The Consuls and Vice-Consuls named by the M. C. K. and the
United States, shall be bound to present their commissions according to
the forms which shall be established respectively by the M. C. K. within
his dominions, and by the Congress within the United States; there shall
be delivered to them, without any charges, the _Exequatur_ necessary for
the exercise of their functions; and on exhibiting the said _Exequatur_,
the governors, commanders, heads of justice, bodies corporate,
tribunals, and other officers having authority in the ports and places
of their consulates, shall cause them to enjoy immediately, and without
difficulty, the pre-eminences, authority, and privileges, reciprocally
granted, without exacting from the said Consuls and Vice-Consuls any
fee, under any pretext whatever.
Article II. The Consuls and Vice-Consuls, and persons attached to their
functions, that is to say, their chancellors and secretaries, shall
enjoy a full and entire immunity for their chancery and the papers
which shall be therein contained: they shall be exempt from aU, personal
service, from soldiers' billets, militia, watch, guard, guardianship,
trusteeship, as well as from all duties, taxes, impositions, and charges
whatsoever, except on the estate real and personal of which they may
be the proprietors or possessors, which shall be subject to the taxes
imposed on the estates of all other individuals: and in all other
instances they shall be subject to the laws of the land, as the natives
are.
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