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 3l‘.! CONVENTION WITH COLOMBIA. 1824. liberty be extended to persons who are on board a free ship, with this effect, that although they be enemies to both or either party, they are not to be taken out of that free ship, unless they are officers or soldiers, and in the actual service of the enemies: Provided, however, and it is hereby agreed, that the stipulations in this article contained, declaring that the flag shall cover the property, shall be understood as applying to those powers only who recognize this principle; but if either of the two contracting parties shall be at war with a third, and the other neu— tral, the flag of the neutral shall cover the property of enemies whose governments acknowledge this principle, and not of others. ARTICLE 13th. Neutral pro. It is likewise agreed, that in the case where the neutral flag of one g;**>éf<>¤¤d qn of the contracting parties shall protect the property of the enemies of ve;;,,;";],';'?; as the other, by virtue of the above stipulation, it shall always be underheld mid consi- stood that the neutral property found on board such enemy’s vessels d°'$d as ¤¤¤· shall be held and considered as enemy’s property, and as such shall be my ° Pr°°°"y‘ liable to detention and confiscation, except such property as was put on board such vessel before the declaration of war, or even afterwards, if it were done without the knowledge of it; but the contracting parties agree, that two months having elapsed after the declaration, their citizens shall not plead ignorance thereof On the contrary, if the flag of the neutral does not protect the enemy’s property, in that case the goods and mcrchandises of the neutral, embarked in such enemy’s ship, shall be free. ARTICLE 14th. 1,;;,.,,;,, ,,5 m,,. This liberty of navigation and commerce shall extend to all kinds of Visvion wd merchandises, excepting those only which are distinguished by the name kinds or mar. shall be comprehended- ¢l1¤¤di¤<= except 1st. Cannons, mortars, howitzers, swivels, blunderbusses, muskets, 'h° f°u°w‘"g’ fuzees, rifles, carbines, pistols, pikes, swords, sabres, lances, spears, halbercls, and granades, bombs, powder, matches, balls, and all other things belon ing to the use of these arms; 2d1y. Buchlers, helmets, breast-plates, coats of mail, infantry belts, and clothes made up in the form and for a military use; 3dly. Cavalry belts, and horses with their furniture; 4th1y. And generally all kinds of arms and instruments of iron, steel, brass, and copper, or of any other materials manufactured, prepared, and formed, expressly to make war by sea or land. ARTICLE 15th. All 0,;,,,,. m,,,., All other merchandises and things not comprehended in the articles chandise not of contraband explicitly enumerated and classified as above, shall be f°f{ll;";'3"d°d held and considered as free, and subjects of free and lawful commerce n clcs . . ’ ,;,0,., ,,,,,,,8, so that they may be carried and transported m the freest manner by msdn be held both the contracting parties, even to places belonging to an enemy, ” l’°°· excepting only those places which are at that time besieged or blocked up; and, to avoid all doubt in this particular, it is declared that those places only ure besieged or blockaded which are actually attacked by a belligerent force capable of preventing the entry of the neutral. ARTICLE 1(Sth. The articles of contraband, befbre enumerated and classifier}, which may be fizund in u vessel bound {hr an enemy’s port, shall he subject to
 * E::,°{g°¤if of contraband, and under this name of contraband, or prohibited goods,