Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1825-08-27
ARTICLE Esd.

As Dy any laiailly WolCn CdUnot % SA"
pecled, and which God forbid, the two
contracting parties should be engaged in
a war with each other, they have agreed,
and do agree, now Tor then, that there
shall be allowed the term OF six months
to the merchants residing on the coasts
and in the ports of each other; and the
Term oione year to those who dwell in
the interior, to arrange their business and
lrsnsport their effects wherever they
please, giving 10 them the safe conduct
necessary for ii, which may serve as a
sufficient protection until they arrive at
the designated port. The citizens OF all
other occupations whe may be establish
ed IN the territories or domnions OF tho
United States and of the Republic oil Co
lembis, shall be respected and maintain
tanned in the full enjoyment oil their per-
sonal liberty and property, unless their
particular conduct shall cause them 10
forfeit his protection, which in cSnslde-
ration OF humanity the contracting par
tiss engage to give them.
ARTICLE 24ih.
Neither the debts due from individuals
of the one nation TO the individuals OF the
other, nor shares nor moneys, which they
may have in public funds, nor in public
or private banks, shall ever, in any event
OF war, or OF national difference, be Sc
ques,ered or con6scated.
ARTICLE ash.
Both the contracting parties being de.
sirous of avoiding all inequality. in rels-
ton TO their public communications and
official intercourse, have agreed, and do
agree, to grant to the ENJOYS, ministers,
and other public agents the same tavors,
imm unities, and exemptions, which those
oil The most favored nation do or shall en-
Joy; i, being understood that whatever
tavors, immunities, or privileges, the
United States of America, or the Repub-
lie OF Co!omb ia may find il 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 con-
tracing parties.
ARTICLE 26th.
To make more etfcctual the protection
which the United States and the Repub-
lie OF Colombia shall afford in future to
the navigation and commerce of the citi-
zens OF each other, they agree TO receive
and admit consuls and vice consuIs IN all
The ports open TO foreign commerce, who
shall enjoy in them all the rights, prero-
I galIves, and immunitles, OF the consuls
and vice consuis of the most favored ma
ton; each contracting party, however,
remaining at liberty to except those
ports and places in which the admission
and residence of such consuls may not
seem convenient.
ARTICLE 9TH.
| In order that the oonsuls and vice con-
suls OF the two contracting parties may
enjoy the rights, prerogatiyes, and i'm
munitles, which belong TO them, by their
public character, they shall, before enter
ing on the exercise Of their functions,
exhibit their com mission or patent in due
form TO the government to which they
are accredited; and having obtained their
EreqAatur, they shall be held and con-
sidered as such by all authorities, magis-
trates and inhabitants, in the consular dis.
trMt in which they reside.
| ARTICLE 23th.
1t is likewise agreed, that the coosuls,
their secretaries, officers, and persons at
tached to the service of consuls, they not
being citizens otthe country in which the
consul resides, shall be exempt from all
public service, and also from all kinds
of taxes, imposts, and contributions, ex-
cept those which they shall be obliged
to nav on account of commerce. or their
property, to which the citizens and iDha-
bilanls, native and foreign, Of The country
in which they reside are subject, being
in everything besides subject to the laws
OF the respective States. The archieves
and papers oil the consulates shall be re-
spected inviolabIy, and under no pre-
text whatever shall any magistrate seize,
or in any way interfere with them.
ARTICLE 29th.
The said consuls shall have power to
require the assistance Of the authorities
OF the country FOR the arrest, detention,
and custody OF deserlers from tie publis
and private vessels Of their country, and
for that purpose they shall address them
selves 10 the courts, Judges and officers
competent, and shall demand the said
deserters in writing, proving by an exhi-
bilion OF the registers Of the 1ess1,,'s or
ships roll, or other public documents,
that those men were part Of the said
crews; and on this demand, so proved,
(ssvlUg, however, where the contrary is
proved, the delivery shall not be refused.
Such dcserters, when arrested shall be