36 TREATY WITH THE NETHERLANDS. 1782. to the subjects and inhabitants of either party, which shall not be laden with contraband goods, according to the description which shall be made of them hereafter, for places, with which one of the parties is in peace and the other at war, nor destined for any place blocked, and which shall hold the same course or follow the same rout; and they shall defend such vessells as long as they shall hold the same course or follow the same rout, against all attacks, force and violence of the common enemy, in the same manner as they ought to protect and defend the vessells belonging to their own respective subjects. ARTICLE VI. (3;;;,.,,., of The subjects of the contracting parties may, on one side and on the ¤i\h¢r Pwr other, in the respective countries and states, dispose of their effects, by
- g;l‘§£°;‘j,ff testament, donation, or otherwise; and their heirs, ubjects of one of
,,-0tym-w;,°_ the parties, and residing in the country of the other, or elsewhere, shall receive such successions, even ab intestato, whether in person or by their attorney or substitute, even although they shall not have obtained letters of naturalization, without having the effect of such commission contested, under pretext of any rights or prerogatives of any province, city, or private person; and if the heirs, to whom such successions may have fallen, shall be minors, the tutors or curators, established by the Regulations judge domiciliary of the said minors, may govern, direct, administer,
- f:'“‘"€ *h° sell and alienate the effects fallen to the said minors by inheritance. and
' in general, in relation to the said successions and effects, use all the rights, and fullfill all the functions which belong, by the disposition of the laws, to guardians, tutors and curators: Provided nevertheless, that this disposition cannot take place, but in cases where the testator shall not have named guardians, tutors, curators, by testament, codicil, or other legal instrument. ,§g,§¤;g;;y¤g,,y Arvrrcrn vn.
- 5‘Q]l1;58;‘:°j‘w. It shall be lawfull and free for.the subjects of each party, to employ
,, my ,1,,,,;, such advocates, attorneys, notaries, solicitors, or factors, as they shall proper. judge p1’0p01‘. ARTICLE VIII. Vessels, src. Merchants, masters and owners of ships, mariners, men of all kinds,
l’° d'-`- ships and vessells, and all merchandizes and goods in general, and effects
‘ of one of the confederates, or of the subjects thereof, shall not be seized, or detained in any of the countries, lands, islands, cities, places, ports, shores, or dominions whatsoever of the other confederate, for any military expedition, publick or private use of any one, by arrests, violence, or any colour thereof; much less shall it be permitted to the subjects of either party, to take or extort by force, any thing from the subjects of the other party, without the consent of the owner; which, however, is not to be understood of seizures, detentions and arrests, which shall be made by the command and authority of justice, and by the ordinary methods, on account of debts or crimes, in respect whereof; the proceedings must be by way of law, according to the forms of justice.
