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 GREAT BRITAIN, 1794. 275 nature and tenure of their respective estates and titles therein ; and may grant, sell, or devise the same to whom they please, in like manner as if they were natives; and that neither they nor their heirs or assigns shall so far as may respect the said lands and the legal remedies incident thereto, be regarded as aliens. Anrrcnm X. Neither the debts due from individuals of the one nation to individuals D¤l>*¤» &¤·· ¤· of the other, nor shares, nor monies, which they may have in the public “"‘° °f """·“°“ “’ funds, or in the public or private banks, shall ever in any event of war M °°°GS°°t°d" or national diifercnces be sequestered or confiscated, it being unjust and impolitic that debts and engagements contracted and made by individuals, having confidence in each other and in their respective Governments, should ever be destroyed or impaired by national authority on account of national diderences and discontents. Anrrcnn XI. It is agreed between His Majesty and the United States of America, Lauer-ty of comthat there shall be a reciprocal and entirely perfect liberty of naviga- marco and navigation and commerce between their respective people, in the manner, **°“· under the limitations, and on the conditions specified in the following articles. Anrrcnn XII. His Majesty consents that it shall and may be lawful, during the time Wes:-India trade hereinafter limited, for the citizens of the United States to carry to any "°8“‘“*°d· _ _ of His Majesty’s islands and ports in the West Indies from the United [$°° “‘m'*'°“‘*l States, in their own vessels, not being above the burthen of seventy °r°'°]°’P‘282‘] tons, any goods or merchandizes, being of the growth, manufacture, or produce of the said States, which it is or may be lawful to carry to the said islands or ports from the said States in British vessels; and that the said American vessels shall be subject there to no other or higher tonnage duties or charges than shall be payable by British vessels in the ports of the United States; and that the cargoes of the said American vessels shall be subject there to no other or higher duties or charges than shall be payable on the like articles if imported there from the said States in British vessels. _ And His Majesty also consents that it shall be lawful for the said American citizens to purchase, load, and carry away in their said vessels to the United States, from the said islands and ports, all such articles, being of the growth, manufacture, or produce of the said islands, as may now by law be carried from thence to the said States in British vessels, and subject only to the same duties and charges on exportation, to which British vessels and their cargoes are or shall be subject in similar circumstances. " Provided always, that the said American vessels do carry and land their cargoes in the United States only, it being expressly agreed and declared that, during the continuance of this article, the United States will prohibit and restrain the carrying any molasses, sugar, coffee, cocoa, or cotton in American vessels, either from His Majesty’s islands or from the United States to any part of the world except the United States, reasonable sea-stores excepted. Provided, also, that it shall and may be lawful, during the same period, for British vessels to import from the said islands into the United States, and to export from the United States to the said islands, all articles whatever, being of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the said islands, or of the United States respectively, which now may, by the laws of the said States, be so imported and exported. And that the cargoes of the said British vessels shall be subject to no other or higher duties or charges, than shall be payable on the same articles if so imported or exported in American vessels. It is agreed that this article, and every matter and thing therein con-