C. King and of the United States.
They shall also have, and exclusively, in case of the absence of the
testamentary executor, guardian, or lawful representative, the right
to inventory, liquidate, and proceed to the sale of the personal estate
left by subjects or citizens of their nation, who shall die within
the extent of their consulate; they shall proceed therein with the
assistance of two merchants of their said nation, or, for want of them,
of any other at their choice, and shall cause to be deposited in their
chancery, the effects and papers of the said estates; and no officer,
military, judiciary, or of the police of the country, shall disturb them
or interfere therein, in any manner whatsoever: but the said Consuls
and Vice-Consuls shall not deliver up the said effects, nor the proceeds
thereof, to the lawful representatives or to their order, till they
shall have caused to be paid all debts which the deceased shall have
contracted in the country; for which purpose the creditor shall have a
right to attach the said effects in their hands, as they might in those
of any other individual whatever, and proceed to obtain sale of them,
till payment of what shall be lawfully due to them.
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