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being that no difference or distinction whatsoever shall
exist in this respect.
XI. If it happen' that any Austrian or Greek ship of
war, of merchant vessel, is wrecked in the ports, or on the
shores of the respective territories, the greatest possible
aid shall be given, as well for the conservation of the per-
sons and effects, as for their safety, and the care and deli-
very of the articles saved ; and these latter shall not be sub-
ject to pay any duty, except on such as may afterwards be
disposed of for importation.
XII. The high contracting parties agree not to receive
any pirates in any of the parts, bays, or anchorages of
their States, and apply the rigour of the laws against all
persons known to be pirates, and against all individuals
resident in their States, who shall be convicted of conni-
vance or complicity with Ahem. All the vessels and car-
goes belonging to the subjects of the high contracting par-
ties which the pirates may seize or take into the parts of
ono or the other; shall be restored to the owners, or their
representatives duly appointed, if they can prove the iden-
tity of the. property ; and the restitution shall also be made
in the case the article claimed shall have passed •into the
hands of a third party, provided that it be proved that the
purchaser knew, or might have known, that the seid articles
were taken by pirate!.
XIII. The Greek subjects arrested on account of pi-
racy by the vessels of H. I. R. Majesty, and detained up
to this rime in the Austrian States, shall be placed at Ole
disposal of the Greek Govornment, which engages on its:
part to reimburse to the Imperial Government the ex-
penses of their detention up to the day of their delivery.
XIV. If it happens that one of the high contracting
Powers be at war with any Power, Nation, or State, the
subjects of the other may continue their trade and naviga-
tion with the said State, excepting with the towns and ports
which may be besieged or blockaded by land or sea. But.
in no case shall the commerce of warlike stores (contrehande
de guerre).be permitted.
XV.. The high contracting parties are agreed to ex-
plain, by a special act, on what may be determined "contrc-
bande do guerre," also on the principles they will pursue
relative to the maritime right of neutrals.
XVI. Each of the high contracting powers shall have
the right to name Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls,
and Consular agents in the ports_ and towns of the domi-
nions of the other, where they are or may be judged ne-
cessary for the development' of commerce and of the tra-
ding interests of their subjects. The Consuls, of whatever
class they be, duly named by their respective Government,
cannot enter on their functions without the previous ap-
probation of the Government in whose territory they are
to be employed. They will enjoy in the one and the other
country, both in their persons and for the exercise of their
functions, equal privileges.
XVII. In what regards the importation and expor-
tatipn of the produce of their States, by the route of
the Danube, as well those which this river offers in its
course as at its mouth, the high contracting parties declare
their intention to favour this commerce, and they reserve
themselves to stipulate by a special convention the recipro-
cal facilities which they may accord to it.
XVIII. The present treaty of commerce and navigation
shall be in force for ten years, to date from the exchange of
ratifications, and beyond this term for twelve months after
one of the high contracting parties shall announce its inten-
tion to cause its effects to cease.
XIX. The ratifications of the present treaty shall be ex-
changed at Vienna in the space of three months, or sooner
if possible, to date from its signature.
' In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have
signed and affixed thereunto their seals. Done at Athens,
March 4 (February 20), in the year of Grace 1835.
(L.s.) .DE PROKESCH-ODEN.
J. RIZO.
* By a postcriptum between the high contracting Powers,
the stipulations of this article relative to warlike stores are only
applicable in case of active hostilities, and not in time of peace.