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 TREATY WITH GREAT BRITAIN. 1794. 125 difference of duty now payable on the importation of European and Asiatic goods, when imported into the United States in British at in American vessels. The two parties agree to treat for the more exact equalization of the duties on the respective navigation of their subjects and people, in such manner as may be most beneficial to the two countries. The arrangements for this purpose shall be made at the same time, with those mentioned at the conclusion of the twelfth article of this treaty, and are to be considered as a part thereofi In the interval it is agreed, that the United States will not impose any new or additional tonnage duties on British vessels, nor increase the now-subsisting difference between the duties payable on the importation of any articles in British or in American vessels. ARTICLE XVI. It shall be free for the two contracting parties, respectively to ap- Cons,,;; m,, point consuls for the protection of trade, to reside in the dominions and be appointed. territories aforesaid; and the said consuls shall enjoy those liberties and rights which belong to them by reason of their function. But before any consul shall act as such, he shall be in the usual forms approved and admitted by the party to whom he is sent; and it is hereby declared to be lawful and proper, that in case of illegal or improper conduct towards the laws or government, a consul may either be punished according to law, if the laws will reach the case, or be dismissed, or even sent back, the offended government assigning to the other their reasons for the same. Either of the parties may except from the residence of consuls such particular places, as such party shall judge proper to be so excepted. ARTICLE XVII. lt is agreed, that in all cases where vessels shall be captured or de- Haw to pm. tained on just suspicion of having on board enemy’s property, or of wed when VM- carrying to the enemy any of the articles which are contraband of war; gzgliuizgéllgj the said vessel shall be brought to the nearest or most convenient port; or having cm,. and if any property of an enemy should be found on board such vessel, ¤¤Y`¤ P¤>l>¤¤g» that part only which belongs to the enemy shall be made prize, and the ;;,fj’;““l’°" vessel shall be at liberty to proceed with the remainder without any impediment. And it is agreed, that all proper measures shall be taken to prevent delay, in deciding the cases of ships or cargoes so brought in for adjudication; and in the payment or recovery of any indemnification, adjudged or agreed to be paid to the masters or owners of such ships. ARTICLE XVIII. In order to regulate what is in future to be esteemed contraband of What articles war, it is agreed, that under the said denomination shall be comprised Bgalggg all arms and implements serving for the purposes of war, by land or ° ° n ' sea, such as cannon, muskcts, mortars, petards, bombs, grenades, carcasses, saucisses, carriages for cannon, musket rests, bandoliers, gunpowder, match, saltpetre, ball, pikes, swords, head-pieces, cuirasses, halberts, lances, javelins, horse-furniture, holsters, belts, and generally all other implements of war; as also timber for shipbuilding, tar or rozin, copper in sheets, sails, hemp, and cordage, and generally whatever may serve directly to the equipment of vessels, unwrought iron and fir planks only excepted; and all the above articles are hereby declared to be just objects of confiscation, whenever they are attempted - to be carried to an enemy. _ And whereas the difficulty of agreeing on the precise) cases in which 1.-