nifest suspicion, the parties shall be obliged to exhibit, in the ports, their passports and certificates in the manner before specified.

ARTICLE XXX.

If the ships of the said subjects, people or inhabitants of either of the parties, shall be met with, either sailing along the coast, or on the high seas, by any ship of war of the other, or by any privateers, the said ships of war or privateers, for the avoiding of any disorder, shall remain out of cannon shot, and may send their boats on board the merchant ship which they shall so meet with, and may enter her to the number of two or three men only, to whom the master or commander of such ship or vessel shall exhibit his passport concerning the property of the ship, made out according to the form inserted in this present treaty; and the ship, when she shall have showed such passport, shall be free and at liberty to pursue her voyage, so as it shall not be lawful to molest or search her in any manner, or to give her chace or force her to quit her intended course. It is also agreed, that all goods, when once put on board the ships or vessels of either parties, shall be subject to no further visitation ; but all visitation or search shall be made beforehand, and all prohibited goods shall be stopped on the spot, before the same be put on board the ships or vessels of the respective states; nor shall either the persons or goods of the subjects of his most christian majesty or the United States, be put under any arrest, or molested by any other kind of embargo for that cause;

and only the subject of that state to whom the said goods have been or shall be prohibited, and shall presume to sell or alienate such sort of goods, shall be duly punished for the offence.

The form of the sea letters and passports to be given to ships and vessels according to the 28th article.

To all who shall see these presents, Greeting.

It is hereby made known that leave and permission has been given to master and com

mander of the ship called

of the

tons, or thereabouts, lying at present in the port and

haven of

and laden with

and bound for

after that his ship has

been visited, and before sailing, he shall make oath, before the officers who have the jurisdiction of maritime affairs, that the said ship belongs to one or more of the subjects of the act whereof shall be put at the end of these presents; as likewise that he will keep and cause to be kept, by his crew on board, the marine ordinances and regulations, and enter in the proper office a list signed and witnessed of the crew of his ship, and of all who shall embark on board her, whom he shall not take on board without the knowledge and permission of the officers of the marine; and in every port and haven, where he shall enter with his ship, he shall show this present leave to the officers and judges of the marine, and shall give a faithful account to them, of what passed and was done

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during his voyage; and he shall carry the colours, arms, and ensigns of

voyage.

during his

In witness whereof we have signed these presents, and put the seal of our arms thereunto, and caused the same to be countersigned by

named in the above passport, hath taken the oath

mentioned therein.

Done at

the

day of

A. D.

The form of the certificate to be required of, and to be given by, the magistrates or officers of the customs of the town and port, in their respective towns and ports, to the ships and vessels which sail from thence, according to the directions of the 28th article of this present treaty.

We

magistrates (or officers of the customs) of the town and port of.

do certify and attest, that on the

of the month of

Lord

day

in the year of our

personally appeared before us

and declared,

by a solemn oath, that the ship or vessel called

tons, whereof

of

of about

of habitation, is master or commander, does rightfully and properly belong to him and other subjects of and to them alone; that she is now bound to the port of

from the port of

laden with the goods and merchandises hereunder particularly described and enumerated, that

is to say,

In witness whereof we have signed this certificate, and sealed it with the seal of our office.

Given the

day of the month of

in the year of our Lord

INSTRUCTIONS TO

THERE is delivered to you herewith a plan of a treaty with his most christian majesty of France, approved of in Congress, on the part of the United States; and you are hereby instructed to use every means in your power for concluding it, conformably to the plan you have received.

If you shall find that to be impracticable, you are hereby authorized to relax the demands of the United States, and to enlarge their offers agreeably to the following directions :

If his most christian majesty shall not consent that the inhabitants of the United States shall have the privileges proposed in the second article, then the United States ought not to give the subjects of his most christian majesty the privileges proposed in the first article; but that the United States shall give to his

most christian majesty the same privileges, liberties, and immunities at least, and the like favour in all things which any foreign nation the most favoured shall have provided, his most christian majesty shall give to the United States the same benefits, privileges and immunities which the most favoured nation now has, uses, or enjoys.

And, in case neither of these propositions of equal advantages is agreed to, then the whole of the said articles are to be rejected, rather than obstruct the further progress of the treaty.

The fourth article must be insisted on.

The seventh article ought to be obtained, if possible; but should be waved, rather than that the treaty should be interrupted by insisting upon it.

His most christian majesty agreeing, nevertheless, to use his interest and influence to procure passes from the states mentioned in this article for the vessels of the United States upon the Mediterranean.

The eighth article will probably be attended with some difficulty. If you find his most christian majesty determined not to agree to it, you are empowered to add to it, as follows:-That the United States will never be subject, or acknowledge allegiance, or obedience, to the king, or crown, or parliament of Great Britain; nor grant to that nation any exclusive trade, or any advantages, or privileges in trade, more than to his most christian majesty; neither shall any treaty for terminating the present war between the king of Great Britain and the United States, or any war which may be declared by the king of Great Britain against his most christian majesty, in consequence of this