what follows:

Article I. The Consuls and Vice-Consuls named by the M. C. K. and the
United States, shall be bound to present their commissions according to
the forms which shall be established respectively by the M. C. K. within
his dominions, and by the Congress within the United States; there shall
be delivered to them, without any charges, the _Exequatur_ necessary for
the exercise of their functions; and on exhibiting the said _Exequatur_,
the governors, commanders, heads of justice, bodies corporate,
tribunals, and other officers having authority in the ports and places
of their consulates, shall cause them to enjoy immediately, and without
difficulty, the pre-eminences, authority, and privileges, reciprocally
granted, without exacting from the said Consuls and Vice-Consuls any
fee, under any pretext whatever.

Article II. The Consuls and Vice-Consuls, and persons attached to their
functions, that is to say, their chancellors and secretaries, shall
enjoy a full and entire immunity for their chancery and the papers
which shall be therein contained: they shall be exempt from aU, personal
service, from soldiers' billets, militia, watch, guard, guardianship,
trusteeship, as well as from all duties, taxes, impositions, and charges
whatsoever, except on the estate real and personal of which they may
be the proprietors or possessors, which shall be subject to the taxes
imposed on the estates of all other individuals: and in all other
instances they shall be subject to the laws of the land, as the natives
are.

Those of the said Consuls and Vice-Consuls who shall exercise commerce,
shall be respectively subject to all taxes, charges, and impositions
established on other merchants.

They shall place over the outward door of their house the arms of their
sovereign: but this mark of indication shall not give to the said house
any privilege of asylum for any person or property whatsoever.

Article III. The respective Consuls and Vice-Consuls may establish
agents in the different ports and places of their departments, where
necessity shall require. These agents maybe chosen among the merchants,
either national or foreign, and furnished with a commission from one
of the said Consuls; they shall confine themselves respectively to the
rendering to their respective merchants, navigators, and vessels, all
possible service, and to inform the nearest Consul of the wants of
the said merchants, navigators, and vessels, without the