nce of whom the said sale shall
be made.

ARTICLE XI. When the subjects of the United States would wish to sell
their prizes in the ports of the kingdom, the captain who shall have
made the prize, or the officer intrusted with bringing it in, shall be
bound to make before the officers of the Admiralty a detailed report,
which shall be verified in the hearing of at least two of their crew;
the officers of the Admiralty shall go immediately on board of the
prize to make out a verbal process, seal the hatches and cabins, make
an inventory of what cannot be sealed, and appoint keepers; they shall
afterwards proceed to interrogate the captains, officers, and other
people belonging to the crew of the prize; shall cause the useful
papers on board to be translated, of which they shall annex compared
copies to the minutes of the proceedings; and the original and
translated pieces, as also the copies of the said proceedings, shall
be sent to the deputies of the United States at Paris.

ARTICLE XII. The captains, conductors of prizes, or their agents, may
request the officers of the Admiralty to proceed to the provisional
sale of such merchandise and effects as are subject to perish, and
even to the definitive sale of the prizes and of all their merchandise
on board, when they shall appear to have belonged to the enemy, from
the papers on board and the information of the prisoners, in the same
manner as is prescribed for the prizes taken by French privateers, by
the 45th article of the declaration of the 24th of June last.

ARTICLE XIII. The discharge, inventory, sale, and delivery of the said
prizes shall be made in presence of the officers of the Admiralty,
whose fees, either for discharging, inventory, or sale, shall be
reduced one half, agreeable to the terms of the 52d article of the
declaration of the 24th of June last. The said officers shall not
proceed to a particular liquidation of the proceeds of the prizes
until they shall be required by the parties concerned, and in every
case where the delivery of several copies is required, no more shall
be paid to the register for the second and third, than the price of
the stamped paper and the expense of writing.

ARTICLE XIV. It is his Majesty's pleasure, that the arret of his
Council, by which, agreeable to the second article of the 24th of June
last, it shall be determined what kind and quality of merchandise,
proceeding from prizes, shall be consumed in the kingdom, as al