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 240 TREATY WITH SWEDEN. l8l6. Regnlationsin citizens or subjects, shall be stranded, shipvvrecked, or have suffered ¢¤¤¤ <>f vhiv- any other damage on the coasts under the dominion of either of the pay. ‘"°°k· ties, all aid and assistance shall be given to the persons shipwreokod, or who may be in danger thereof; and passports shall be granted them to return to their own country. The ships and merchandise wrecked, or the proceeds thereof, if the effects be sold, being claimed in a year·and a day, by the owners, or their attorney, shall be restored on paying the same costs of salvage, conformably to the laws and usages of the two nations, which the citizens or subjects of the country would pay in the same circumstances, The respective governments shall watch over the companies which are or may be instituted for saving shipwrecked persons and property, that vexations and abuses may not take place. ARTICLE 11. Quarantine It is agreed that vessels arriving direct from the United States, at a '°¤“l°'l°"“· port under the dominion of his Majesty, the King of Sweden and Norway, or from the ports of his said Majesty in Europe at a port of the United States, furnished with a certihcate of health from the competent health officer of the port whence they took their departure, certifying that no malignant or contagious disease existed at that port, hall not be subjected to any other quarantine than such as shall be necessary for the visit of the health officer of the port at which they may have arrived; but shall, after such visit, be permitted immediately to enter and discharge their cargoes: Provided always, that there may not be found any person on board who has been, during the voyage, afflicted with a malignant or contagious disease, and that the country from which the vessel comes may not be so generally regarded at the time as infected, or suspected, that it has been previously necessary to issue a regulation by (pvhigh all vessels coming from that country are regarded as suspected, an su jected to quarantine. ARTICLE 12. The treaty of The treaty of amity and commerce, concluded at Paris, in 1783, by
 * ’;?:·1{*g;¤l¤d· the plenipotentiaries-of the United States and of his Majesty the King

m,,,_p,;gg go, of Sweden, is renewed and put in force by the present treaty, in respect revivedut part, to all which is contained in the second, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twenty-tirst, twenty-second, twenty- third, and twenty-iiith, articles of the said treaty, as well as the separate articles one, two, four, and live, which were signed the same day by the same plenipotentiaries; and the articles specified shall be considered Egcgpgion M to have as full force and vigour as if they were inserted word for word; to the etfectof Provided, nevertheless, that the stipulations contained in the articles 'l*° '°"“’°l °l above mentioned shall alwa s be considered as makin no chan e in the treaty of . . Y . _ g g _ 1-yogi1g,,,.,,;,,;,,,, the conventions previously concluded with other friendly and allied toot er powers. nations. ARTICLE 13. S,;p,,y,,,;,,nB Considering the distance of the respective countries of the two high concerning contracting parties, and the uncertainty that results therefrom in relal’l°°k“°l“· tion to the various events which may take place, it is agreed that a merchant vessel, belonging to one of the contracting parties, and deslined to a port supposed to be blockaded at the time of her departure, shall not, however, be captured or condemned for having a first time attempted to enter the said port, unless it may be proved that the said vessel could and ought to have learned, on her passage, that the place