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190 they reside, as well as the constitution, laws, and customs of the country. They shall continue to enjoy to the full the privilege already granted to them, of burying in the places already assigned to that purpose, such subjects of his Britannic Majesty as may die in the Mexican territories; nor shall the funerals and sepulchres of the dead be disturbed in any way, or upon any account. The citizens of Mexico shall enjoy, in all the dominions of his Britannic Majesty, the same protection, and shall be allowed the free exercise of their religion, in public or private, either within their own houses, or in the chapels and places of worship set apart for that purpose.

The subjects of his Britannic Majesty shall on no account or pretext whatsoever be disturbed or molested in the peaceable possession and exercise of whatever rights, privileges, and immunities they have at any time enjoyed within the limits described and laid down in a convention signed between his said Majesty and the King of Spain, on the 14th of July 1786; whether such rights, privileges, and immunities shall be derived from the stipulations