Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-08-16
ARrrcLE Xxx.

tween the date OF the signature OF this urea
ty and the restoration of the cllstom-hou-
SEES, comfortable with the stipulation in
the third article, in such cases as merchan-
disc, effects, and property whatsoever ar
irving at the Mexican ports after the res
toration Of the said custom-houses, and
previously to the expiration Of sixty days
after the day Of the signature of this trea-
ty, shall be admitted to entry; and no other
duties shall be levied thereon than the du-
ties established by the tariff found in force
at such custom-houses at the time of the
restoration Of the same. And to all such
merchandise, effects, and property, the
rules established by the preceding article
shall apply.
ARTICLE XXI.
If unhappily any disagreement should
hereafter arise between the governments
of thetwo republics, whether with respect
to the Interpretation Of any stipulation in
the treaty, or with respect to to any other
particular concerning the political or COM
mercial relations Of the two nations,the said
governments, inthe name Of those nations,
do promise to each other that they will en-
deavor, in the most sincere and earnest
manner, to settle the difference so arising,
and to preserve the state Of peace and
friendship in which the two countries are
now placing themselves; using for this end
mutual representations and pacific nego-
tiations. And if, by these means, they
should not be enabled to come to an agree
ment, resort shall not, on this account, be
had to reprisals, aggression, or hostility
Of any kind, by the one republic against
the other, until the government of that
which deems itself aggrieved shall have
maturely considered in the spirit of peace
and good neighborship, whether it would
not be better that such difference should
be settled by arbitration of commissioners
appointed on each side, or by that of a
friendly nation. And should such course
be proposed by either party it shall be
acceded to by the other, unless deemed by
it altogether incompatible with the nature
of the difference, or the circumstances of
the case.
ARTICLE XXII.
If (Which is not to be expected, and
which God forbid y war shall unhappily
break out between the two republics they
do now, with view to such calamity, So
lemnly pledge themselves to each other
and to the world, to observe the following
rules /; absolutely, where the nature of the
subject permits, and as closely as possible
in all cases where such absolute obser-
vance shall be impossible.
l. The merchants of either republic
then residing in the other, shall be allow
ed twelve months, (for those dwelling in
the interior, and six months (for those
dwelling at the seaports, to collect their
debts and settle their affairs during which
periods they shall enjoy the same protec-
ton, and be on the same footing, in all re-
spects, as the citizens or subjects of the
most friendly nations; and, at the expira-
ton thereof, or at any time before they
shall have full liberty to depart, carrying
off all their effects. without molestation or
hindrance; conforming therein to the same
laws which the citizens or subjects Of the
most friendly nations are required to con-
form to. Upon the entrance of the armies
OF either nation in the territories Of the
other, women and children, ecclesiastics.
scholars Of every faculty, cultivators Of
the earth, merchants, artisans, manufac-
turers, and fishermen, pnarmed and inha-
biting unfortified towns villages, or place,
and in general all pers9 pms whose occupa-
tons are for the comm bn subsistence and
benefit of mankind, sH all be allowed to
continue their RESPECTIVE employments un-
molested intheir person $. Nor shall their
houses or goods be bur ut or otherwise de-
stroyed, nor their Gait e taken, nor their
fields wasted, by the ar1 ned force in whose
power, by the events of war, they may
happen to fall; but if The necessity arise
to take anything from there, for the use of
such armed force, the same shall be paid
for at an equitable prize. All churches,
hospitals, schools, coll kges, libraries. and
other establishments 70 charitable and be-
neficent purposes, shall be respected, and
all persons connected with the same pro-
tected in the discharge of their duties, and
the pursuit OF their vocations.
2. In order that the fate of prisoners of
war may be alleviated, all such practices
as those Of sending them into distant, or
unwholesome districts, or crowding them
into close and noxious places, shall be stu
diously avoided. They shall not be con-
fined in dungeons, prison-ships, or pris-
ons; nor be put in irons, or bound, or
otherwise restrained in the use of their
limbs. The officers shall enjoy liberty on
their paroles, within convenient and com
Portable quarters; and the common soldiers
shall be disposed in cantonment open and
extensive enough for air and exercise, and
lodged in barracks as roomy and good as
are provided for the party in whose pow
er they are, for its own troops. But if
any officer shall break his parole by lea
wing the district SO assigned him, or any
other prisoner shall escape from the limits
of his cantonment, after they shall have
been designated to him, such individual,
officer, or other prisoner, shall forfeit so
much of the benefit Of this article as pro-
yides for his liberty on parole or in can
Torment. And any officer SO breaking
his parole, or any common soldier SO es-
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