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 66 ‘ TREATY WITH SWEDEN. 1783. musquet. rests, bandoleers, cannon powder, matches, saltpetre, sulphur, bullets, pikes, sabres, swords, morions, helmets, cuirasses, halberds, javelins, pistols and their holsters, belts, bayonets, horses with their harness, and all other like kinds of arms and instruments of war for the use of troops. ARTICLE X. What goods These which follow shall not be reckoned in the number of prohibit.
 * ,l;:l::g‘ 31m_ ed goods; that is to say: All sorts of cloths, and all other manufactures

b,nd_ of wool, tiax, silk, cotton or any other materials, all kmds of wearing apparel, together with the things of which they are commonly made, gold, silver coined or uncoined, brass, iron, lead, copper, latten, coals, wheat, barley, and all sorts of corn or pulse, tobacco, all kinds of spices, salted sad smpkpd ad'esh,dsa1ted_ tish, clxei, buttgr, bper, oyl, ylvines, suvar sor o s an provisrons w 10 serve or e nouris ment and siistenance of man, all kinds of coton, hemp, {lax, tar, pitch, ropes, cables, sails, sail-cloth, anchors, and any parts of anchors, ship-masts, planks boards beams and all sorts of trees and other things pro er for buildirig orrepairing ships; nor shall any goods be considered ag contraband which have not been worked into the form of an instrument plr thing for the purpose of war by land or by sea, much less such as ave been repared or wrought up for any other use: all which shall pe flecikongd free gooils, as liketgise all others which are not compreen e an particu ar y mentions in the foreooing article; tb t th shall not by any pretended interpretation be domprehended iiinorilg pr? hibited or contraband goods; on the contrary, they may be freely transported by the. subjects of the King and of the United States, even to places belonging to an enemy, such places only excepted as are besieged, blocked or invested, and those places only shall be considered as such, which are nearly surrounded by one of the belligerent powers. ARTICLE XI. lhnoawpfwu, _ In order to avoid and prevent on both sides all disputes and discord, gglgzggc $· it is agreed, that in case one of the parties shall be engaged in a war, ,,,,hcdw,,h,,,,,_ the ships and vessels belonging to the subjects or inhabitants of the lpégzgtsand ear- other shall be furnished with sea-letters or passports, expressing the · name, property and port of the vessel, and also the name and place of abode of the master or commander of the said vessel, in order that it mtiy tlgerepyuappear tha;] thel said vessel really and truly belongs to the su jec s o_ e one or the ot ter party. These passports, which shall be drawn up in good and due form, shall be renewed every time the vessel returns home in the course of a year. It is also agreed, that the said ypszels whpn goaded shall be provided not only with sea—letters, but also 1 cern ca es containnng a particu ar account of the cargo the place from which the vessel sailed, and that of her destination, in ,order that Snappy be knoyivn whether_ they canily guy of the prohibited or contra- _ mercran izes, mentione mt e th article of the present treaty; which certificates shall he made out by the officers of the place from which the vessel shall depart. ARTICLE XII. { xzlthough the vessels of the one and of the other party may navigate ree y paid with all safety, as is explained in lthe 7th article, they shall nevert 1e ess be bound at all times when required, to exhibit as well on