Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-07-14

difference should be settled by the arbitration
of commissioners appointed on each side, or
by that of friendly nation. And should
such course be proposed by either party, it
shall be acceded to by the other, unless DEEM
ed by it altogether incompatible with the ma
ture of the difference, or the circumstances OF
the case.
article %. If (Which is NOT TO he expected.
and which God forbid y war shall unhappily
break out between the two republics. they do
now, with view 10 such calamity, solemny
pledge themselves to each other and 10 the
world. TO observe the following rules: abso
luteIy, where the nature of the subject permits,
and as closely as possible in all cases where
such absolute observance shall be impossible.
i. The merchants of either republic then
residing in the other, shall be allowed TO re-
main twelve months, Cor those dwelling in
the interior,) and six months (for those dwell.
ing at the seaports,) TO collect their debts and
settle their affairs; during which periods they
shall enjoy the same protection, and be on the
same footing. in all respects, as the citizens or
subjects of the most friendly nations; and, at
the expiration thereof. or al any time before,
they shall have full liberty to depart, carrying
oil all their effects without molestation or hin.
derance: conforming therein to the same laws
which the citizens or subj ects of the most
friendly nations are required to conform to-
Upon the entrance of the armies of either ma
ton into the territories of the other, women
and children, ecclesiastcs, scholars of every
faculty, cultivators of the earth. merchants,
artisans, manufacturers, and fishermen, un-
armed and inhabiting unfortfed towns, villa
ges, or places, and in general all persons
whose occupations are for the common Sub
| SISt md oS ipl eholl ho al.
lowed to continue their respective employ
ments unmolested in their persons Nor shall
their houses or goods be burnt or otherwise
destroyed, nor their cattle taken, nor their
fields wasted, by the armed force into whose
power, by the events of war, they may hap
pen to fall but if the necessity arise to take
anything from them for the use of such armed
force, the same shall be paid for at an equta-
BILE price. All churches, hospitals, schools,
colleges, Libraries, and other establishments,
Tor charitable and benefcent purposes, shall
be respected, and all persons connected with
the same protected in the discharge of their
, duties, and the pursuit of their vocations
z. In order that the fate of prisoners of
war may be alleviated, all such practices as
I, those of sending them into distant, inclement,
or unwholesome districts, or crowding them
into close and noxious places, shall be studi-
Y ously avoided They shall not be confined in
r dungeons, prison. ships, or PRISONS nor be put
, in irons, or bound, or otherwise restrained in
the use OF their limbs The officers shall en-
JOY liberty on their paroles, within convent.
emf districts, and have comfortable quarters
and the common soldiers shall be disposed in
cantonments, open and extensive enough for
air and exercise, and lodged in barracks as
roomy and good as are provided by the party
in whose power they are, for its own troops.
But if any officer shall break his parole by
leaving the district so assigned him, or any
other prisoner shall escape from the limits of
his cantonment, after they shall have been de-
signated 10 him, such individual, officer, or
other prisoner, shall forfeit so much of the
benefit of this article as provides for his liber-
ty on parole or in canonment. And if any
officer so breaking his parole, or any common
soldier so escaping from the limits assigned
him, shall afterwards be found in arms, pre-
viously to his being regularly exchanged, the
person so offending shall be dealt with accord
ing 10 the established laws of war. The Off
GERS shall be daily furnished by the party in
whose power they are, with as many rations,
and of the same articles, as are allowed, either
in kind or by Communication, 10 officers of equal
rank in IFS own army and all others shall be
daily furnished with such ration as is allowed
10 common soldier in its own service: the
of the war, or at periods 10 be agreed upon
between the respective commanders, be paid
by the other party, on mutual adjustment of
accounts for the subsistence of prisoners; and
such accounts shall not be mingled with or
set off against any others, nor the balance due
on them be withheld as a compensation or re-
prsal for any cause whatever, real or preten-
ded Each party shall be allowed to keep a
coInmissary OF prisoners, appointed by itself,
with every cantonment of prisoners in posses
sion of the other; which commissary shall
see the prisoners as often as he pleases shall
be allowed TO receive, exempt from all duties
or taxes, and to distribute whatever comforts
may be semitic them by their friends; and
shall be free TO transmit his reports in open
letters to the party by whom he is employed.
And It is declared that neither the pretence
that war dissolves all treaties, nor any other
whatever, shall be considered as annulIing or
suspending the solemn covenant contained in
this Article On the contrary, the state of war
is precisely that for which it is provided, and
during which its stipuIations to be as sa-
credly observed as the most acknowledged OBJ
legations under the law OF nature or nations
article %. This treaty shall he ratified by
the President Of the United States of America,
, by and with the advice and consent of the
Senate thereof; and by the President of the
Mexican republic, with the previous approba-
ton of its general Congress; and the ratifca-
ton shall be exchanged in the city of Wash
ngton, or at the seat of government of Next
co, in four months from the date of the sigma
, ture hereof, or sooner if practicable.
In faith whereof, we, the respective pleni-
potentiaries, have signed this treaty of peace,
friendship, limits, and settlement; and have
hereunto affixed our seals respectively. Done
in quintuplicate, at the city OF Guadalupe Hi
dalgo, on the second day of February, in the
/ year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and forty-eight.
f Mp. TRIST, T. 81
, LUIS G. CUEVAS, L. 81
BERNARDO COUTO, Il. 81
MIGL. ATRISTAIN, Il. 81
+ And whereas the said treaty, as amended
has been duly ratified on both parts, and the
resnect;vs ,3tifcations of the same were ex-
cbanoed at Queretaro, on the thirteth day of
NJ last, by Ambrose H. Sewer and Nathan
Ci;ford, commissioners on the part of the gov
ernment of the United States, and by Senior
.. Don Luis de Ia Rosa, Minister of Relations of
the Mexican republic, on the part of that gov
eminent:
Now, therefore, be it known, that /, JAMES
K Polk, President OF the United States OF A.
merica, have caused the SAID treaty to be made
public, to the end that the same, and every
clause and article thereof, may be observed