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44 TREATY WITH THE NETHERLANDS. 1782. ARTICLE XIX. Qitizensof No subject of their High Mightinesses the States Ceneral of the

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'gm_ United Netherlands, shall apply for_or take any commission or letters of

minion, mini. marque, for arming any ship or ships to act as privateers against the ters ofmarquc said United States of America, or any of them, or the subjects and in- $2*;*; Q‘jm"°° °" habitants of the said United States or any of them, or against the pro· Whgmrhe mi,,,,- perty of ·the inhabitants of any of them, from any prince or state with in at wai-. which the said United States of 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 marque for arming any ship or ships to act as privateers against the High and Mighty 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 take such commission or letters of marque, he shall be punished as a pirate. ARTICLE XX. vmois com. Il` the vessells of the subjects or inhabitants of one of the parties WS ¤¤¤b¤ ¤¢>¤¤¤ come upon any coast belonging to either of the said allies, but not

,f;‘fP;'§ig;° willing to enter into port, or being entered into port and not willing to

pany, how to unload their cargoes or break bulk, or take in any cargoe, they shall not l>¤ ¤'¤¤l¤d· be obliged to pay, neither for the vessells nor the cargoes, any duties of entry in or out, or to render any account of their cargoes, at least if there is not just cagse to presume that they carry to an enemy merchandizes of contraban . ARTICLE XXI. cqmiiis, &,,,_ The two contracting parties grant to each other mutually, the liberty !¤l>¤ ¤l|<>W¢<i of having each in the ports of the other, consuls, vice·consuls, agents

';(j£°nggf;_°f and commissaries of their own appointing, whose functions shall be regulgted by particular agreement, whenever either party chuses, to make

suc appointments. . ARTICLE XXII. ·;·iii,ii-myiioi This treaty shall not be understood in any manner to derogate from po derogate the ninth, tenth, nineteenth and twenty-fourth articles of the treaty with

 g::!?; France, as they were numbered in the same treaty, concluded the sixth

of February, 1778, and which make the articles ninth, tenth, seventeenth and twenty-second of the treaty of commerce now subsisting between the United States of America, and the crown of France: nor shall it hinder his Catholic Majesty from acceding to that treaty, and enjoying the advantages of the said four articles. ARTICLE XXIII. uiiii,4 Nui,,,,. If at any time the United States of America shall judge necessary to plat? to gd the commence negotiations with the King or Emperor of Marocco and Fez, inéu;°::ie‘;"‘:j;h and with the Regencies of Algiers, Tunis or Tripoli, or with any of iha Barbary them, to obtain passports for the security of their navicration in the Powers. Mediterranean Sea, their High Mightenesses promise tha: upon the rcquisition which the United States of America shall make of it, they will second such negotiations in the most favourable manner, by means uf their consuls, residing near the said King, Emperor and Regencies.