The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1826-11-23
Article 18th.

ARTICLE 18th.
The articles of contraband, before enumerated
and classified, which may be found in vessel
bound for an enemy's port, shall be subject 10
detention and conhscation, leaving free the rest
of the cargo and ship, that the owners may dis
pose of them as they see proper. No vessel of
either of the two nations shall be detained on the
high seas on account of having on board articles
of contraband, whenever the master, captain, or
supercargo, of said vessels will deliver up the ar
tice Of contraband to the captor, unless the guam
iity OF such articles be so great and OF SO large
bulk that they cannot be received on board the
capturing ship without great Inconvenience; but
in this and in all other of just detention the
vessel shall be sent to the nearest convenient and
safe port, for trial and judgement, according to
law.
ARTICLE 10Th.
And whereas it frequently happens that vessels
sail for a port or place belonging to an enemy
without knowing that the same is beseged, block
aded or invested, it is agreed, that every YES
sci so circumstanced may be turned away from
such pert or place, but shall not be detained, nor
shall any part OF her cargo, if not contraband, be
confis:sted, unless, after warning OF such block
ade, or investment, from the commanding officer
ofthe blockadng forces, she shall again attempt
to enter; but she shall be permitted to so to any
other port or place she shall think proper, Nor
shall any vessel of either, that may have enter
ed into such port before the same was actually
besieged, blockaded or invested by the other be
restrained from quitting such place, with her car
60, nor, if found therein, after the reduction and
surrender, shall such vessel or her cargo, be LA
nle to conhscation, but they shall be restored to
the owners thereof.
ARTICLE goth.
In order to prevent all kinds 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 when
ever q vessel of war, public or private, shall
meet with a neutral Of the other contracting par
ty, the first shall remain out OF cannon shot, and
may send its boat, with two 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, On i'll treatment, for which the comman-
ders Of the said armed ship; shall be responsible
with their persons and property; for which pur-
pose the commanders Of said armed vessels shall,
before receiving their commissions, give sutfi
cient security to answcrtor all the damages they
may commit. And IS expressly agreed, that
the neutral party SHAH ii no case he required to
go on board the examining vessel, for the pur-
pose of exhibiting her papers, or for any other
purpose whatever.
ARTICLE 21st.
To avoid all kinds of vexation and abuse in
the examination OF the papers relating to the
ownership OF thcyessels belonging to the citizens
OF the two contracting parties, they have agreed,
and do agree, that in case one ofthem should be
engaged in war, the ships and vessels belonging
to the citizens of the other, must be furnished
with sealetters or pass ports, expressing the
name, property, and bulk of the ship, as also
the name and place of habitation of the master or
commander ofsad vessel in order that may there.
by appear that the ship really and truly belongs to
the citizens Of one of the parties; they have like
wise agreed that, such ships, being laden, be-
sides the said sea-letters passports, shall also
be provided with certificates, containing the sew
eral particulars of the cargo, and the place
whence the ship sailed, so that it may be know
whether any forbidden or contraband goods be
on board the same; which certificates shall be
made out by the officers of the place whence the
ship sailed in the accustomed form; without which
requisites, said vessel may be detained to be ad
judged by the competent tribunal, and may be
declared legal prize, unless the said defects sha
pe satisfied or supplied with testimony entirely
equivalent
ARTICLE 22d
tits further agreed, that the stipulation above
expressed, relative TO the visiting and examina
ton OF vessels shall apply only to those which
sail without convoy and when said vessels shal
be under convoy, the verbal declaration of the
commander of the convoy on his word of honor
that the vessels under his protection belong Il
the nation whose flag he carries-and whcr
they are bound to an enemy's port, that the,
have no contraband goods on board shall be sutii
cient.
ARTICLE Esd.
1t is further agreed, that in all cases, the estab
Gshed courts for prize causes, in the country l.
which the prizes may be conducted, shall alon
take cognisance of them. And whenever sue
tribunal of either party shall pronounce iude
ment against any vessel goods or propert
claimed by the citizens of the other party the SCI
tcnce or decree shall mention the reasons or mc
lives on which the same shall have been founded
and an authenticated copy of the sentence or dt
cree, and of all the proceedings in the case
shall, if demanded, be delivered to the comma
der or agent of said vessel, without any delay i
paying the legal fees for the same.
ARTICLE Oath.
Whenever one of the contracting paitic
shall be engaged in war with another State
no citizen Of the other contracting party
shall accept a commission or letter
marque, TOY the purpose of assisting or &C
operating hostilely with t e said enemy, q
gainst the said party SO at war, under til
pain of being treated as pirate.
ARTICLE 25th.