538 PUBLIC rnnstrins. Amrcrn XVIII. Rights of resi- For the better promoting of commerce on both sides, it is agreed
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w“" States General of the United Netherlands and the United States of America, there shall always be granted to the subjects on each side the term of nine months after the date of the rupture, or the proclamation of war, to the end that they may retire, with their effects, and transport them where they please, which it shall be lawfull for them to do, as well as to sell or transport their effects and goods, in all freedom and without any hindrance, and without being able to proceed, during the said term of nine months, to any arrest of their effects, much less of their persons; on the contrary, there shall be given them, for their vessells and their effects, which they would carry away, passports and safe conducts for the nearest ports of their respective countries, and for the time necessary for the voyage. And no prize made at sea shall be adjudged lawful], at least if the declaration of war was not or could—not be known, in the last port which the vessell taken has quitted; but for whatever may have been taken from the subjects and inhabitants of either party, and for the offences which may have been given them, in Ellie interval of the said terms, a compleat satisfaction shall be given em. Anrromr. XIX. Letters of No subject of their High Mightinesses the States General of the ¤¤•¤‘q¤<·>· United Netherlands shall apply for or take any commission or letters of marque,_for arming any ship or ships to act as privateers against the said_ United States_of America, or any of them, or the subjects and inhabitants of the said United States or any of them, or against the properlty gfttilhe inhlalartantsiog any off them, from any Prince or State with w ic e said United States o America may happen to be at war: Nor shall any subject or inhabitant of the said United States of America, or any of them, apply for or take any commission or letters of marquc for arming any ship or ships to act as privateers against the High and M1ghty_Lords the States General of the United Netherlands, or against the subjects of their High Mightinesses, or any of them, or against the property of any one of them, from any Prince or State with which their High Mightinesses may be at war: And if any person of either nation shall tak? such commission or letters of marque, he shall be punished as a pira e. Anrrcrn XX. Vessels coming If the vessells of the subjects or inhabitants of one of the parties
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- g°;0¤::s,°¥ ¤¤*¤*· come upon any coast belonging to either_ of the said allies, but not willing to enter into port, or being entered into port and not willing to unload their cargoes or_break bulk, or take in any cargoe, they shall not
be obliged to pay, neither for the vessells nor the cargoes, any duties of entry in or out, nor to render any account of their cargoes, at least if 32;;; gi 3g;t]Ill:§aC&(§lS6 to presume that they carry to an enemy merchann . _ Anrrcrm XXI. Consular officers. The two contracting parties grant to each other, mutually, the liberty of hav1ug,eacl1 in the ports of the other, Consuls, Vice·Consuls, Agents, and (Jomnnssar1es_of their own appointing, whose functions shall be tggglagggh gy particular agreement, whenever either party chuses to ppoin men s. Arvrrcrn XXII. d E:‘;“g,t“0° 2:; This treaty shall not be understood in any manner to derogatc from ,,0,,,, y with the ninth, tenth. nineteenth, and twenty-fourth articles of the treaty France. with France, as they were numbered in the same treaty, concluded the
