Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1832-05-09
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ARTICLE xxx.
The said consuls shall have power to 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 coun
try and for that purpose, they shall address them
selves to the courts, Judges, and officers compe-
tent, and shall demand the said deserters in wri
ting, proving, by an exhibition of the register Of
the vessel, or ships roll, or other public docu-
ments, that the man men demanded were part
of said crews; and on this demand so proved,
Saving always where the contrary is proved) the
delivery shall not be refused. Such deserers,
when arrested, shall be placed at the disposal of
the said counsuls, and may be put in the public
Visions at the request and expense of those who
Acclaim them, to be sent to the vessels to which
lthex. belonged, or 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
Sall be set at liberty, and shall not be again ar
rested Cor the same cause.
ARTICLE XXI.
For the pupose Of more efIectually protecting
their commerce and navigation, the two contract
ing parties do hereby agree, as soon hereafter as
circumstances will perrait, to form consular
convention, which shall declare specially the
powers and immunities of he consuls and vice
consus of the respective parties.
ARTICLE xxxII
For the purpose of regulating the interior COM
between the frontier territories of both Re
publics, it is agreed that the Executive of each
shall have power, by mutual agreement. of de-
termining on the route and establishing the roads
by which such commerce shall be conducted; and
in all cases where the caravans employed in such
commerce may require convoy and protection by
military escort, the Supreme Executive of each
nation, shall, by mutual agreement, in like man
ner, fix on the period of departure for such cara
vans, and the point at which the military escort
of the two nations shall be exchanged. And it
rs further agreed, that, until the regulations for
governing this interior commerce between the
two nations shall be established, that the com
mercial intercourse between the State of Mis-
souri, of the United States of America, and New
Mexico in the United Mexican States, shall be
conducted as heretofore, each Government afford
ing the necessary protection to the citizens of the
other.
ARTICLE XXxIII.
1t is likewise agreed that the two contracting
parties shall, by all the means in their power,
maintain peace and harmony among the several
Indian nations who inhabit the lands adjacent to
the lines ard rivers which form the boundaries
of the two countries and the better to attain this
object, both parties bind themselves expressly toll
restrain, by force, all hostties and incursions on
the part OF the Indian nations living within their
respective boundaries, so that the United States
of America will not suffer their Indians to attack
the citizens of the United Mexican States, nor
the Indians inhabiting their territory; nor will
the United MEXICAN States permit the Indians
residing ~wir1tTeherr tefrithies to commit hostili-
ties against tho citi7hSs of the United States of
America, nofkgains The Indians residing within
the limits of the United States, in any manner
whatever.
And in the event of any person or persons,
captured by the Indians who inhabt the territory
of either of the contracting parties, being or|
having been carried into the territories of thel
other, both Governments engage and bind them
selves in the most solemn manner to return themI
to their country as soon as they know of their|
being within their respective territories or to de-
liver them up to the agent or representative of
the Government that claims them, giving to each
other, reciprocally, timely notice, and the clai-
Inant paying the expenses Incurred in the trans
mission and maintenance Of such person or per-
sons, who, in the mean time, shall be trea ted with
the utmost hospitality by the local authorities of
the place where they may be. Nor shall it be
lawful, under any pretext whatever, for the citi
zens of either of the contracting parties to pur
chase or hold captive prisoners made by the In
dams inhabiting the territories Of the other.
ARTICLE xxxIv.
The United States of America and the United
Mexican States, desiring to make as durable as
circumstances will permit, the relations which
are to be established between the two parties by
virtue of this treaty or general convention of
amity, commerce, and navigation, have declared
solemny, and do agree to the following points,
First. The present treaty shall remain and be
of force for eight years from the day of the ex-
change of the notifications, and until the end of
one year after either of the contracting parties
shall have given notice to the other of its lnten-
ton to terminate the same; each of the contract
ing parties reserving to itself the right of giving
such notice to the other. ut the end of said term
of eight years And IL is hereby agreed between
them, that, on the expiration of one year after
such notice shall have been received by either of
the parties from the other party this treaty, in all
its parts, relating to commerce and navigation,
shall altogether cease and determine, and in all
those parts which relate to peace and friendship,
it shall be permanently and perpetualy binding
on both the contracting parties.
Secondly. If any one or more of the citizens
of either party shall infringe any of the articles
of this treaty, such citizens shall be held person
ally responsible for the same; and the harmony