hall endeavour, by
all the means in their power, to defend and protect all vessels
and other effects, belonging to their subjects and inhabitants,
respectively, or to any of them, in their ports, roads, havens,
internal seas, passes, rivers, and as far as their jurisdiction
extends at sea, and to recover, and cause to be restored to the
true proprietors, their agents, or attorneys, all such vessels
and effects, which shall be taken under their jurisdiction: And
their vessels of war and convoys, in cases when they may have a
common enemy, shall take under their protection all the vessels
belonging to the subjects and inhabitants of either party, which
shall not be laden with contraband goods, according to the
description which shall be made of them hereafter, for places
with which one of the parties is in peace and the other at (p. 077)
war, nor destined for any place blockaded, and which shall hold
the same course or follow the same route; and they shall defend
such vessels as long as they shall hold the same course or follow
the same route, against all attacks, force and violence of the
common enemy, in the same manner as they ought to protect and
defend the vessels belonging to their own respective subjects.

ARTICLE VI.

The subjects of the contracting parties may, on one side and on
the other, in the respective countries and States, dispose of
their effects by testament, donation or otherwise; and their
heirs, subjects of one of the parties, and residing in the
country of the other, or elsewhere, shall receive such
successions, even _ab intestato_, whether in person or by their
attorney or substitute, even although they shall not have
obtained letters of naturalization, without having the effects of
such commission tested under pretext of any rights or
prerogatives of any province, city or private person. And if the
heirs to whom such successions may have fallen shall be minors,
the tutors or curators established by the judge domiciliary of
the minors may govern, direct, administer, sell and alienate the
effects fallen to the said minors by inheritance, and, in
general, in relation to the said successions and effects, use all
the rights and fulfill all the functions which belong, by the
disposition of the laws, to guardians, tu