Adams said, with regard to his proposal of excluding each other's seamen, "that he was not prepared to say that an article could not be framed by which the parties might stipulate the principle of mutual exclusion, without at all affecting or referring to the rights or claims of either party.
Quincy discusses the possibility of framing an article for mutual exclusion of seamen without affecting rights.
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