Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-06-21

quantity Of sdch artclesb be great and OF so large
bulk, that they cannot be received on board the
capturing ship without great inconv enence; but m
this and in all other cases OF Just detention, the
vessel detained shall be sent the nearest conve-
nient and safe port, for trial and Judgment accord
Ing 10 law.
| Arr. 18th. And whereas il frequently happens
that vessels sail for port place belonging to an
enemy. without knowing that the same is besieged
blockaded, invested, it is agreed that every YES
sci so circumstanced may be turned away from such
port place, but shall not be detained, nor shall
any part o! her cargo, II not contraband, be con-
iscated, unless, after warning OF such blockade or
investment from the commanding officer OF the
blockadng forces, she shall again attempt to enter;
but She shall be permitted to go to any other port
place she shall think proper. Nor shall any yes
sci OF either, that may have entered into such port
before the same actually besieged blockaded or
invested by the other, be restrained from quitting
such place with her cargo, If found therein al
Ter the reduction and surrender shall such vessel or
her cargo be liable TO conhscaton but they shall be
restored 10 the owners thereof.
| ART 18th. In order 10 prevent all kind OF dis
order IN the visiting and examination OF the ships
and cargoes OF both the contracting parties the
high seas. they have agreed mutually, that whene-
yer vessel of war, public or private, shall meet
with neutral OF the other contracting party, the
trst shall remain out of cannon shot, and may send
Ms boat with two three only in order TO ex-
ecute the said examination of the papers concerning
| the ownership and cargo of the vessel, without
causing the least extortion violence, i'll treat
| ment, for which the commanders of the said armed
ships shall be responsible with their persons and pro-
perry; for which purpose the commanders of said
private armed vessels shall, before receiving their
commissions, give sufficient security for
| all the damages they may commit And il is ex
pressly agreed that the neutral party shall in no
case be required to go board the examining vessel
for the purpose of exhibiting her papers, or for any
other purpose whatever
ART. 10Th. TO avoid all kind of vexation and
abuse in the examination Of the papers relating to
the ownership of the vessels belonging to the citi-
zens OF the two contracting parties, they have a.
greed and do agree, that in ofthern should
be engaged in war, the ships and vessels belonging
to the citizens of the other must be furnished with
sea-ietters passports, expressing the name, pro-
perty, and bulk of the ship, also the name and
place OF habiiaton OF the master or commander Of
said vessel, in order that it may thereby appear
that the ship really and truly belongs to the citizens
OF one OF the parties: they have likewise agreed
that such ships being laden, besides the said sea-
| letters or passports shall also be provided with
certificates containing the several particulars of the
cargo and the place whence the ship sailed so that
1t may be known whether any forbidden or contra
band goods be on board the same; which certii-
Gates shall be made out by the officers of the place
whence the ship sailed, in the accustomed form;
without which requisites said vessel may be detain-
ed to be adjudged by the compGent tribunal, and
may be declared legal prize, unless the said defect
shall be satisfied or supplied by testimony entirely
| equivalent.
| ART. Goth lis further agreed that the stipula-
tons above expressed relative to the visiting and
examination OF vessels, shall apply only to those
which sail without convoy; and when said vessels
shall be under convoy, the verbal declaration the
commander Of the convoy, on his word Of honour,
that the vessels under his protection belong to the
nation whose flag he carries and when they are
bound TO an enemys port, that they have no con-
traband goods on board shall be sufficient
ART. 2lst. 1t is further agreed that in all cases
the established courts for prize causes in the coun-
try TO which the prizes may be conducted, shall
alone take cognizance of them. And whenever
such tribunal of either party shall pronounce iudg-
ment against any vessel, or goods, or property
claimed by the citizens of the other party, the SEN
tence or decree shall mention the reasons or motives
| on which the same shall have been founded, and an
authenticated copy Of the sentence or Decree and OF
all the proceedings in the case SHALL if demanded
be delivered to the commander or agent of said
vessel without any delay, he paying the legal fees
| for the same
ART. 22d. Whenever one of the contracting
e,
no citizen of the other contracting party shall ac-
cept commission. or letter ofmarque for the pur-
pose of assisting cooperating hostilely with the
said enemy against the said party so at war, under
| the pain of being treated pirate
Arr. 23d. IT. by any fatality which cannot be
expected, and which God forbid, the two contract
ing parties should be engaged in a war with each
other, they have agreed, and do agree, now for
then, that there shall be allowed the term of six
IN the merchants reeidiny Tho coasts
in the ports Of each other; and the term Of one
year to those who dwell in the interior, to arrange
their business and transport their effects wherever
they please giving to them the safe conduct neces-
sary for il, which may sufficient protec-
ton until they arrive at the designated port The
citizens OF all other occupations who may be es-
ablshed in the territories dominions OF the Uni
ted States and OF the Republic of Colombia, shall
be respected and maintained in the full endowment
Of their personal liberty and property, unless their
particular conduct shall cause them to forfeit this
protection, which in consideration OF humanity the
contracting parties engage to give them.
ART. 24th. Neither the debts due from indivi-
duals of the nation to the individuals of the
other, nor shares, moneys, which they may
have in public funds, in pubic or private banks
shall ever, in any event of war or of national diff
ference, be sequestered or conhscated
ART 25th Both the contracting parties being
desrous Of avoiding all inequality in relation TO
their public communications and official intercourse
have agreed, and do agree, to grant TO the envoys
ministers, and other public agents. the same favours
immunities, and exemptions, which those of the
most fayoured nation do or shall enjoy; IL being
understood that whatever favours, immunities, or
privileges, the United States of America or the
Republic OF Columbia may find it proper to give to
the ministers and public agents Of any other power
shall by the same act be extended to those of each
Of the contracting parties
Arr. 10Th 10 make more effeciual the protec-