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 856 TREATY WITH SWEDEN. 1827. and made applicable to all the countries under the dominion of the present high contracting parties, and shall have the same force and value as if they were inserted in the context of the present treaty; it being understood that the stipulations contained in the articles above cited, shall always be considered as in no manner affecting the conventions concluded by either party with other nations, during the interval between the expiration of the said treaty of one thousand seven hundred eighty-three, and the revival of said articles by the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation, concluded at Stockholm by the present high contracting parties, on the fourth of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. ARTICLE XVIII. m me of a Considering the remoteness of the respective countries of the two yessei attempt- high contracting parties, and the uncertainty resulting therefrom with ms *lg¤g¤:l°¤’ °·t respect to the various events which may take place, it is agreed that a ° pm ’ merchant vessel belonging to either of them, which may be bound to a port supposed, at the time of its departure, to be blockaded, shall not, ‘ owever, be captured or condemned for having attempted, a iirst time, 'to enter said port, unless it can be proved that said vessel could, and ought to have learned, during its voyage, that the blockade of the place in question still continued. But all vessels which, alter having been warned oil` once, shall, during the same voyage, attempt a second time to enter the same blockaded port, during the continuance of said blockade, shall then subject themselves to be detained and condemned. ARTICLE XIX. The present The present treaty shall continue in force for ten years, counting };':,°,:,}"y;':i° piration of the Erst nine years, neither of the high contracting parties ` shall have announced, by an official notification, to the other, its intention to arrest the operation of said treaty, it shall remain binding for one year beyond that time, and so on, until the expiration of the twelve months which will follow a similar notification, whatever the time at which it may take place. ARTICLE XX. To bn ratified The present treaty shall be ratified by the President of the United within nina . States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, m°¤ll*¤· and by His Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington within the space of nine months from the signature, or sooner, if possible. In faith whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present treaty, by duplicates, and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms. Done at Stockholm, the fourth of July, in the year of Grace, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven. J. J. APPLETON, 1.. s. G. COUNT DE WETTERSTEDT, ln. s.; _lE‘Ef;1Ei'“];. ssranarn ARTICLE. qdgfpmm ab Certain relations of proximity and ancient connections having led tr regulations for the importation of the products of the Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway into the Grand Duchy of Finland, and that of the products of Finland into Sweden and Norway, in vessels of the respective countries, by special stipulations of a treaty still in force, and whose
 * F¤¤*Y!h¤U¢¤¤· from the day of the exchange of the ratifications; and if before the ex-