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 ORANGE FREE STATE, 1871. 58] Anrrcrn III. The citizens of each one of the contracting parties shall have power Disposal and iuto dispose of their personal property within the jurisdiction of the other h°“*““°° °f P“‘ by sale, testament, donation, or in any other manner, and their heirs: °°°a1pr°Pmy' whether by testament or ab intestate, or their successors, being citizens of the other party, shall succeed to the said property or inherit it, and they may take possession thereof, either by themselves or by others acting for them ; they may dispose of the same as they may think proper, paying no other charges than those to which the inhabitants of the country wherein the said property is situated shall be liable to pav in a similar case. In the absence of such heir, heirs, or other successors, the same care shall be taken by the authorities for the preservation of the property that would be taken for the preservation of the property of a native of the same country, until the lawful proprietor shall have had time to take measures for possessing himself of the same. But incase real estate situated within the territories of one of the Heirs to realescontracting parties should fall to a citizen of the other party, who, on *”*°· account of his being an alien, could not be permitted to hold such property, there shall be accorded to the said heir or other successor such term as the laws will permit to sell such property; he shall be at liberty at all times to withdraw and export the proceeds thereof without difuculty, and without paying to the government any other charges than those which, in a similar case, would be paid by an inhabitant of the country in which the real estate may be situated. Amuom: IV. Any controversy which may arise among the claimants to the prop- Decision of eenerty of a decedent shall be decided according to the laws and by the iwvsfsissjudges of the country in which the property may be situated. Aatrrcrrz V. The contracting parties give to each other the privilege of having Cvusulsrsflissfseach in their respective States, consuls and vice—consuls of their own appointment, who shall enjoy the same privileges as those of the most favored nation. But before any consul or vice-consul shall act as such, he shall, in Exsqusturs. the ordinary form, be approved by the government of the country in which his functions are to be discharged. In their private and business transactions, consuls and vice-consuls, shall be submitted to the same laws and usages as private individuals, citizens of the place in which they reside. It is hereby understood that in case of offence against the laws, by a consul or vice—consul, the government from which [he received] his exequatur may withdraw the same, send him away from the country, or have him punished in conformity with the laws, assigning to the other government its reason for so doing. _ _ _ _ _ The archives and papers belonging to the consulates shall be mviolate, Inywlslnlnty of and under no pretext whatever shall any magistrate or other function- ‘“`°]“"°*· ary inspect, seize, or in any way interfere with them. Aarrcrm VI. Neither of the contracting parties shall impose any higher or other ti5;<l¤=sl¤*·¥ of duduties upon the importation, exportation, or transit of the natural or · industrial products of the other, than are or shall be payable upon the like articles being the produce of any other country. Anrrctn VII. Each of the contracting parties hereby engages not to grant any Favors granted favor in commerce to any nation which shall not immediately be enjoyed by the other party.