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10. A quantity of mats or matting, greater than is
necessary for the use of such mercitant vessels'unless
such mats or matting be entered on the manifest as
founding part of the cargo.
If it is established that one or more of the articles
above specified are on board, or have been on board
luring the voyage in which the vessel was captured,
that fact shall be considered as prinia facie evidence
that the vessel was employed in the traffic ; she shall
in consequence be kcondemned, and declared lawful
prize, unless the master or the owners shall furnish
clear and incontrovertible evidence, proving to
the satisfaction of the tribunal that at the time
of her detention or capture the vessel was em-
ployed in a lawful undertaking ; and that
such of the different articles above specified
as were found on board at the time of detention, or
which might have been embarked during the voyage
en which she was enonged, when she was capturZ,
were indispensable for the accomplishmen,.of the
lawful object of her voyage.
Art. X.—Proceedings shall lee,ippe :a ely taken
against the vessel detained, as.,..abswe stated, her master,
:ier crew, and her cargo, before the competent tribu-
nals of the country: ° which she belongs ; and they
shall be tried and adjudged according to the
established forms and laws in force in that country ;
and if it results from the proceedings that the said
'vessel was employed. in the slave-trade, or fitted out
for that traffic, the vessel, her fittings, and her cargo
of merchandise, shall be confiscated; and the master,
the crew, and their accomplices, shall be dealt with
conformably to the laws by which they shall have
been tried. _ _

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In case of confiscation, the proceeds of the sale of
the aforesaid vessel shall, within the space of six
months, reckoning from the date of the sale, be placed
at the disposal of the Government of the country to
which the ship which made the capture belongs, in
order to be employed in confol.-nity with the laws of
that country.
ART. any one of the articles specified in
Article IX. of the present treaty is found on board a
merchant vessel, or if it is proved to have been on
board of her during the voyage in which she was
captured, no compensation for losses, damages, or tx-
pense3, consequent upon the detention of such vessel,
shall in any case be granted, either to the master, or
to the owner, or to any other person interested in the
equipment or in the lading, eve, Olough a sentence
of conderimation should not have been pronounced
against the vessel, as a consequence of her detention.
ART. XIL—In all cases in which a vessel shall
have been detained in conformity with the present
treaty, as having been employed in the slave trade, or
fitted out for that traffic, and shall, in consequence,
have been tried and confiscated, the Government of
the cruiser which shall have made the capture, or
the Government whose tribunal shall have condemned
the vessel, may purchase the condemned vessel for the
service of its Royal navy, at the price fixed by a corn-
petent person, selected for that purpose by the said
tribunal. The Government whose cruiser shall htWe
made the capture shall have a right of preference in
the purchase of the vessel. But if the condemned
vessel should not be purchased in the manner above
pointed out, she shall be wholly broken up immediately
after the sentence of confiscation, and sold in sepa-
rate portions after having been broken up.
ART. X lll.—When, by the sentence of the com-
petent tribunal, it shall have been awe-, ~ained that a
merchant vessel, detained in virtue of the present
treaty, was not engaged in the slave-trade, and was not
fitted out for that 7-raffle, she shall be restored to
the lawful owner or owners. And if, in the course
of the proceedings, it shall have been proved that
the vessel was searched and detained illegally, or
without sufficient cause of suspicion; or that the
search and detention were attended with abuse or
vexation, the commander of the cruiser, or the officer
who shall have boarded the said vessel, or the officer
who shall have been intrusted with bringing her in,
and under whose authority, according to the nature
of the case, the abuse or vexation shall have occurred,
shall be liable in costs and damages to the masters
and the owners of the vessel and the carg ).
These costs and damages may be awarded by the
tribunal before which the proceedings against the de-
tained vessel, her master, crew, and cargo, shall have
been instituted ; and the Government of the country
to which the officer who shall have given occasion for
such award shall belong, shall pay the amount of the
said costs ar:d damages within the period of six
months from the date of the sentence, when the
sentence shall have been pronounced by a tribunal
sitting in Europe, and within the period of one year
when the trial shall have taken place out of Europe.
ART. XIV. When in the search or detention of a
merchant vessel, effected in virtue of the present treaty,
any abuse or vexation shall have been committed, and
when the vessel shall not have been delivered over
to the jurisdiction of her own nation, the master shall
make a declaration, upon oath, of the abuse. 3 or vexa-
tions of which he shell have to complain, as well as
of the costs and damages to which he shall lay claim ;
and such declaration shall be made by him before the
competent authorities of the first port of his own.
country at which he shall arrive, or before the con-
sular agent of his own nation at a foreign port, if the
vessel shall in the first instance touch at a foreign port
where there is such an agent.

