If the ships or vessels of the said subjects, or people of either of the parties, shall be met with sailing along the coasts, or on the high seas, by any ship of war, privateer, or armed vessel of the other party, the said ships of war, privateers, or armed vessels, for the avoiding of any disorder, shall remain out of cannon shot, and may send their boats on board the merchant ship, which they shall so meet with, and may enter her, to the number of two or three men only, to whom the master or commander of such ship or vessel shall exhibit his passport, concerning the property of the ship or vessel made out according to the form annexed to this present treaty, and the ship or vessel, after such passport has been shown, shall be free and at liberty to pursue her voyage, so as it shall not be lawful to molest or search her in any manner, to give her chase or to force her to quit her intended course. ARTICLE XXXIII. It is also agreed, that all goods when once put on board the ships or vessels of either party shall not be subject to any further visitation; but all visitation and search shall be made beforehand, and all prohibited goods shall be stopped on the spot, before the same be put on board the ships or vessels of the respective parties, their subjects or people; nor shall the persons or goods of the subjects or people of their said High Mightinesses, the States of the Seven United Provinces of Holland, or the said United States of America, be put under any arrest, or molested by any other kind of embargo for that cause; but only the subject of that power, by which the said goods have been or shall be prohibited, who shall have presumed to sell or alienate such sort of goods, may be duly punished for the offence, according to the laws, customs or ordinances of his own country. ARTICLE XXXIV. The two contracting parties grant to each other mutually the liberty of having, each in the ports of the other, consuls, vice consuls, agents and commissioners of their own appointing, whose functions shall be regulated by particular agreement, whenever either party chooses to make such appointment. This is a rough plan of a treaty of commerce, which, in consequence of the appointment and instructions of the Honorable Engelbert Francis Van Berckel, Counsellor Pensionary of the city of Amsterdam, to me John de Neufville, citizen of the said city of Amsterdam, I have perused, considered, and settled with William Lee, Commissioner of Congress, as a proper treaty of commerce to be entered into between their High Mightinesses, the States of the Seven United Provinces of Holland, and the United States of America. This done at Aix la Chapelle, the 4th of September, 1778. JOHN DE NEUFVILLE. COMMITTEE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO WILLIAM LEE. Philadelphia, October 28th, 1778. Sir,