opy of which the officer conducting his prize shall
be bound to report.

ARTICLE III. His Majesty, nevertheless, permits captains conducting
prizes to sell in the ports of the United States, either perishable
merchandise, or such other as may supply the wants of the vessels
during the time of their stay, the said conductors of prizes shall be
bound to ask permission from the Judges of the place for this purpose
in the ordinary form, and proceed to the sale by the public officers
appointed for that purpose, and to report copies, as well of the
proceedings as of the verbal process of the sale.

ARTICLE IV. The prize-masters, who shall be authorised by the owners
or captains of the capturing privateer to sell the said prizes in the
ports of the United States, shall be obliged to make before the Judges
a detailed report, which shall afterwards be verified in the hearing
of at least two of their crew, and to request the said Judges to go
directly on board of the prizes to make out a verbal process, seal up
the hatches and cabin, take an inventory of what cannot be sealed, and
appoint sequestrators. Which Judges shall proceed afterwards to
interrogate the captain, officers, and other persons of the crew of
the captured vessel to the number of two or three, or more if it is
judged necessary, and shall translate the useful papers on board if
there are interpreters, and annex compared copies of the said useful
papers to the minutes of the proceedings, to have recourse to them in
case of necessity, as is prescribed for prizes conducted into the
ports of the Kingdom by the 42d article of the declaration of the 24th
of June last.

ARTICLE V. As soon as the copies of the said proceedings, and the
original papers and translations shall have been addressed to the
Secretary-General of the Marine at Paris, for process in judgment by
the Council of Prizes, the captain or his agent may require the
provisional sale of the merchandise and effects subject to perishing,
and even the definitive sale of the prizes and all the merchandise of
their cargoes, whenever they shall evidently appear the enemy's
property, from the papers on board and the interrogatories of the
prisoners, in the manner that shall be ordered by the Judges of the
places, and as is prescribed for prizes conducted into the ports of
the kingdom by the 45th article of the said declaration of the 24th of
June last.

ARTICLE VI. The discharge, inventory, sale, and delivery