n for all damages and interests thereof, by
reparation, under pain and obligation of their persons and goods.

ARTICLE XIV.

For further determining of what has been said, all captains of
privateers or fitters-out of vessels armed for war, under
commission and on account of private persons, shall be held,
before their departure, to give sufficient caution, before
competent judges, either to be entirely responsible for the
malversations which they may commit in their cruizes or voyages,
as well as for the contraventions of their captains and officers
against the present treaty, and against the ordinances and edicts
which shall be published in consequence of and conformity to it,
under pain of forfeiture and nullity of the said commissions.

ARTICLE XV.

All vessels and merchandizes, of whatsoever nature, which shall
be rescued out of the hands of any pirates or robbers, navigating
the high seas without requisite commissions, shall be brought
into some port of one of the two States, and deposited in the
hands of the officers of that port, in order to be restored
entire to the true proprietor as soon as due and sufficient
proofs shall be made concerning the property thereof.

ARTICLE XVI.

If any ships or vessels belonging to either of the parties, their
subjects, or people, shall, within the coasts or dominions of the
other, stick upon the sands, or be wrecked, or suffer any (p. 080)
other sea damage, all friendly assistance and relief shall be
given to the persons shipwrecked, or such as shall be in danger
thereof; and the vessels, effects and merchandizes, or the part
of them which shall have been saved or the proceeds of them, if,
being perishable, they shall have been sold, being claimed within
a year and a day by the masters or owners, or their agents or
attorneys, shall be restored, paying only the reasonable charges,
and that which must be paid, in the same case, for the salvage,
by the proper subjects of the country: there shall also be
delivered them safe conducts or passports for their free and safe
passage from thence, and to return, each one to his own country.

ARTICLE XVII.

In case the subjects or people of either party, with their
shipping, whether publick and of war, or private and of
merchan