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135 TREATY WITH ALGIERS. 1795. whenever he pleases, within the Regency: he shall have free license to 0 on board any vessel lying in our roads, whenever he shall think tit The consul shall have leave to appoint his own drogaman and broker. ARTICLE XVIII. In ease of war, Should a war break out between the twoinations, the consul of the ¤i¤i¤¤¤¤¤f U·$· United States of North-America, and all crtrzens of said states, sha]] gzéglgjk have leave to embark themselves and property unmolested, on board of ° what vessel or vessels they shall think proper. ARTICLE XIX. Citizens or Should the cruisers of Algiers capture any vessel, having citizens of either ¤¤ri<>n the United States of North-America on board, they having papers to

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at liberty. discharged. And should the vessels of the United States capture any vessels of nations at war with them, having subjects of this Regency on board, they shall be treated in like manner. ARTICLE XX. Vessels ofwar On a vessel of war belonging to the United States of North-America '° b° ¤¤l¤l¤d- anchoring in our ports, the Consul is to inform the Dey of her arrival ; and she shall be saluted with twenty-one guns; which she is to return in the same quantity or number. And the Dey will send fresh provisions on board, as is customary, gratis. ARTICLE XXI. Consul not to The Consul of the United States of North-America shall not be WY *l“*Y· required to pay duty for any thing he brings from a foreign country for the use of his house and family. ARTICLE XXH. War not to bs Should any disturbance take place between the citizens of the United g?';l:;:gh";,?°”° States and the subjects of this Regency, or break any article of this ,,,,,y_ treaty, war shall not be declared immediately; but every thing shall be searched into regularly: the party injured shall be made reparation. Sum to bg paid On the 21st of the Luna of Safer, 1210, corresponding with the 5th mths Dey- September, 1795, Joseph Donaldson, jun. on the putt of the United States of North-America, agreed with Hassan Bashaw, Dey of Algiers, to keep the articles contained in this treaty sacred and inviolablc; which we the Dey and Divan promise to observe, on consideration of the United States paying annually the value of twelve thousand Algeriue sequins in maritime Stores. Should the United States forward a larger quantity, the overplus shall be paid for in money, by the Dey and Regency. Any yessel that may he captured from the date of this treaty g peace and amity, shall immediately be delivered up on her arrival in grers. Signed, _ vrzm Hassan BASHAW, SE,1{,$,,'“§‘,}g;$" the fol; f th 0 0 8 JOSEPH DONALDSON, jun. °’l£l““l l¥°“'Y in Arabic. To all to whom these Presents shall come, or be made known: Wuenaas the under-written David Humphreys, hath been duly appomtcd Commissioner Plenipotentirxry, by letters patent under the