6 feb 1778 anni - Treaty of Amity and Commerce

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The Treaty of Amity and Commerce recognized the de facto independence of the United States and established a strictly commercial treaty between the two nations as an alternative to, and in direct defiance of, the British Acts of Trade and Navigation; the Treaty of Alliance, for mutual defense, was then signed "particularly in case Great Britain in Resentment of that connection and of the good correspondence which is the object of the [first] Treaty, should break the Peace with France, either by direct hostilities, or by hindering her commerce and navigation, in a manner contrary to the Rights of Nations, and the Peace subsisting between the two Crowns".

Provisions:
- Peace and friendship between the U.S. and France
- Mutual most favored nation status with regard to commerce and navigation
- Mutual protection of all vessels and cargo when in U.S. or French jurisdiction
- Ban on fishing in waters possessed by the other with exception of the Banks of Newfoundland
- Mutual right for citizens of one country to hold land in other's territory
- Mutual right to search a ship of the other's coming out of an enemy port for contraband
- Right to due process of law if contraband is found on an allied ship and only after being officially declared contraband may it be seized
- Mutual protection of men-of-war and privateers and their crews from harm from the other party and reparations to be paid if this provision is broken
- Restoration of any stolen property taken by pirates
- Right of ships of war and privateers to freely carry ships and goods taken for their enemy
- Mutual assistance, relief, and safe harbor to ships, both of War and Merchant, in crisis in the other's territory
- Neither side may commission privateers against the other nor allow foreign privateers that are enemies of either side to use their ports
- Mutual right to trade with enemy states of the other as long as those goods are not contraband
- If the two nations become enemies six months protection of merchant ships in enemy territory
- To prevent quarrels between allies all ships must carry passports and cargo manifests
- If two ships meet ships of war and privateers must stay out of cannon range but may board the merchant ship to inspect her passports and manifests
- Mutual right to inspection of a ship's cargo to only happen once
- Mutual right to have consuls, vice consuls, agents, and commissaries of one nation in the other's ports
- France grants one or more ports under its control to be free ports to ships of the United States

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