This declaration shalrbe verified by means of au
examination upon oath of the principal perions
amongst the crew or the passengers who shall have
witnessed the search or d_itention ; and a formal
statement of the whole shall be drawn up, two copies
whereof shall be delivered to the master, who shall
forward one of them to his Government, in support of
his claim for cost aril damages.
It is understood, that if any circumstance beyond
control shall prevent the master from making his de-
claration, it may be made by the owner of the vessel,
or by any other person interested in the equipment or
in the landing of the vessel.
On a copy of the formal statement above-men-
tioned being officially transmitted to it, the Govern-
ment of the country to which the officer to whom
the abuses or vexations shell be imputed shall belong,
shall foi thwith institute an inquiry ; and if the validity
of the compla;nt shall be ascertained, that Govern-
ment shall cause to be paid to the master or the owner,
or to any other person interested in the equipment or
lading of the molested vessel, the amount, of costs and
damages which shall be due to him.
ART. XV. The high contracting parties engage
reciprocally to communicate to each other, when asked
to do so, and without expense, copies of the proceed-
ings instituted, and of the judgments given, relative to
vessels searched or detained in execution of the provi-
sions of this Treaty.
Aar. XVI. The high contracting parties agree to
insure the immediate freedom of all the slaves who
shall be found on board vessels detained and condemned
in virtue of the stipulations of the present Treaty.
AUT. XVII. The high contracting parties agree to
invite the maritime Powers of Europe which have not
yet concluded treaties for the abolition of the slave-
trade to accede to the present Treaty.

ART. XVIII. The ids or instruments annexed to
the present Treaty, and which it is mutually agreed
to consider as forming an integral part thereof, are the
following :
A. Forms of warrants of autltarization, and of orders
for the guidance of the cruisers of each nation, in the
searches and detentions to be made in virtue of the
present Treaty. ,
B. Instructions for the cruisers of the naval forces
employed in virtue of the present Treaty, for the sup-
pression of the slave-trade.
ART. XTX. The present Treaty, consisting of 19
Articles, shall be ratified, and the ratifications thereof
shall be exchanged at London at the expiration of two
months from this date, or sooner if possible.
In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries
have signed the present Treaty, in English and French,
and have thereunto affixed the seal of their arms.

Done at London, the 20th day of December, in the
year of our Lord 1841. ABERDEEN.

KOLLER.
ST. AULAIRE.
SCHLEINITZ.
BRUNOW.

ANNEX.-INSTRUCTIONS TO CRUISERS.

1. Whenever a merchant vessel belonging to, or
bearing the flag of„any one of the high contracting
parties, shall be visited by a cruiser of any one of the
other high contracting parties, the officer commanding
the cruiser shall, before he proceeds to the visit, exhibit
to the master of such vessel the special orders which
confer upon him by exception the right to visit her ;
and he shall deliver to such master a certificate, signed
by himself, specifying his rank in the navy of his
country, and the name of the ship which he com-
mands and declaring that the only object of his visit
is to ascertain whether the vessel is engaged in the
slave trade, or is fitted out for the purpose of such
traffic, or has been engaged in that traffic during the
voyage in which she has been met with by the said
cruiser. When the visit is made by an officer of the
cruiser other than her commander, such officer shall not
he under the rank of lieutenant in the navy, unless he be
the officer who at the time is second in command of the
ship by which the visit is made ; and in this case, such
officer shall exhibit to the master of the merchant-
vessel a copy of the special orders above-mentioned,
signed by the commander of the cruiser, and shall
likr‘wise deliver to such master a certificate, signed by
himself, specifying the. rank which he holes in the
navy of his country, the name of the commander
under whose order 3 he is acting, the name of the
cruiser to which he belongs, and the object of his
visit, as hereinbefore recited.
If it shall be ascertained by the visit that the ship'.•
papers are regular, and her proceedings lawful, the
officer shall certify upon the log-book of the vessel
that the visit took place in virtue of the special orders
above-mentioned ; and when- these formalities shall
have been completed the vessel shall be permitted to
continue her course. •

2. If, in consequence of the visit, the, officer com-
manding the cruiser shall be of opinion that there
are sufficient grounds for believing that the ves-