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 18 TREATY WVITH SWEDEN. 1783. frigates of either of the powers shall protect and support the merchantships of the other; provided nevertheless, that the ships claiming. assistance are not engaged in any illicit commerce contrary to the principle of the neutrality. ARTICLE IV. Regulation to tt is agreed and concluded that all merchants, captains of merchant- “°”s°°* lt‘t*"‘ ships or other subjects of His Swedish Majesty, shall have full liberty gjsgnlgypggiizs in all places under the dominion or jurisdiction of the United States of the dominions America, to manage their own affairs, and to employ in the manage- °l ‘l‘° °'l""· ment of them, whomsoever they please; and they shall not be obliged to make use of any interpreter or broker, nor to pay them any reward unless they make use of them. Moreover, the masters of ships shall not be obliged, in loading or unloading their vessels, to employ labourers appointed by public authority for that purpose; but they shall be at full liberty, themselves, to load or unload their vessels, or to employ in loading or unloading them whomsoever they think proper, without pay- ing reward under the title of salary to any other person whatever; and they shall not be obliged to turn over any kind of merchandizes to other vessels, nor to receive them on board their own, nor to wait for their lading longer than they please; and all and every of the citizens, people and inhabitants of the United States of America shall reciprocal] y have and enjoy the same privileges and liberties in all places, under the jurisdiction of the said realm. ARTICLE V. No ,,m,,jS,° It is agreed that when merchandizes shall have been put on board he searched un- the ships or vessels of either of the contracting parties, they shall not lf?;;" ‘E’;° yi be subjected to any examination; but all examination and search must ,,0,,8 gn W5, a` be before lading, and the prohibited merchandizes must be stopped on case. the spot before they are embarked, unless there is full evidence or proof of fraudulent practice on the part of the owner of the ship, or of him who has the command of her; in which case, only he shall be responsible and subject to the laws of the country in which he may be. In all other cases, neither the subjects of either of the contracting parties, who shall be with their vessels in the ports of the other, nor their merchandizes, shall be seized or molested on account of contraband goods, which they shall have wanted to take on board, nor shall any kind of embargo be laid on their ships, subjects or citizens of the state whpse merchandizes are declared contraband, or the exportation of which is forbidden; those only who shall have sold or intended to sell pr alienate such merchandize, being liable to punishment for such conravention. Done at Paris, the third day tf April, in the Year ry" our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-tlzrce. GUSTAV PHILIP Comte do Crcutz. (1,. s.) BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. (1.. s.)