Those of the said Consuls and Vice-Consuls who shall exercise commerce,
shall be respectively subject to all taxes, charges, and impositions
established on other merchants.
They shall place over the outward door of their house the arms of their
sovereign: but this mark of indication shall not give to the said house
any privilege of asylum for any person or property whatsoever.
Article III. The respective Consuls and Vice-Consuls may establish
agents in the different ports and places of their departments, where
necessity shall require. These agents maybe chosen among the merchants,
either national or foreign, and furnished with a commission from one
of the said Consuls; they shall confine themselves respectively to the
rendering to their respective merchants, navigators, and vessels, all
possible service, and to inform the nearest Consul of the wants of
the said merchants, navigators, and vessels, without the said agents
otherwise participating in the immunities, rights, and privileges
attributed to Consuls and Vice-Consuls, and without power, under any
pretext whatever, to exact from the said merchants any duty or emolument
whatsoever.
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