ver, I will at all times receive
with pleasure your representations of the inconveniences which may
attend, in your opinion, the execution of the regulation, and you may
be assured that his Majesty will be always disposed to grant the
inhabitants of the United States every facility, compatible with the
interests of his finances and the commerce of his subjects.

I have the honor to be, &c.

DE SARTINE.

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_Regulations for Prizes and Prisoners._

By the King.

His Majesty, desirous of making known his intentions, as well with
respect to the prizes, which his subjects may carry into the ports of
the United States of America, as also respecting admitting into his
own ports the prizes made by American privateers, and calculating on
the perfect equality which constitutes the basis of his engagements
with the said United States, he has ordained and does ordain as
follows.

ARTICLE I. French privateers shall be permitted to conduct and cause
to be conducted, the prizes made from his Majesty's enemies, into the
ports of the United States of America, to repair them so as to proceed
again to sea, or to sell them definitively.

ARTICLE II. In the case of simple anchoring, the conductors of prizes
shall be bound to make before the Judges of the place, a summary
declaration containing the circumstances of the capture and motives of
anchoring, and to request the said Judges to go on board the captured
prizes and seal up such places as may admit of it, and make out a
short description of what cannot be contained under the said seals,
the state of which shall be verified in France by the officers of the
admiralty, on the copy which the officer conducting the prize shall be
obliged to report.

ARTICLE II., _amended_. In case of simple anchoring, the Captains
conducting the prizes shall be bound to make before the Judges of the
place, their secretaries, or other persons authorised by them, a
summary declaration containing the circumstances of the capture and
motives of anchoring, and to request the said Judges, their
secretaries, and other persons authorised by them, to go on board the
captured vessels, and seal up such places as may admit of it, and make
out a short description of what cannot be contained under such seals,
the state of which shall be verified in France by the officers of the
admiralty, on the c