of the said
prizes and merchandise shall be made agreeable to the formalities
practised in the ports of the United States. The captains, conductors
of prizes, shall be bound to report the particular liquidations or
summary statements of the proceeds of the said prizes and expenses
incurred on their account, that the said particular liquidations or
summary statements may be deposited by the owner or the secretary of
the Admiralty, at the place of outfit, agreeable to the 57th article
of the declaration of the 24th of June last, to which secretary the
judgments and prize papers shall be sent, in order to be registered.

ARTICLE VII. All the prisoners that shall be found on board either of
the French privateers, that shall come to anchor in the ports of the
United States, or on board the prizes which shall be brought there,
shall be immediately delivered to the governor or magistrate of the
place, to be secured in the name of the King, and maintained at his
expense, as shall likewise be done in the French ports, with respect
to the prisoners made by the American privateers. The captains who
carry back their prizes, to be sold in the ports of the kingdom, shall
nevertheless be bound to carry with them two or three principal
prisoners, in order to be interrogated by the officers of the
Admiralty who shall make the inquiry.

ARTICLE VIII. The privateers of the United States may conduct, or
cause to be conducted, their prizes into the ports belonging to his
Majesty, whether for the purpose of anchoring and remaining there,
until they are in a condition to proceed again to sea, or for the
purpose of selling them definitively.

ARTICLE IX. In case of simple anchoring, the prize-masters shall be
bound to make, within twentyfour hours after arrival, their
declaration before the officers of the Admiralty, who shall go on
board of the vessels, in order to seal up such places as may admit of
it, and to make a brief description of what cannot be comprehended
under the said seals, without allowing any thing to be landed from on
board of the said prizes, under the penalties contained in his
Majesty's arrets and regulations.

ARTICLE X. His Majesty nevertheless permits the said American
privateers to sell in his ports, either the perishable merchandise, or
such other, in order to defray the expenses of the vessels during the
time of their being in port, charging them to request permission from
the officers of the Admiralty, in prese