The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1819-01-06

| Ject TO no examination, but shall be care
fully preserved, being placed under the
seals ofthe said consul and Of the autho-
rity of the place where he shall have re-
sided. ~
The consuls, or their substitutes. shall
as such, have the right of acting as Judges
| or arbi'ers in all cases of differences
which may arise between the captains
and crews of vessels of the nation whose
affairs are intrusted to their care. The
! respective governments shall have no
right to interfere in these sort of affairs,
except in the case of the conduct of the
crews disturbing public order and tram
guilty in the country in which the vessel
may happen to be, or in which the consul
ofthe place may be Obliged to call for the
intervention and support the executive
power, in order to cause his decision to be
respected; it being, however, well under.
stood that this sort oil judgment or arbi
trat5n cannot deprive the contepding par
ties of their right of appealing on their
return to the judicial authorities of their
country.
To remove all dispute or uncertain
ty with respect to what ought to be repu-
ted the produce of the soil or nianufac-
lures of the contracting parties respec-
lively, it is agreed that all articles shall be
regarded as ofthis description which NAV
be certified as such in the clearance
which may be given to the vessels that
sail from the ports of the said high con.
tracing parties.
z. Ships of either country arriving on
the coasts OF in the ports ofthe other, and
wishing to break bulk or unload, may
prosecute their voyage without molcsta-
ton, or being obliged 70 give any account
OF their cargo, and without paying any
duties except those of pilotage, if pilot
have been employed; or duties for lights
&c If such be paid by the ships of the
country in the like case. 1t being, how
ever, we'll understood, that when tn, YES
veis of either party are within the iuiis.
dlction of the other, they shall conform
themselves to the rules and ordinances re-
latlve to navigation which are established
I'D the ports into which they may enter,
and which are ID force with regard to the
most favored nations and it shall be per-
united to the officers ofthe customs in the
districts within which the said vessels may
be, 10 visit them, TO remain on board, and
to take all such precautions as may be ne
cessary TO prevent all Illicit communica-
ton during the stay .ofthe said vessels.
8. tits agreed that the vessels of one
contracting party, on entering the ports of
the o her, may Con6ne themselves to dis
charging only part of their cargoes ac-
cording as the captains or owners shall
think fl, and that they may freely depart
| with The rest without paving duty, except
for the part unioaded. They may then
sail to other ports of the same country,
| and discharge other portions of their car
go in like manner. 1t being understood
that the shipping duties, whatever they
| may be, shall be paid at the first port in
| which vessel breaks bulk, and shall not
be demanded in any others in which they
may unload part of her cargo, unless ad-
| ditional duties be there paid, in the like
| case,by vessels belonging to the country.
9, The citizens and subjects Of either
country shall enjoy in the ports of the
merchandise, all the duties and facilities
of entrepot which the most favored nations
enjoy in the same ports.
10. In the case that any vessel belong
ing to one Of the two States, or to their
citizens or subjects, mas suffered any a.
| mage on the coasts of the States of the
other, every assistance shall be afforded
| to the persons shipwrecked. The ships
and merchandise, or what they have pro-
duccd, e sold, on being claimed within
year and day by the owners or their agents
shall be restored on paying the same ex-
pcnses Of salvage, as the natives would in
like case pay.
II It is agreed that Swedish and Nor
wegian ships, arriving direct from Europc
to the United States, or vessels OF the said
States arriving direct to Sweden or Nor
way, and furnished with certificates of
health from the competent officer of the
port whence they sailed, shall be subject
to no quarantine, except such as may be
necessary to give the officer Of health of
| the port at which the vessel arrives the
opportunity Of visiting her, unless it shall
appear that during the voyage some per-
son ON board has been attacked with ma
enant or contagious malady, or that the
| country whence the vessel comes has
',een regarded as infected-and has been
made the subject of previous ordinance,
directing all vessels arriving from il to be
rega ded as suspected, and subject to
quarantine