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 86 TREATY WITH PRUSSIA. 1785. gmane ,,5 and reside and trade there in all sorts of produce, manufactures and U·S·en§i¢_lcd¤<> merchandize, and shall pay in the dominions of his said Majesty no u§;l;‘l;§“S other or greater duties, charges or fees whatsoever than the most the ,1,,,,,;;,. favoured nation is or shall be obliged to pay; and they shall enjoy all voured nations the rights, privileges and exemptions in navigation and commerce which the most favoured nation does or shall enjoy; submitting themselves nevertheless to the laws and usages there established, and to which are submitted the subjects of his Majesty the King of Prussia, and the subjects and citizens of the most favoured nations. ARTICLE IV. Regulation of More especially each party shall have a right to carry their own pro- °°mm°¤‘¤l¤·ll¤· duce, manufactures and merchandize, in their own or any other vessels tcm0m"' to any parts of the clominions of the other, where it shall be lawful for all the subjects or citizens of that other freely to purchase them; and thence to take the produce, manufactures and merchandize of the other, which all the said citizens or subjects shall in like manner be free to sell them, paying in both cases such duties, charges and fees only, as are or shall be paid by the most favoured nation. Nevertheless the King of Prussia and the United States, and each of them, reserve to themselves the right, where any nation restrains the transportation of merchandize to the vessels of the country of which it is the growth or manufacture, to establish against such nations retaliating regulations; and also the right to prohibit, in their respective countries, the importation and exportation of all merchandize whatsoever, when reasons of state shall require it. In this case, the subjects or citizens of either of the contracting parties shall not import nor export the merchandize prohibited by the other; but if one of the contracting parties permits any other nation to import or export the same merchandize, the citizens or subjects of the other shall immediately enjoy the same liberty. ARTICLE V. Vessels not to The merchants, commanders of vessels, or other subjects or citizens KZ of either party, shall not, within the ports or jurisdiction of the other, d,,,_ &c_be forced to unload any sort of merchandize into any other vessels, nor to receive them into their own, nor to wait for their being loaded longer than they please. ARTICLE VI. Goods to bg That the vessels of either party loading within the ports or jurisdic- ‘j>¤· d tion of the other, may not be uselessly harassed or detained, it is agreed, ,,0, a,-,';,, {nin that all exammations of goods required by the laws, shall be made losgin me of before they are laden on board the vessel, and that there shall be no fF¤¤d· examination alter; nor shall the vessel be searched at any time, unless articles shall have been laden therein clandestinely and illegally, in which case the person by whose order they were carried on board, or who carried them without order, shall be liable to the laws of the land in which he is; but no other person shall be molested, nor shall any other goods, nor the vessel be seized or detained for that cause. ARTICLE VII. Each party shall endeavour, by all the means in their power, to protect and defend all vessels and other effects belonging to the citizens or subjects of the other, which shall be within the extent of their jurisdic-