t as
privateers against the said United States of America, or any of
them, or the subjects and inhabitants of the said United States,
or any of them, or against the property of the inhabitants (p. 081)
of any of them, from any Prince or State with which the said
United States of America may happen to be at war: nor shall any
subject or inhabitant of the said United States of America, or
any of them, apply for or take any commission or letters of
marque for arming any ship or ships to act as privateers against
the High and Mighty Lords the States-General of the United
Netherlands, or against the subjects of their High Mightinesses,
or any of them, or against the property of any one of them, from
any Prince or State with which their High Mightinesses may be at
war: And if any person of either nation shall take such
commission or letters of marque, he shall be punished as a
pirate.

ARTICLE XX.

If the vessels of the subjects or inhabitants of one of the
parties come upon any coast belonging to either of the said
allies, but not willing to enter into port, or being entered into
port and not willing to unload their cargoes or break bulk, or
take in any cargo, they shall not be obliged to pay, neither for
the vessels nor for the cargoes, at least if there is not just
cause to presume that they carry to an enemy merchandizes of
contraband.

ARTICLE XXI.

The two contracting parties grant to each other, mutually, the
liberty of having, each in the ports of the other, consuls,
vice-consuls, agents, and commissaries, of their own appointing,
whose functions shall be regulated by particular agreement,
whenever either party chooses to make such appointments.

ARTICLE XXII.

This treaty shall not be understood in any manner to derogate
from the ninth, tenth, nineteenth, and twenty-fourth articles of
the treaty with France, as they were numbered in the same treaty,
concluded the sixth of February, 1778, and which make the
articles ninth, tenth, seventeenth, and twenty-second of the
treaty of commerce now subsisting between the United States of
America and the Crown of France; nor shall it hinder His Catholic
Majesty from according to that treaty, and enjoying the
advantages of said four articles.

ARTICLE XXII