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[The following is printed from the copy which was published by authority in 1713.] A Provifional Regulation of Trade, in the Spanish Low Countries, made at Utrecht the 1 Day of July, 1713. 5 26 IN order to make a provifional regulation of the commerce in and through the Low Countries, as well those that are called Spanish, as those that have been re-conquered and yielded, it is agreed, I. That in all the places of importation or exportation in the faid Spanish Low Countries, re-conquered and yielded up, the duties upon merchandize shall be exacted and paid upon the fame foot as they were exacted and paid in the year 1680. II. All II. All forts of merchandize imported by the fubjects of Great Britain, or the United Provinces, which have formerly enjoyed the right of tranfit or paffage, fhall enjoy the fame for the future; and the merchandize of Great Britain, and the United Provinces, which have enjoyed this right of tranfit, shall still enjoy the fame, although those who import them are not fubjects either of the Queen of Great Britain, or their High Mightineffes; and this duty fhall not exceed two and a half per cent. III. All duties of entrance upon merchandize, coming out of the other parts of the Spanish Low Countries, and entering into thofe which are called re-conquered and yielded, shall cease; and not only the merchandize of Great Britain, and the United Provinces, that may be brought into thofe parts by others, but the fubjects alfo of Great Britain, and the United Provinces, fhall from this time be free from all duties of entrance for their merchandize in the faid Low Countries, which are re-conquered and delivered up. IV. That the duties of confumption in the towns and other places of the Low Countries, that are reconquered and yielded up, fhall be altogether the fame upon the goods and merchandize of each nation, and the fame liberty of felling, or expofing them to fale, be allowed to both; and that the faid duties fhall not exceed what was cuftomary in the faid towns and places before the conquest. V. That the duty of exportation, which has been exacted for merchandize going out of the Low Countries, in order to pass into the new conquefts, or places that have been yielded, fhall ceafe from this time; and the merchandize, likewife, which fhall be carried out of the faid Low Countries, in order to go to France, or any other country, either through the places lately re-conquered and delivered up, or any other, fhall pay but one duty of exportation, which fhall be that which was paid in the Spanish Low Countries, in the the year one thousand fix hundred and eighty, and it fhall not be lawful to exact more or lefs for the importation, exportation; or paffage of merchandize, than was paid in the faid year one thousand fix hundred and and eighty, fo long as this provifional regulation fhall remain in force. VI. As to the right of convoy, it is referred to the confideration of the minifters of the Queen of Great Britain, and their High Mightineffes, at Bruffels. VII. The Queen of Great Britain, and their High Mightineffes, fhall give orders to their minifters at Bruffels, to take fuch effectual methods, that all and every one of the articles of this provisional regulation may be speedily put in execution, and duly observed. In witnefs whereof we have figned this inftrument, and caused it to be fealed with our arms. fifteeenth twenty-fixth day of July, in the one thousand feven hundred and thirteen. at Utrecht, this (L. S.) Job. Bristol, C. P. S. (L. S.) J. B. V. Randuyck. Done year (L. S.) William Buys. (L. S.) Strafford. (L. S.) S. V. Duffen. (L. S.) V. Gheel van Spanbrooeck. (L. S.) F. Baron de Reede de Renfwoude. (L. S.) Graef van Kniphuifen. [The following is printed from the copy which was published by authority.] The Treaty for fettling the Barrier, &c. in the Netherlands, between the moft Serene aud moft Potent Prince Charles VI. Emperor of Germany, &c. and the most Serene and Potent Prince George, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. and the High and Mighty Lords the States General of the VOL. I. P United United Netherlands; concluded at Antwerp on the 15th of November, 1715. GEORGE, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. To all and fingular to whom thefe prefent letters shall come, greeting. Whereas the Minifters Plenipotentiaries, as well on our part, as on thofe of his Imperial and Catholic Majefty, and of the High and Mighty Lords the States General of the United Netherlands, having met at Antwerp, and being impowered with fufficient orders and authority, did, on the fifteenth day of the prefent month of November, conclude and fign a certain treaty, in the following form and words. IT having pleased the Almighty to grant peace for fome time paft to Europe, and nothing being more defirable and neceffary, than to re-establish and secure every where, as much as can be, the common and public fafety and tranquillity, and their High Mightineffes the Lords the States General of the United Provinces, having engaged to deliver up the Netherlands to his Imperial and Catholic Majefty Charles VI. pursuant to what is ftipulated and agreed by the treaty made at the Hague on the feventh of September, one thoufand feven hundred and one, between his Imperial Majefty Leopold, of glorious memory, his Britannic Majefty, William III. alfo of glorious memory, and the faid States General, that the faid Powers fhould agree together upon what might relate to their mutual interefts, particularly with refpect to the manner by which the fecurity of the Netherlands might be established, to ferve for a barrier to Great Britain, and to the United Provinces, and with refpect to the commerce of the inhabitants of the faid Netherlands, and of Great Britain, and of thofe of the United Provinces, and his Imperial and Catholic Majefty Charles VI. to whom the faid Netherlands fhall be delivered by this treaty, his Britannic Majefty George, both |