If a subject of the M. C. K. and a citizen of the United
States, or a foreigner, are interested in the said cargo, the average
shall be settled by the tribunals of the country, and not by the Consuls
or Vice-Consuls; but when only the subjects or citizens of their own
nation shall be interested, the respective Consuls or Vice-Consuls shall
appoint skilful persons to settle the damages and average.
Article VII. In cases where by tempest, or other accident, French ships
or vessels shall be stranded on the coasts of the United States, and
ships or vessels of the United States shall be stranded on the coasts of
the dominions of the M. C. K.,the Consul or Vice-Consul nearest to the
place of shipwreck shall do whatever he may judge proper, as well
for the purpose of saving the said ship or vessel, its cargo and
appurtenances, as for the storing and the security of the effects
and merchandise saved. He may take an inventory of them, without the
intermeddling of any officers of the military, of the customs, of
justice, or of the police of the country, otherwise than to give to the
Consuls, Vice-Consuls, captain, and crew of the vessels shipwrecked or
stranded, all the succor and favor which they shall ask of them, either
for the expedition and security of the saving and of the effects saved,
as to prevent all disturbance.
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