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 342 CUNVENTION WITH DENMARK. 1826. ARTICLE 7. Taxes_ The United States and his Danish Majesty mutually agree, that uq higher or other duties, charges, or taxes of any kind, shall be levied in the territories or dominions of either party, upon any personal property, money, or effects, of their respective citizens or subjects, on the removal of the same from their territories or dominions reciprocally, either upon the inheritance of such property, money, or effects, or otherwise, than are or shall be payable in each State, upon the same, when removed by a citizen or subject of such State respectively. , ARTICLE S. Consuls and To make more effectual the protection which the United States and receive and admit Consuls and Vice Consuls in all the ports open to foreign commerce, who shall enjoy in them all the rights, privileges, and immunities, of the Consuls and Vice Consuls of the most favoured nation, each contracting party, however, remaining at liberty to except those ports and places in which the admission and residence of such Consuls may not seem convenient. ARTICLE 9. Rights, privi- In order that the Consuls and Vice Consuls of the contracting parties l¤s¤¤» &°· °f may enjoy the rights, privileges, and immunities, which belong to them, °h° °°m°‘ by their public character, they shall, before entering on the exercise of their functions, exhibit their commission or patent in due form to the Government to which they are accredited; and having obtained their exequater, which shall be granted gratis, they shall be held and considered as such by all the authorities, magistrates, and inhabitants, in the Consular district in which they reside. ARTICLE 10. Concerning It is likewise agreed, that the Consuls and persons attached to their '°“’“l’· necessary service, they not being natives of the country in which the Consul resides, shall be exempt from all public service, and also from all kind of taxes, imposts, and contributions, except those which they shall be obliged to pay, on account of commerce, or their property, to which inhabitants, native and foreign, of the country in which such Consuls reside, are subject, being in every thing besides subject to the laws of the respective States. The archives and papers of the Consulate shall be respected inviolably, and, under no pretext whatever, shall any magistrate seize or in any way interfere with them. ARTICLE I1. bS?:;.:P;°3r'° The present Convention shall be in force for ten years from the date um yew_ hereof, and further until the end of one year after either of the con tracting parties shall have given notice to the other of its intention to terminate the same; each of the contracting parties reserving to itself the right of giving such notice to the other at the end of the said term of ten years; and it is hereby agreed, between them, that, on the expiration of one year after such notice shall have been received by either, from the other party, this convention, and all the provisions thereofQ shall altogether cease and determine. ARTICLE 12. Convention to This Convention shall be approved and ratified by the President of lg; l‘gg";L‘:*;,:’l` the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate dem, gw thereoli and by his Majesty the King of Denmark, and the mtincations shall be exchanger] in the city of Copenhagen, within eight months from the date of the signature hereof, or sooner, if possible.
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