nor their servants, shall be
compelled to pay any capitation tax, forced contribution, or other
similar or corresponding charge. If the said Charge d'Affaires should
appoint a subject of the Sultan of Morocco as Vice-Consul at a Moorish
port, the said Vice-Consul, and those members of his family who may
dwell within his house, shall be respected, and exempted from the
payment of any capitation tax, or other similar or corresponding charge;
but the said Vice-Consul shall not take under his protection any subject
of the Sultan of Morocco except the members of his family dwelling under
his roof.

(Bernhardt: _op. cit._, p. 556.)

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ART. IV. ANGLO-MOORISH TREATY OF COMMERCE _of December 9, 1856_.

EXTRACT.

Article IV. The subjects of Her Britannic Majesty within the dominions
of His Majesty the Sultan shall be free to manage their own affairs
themselves, or to commit those affairs to the management of any persons
whom they may appoint as their broker, factor or agent; nor shall such
British subjects be restrained in their choice of persons to act in such
capacities; nor shall they be called upon to pay any salary or
remuneration to any person whom they shall not choose to employ; but
those persons who shall be thus employed, and who are subjects of the
Sultan of Morocco, shall be treated and regarded as other subjects of
the Moorish dominions.

(_Ibid._ p. 573.)

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FRANCO-MOORISH "REGLEMENT" REGARDING PROTECTION, _August 19, 1863_.

EXTRACTS.

La protection est individuelle et temporaire.

Elle ne s'applique pas en general aux parents de l'individu protege.

Elle ne peut s'appliquer a sa famille, c'est-a-dire a la femme et aux
enfants demeurant sous le meme toit.

Elle est tout au plus viagere, jamais hereditaire, sauf la seule
exception admise en faveur de la famille Benchimol, qui, de pere en
fils, a fourni et fournit des censaux interpretes au port de Tanger.

Les proteges se divisent en deux categories:

La premiere categorie comprend les indigenes employes par la Legation et
par les differentes Autorites consulaires.

La seconde categorie se compose des facteurs, courtiers ou agents
indigenes employes par les negociants francais pour leurs affaires de
commerce....

Le nombre des courtiers indigenes jouissant de la protection francaise
est limite a deux par maison de commerce. Par exception, les maisons de
commerc