The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-07-06
THE UNION.

siastcs scholars of every faculty, cultvators of the
earth, merchants artisans, manufacturers, and fishermen
unarmed and nhabitng uaforhed towns, villages, or
places, and general all persons whose occupations are
for the subsistence and benefit of mankind shall
be to continue Their Nsspeeve bosss u
goods be burnt or otherwise destroyed, nor teH caue
taken, their fields wasted by lhe armed force INTO
whose power by the events OF they may happen 10
fall but if the necessity to take anything from them
for the of such armed force the same shall be PAID lor
at an equitable price. All churches hospitals, schools,
colleges libraries and other establishments, for chaia;
BILE and benecent purposes, shall be respected ana all
persons connected with the same protected IN the DIS
charge OF their duties, and the pursuit OF their yocaons
.. In order that the fate OF prisoners OF war may De
alleviaed all such practices those OF sending them
into distant, Indictment, or unwhoesome DISTRICTS, or
crowdlng them into close and noxious places shall be
studously avoided They shall not be confined IN dun
geons prison ships prisons nor be put in irons, or
bound, otherwise restrained in the use OF their limbs
The officers shall enjoy liberty on their paroles. within
convenient districts and have comfortable quarters and
the soldiers shall be disposed IN environments,
open and extensive enough Tor ar and exercise, and
lodged in barracks roomy and good as are pro-
vided by the party in whose power they are, Tor It's
own troops But if any officer shall break his parole
by leaving the district so assigned him, or any other
comment, after they shall have been designated TO
him, such Individual, officer other prisoner, shall
forfeit much of the benefit of this article as pro-
vdes for his liberty parole in cantonment And if
any officer so breaking his parole, or any common SOL
der escaping from the limits assigned him, shall after
wards be found in arms, previously to his being regular
according to the established laws OF war. The officers
shall be daily furnished by the party in whose power
they with many ratons and OF the same articles
allowed, either in kind by Communication, to Off
of equal rank in its army; and all others shall
be daily furni shed with such ration is allowed to a
common soldier IN its own service: the value OF all
which supplies SHALL at the close of the war, or at peri
DDS 10 be agreed upon between the respective command
ers, be paid by the other party, mutual adjustment of
accounts for the subsistence OF prisoners and such
accounts shall not be mingled with or set OIL against
any others, the balance due on them be withheld
compensation reprsa for any cause whatever, real
pretended Each party shall be allowed to keep COM
mssay of prisoners, appointed by ITSELF with every
Torment of prisoners possession of the other; which
commi sary shall the prisoners as often as he peases
shall be allowed to receive, exempt from all duties 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 the party by whom he ID en-
ploYed
And it is declared that neither the preence that war
dissoves all treaties, any other whatever shall be
considered annulling suspendng the solemn
nant contained in this article On the contrary the state
of is precisely that for which is provided and du
ring which its spuatons to be sacredy observed
the most acknowledged obligations under the law OF
nature nations.
This treaty shall be ratified by the President of the
United States of America, by and with the advice and
of the Senate thereof and by the President of
the Mexican republic, with the previous appreciation OF
changed in the city of Washington at the seat of gov
of Mexico, in four months from the date OF the
signature hereof, or sooner if practicable.
| In faith Whereof we the respective penipotentares,
settlement and have bereunto affixed seals respec-
lively Done in quinuplcae, at the city of Guadalupe
Hdago, the second day of February in the year OF
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty eight
N. P. TRIST, IL. ST.
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