Article IV. The Consuls and Vice-Consuls respectively, may establish a
chancery, where shall be deposited the consular determinations, acts,
and proceedings, as also testaments, obligations, contracts, and other
acts done by or between persons of their nation, and effects left by
decedents, or saved from shipwreck.
They may, consequently, appoint fit persons to act in the said chancery,
qualify and swear them in, commit to them the custody of the seal, and
authority to seal commissions, sentences, and other consular acts,
and also to discharge the functions of notaries and registers of the
consulate.
Article V. The Consuls and Vice-Consuls respectively, shall have the
exclusive right of receiving in their chancery, or on board their
vessels, the declarations and all other the acts which the captains,
masters, crews, passengers, and merchants of their nation may choose to
make there, even their testaments and other disposals by last will: and
the copies of the said acts, duly authenticated by the said Consuls or
Vice-Consuls, under the seal of their consulate, shall receive faith
in law, equally as their originals would, in all the tribunals of the
dominions of the M.
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