The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1826-11-30

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their effects whatever they please gigiog
TO them the safe conduct necessary for II,
which may serve as sufficient protection
until they arrive at the deRaled port.
The citizens of all other occIip(slbns who
may be established in the b. itories or do
minons of the Uuited States and of the
Federation ofthe Centre of America shall
be respected aud maintained in the full en-
joyment oftheir personal liberty and prop
erty. unless their particular conduct shall
cause them to forfeit this protection, which,
IN consideration ofhumanity, the contract
ing parties engage TO give them.
ARTICLE 26th.
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 republic
or private banks, shall ever in any event
of war, or of. national difference, be Sc
questered or condscated,
ARTICLE 9th.
Both the contracting parties being desir.
Gus of avoiding all inequality in relation to
their public communications and official in
tercourse, have agreed and do agree, To
grant To the ENJOYS, Ministers, and other
Public Agents, the same iavours, mmuni-
ties and exemptions, with those of tho
most favored nations do, or shall enjoy il
being understood that whatever favors inn
murities, or privileges, the United States
of America or the Federation of Centre
America, may find Il proper to give to tho
Ministers and Public agents of any other
power, shall, by the same act, be extended
to those each Of the contracting parties
ARTIcLE 2Sth.
To make more eiihc,ual the protection.
which the United States and the Fedora
tion OF the Centre of America shall afford
in future TO the navigation and commerce
Of the citizens of each cthcp they agree
to receive aud admit Consuls and Vice
Consuls, in oil the ports open 10 foreign
commerce, who shall enjoy in them all the
rights, prerogatives and immunities, oftho
Consuls and Vice Consuls of. the most ia.
vorcd nation each contracting party, how
ever, remaining at liberty TO except those
ports and places in which the admission
and residence of such Consus may not
seem convenient
ARTICLE Goth.
In order that the Consuls and Vice-ConA
suls OF the two contracting parties inoy en-
Joy the rights, prerogatives, and immun-
ties, which belong to them, by their public
character, they shall before entering 6n
the exercise of their functions, exhibit their
commission or patent in due form 10 tho
Government to which they are accredited;
and having obtained their erequator, they
shall be held and considered as such, by
all the authorities, magistrates, and nha-
bitants, in the Consular District in which
they reside.
ARTICLE Both.
It is likewise agreed, that the Consuls,
their Secretaries, officers, and persons at
tached TO the service Of Consuls, they not
being citizens Of the country m which the
Consul resides, shall be exempt from all
public service, and also from all kind Of
taxes, imposts and contributions, except
those which they shall be obliged to pay
on account Of commerce, or their proper
ty, 10 which the citizens and inhabitants,
native and foreign, Of the country in which
they reside are subject, being in every
thing besides subject TO the laws Of the
respective States. The archives and pa
pers Of the Consulate shall be respected
inyiolably, and under no pretoxt whatever
shall any magistrate seize, or.in any way
interfere with them.
ARTICLE 3lst.
The said Consuls shall have power 10
require the assistance Of the authorities OF
the country for the arrest, detention, and
custody Of deserters from the public and
private vessels Of their country, and for
that purpose they shall address themselves
to the courts, Judges, and officers cornpc'
tent, and shall demand the said doserters
in writing, proving by an exhibition of the
registers Of tho vessels or slips roll, or
other public documents, that those men
were part Of the said crews and, on this
demand, so proved, Saving, however,
where the contrary is proved the dcIlv-
cry shall not be refused. Such dcserter5,
when arrested, shall be pm, NJ the dispo5al
of the said Consuls, and may be put IN the
public prisons ut the request and expense
Of those who reclaim them, To- be sent to-
the ships TO which they belonged, or To
others Of the same nation. But u they be
not sent back within two months, 10 be
counted from the day Of their arrest, they
shall be set at liboriy, and shall be no
more arrested for the same cause.
ARTICLE 3Jd.
For the purpose of more efcctualIy pros
toc'ing ticir commerce and navigation, tbe
two contracting parties do hereby agree,
rs soon hereafter as circumstances wiII
init them. 10 form Consular Cowon-
,on. which shall declare specially the
movers nnd immuniiies Of the CoDsuIs and
Vice .Consuls Of the respective parties.
IHTIcLE 33d.
The United States Of America and the
Federation Of the Centre Of America, de-
sirlng 10 make a durable as circumstan.
ccs will permit, the relations which are 10
be established between the two parties BY
virtue of this Treaty, or General Conyen'