The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1848-03-24

ied towns. villages orplaces, and in gen.
eral all persons whose occupations are
for the common substance and benefit
of mankind, shall be allowed to continue
their respective employmentsu unmOlested
in their persons. Nor shall their houses
or goods be burnt or otherwise destroyed,
nor thoir cattle taken, nor their fields
wasted by the armed force into whose
power. by the events of war, they may
happen to fall; but if the necessity arise
to take any thing from them for the use
ofsuch armed force, the same shall be
paid for at an equitable price. All
churches, hospitals, schools. colleges, Ii
brarics; and other establishments for
charitable aud benevolent purposes, shall
be respected, and all persons connected
with The same, protected in the discharge
of their duties, aud the pursuit Of their
vncations.
q 10 order that the fate of prisoners
of war may be alleviated, all such prac-
lices as those of sending them into distant,
inclement, Or unwholesome districts. or
crowding them into close and noxious
places. shall be studiously avoided.
They shall not be confined in dangerous,
prisonships, or prisons; nor be put in
irons, or bound or otherwise restrained in
the use oftheir limbs. The officers shall
enjoy liberty on their paroles, within con.
venicnt districts, aud have comfortable
quarter; and the common soldier shall be
disposed i'll cantonmen;s,o open aud exten-
sive enough for air and exercise, and
lodged in barracks as roomy and good as
are provided by the party in whose pow
er they are for its own troops. But if
any officer shall break his parole by leav-
ing the district so assigned him,o any 9th
er prisoner shall escape from the confines
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
provides for his liberty on parole or in
cantonment. And ifan officer so break
ing 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
according to the established laws of war.
The officers shall be daily furnished by
the party in whose power they are. with
as many rations, and ofthe same articles,
as are allowed, either in kind or by com.
mutation, to officers of equal rank in its
own army; and all others shall be daily
furnished with such rations as is allowed
to common soldier in its own service;
tho value of all which supplies shall, at
the close ofthe war, or at periods to he
agreed upon between the respective com.
manders, be paid by tho other party, on
a mutual adjustment of accounts for the
subsistence of prisoners; and such ac-
counts shall not be- mingled with or set
ofagainst any others, nor the balance due
on them be withheld, as compensation
or reprisal for any cause whatever, real
or pretended. Each party shall be al
lowed to keep commissary ofprisoners,
appointed by itself, with every canton
ment of fprisoners, in possession of the
other; which commssary shall sec the
prisoners as often as he pleases; shall be
allowed 20 receive, exempt from all du-
ties or taxes. and to distribute, whatever
comforts may be sent to them by their
friends; and shall be free to transmit his
reports in open letters to tho party by
whom he is employed.
Aud it is declared that neither the pre-
tence that war dissolves all treaties,
nor any other whatever, shall be consd.
cred as annulling Or suspending the sol
emn covenant contained in this article.
On the contrary the state of war is pre-
csely that for which il is provided; and
during which, its stiuplaiions are To be as
sacredly observed as the most acknowl-
edged obligations under the law of ma.
ture or nations.