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�7. Officers to be allowed to keep soldiers as servants, according to the common practice of the army. Servants, not soldiers, are not to be considered as prisoners, and are to be allowed to attend their masters. Granted. 8. The Bonetta sloop of war to be equipped and navigated by its present captain and crew, and left entirely at the disposal of lord Cornwallis, from the hour that the capitulation is signed, to receive an aide-de-camp to carry dispatches to Sir Henry Clinton, and such soldiers as he may think proper to send to New York, to be permitted to sail without examination, when his dispatches are ready - His lordship engaging on his part, that the ship shall be delivered to the order of the count de Grasac [?], if she escapes the dangers of the seas - that she shall not carry off any public stores - any part of the crew that may be deficient on her return and the soldiers, passengers, to be accounted for on her delivery. Granted. 9. The traders are to preserve their property, and to be allowed three months to dispose of or remove it - and those traders are not to be considered as prisoners of war. Ans. - The traders will be allowed to dispose of their effects - the allied army having the right of pre-emption. The traders to be considered as prisoners of war on parole... 10. Natives or inhabitants of different parts of this country, at present in York or Gloucester are not to be punished on account of having jointed the british army. Ans.- This article cannot be assented to, being altogether of a civil nature. 11. Proper hospitals to be furnished for the sick and wounded - they are to be attended by their own surgeons on parole, and they are to be furnished with medicines and stores from the american hospitals. Ans.- The hospital stores now in York and Gloucester shall be delivered for the use of the british sick and wounded. Passports will be granted for procuring them further supplies from New York, as occasion may require, and proper hospitals will be furnished for the receptin of the sick and wounded of the two garrisons. 12. Waggons to be furnished to carry the baggage of the officers attending the soldiers, and the surgeons when travelling on account of the sick, attending the hospitals at the public expense [?]. Ans. - They will be furnished if possible. 13. The shipping and boats in the town in the two harbors, with all their stores, guns, tackling and apparel, shall be delivered up in their present state