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 370 CONVENTION WITH THE HANSEATIC REPUBLICS. 1827. themselves, their own business, in all the poi is and places subject to the jurisdiction of each other, as well with respect to the consignment and sale of their goods and merchandize, by wholesale or retail, as with respect to the loading, unloading and sending off their ships; submitting themselves to the laws, decrees, and usages there established, to which native citizens are subjected; they being, in all these cases, to be treated as citizens of the Republic in which they reside, or at least to be placed on a footing with the citizens or subjects of the most favored nation. ARTICLE VII. powerw dis. The citizens of each of the contracting parties shall have power :0 P¤¤¤<>Y P¤1’¤¤¤¤l dispose of their personal goods, within the jurisdiction of the other, by ¥°°‘i°° sale, donation, testament, or otherwise; and their representatives, being citizens of the other party, shall succeed to their said personal goods, whether by testament or ab intestate, and they may take possession thereof, either by themselves or others acting for them, and dispose of the same at their will, paying such dues only as the inhabitants of the country wherein said goods are, shall be subject to pay in like cases: and if} in the case of real estate, the said heirs would be prevented from entering into the possession of the inheritance on account of their charucter of aliens, there shall be granted to them the term of three years to dispose of the same, as they may think proper, and to withdraw the proceeds without molestation, and exempt from all duties of detraction on the part of the government of the respective States. ARTICLE VIII. Speciulpyogqc. Both the contracting parties promise, and engage formally, to give tion to persons their special protection to the persons and property of the citizens of md P'°P°“Y· each other, of all occupations, who may be in the territories subject to the jurisdiction of the one or the other, transient, or dwelling therein, leaving open and free to them, the tribunals of justice for their judicial recourse, on the same terms which are usual and customary with the natives or citizens of the country in which they may be; for which they may employ, in defence of their rights, such advocates, solicitors, notaries, agents, and factors, as they may judge proper, in all their trials at law; and such citizens or agents, shall have as free opportunity as native citizens to be present at the decisions and sentences of the tribunals, in all cases which may concern them; and likewise at the takjnglof all examinations and evidence which may be exhibited in the sai mas. ARTICLE IX. No 5,,,0,,,, bg The contracting parties, desiring to live in peace and harmony with gmptedtc other all the other nations of the earth, by means of a policy, frank, and
 * m';;’6t‘;'nl]l;;l;_ equally friendly with all, engage mutually not to grant any particular

dimly gmc0m,, favor to other nations, in respect of commerce and navigation, which common. shall not immediately become common to the other party, who shall enjoy the same freely, if the concession was freely made, or on allowing the same compensation,. if the concession was conditional. ARTICLE X. C,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,0 The present convention shall be in force for the term of twelve years be in force for from the date hereof : and further, until the end of twelve months after twelve New- the Government of the United States, on the one part, or the free Hanseatic Republics of Lubeck, Bremen, or Hamburg, or either of them', on the other part, shall have given notice of their intention to terminate the same; each of the said contracting parties reserving to itselfthe right of giving such notice to the other, at the end of the said term of twelve years; and it is hereby agreed between them, that, at