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provisions stipulated by this article shall have full force and efifect only during the 

 continuance of the present treaty. . . . 



Art. 19. It shall be lawful for the ships of war and privateers belonging to the 

 said parties, respectively, to carry whithersoever they please the ships and goods 

 taken from their enemies, without being obliged to pay any fees to the officers of the 

 Admiralty, or to any judges whatever; nor shall the said prizes, when they arrive 

 at and enter the ports of the said parties, be detained or seized; nor shall the searchers 

 or other officers of those places visit such prizes, (except for the purpose of preventing 

 the carrying of any part of the cargo thereof on shore in any manner contrary to the 

 established laws of revenue, navigation, or commerce); nor shall such officers take 

 cognizance of the validity of such prizes, but they shall be at liberty to hoist sail and 

 depart as speedily as may be, and carry their said prizes to the places mentioned in 

 their commissions or patents, which the commanders of the said ships of war or priva- 

 teers shall be obliged to show. 



No shelter or refuge shall be given in their ports to such as have made a prize 

 upon the subjects or citizens of either of the said parties; but, if forced by stress of 

 weather or the dangers of the sea to enter them, particular care shall be taken to 

 hasten their departure, and to cause them to retire as soon as possible. Nothing in 

 this treaty contained shall,, however, be construed to operate contrary to the former 

 and existing public treaties with other Sovereigns or States; but the two parties 

 agree that, while they continue in amity, neither of them will in future make any 

 treaty that shall be inconsistent with this or the preceding article. 



Neither of the said parties shall permit the ships or goods belonging to the subjects 

 or citizens of the other to be taken within cannon shot of the coast, nor within the 

 jurisdiction described in Article 12, so long as the provisions of the said article shall 

 be in force, by ships of war or others having commissions from any Prince, Republic, 

 or State whatever. But in case it should so happen, the party whose territorial 

 rights shall thus have been violated shall use his utmost endeavors to obtain from 

 the offending party full and ample satisfaction for the vessel or vessels so taken, 

 whether the same be vessels of war or merchant vessels. . . . 



CONVENTION OF OCTOBER 20, 1818, BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND 

 THE UNITED STATES' 



The United States of America and His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom 

 of Great Britain and Ireland, desirous to cement the good understanding which happily 

 subsists between them, have, for that purpose, named their respective plenipoten- 

 tiaries, that is to say: the President of the United States, on his part, has appointed 

 Albert Gallatin, their Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the 

 Court of France; and Richard Rush, their Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni- 

 potentiary to the Court of His Britannic Majesty; and His Majesty has appointed 

 the Right Honorable Frederick John Robinson, treasurer of His Majesty's navy, 

 and President of the Conmiittee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations; and 

 Henry Goulburn, Esq., one of His Majesty's Under Secretaries of State: who, after 

 having exchanged their respective full powers, found to be in due and proper form, 

 have agreed to and concluded the following articles: 



Art. I. Whereas differences have arisen respecting the liberty, claimed by the 

 United States for the inhabitants thereof, to take, dry, and cure fish on certain coasts, 



' Appendix, U. S. Case, p. 24; Appendix, British Case, p. 30. 



