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 SWEDEN AND NORWAY, 1816. 73] those only who shall have sold or intended to sell or alienate such merchaudize being liable to punishment for such contravention. Done at Paris, the third day of April, in the year of our Lord one thou- Signatures; date. sand seven hundred and eighty-three. - GUSTAV PHILIP COMTE DE CREUTZ. [L. s. B. FRANKLIN. [1.. ss.} SWEDEN AND NORWAY, 1816. TREATY OF AMITY AND COMMERCE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF Sept. 4, 1816. AMERICA AND HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF SWEDEN AND NORWAY, (JON- ——————#——- CLUDED AT STOCKHOLM SEPTEMBER 4, 1816- RATIFICATION ADVISED BY SENATE, WITH AMENDMENTS, FEBRUARY 18, 1817; RATIFIED BY PRES- IDENT MAY 21, 1818, EXCEPT THIRD, FOURTH, AND SIXTH ARTICLES; RATIFICATIONS EXCHANGED AT STOCKHOLM SEPTEMBER 25, 1818; PRO- CLAIMED DECEMBER 31, 1818. [This treaty expired by limitation eight years after date of exchange of ratiiications.] Treaty with Sweden," In the name of the most Holy and Indivisible Trinity. The United States of America and His Majesty the King of Sweden _ 0<>¤*·¤•>*i¤z DM"- and Norway, equally animated with a sincere desire to maintain and con- *‘°'· iirm the relations of friendship and commerce which have hitherto subsisted between the two States, and being convinced that this object cannot be more etfectually accomplished than by establishing, reciprocelly the commerce between the two States upon the iirm basis of liberal and equitable principles, equally advantageous to both countries, have named to this end Plenipotentiaries, and have fumished them with the necessary full powers to treat, and in their name to conclude a treaty, to wit: The President of the United States, Jonathan Russell, a citizen of Negotiators. the said United States, and now their Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Stockholm; and His Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway, His Excellency the Count Laurent d’Engestr5m his Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Chancellor of the University oi? Lund, Knight Commander of the Orders of the King, Knight of the Order of Charles XIII, Grand Cross of the Orders of St. Etienne of Hungary, of the Legion of Honour of France, of the Black Eagle and of the Red Eagle of Prussia. and the Count Adolphe George de orner, his Counsellor of State, and Commander of the rder of the Polar Star; And the said Plenlpotentiaries, after having produced and exchanged their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed on the following articles: Anrrcnn I. There shall be between all the territories under the domiuions of the B¤¤h>¤>¤¤l lib - United States of America, and of His Majesty the King of Sweden and °”V ° °°"““°'°°· Norway, a reciprocal liberty of commerce. The inhabitants of either of the two countries shall have liberty, with all security for their persons, vessels, and cargoes, to come freely to all ports, places, and rivers within the territories of the other, into which the vessels of the most tavored nations are permitted to enter. They can there remain and reside in any part whatsoever of the said territories; they can there hire and occupy houses and warehouses for their commerce- and, generally, the Security formermerchants and traders of each of the two nations shall enjoy in the other °h¤¤*° Wd *’•d°'¤· the most complete security and protection for the transaction of their business, being bound alone to conform to the laws and statutes of the two countries, respectively. 'Translation from the original, which is in the French language.