The widows and other inhabitants, who, by sickness, absence, or other obstacles, are prevented from signing the Capitulation at present, shall have a limited time allowed them for doing the same. Granted. ARTICLE XIII. The inhabitants and merchants of the island, who are comprized in this present Capitulation, shall enjoy all the privileges of commerce, on the same conditions as are allowed to the subjects of his most Christian Majesty in all his dominions. Granted. ARTICLE XIV. The inhabitants shall enjoy their religion, and their ministers shall enjoy their cures. Granted. ARTICLE XV. The inhabitants shall observe a strict neutrality, and shall not be forced to take up arms against his Britannic Majesty, nor against any other power. Granted; but the French-born subjects shall be at liberty to serve the King of France; and in case Dominica should return to the power of England, those who do not chuse to serve, shall not be punished by the French government. ARTICLE XVI. All the prisoners taken during the attack of the island shall be restored. Granted. ARTICLE XVII. The merchants of the island may receive any vessels, that shall be addressed to them, from any part of the world, without being liable to confiscation,--dispose of their merchandize, and carry on their commerce; and the port shall be free for that purpose, they paying the ordinary duties paid in the French islands. Granted, till the peace, English vessels only excepted. ARTICLE XVIII. The inhabitants shall keep their arms. Granted, on condition that they serve not against the King of France. ARTICLE XIX. That none other, except the actual residents of the island, shall be possessed of houses or lands, by purchase, or otherwise, till the peace; but after the peace, in case the island shall be ceded to the King of France, such inhabitants as do not chuse to live under the French government, shall be at liberty to dispose of their possessions and goods, moveable and immoveable, to whom they please, and to retire where they think proper; for which purpose they shall have a reasonable time allowed them. Granted. ARTICLE XX. The inhabitants of the island may send their children to England to receive their education, to return hither, and to be supplied with necessaries during their stay in England. Granted. ARTICLE XXI. The inhabitants may dispose of their goods and possessions to whom they think proper. Granted. ARTICLE XXII. That the Court of Chancery shall be held by the Members of the Council, in the same form it is at present; and that appeals from the said Court shall be made of course in England, in the same manner as heretofore. Granted. ARTICLE XXIII. That the wives of the officers and others, on leaving the island, may retire with their effects, and a number of domestics suitable to their rank. Granted. ARTICLE XXIV.