The Arkansas advocate., 1832-11-14

official intercourse, have agreed and do aefee 10 grant to the enyoys, ministers, aaa other public agents, the same ia- vors. immuaities, and exemptions which those nj the most favored. nation do or may enjoy; 1t being understood that whatever favors. immuaitics, or pfiylle- ges the United States of America or ttie United Mexican States may find proper to give to the ministers and public;igvtts- of an, other power, shall by the same act he extended to those of each oi the contracting parties.
 ARTICLE XVIII.
 In order that the consaIs and vice. coIsuls of the two contracting parties may enjoy the rights, prerogatives, and immunities which belong 10 them by their character, they shall, before en- tering upoa the exercise of their func- sie...s, lit their commission or pa tent in due form to the GovernmeHt to which they are accredited; and having obtained their exequatur, they shall be held and considered as such by all the authorities, magistrates, and inhabitants oflhe consular district in which they re- side. It Is agreed likewise to receive and admit eo.isuls and yiee-consuls in all the ports and places open to foreign commerce, who shall enjoy therein all the rights, prerogatives, and lnlmuai ties of the consnls and vce-consals of the most favored nation, each of the contracting parties remainiug at liberty to except those ports and places ih which the admission and residence ofsuch con suls and vice-consuls may no, seem ex- pedicnt.
 ARTICLE xxx.
 1t is likewise agreed that the consuis. vice-consnis, their secretaries, officers and persons attached to the service of consnls, they not being citizens ot the country in which the consul resides, shall he exempt from all compulsory public service, ani also from all ltind of taxes, imposts, and contributions icvl- ed specially on them, except those which they shall be obliged to pay on account ofcomneree or their property, 10 which the citizens and inhabitants. native and foreign, ofthe country iu which tliey re- side, are. subject being every hing besides subject to the laws of tbeir re-. spective States. The archives and pa# pers of the sonsulates shall be respected inviolably, and underno pretext what ever shall any magistrate seize, or in any say interfere with them.
 ARTICLE xxx.
 The said consuls shall have power to : require the assistance of the aufhofiiics of the country, for the arrest, detea- tlon, and custody of deserlers from the public and private vessels of their coun try; and for that purpose, they shail address themselves the eourts. judges. and oflirers competent, and sl.all de- maud the said deserters ia writing, pro. Vi z. by an exhibition of the register Of the sessel,. or ships roll, or otbei pub iic ilednents, that the man or men de m..f3lei were part of slid crews; ;s q o.' fa's demand so proved, Saving al- Ways where the contrar, is pro,ed.} ! the delivery shal! not be refused. Such deserters, when arrested. shall be placed at the disposal of the said consals, and may be kept in the public prisons at the request and expense oi those sho reclaim them, 10 De sent to the vessels to which the, belo ged, or to others of the same nation. But, if they b. not sent back wiihintwom mouths. 10 b. counted from the day of their ar. rest, they shall be set at lihers. and shall not be again arrested for the same cause.
 ARTICLE xxxI.
 For she par2ose of more cffeetnallv protecting their commerce and naviga. tioe. the two contracting parties ao hereby agree, as soon hereafter as cir cumIa ices will permit, fo form q cogi sular convention, which shall deel4re specially the powers and inmunites of the eonsuls and vice consuls of the re- spective parties.
 ARTICLE xxXII.
 For the purpose of regulating the in- serior commerce between the frontier territories oi both Republics, its agreed that the Executive of each shall have power, by mutual agreement, of deter mlliig on the route and establishing the roads by which such commerce shall De coAducted; and in all cases where the caravans amnioyad ;n Su.h ,,