of the moft favoured nation. The fubjeds of both parties 

 fhall have the free excrciic of their religion in their own houfes, or in 

 the places allotted for that purpofe : and they fliail alfo have full power 

 to difpofe of their property, or to leave it by will, according to the 

 cufloms and laws of their own country. 



* By a declaration annexed to the treaty, the words ' other nations,' arc limited to European nations. 



