I.

If at any time the United States of America shall judge necessary
to commence negotiations with the King or Emperor of Morocco and
Fez, and with the Regencies of Algiers, Tunis, or Tripoli, or
with any of them, to obtain passports for the security of their
navigation in the Mediterranean Sea, their High Mightinesses
promise that upon the requisition which the United States of
America shall make of it, they will second such negotiations in
the most favourable manner, by means of their Consuls residing
near the said King, Emperor, and Regencies.

_Contraband._

ARTICLE XXIV.

The liberty of navigation and commerce shall extend to all sorts
of merchandizes, excepting only those which are distinguished
under the name of contraband, or merchandizes prohibited; (p. 082)
and under this denomination of contraband and merchandizes
prohibited, shall be comprehended only warlike stores and arms,
as mortars, artillery, with their artifices and appurtenances,
fusils, pistols, bombs, grenades, gunpowder, saltpetre, sulphur,
match, bullets and balls, pikes, sabres, lances, halberts,
casques, cuirasses, and other sorts of arms, as also soldiers,
horses, saddles, and furniture for horses; all other effects and
merchandizes, not before specified expressly, and even all sorts
of naval matters, however proper they may be for the construction
and equipment of vessels of war, or for the manufacture of one or
another sort of machines of war, by land or sea, shall not be
judged contraband, neither by the letter, nor according to any
pretended interpretation whatever, ought they or can they be
comprehended under the notion of effects prohibited or
contraband: so that all effects and merchandizes, which are not
expressly before named, may, without any exception, and in
perfect liberty, be transported by the subjects and inhabitants
of both allies, from and to places belonging to the enemy;
excepting only the places which at the time shall be besieged,
blocked, or invested; and those places only shall be held for
such which are surrounded nearly by some of the belligerent
powers.

ARTICLE XXV.

To the end that all dissention and quarrel may be avoided and
prevented, it has been agreed, that in case that one of the two
parties hap