Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-07-07
WHOLE NO. 1919.

evils OF war, the two high contracting parties
| further agree, that IN case war should un-
fortunately take place between them. hos,ili.
ties shall only be carried on by persons duly
commissioned by the government, and hy
those under their orders, except in rerellng
an attack or invasion, and in the defence Of
property.
article 26. Whenever one OF the contract
ing parties shall be engaged in war with an
Their State, no citizen of the other contracting
party shall accept a commission or letter of
maroue for the purpose of assisting or co op-
GRAZING hostlely with the said enemy against
the SAID parties so at war, under the pain OF
being treated as a pirate.
article q. If by any fatality-which can
not be expected, and God forbid-the two
contracting parties should be engaged in war
with each other, they have agreed. and do a.
gree now for then, that there shall be allowed
the term of six months to the merchants resi-
ding on the coasts and in the ports of each
other, and the term OF one year 10 those who
dwell in the interior, 10 arrange their business
and transport their effects wherever they
please, giving 10 them the safe conduct ne
cessary for it, which may serve as sufficient
protection until they arrive at the designated
port. The citizens, of all other occupations,
who may be established in the territories or
dominions Of the United States and New Ora,
NADIA, shall be respected and maintained in the
tuIl enjoyment OF their personal liberty and
property, unless their particular conduct shall
cause them TO forfeit this protection. which, in
consideration OF humanity, the contracting
parties engage to give them.
! article %. Neither the debts due from in
dlvlduals of the one nation TO individuals Of
the other, nor shares, nor money which they
; may have in public funds, nor in public or
| private banks, shall ever, in any event of war
or of national difference, be sequestered or
; confscated
Article 90 Both the contracting parties be-
ing DESTROYS of avoiding all inequality in rela-
: ton TO their public communications and off,
: clal intercourse, have agreed, and do agree, TO
grant to the ENJOYS, ministers, and other pub
lie agents, the same favors, imnunities, and
exemptions which those o. the most favored
nations do or shall enjoy; it being understood
} that whatever favors, immunities, or privlle'
J ges the United States of America or the rspub-
lie of New Granada may find it proper TO give
TO the ministers and public agents of any Other
power, shall, by the same act, be extended to
e those Of each of the contracting parties.
D Artlcle 80. To make more effectual the pro-
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public of New Granada shall afford in future
+ 10 the navigation and commerce of the Cit
e zens of each other, they agree to receive and
admit consuls and vice consuls in all the ports
open to foreign commerce, who shall en- Joy
in them all the rights, prerogatives, and i'm
munities of the consuls and vice consus OF
t the most favored nation; each contracting par
ty, however, remaining at liberty 10 except
those ports and places in which the admission
t and residence of such consuls may not seem
convenient.
e Article 81. In order that the consu}s and
vice consuls of the two contracting parties
2 may enjoy the rights, prerogatives, and !mmu-
: mites which belong to them by their public
: character, they shall, before entering on the
| exercise of their functions, exhibit their com
Y mission or patent, in due form, to the govern
e ment to which they are accredited and, hav-
d ing obtained their erequdtur, they shall be
t held and considered as such by all the author
: tiles, magistrates, and inhabitants in the con.
sular district in which they reside.
/, article 81. 1t is likewise agreed, that the
: consuls, their secretaries and persons attached
to the service of consuls, they not being citi-
+ zens of the country in which the consuis re.
e side, 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 Oh
f their property, TO which the citizens and in
: habltants, native and foreign, of the country
f in which they reside are subject, being in ev-
r erything besides subject 10 the laws of tine re.
d spective States. The archives and papers OF
e the consulates shall be respected invioIably
/ and under no preteXt whatever shall any ma
i gstrate seize, or N any way interfere with
them.
r article 33. The said consuls shall have
e power to require the assistance of the authori
!, ties of the country for the arrest, detention
: and custody of deserters from the public anc
S private vessels of their country; and for tina
d purpose they shall address themselves TO thu
; courts, Judges, and officers competent, ant
j shall demand in writing the said deserters
r proving by an exhibition of the registers o
the vessels, or ships roll, or other public doc
n uments, that those men were part of the sail
S crews; and on this demand so proved, (sav
: ing, however, where the contrary is prove
z by other testimonies,) the delivery shall no
:, be refused. Such deserters when arreste
n shall be put at the disposal of the said con
e suIs, and may be put in the public prisons, a
h the request and expense Of those who reclaim
:, them, TO be sent to the ships TO which the
e belonged, or to others of the same nation.-
n But fthey be not sent back within two months
n 10 be counted from the day of their arrest, the
y shall be set at liberty, and shall be no NOR
e arrested for the same cause.
n Article 81. For the purpose Of more effectu
e ally protecting their commerce and navigation
$ the two contracting parties do hereby agree t
ii form, as soon hereafter as circumstances wi
,e permit, consular convention, which sha
n declare specially the powers and immunitie
Is of the consuls and vice consuls Of the respec
IS tive parties.
e Article 50. The United States of Americ
d and the republic of New Granada desiring
ell make as durable as possible the relation
l. which are to be established between the tw
ii parties by virtue of this treaty, have declare
to solemnIy, and do agree TO the following points
Or 1st For the better understanding of the pre-
ceding articles, ii is and has been stipulae
lie between the high contracting parties that III
le citizens, vessels, and merchlndise OF the Tn
D. ted States shall enjoy in the ports of Ne
:: Granada, Including those of the part of ii
=, Canadian territory generally denominate
Of isttmus Of Panama, from IFS southernmost e.
le tremity until the boundary OF Costa RIca, a
a. The exemptions, privileges, and immunitie
" concerning commerce and navigation. who
ve are now or may hereafter be enjoyed ny IRA III.
e. madam citizens, their vessels, and merchahdlss
and that this equality OF favors SHAH De nau
Ill 10 extend to the passengers coIFeSi'o.'uenot
IS, and merchandise of the United otaIes' III 'heI