The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1826-11-23

pations who may be established III tue terii-
tories or dominions Of the United states
and of the Federation of the Centre OF a
merica, shall be respected and maintained IN
the full enjoyment of their personal liberty
and property, unless their particular conauct
shall cause them to forfeit this protection,
which, in consideration Of humanity, the con-
tracing parties engage to give them,
ARTICLE Goth.
Neither the debts due from individuals OF
the one nation to the individuals OF the otner,
nor shares nor moneys, which they may
have in public or private banks, shall ever,
in any event OF war, or of national difference,
be sequestcred or conhscated.
ARTICLE 9th.
Both the contracting parties being desir-
ous of avoiding all inequality in relation to
their public communications and official in
tercourse, 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 ia
vored nation do or shall enjoy; it being I'm
derstood that whatever favors, immunittes
or privileges, the United States of America,
or the Federation of the Centre of America,
may find it proper to give the Ministers and
Public Agents OF any other power, shall, by
the same act, be extended to these OF each
of the contracting parties.
ARTICLE 2Sth.
To make more etfcctual the protection
which the United States and the Federation
OF the Centre of America shall afford in fu-
ture to the navigation and commerce OF the
citizens of each other, they agree to receive
and admit Consuls.and Vice Consuls in all
the ports open to foreign commerce, who
shall enjoy in them all the rights, perogatives
and immunites of the Consus and Vice
Consus of the most favored nation; 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 29th.
In order that the Consuls and Vice Consuls
OF the two contracting parties may ENJOY
the rights. perogatves, and immunities,
which belong to them, by their public char
acter, they shall, before entering on the ex-
ercise of their functions, exhibit their COM
mission or patent, in due form to the gov
eminent to which they are accredited; and
having obtained their ereguatnr, they shall
be held and considered as such, by all the
authorities. magistrates and inhabitants, in
/ the Consular District in which they reside.
ARTICLE 30th.
I 1t 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 in which the
I Consul resides, shall be exempt from
all public service and also from all other kind
Of taxes, imposts, and contributions. except
\ those which they shall be obliged to pay on
account Of commerce. or their property, to
which the citizens and inhabitants, native
and foreign, Of the country in which they
reside are subject, being in every thing be-
sides subject to the laws Of the respective
States. The archives and papers of the
1 Consulate shall be respected invioably and
under no pretext whatever shall any magis-
trate seize ,or in any way interfere with them.
ARTICLE 31st.
The said Consuls shall have power to re-
quire the assistance of the authorities OF
the couhtry fer the arrest, detention, and
custody of deserters from the public and pr-
vate vessels of their country and for
that purpose they shall address themselves
to the courts, judges, and officers competent,
and shall demand the said deserters in writ
ing, proving by an exhibition of the registers
of the vessels or ships roll, or other public
documents, that those men were part OF
the said crews; and, on this demand, so
proved, Saving, however, where the con-
trary is proved,) the delivery shall not be
refused. Such deserters, when arrested,
shall be put at the disposal OF the said Con-
suls, and NAV be put in the public prisons at
the request Of those who reclaim them, to be
sent to the ships to which they belonged, OF
to others of the same nation. But if they be
not sent back within two months, to be
counted from the day of their arrest, they
: shall he set at liberty, and shall be no more
: arrested for the same cause.
ARTICLE Sod
For the purpose of more eHectually pro.
tecting their commerce and navigation, the
,, two contracting parties do hereby agree, as
soon hereafter as circumstances will permit
j, them to form a Consular Convention, which
shall declare specially the powers and immu
mites ot the Consuls and Vice Consuis OF the
respective parties.
ARTICLE 35d.
Ihe United States of America, and the
, Federation Of the Centre of America, de.
string to make as durable as circumstance,
will permit, the relations which are to be
} established between the two parties by vir-
tue of tins Treaty, or General Convention O.
, Peace, Amity, Commerce, and Navigation
, have declared solemnly, and do agree to the
! following points:
lst. The present Treaty shall remain il
tul force and virtue for the term of twelve
: years, 70 be counted from the day of the ex
) chanuf Of the ratihcati in ali tba part