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No veffels amination and fearch must be before lading, and the prohibited merchandizes must be stopped on the spot before they are embarked, unlefs there is full evidence or proof of fraudugulations in lent practice on the part of the owner of the fuch cafe. fhip, or of him who has the command of her;

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in which cafe, only he shall be responsible and fubject to the laws of the country in which he may be. In all other cafes, neither the subjects of either of the contracting parties, who fhall be with their veffels in the ports of the other, nor their merchandizes, fhall be feized or molefted on account of contraband goods, which they shall have wanted to take on board, nor fhall any kind of embargo be laid on their ships, fubjects or citizens of the state whofe merchandizes are declared contraband, or the exportation of which is forbidden; thofe only who fhall have fold or intended to fell or alienate fuch merchandize, being liable to punifhment for fuch contravention.

Done at Paris, the third day of April, in the Year of our Lord one thousand feven hundred and eighty-three.

GUSTAV PHILIP Comte de Creutz. (L. s.)

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

(L. S.)

elles ne pourront pius être affujetties à aucune vifite; toute vifite et recherche devant être faite avant le chargement, et les marchandifes prohibées devant être arrêtées fur la plage avant de pouvoir être embarquées, à moins qu'on ait des indices manifeftes ou des preuves de verfement frauduleux de la part du propriétaire du navire ou de celui qui en a le commandement. Dans ce cas feul, il en fera refponfable et foumis aux loix du païs où il fe trouve. Dans aucun autre cas, ni les fujets d' une des parties contractantes, qui fe trouveront avec leurs navires dans les ports de l'autre, ni leurs marchandises, ne pourront être arrêtés ou moleftés pour caufe de contrebande, qu'ils auront voulu prendre à leur bord, ni aucune efpéce d'embargo ne fera mise fur leurs navires; les fujets ou citoyens de l'état où les marchandifes font declarées de contrebande, dont la fortie eft defendue, et qui néanmoins auront vendu ou voulu vendre et aliéner les dites marchandises, devant être les feuls qui feront duement punis pour une pareille contravention.

FAIT à Paris le trois Avril, l'an de Grâce
mil fept cent quartre-vingt-trois.

GUSTAV PHILIP Comte de Creutz. (L. s.)
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

(L. S.)

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ARMISTICE

DECLARING

A Ceffation of Hoftilities

BETWEEN THE

UNITED STATES.

AND

GREAT-BRITAIN.

VOL. II.

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WE, the underfigned Minifters Plenipotentiof the United States of North-America, having received from Mr. Fitz Herbert, Minifter Plenipotentiary of his Britannic Majefty, a declaration, relative to a fufpenfion of arms, to be eftablifhed between his faid Majesty and the said States, the tenor whereof is as follows:

«7HEREAS the preliminary articles

W agreed upon and figned this day,

between his Majefty the King of Great-Britain and his Majefty the moft Chriftian King on the one part, and likewife between his faid Britannic Majefty and his Catholic Majefty on the other part, contain the ftipulation of a ceffation of hoftilities between those three powers, which is to take place after the exchange of the ratifications of the faid preliminary articles: AND WHEREAS, by the provisional treaty figned on the thirtieth day of November last, between his Britannic Majefty and the United States of North-America, it hath been ftipu

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