berties, privileges immunities, and
exemptions in trade, navigation, and commerce which the said
nations do or shall enjoy, whether in passing from one port to
another in the said States, or in going from any of those ports
to any foreign port of the world, or from any foreign port of the
world to any of those ports.
ARTICLE III.
The subjects and inhabitants of the said United States of America
shall pay in the ports, havens, roads, countries, islands, cities
or places of the said United Netherlands, or any of them, no
other nor greater duties or imposts, of whatever nature or
denomination they may be, than those which the nations the most
favoured are or shall be obliged to pay; and they shall enjoy all
the rights, liberties, privileges, immunities and exemptions in
trade, navigation and commerce, which the said nations do or
shall enjoy, whether in passing from one port to another in the
said States, or from any one toward any one of those ports from
or to any foreign port of the world. And the United States of
America, with their subjects and inhabitants, shall leave to
those of their High Mightinesses the peaceable enjoyment of their
rights in the countries, islands and seas in the East and West
Indies, without any hindrance or molestation.
ARTICLE IV.
There shall be an entire and perfect liberty of conscience
allowed to the subjects and inhabitants of each party, and to
their families; and no one shall be molested in regard to his
worship, provided he submits, as to the public demonstration of
it, to the laws of the country: There shall be given, moreover,
liberty, when any subjects or inhabitants of either party shall
die in the territory of the other, to bury them in the usual
burying-places, or in decent and convenient grounds to be
appointed for that purpose, as occasion shall require; and the
dead bodies of those who are buried shall not in any wise be
molested. And the two contracting parties shall provide, each one
in his jurisdiction, that their respective subjects and
inhabitants may henceforward obtain the requisite certificates in
cases of deaths in which they shall be interested.
ARTICLE V.
Their High Mightinesses the States-General of the United
Netherlands and the United States of America s
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