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 [52 TREATY WITH SPAIN. 1795. encreased by this treaty, and that it will contribute to augment their prosperity and opulence, will in future give to their mutual commerce all the extension and favour which the advantages of both countries may require. _ And in consequence of the stipulations contained in the IV. article, Flmln P°,!€,"*§ his Catholic Majesty will permit the citizens of the United States, fm- gogdg the space of three years from this time, to deposit their merchandizes at New Or- and effects in the port of N ew—Orleans, and to export them from thence mm- without paying any other duty than a fair price for the hire of the stores, and his Majesty promises either to continue this permission, if he finds during that time that it is not prejudicial to the interests of Spain, or if he should not agree to continue it there, he will assign to them, on another part of the banks of the Missisippi, an equivalent establishment. ARTICLE XXIII. The present treaty shall not be in force untill ratified by the contracting parties, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in six months from this time, or sooner if possible. In witness whereof, we, the underwritten plenipotentiaries of his Catholic Majesty and of the United States of America, have signed this present treaty of friendship, limits, and navigation, and have thereunto ailixed our seals respectively. Done at San Lorenzo el Real, this seven and twenty day of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninetydive. THOMAS PINCKNEY, 1.. s.) EL PRINCIPE DE LA PAZ, ln. s.)