Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-12-11


the other, residing in their respective States,
shall enjoy their property and personal secu-
rity in as full and ample manner as their own
citizens or subjects, or the subjects or citizens
Of the most favored nation.
ART1cIE VII. The cjtizens and the subjects
of each of the two high contracting parties
shall he free in the States of the other TO man
ace their own affairs themselves, or TO commit
those affairs to the management OF any per-
sons whom they may appoint as their broker,
factor. or agent; nor shall the citizens and
subjects Of the two high contracting parties
be restrained in their choice Of persons to act
in such capacities, nor shall they be called
upon TO pay any salary or remuneration TO any
person who they shall not choose to employ.
Absolute freedom shall be given in all cases
to the buyer and seller to bargain together,
and to FIX the prce of any goods or merchan-
disc Imported into. or to be exported from. the
States and dominions of the two high conirac-
ting parties; save and except generally such
cases wherein the laws and usages OF the
country may require the Intervention OF any
special agents in The States and dominlons oil
the high contracting parties.
ARTICLE VIII. Each of the two high con-
tracing parties may have, in the ports OF The
other, consuls, vice consuls, and commercial
agents, of their own appointment, who shall
enjoy the same privileges and powers OF those
of the most favored nations; but lfany such
consuls shall exercise commerce, they shall
be subject to the same laws and usages to
which the private individuals OF their nation
are subject in the same place.
The said consuls, vice cOnsuls. and COM
mercial agents are authorized to require assls-
lance of the local authorities for the search,
arrest, detention, and Imprisonment of the de-
serters from the ships of war and merchant
vessels of their country. For this purpose
they shall apply to the competent tribunals,
Judges, and officers, and shall in writing de-
mand the said deserters, proving, by the ex-
hibiton Of the registers of the vessels, the
rolls of the crews, or by other official docu-
ments, that such individuals formed part of
the crews and this reclamation being thus
snbstantiated, the surrender shall not be re-
fused.
Such deserters, when arrested, shall be
placed at the disposal of the said consuls,yice
consuIs, or commercial agents, and may be
confined in the public prisons, at the request
and cost Of those who shall claim them, In
order to be detained until the time when they
shall be restored to the vessels to which they
belonged, or sent back to their own country by
a vessel of the same nation, or any other YES
sci whatsoever. But if not sent back within
four months from he day Of their arrest. or II
all the expenses of such imprisonment are not
betrayed by the party causing such arrest and
Imprisonment, they shall be set at liberty,
and shall not be again arrested for the same
cause.
However, if the deserter should be found
to have committed any crime or offence, his
surrender may be delayed until the tribunal,
before which his case shall be depending. shall
have pronounced its sentence, and such SEN
tence shall have been carried into effect.
ARTICLE TX. If any ships of war or mer-
chant vessels be wrecked on the coasts OF the
states of either of the high contracting parties,
such ships or vessels, or any parts thereof,
and all furniture and appurtenances belonging
thereunto, and all goods and merchandise
which shall be saved therefrom, or the pro-
dnce thereof if sold, shall be faithfully restor-
ed with the least possible delay to the proprle'
tors, upon being claimed by them, or their du-
! ~ authorized factors; and if there are no such
proprietors or factors on the spot, then the
said goods and merchandise, or the proceeds
thereof, as we'll as all the papers found on
board such wrecked ships or vessels, shall be
delivered to the American or Slclllan consul
or vice consul in whose district the wreck
may have taken place and such consul, vice
consul, proprietors, or factors, shall pay only
the expenses incurred in the preservation Of
the property, together with the rate Of salvage,
and expenses Of the quarantine which would
have been payable in the like case of wreck
of a national vessel; and all goods and mer-
chandise saved from the wreck shall not be SUBJ
| lect to duties, unless cleared for consumption;
it being understood that in case of any legal
claim upon such wreck, goods or merchandise
the same shall be referred for decision to the
competent tribunals of the country.
ARTICLE x. The merchant vessels of each
of the twohigh contracting parties which may
be forced by stress of weather or other cause
into one of the ports of the other, shall be ex
exempt from all duty Of port or navigation paid
for the benefit of the State, if the motive which
led to take refuge be real and evident, ard i
no operation of commerce be done by loading
or unloading merchandise well understood
however, that the loading or unloading, which
may regard the subsistence of the crew, Oh
necessary for the reparation of the vessel, shall
not be considered operations of commerce
which lead to the payment of duties, and tina
the said vesselsd do not stay in port beyond the
time necessary, keeping in view the cause
which led to taking refuge.
ARTICLE XII. TO carry always more fully
into effect the intentions of the two high con
tracing parties, they agree that every differ
ence of duty, whether of the ten per cent. o
ether, established in the respective States, t.
the prejudice of the navigation and commerce
Of those nations which have not treaties o
commerce and navigation with them, shall
cease and remain abolished in conformity t.
the principle established in the first article o
the present treaty, as we'll on the production
of the soil and industry of the Kingdom of thu
Two Siciies, which therefrom shall be i'm
ported into the United States of America
1 whether in vessels of the one or of the othe
country, as on those which in like manner
shall be imported in the Kingdom of the 'rw
Sicilies in vessels of both countries.
} They declare besides, that as the produc
tons of the soil and industry of the two coun
tries, on their introduction into the ports q
the other, shalt not be subject to greater dn
ties than those which shall be imposed on tn
} like productions of the most favored nations
so the red and white wines of the Kingdom Q
, the Two Sicilies of every kim, including thos
of Marsha, which may be imported dlrectl
, into the United States of America, whether i
} vessels of the one~or Of the other country, sha
| not pay higher or greater duties than those c
. the red and white wines Of the most favore
nations. And in like manner, the cottons {
r the United States of America. which may b
, imported directly into the Kingdom of the Fw
SiciIies. whether in vessels of the one or ott
5 er nation, shall not pay higher or greater d.
J ties than the cottons of Egypt, Bengal, {