es, and for all
weighable articles, not specified, 2240lbs. avoirdupois, or 1016
kilogrammes.

ARTICLE V.

The duties of tonnage, light money, pilotage, port charges,
brokerage, and all other duties upon foreign shipping, over and
above those paid by the national shipping in the two countries
respectively, other than those specified in articles 1 and 2 of
the present convention, shall not exceed in France, for vessels
of the United States, five francs per ton of the vessel's
American register; nor for vessels of France in the United
States, ninety four cents per ton of the vessel's French
passport.

ARTICLE VI.

The contracting parties, wishing to favour their mutual commerce,
by affording in their ports every necessary assistance to their
respective vessels, have agreed that the consuls and (p. 269)
vice-consuls may cause to be arrested the sailors, being part of
the crews of the vessels of their respective nations, who shall
have deserted from the said vessels, in order to send them back
and transport them out of the country. For which purpose the said
consuls and vice-consuls shall address themselves to the courts,
judges, and officers competent, and shall demand the said
deserters in writing, proving by an exhibition of the registers
of the vessel, or ship's roll, or other official documents, that
those men were part of the said crews; and on this demand, so
proved, (saving however where the contrary is proved,) the
delivery shall not be refused; and there shall be given all aid
and assistance to the said consuls and vice-consuls for the
search, seizure, and arrest of the said deserters, who shall even
be detained and kept in the prisons of the country, at their
request and expense, until they shall have found an opportunity
of sending them back. But if they be not sent back within three
months, to be counted from the day of their arrest, they shall be
set at liberty, and shall be no more arrested for the same cause.

ARTICLE VII.

The present temporary convention shall be in force for two years
from the first day of October next, and even after the expiration
of that term, until the conclusion of a definitive treaty, or
until one of the parties shall have declared its intention to
renounce it, which d