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]()() PUBLIC TREATIES. . N shall an vessel of either that may have entered into such Bbilmlfeforeothe samexva actually_ besieged, blockaded, or invested by the other, be restrained from quitting such place with her cargo, nor 1f found therein after the reduction and surrender shall such vessel or her clargo be liable to conilscation, but they shall be restored to the owners t ereof. Anrrcm XX. visits at sen. In order to prevent all kind of disorder in the visiting and examination of the ships and cargoes of both the contracting parties on the high seas, they have agreed mutually, that whenever a vessel of war, public or private, shall meet with a neutral of tlhe other téontragctipg palrtév, the ilrst hall remain out of cannon shot an may sen its oa wit wo or three men only in order to execute the said examination of the papers concerning the ownership and cargo of the vessel, without causing the least extortion, violence, or ill treatment, for lwhich the comgnanders of the said armed ships shall be responsi le with their persons an property, for which purpose the commanders of said private armed vessels shall, before receiving their commissions, give sufficient security to answer for all the damages they may commit. And it is expressly agreed that the neutral party shall in no case be required to go on board the examinin g veirsteg for the purpose of exhibiting her papers, or for any other purpose w a ver. Aarrouz XXI. Passports and To avoid all kind of vexation and abuse in the examination of the °°°‘l°*°°’°· papers relating to the ownership of the vessels belonging to the citizens of the two contracting parties, they have agreed and do agree that in pass one of them should be engaged in war, the ships and vessels beonging to the citizens of the other must be furnished with sea-letters or passports expressing the name, property, and bulk of the ship, as also the name and place of habitation of the master or commander of said vessel, in order that it may thereby appear that the ship really and truly belongs to the citizens of one of the parties; they have likewise agreed that such ships being laden, besides the said sea-letters or passports, shall also be prorided with certilicates containing the several particulars of the cargo and the place whence the ship sailed, so that it may be known whether any forbidden or contraband goods be on board the same; whichacertiiicntes shall be.made out by the officers of the place whence the ship sailed in the accustomed form; without which requisite said vessel may be detained to be ad'ud ed b the com etent . _ J S S] P tribunal, and may be declared legal prize unless the sa1d defects shall be satisfied or supplied by testimony entirely equivalent. Aarrcm XXII. V¤¤¤¤l¤ nn cl or It is further agreed that the stipulations above expressed relative t0 °°“"°Y· the visiting and examination of vessels shall apply only to those which sail without convoy; and when said vessels hall be under convoy the verbal declaration of the commander of the convoy on his word of honor that the vessel under his protection belong to the nation whose Hag he gggmueaslgnggdgwkgn thegroarpl boqlndl tg an g1emy’s port that they have H0 o s on ar -s a e su cient. Anrrcmr XXIII. Prize mum and It is further agreed that in all cases the established courtsfor prize ‘1°°I°°¤- causes in the country to which the prizes may be conducted shall alone take cogmzance of them. And whenever such tribunal of either party shall pronounce__]_udgmeut against any vessel or goods or property claimed by the citizens of the other party, the sentence or decree shall mention the reasons or · motives on which the same shall have been