Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1822-06-29

Tobacco 1000 ID. avoirdupois, or
727 kilog.
Ashes--pot and Pearl, es4olb. avoir-
dupois or 1915 kilog
| Rice-l6o0 ID. avoirdupois, or 725
kilog.
! And for all VEGETABLE articles not
specified, 2240 Id. avoirdupois, or 1915
kilogrammes.
The duties of tonnage, light.money,
pilotage, port charges, brokerage, and
all other duties upon foreign shipping,
over and above those paid by the ma
tional shipping in the two countries re-
spectively, other than those specified in
articles and Q of the present conven-
/ ton. shall not exceed, in France, for
vessels of the United States, five francs
per ton of the vessels American Regis
ter: nor for vessels of France, in the
United States, ninety-four cents per ton
ofthe vessels French passport:
ARTICLE 6.
The contracting parties, wishing to
favor their mutual commerce by affor-
ding in their ports every necessary as
sistance to their respective vessels, have
agreed that the Consuls and Vice Con-
suls may cause to be arrested the sai-
llors, being part Of the crews of the YES
sells of their respective nations, who
shall have deserted from, the said ves-
sells, in order to send them back, and
transport them out of the country. For
which purpose the said Consuls and
Vice Consuls shall address themselves
to the Courts, Judges, and Officers
competent, and shall demand the said
deserters in writing-proving, by an ex-
hibition of the registers of the vessel,
or ships roll or other official docu-
ments. that those men were part OF the
said crews; and on this demand, so pro-
we'd, (saying, however, whore the con-
trary is proved,) the delivery shall net
be refused and there shall be given all
aid and assistance to the said Consuis
and Vice Consuls, for the search, sci
cure, and arrest, Of the said deserters,
who shall even be detained, and kept
in the prisons of the country, at their
request and expense, until they shall
have found an opportunity of sending
them back. But, if they be not sent
back within three months, to be coun-
ted from the day of their arrest, they
shall be set at liberty and shall be no
more arrested for the same cause.
ARTICLE
The present temporary Convention
shall be in force for two years from the
first day of October next, and even at.
ter the expiration of that term, until the
conclusion of a definitive Treaty, or IN.
til one of the parties shall have decla.
red its intention to renounce it; which
declaration shall be made at least six
months before hand.
And, in case the present arrange
ment should remain without such de-
claration of It's discontinuance by either
party, the extra duties specified in the
LIST and Cd articles, shall, from the ex-
piration of the said two years. be on
both sides diminished by one fourth of
their whole amount, and afterwards by
one fourth Of the said amount from year
to year. so long as neither party shall
have declared the intention of renoun-
cling it, as above stated
ARTICLES,
The present Convention shall be ra-
tilted on both sides, and the ratifica-
tons shall be exchanged, within one
year from the date hereof, or sooner. Ii
possible. But the execution of the said
Convention shall commence IN both
countries on the first of October next,
and shall be effective. even in case Of
decentralization, for all such vessels as
may have sailed, bona fde, for the ports
of either nation, in the confidence OF its
being in force.
In faith whereof, the respective
Plenipotentiaries have signed the
present Convention, and have
thereto affixed their seals, at the
city of Washington, this Oath
day Of June, A, D. 1922.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. t.. 81
G.. HYDE DE MELVILLE. e.. s.
| sEPERATE ARTICLE.
The extra duties levied on either side
before the present day, by virtue of the
act of Congress Of the 18th May, 1920,
and of the ordinance of the Goth July,
of the same year, and others con6rma.
| tive thereof, and which have not alrea.
dy been paid back, shall be refunded.
Signed and sealed as above, this Gath
day of June, 1922.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. (h.s.)