The North-Carolina standard., 1848-07-19

solutely where the nature OF the suoJect PerLhirS
and as closely as PoSslTib Sba he IN imnossible: an
l. The merchants of either republic then residing
!, tho other shall be allowed to remain twelve
months flor those dwelling in the lnterlor and SIX
ruontbs flor those dwelling at the seaports,J to col
loot their debts and settle their affairs during which
Deriods they shall enjoy the same protection, ana De
ON the footing, in all respects as the cltlzens
or subjects of the most friendly nations and, at le
expraton thereof, at any time before, they snail
have full liberty depart, carrying OF all their e-
fects without olestation hinderance: conforming
therein to the same laws which the citizens or SUD-
tects of the most friendly nations are required to con-
form ieUpon the entrance of the armies OF either
nation into the territories of the other, women and
children ecelesiastcs scholars of every facuity ca
tyators of the earth, merchants, artzans
rers and fishermen unarmed and lnnaoFlng uniofu -
fed towns villages or places, and; in general all
I,ersons whose occupation for the common sub
sistence and benefit of mankind shall be allowed to
continue their respective employ yments unrnolested
in their persons. Nor shall their houses or goods
he 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
happen to fall but if the necessity arise to take any
thing from them for the of such armed force, the
same shall be paid for at an equitable price. All
churches, hospitals, schools, colleges libraries and
Dther establishments, for charitable and benefcent
purposes shall be respected and all persons connect
ed with the protected in the discharge of their
duties, and the pursuit of their vocations. -."
g. In order that the fate of prisoners of war may
be aeJiaed, all such practices those OF sending
them into distant, inclement, unwhoesome DIS
tricts, crowdng them into close and noXlous Pa-
ces shall be studiously avoided. They shall not be
confined in dungeons, prsonshlps, or prisons; nor
be put in irons, bonnd otherwise restrained In
the use of their limbs. The officers shall enjoy lib
erty on their paroles, within convenient Districts and
have comfortable quarters and the common soldiers
shall be disposed in cantonments, open and extern
sve enough for air and exercise, and lodged In bar
racks roomy and good as are provided by the par
ty in whose power they for It's own troops.
But if any officer shall break his parole by leaving
the district so assigned him. any other prisoner
shall escape from the limits of his cantonment after
they shall have been designated to him. such indi-
vidua officer or other prisoner, shall forfeit so much
of the benefit of this article provides for his l0er-
ty on parole or in cantonment. And if any officer 80
breaking his parole, or any common soldier SO es-
Gaping from the limits assigned him, shall after
wards be found in arms, previously to his being reg
ularly exchanged, the person 80 offending shall be
dealt with according the established laws of war.
The officers shall be daily furnished by the party IN
whose power they are, with many rations, and OF
the same article allowed, either in kind or by
commutation to officers Of equal rank In Its own ar
my; and all others shall be daily furnished with
such rations is allowed to 4 common soldier in its
own service the value of all which supplies shall,
at the close of the war, at periods to be agreed
apon between the respective commanders, be paid
by the party, mutual djustment of accounts tor
the subsistence of prisoners and such accounts shall
not be mingled with set off against any others,
nor the balance due on them be withheld as COM
pensation reprisal for any whatever, real or
pretended Each party shall be allowed to keep a
eommissary of prisoners, appointed by itself with
every cantonment of prisoners in possession OF the
other; which commissary shall see the prisoners as
often as he pleases shall be allowed to receive, cY
emp from all duties taxes and to distribute what
ever comforts may be sent to them by their friends
and shall be free to transmit his reports in open let
tera to the party by whom he is employed
And it is declared that neither the pretence that
OlxaS oil any 9TH vi
shall be considcred'as annulling SnsPendlng the
solemn covenant contained in this article. On the
contrary, the state of is precisely that for which
it is provided. and during which its stpulations are
be sacredly observed as the most acknowledged
obligations under the law of nature nations.
5H--'t ARTICLE XIII.
This treaty shall be ratified by the President of the
United States OF America, by and with the advice
and consent of tho Senate thereof and by the Presi
dent of the Mexican republic, with the previous ap-
probation of its general Congress; and the ratifica
ton shall be exchanged in the city of Washington
at the seat of government of Mexico in four
months from the date of the signature hereof,
er if practicable.
In faith whereof, we, the respective plenpotentia-
ries have signed this treaty of peace friendship,
limits, and settlement; and have hereunto affixed
seals respectively. Done in quintuplicate, at
the city of Guadalupe Hidalgo the second day of
February, in the year of Lord thousand eight
hundred and forty-eight
n. P. TRIST IL. S.
LUIS G. CUEVAS, L. s.
BERNARDO COUTO, L. s.
MIGLI. ATRISTAIN, IL. s.
And whereas the said treaty, amended, has
been duly ratified on both parts, and the respective
ratfcatons of the exchanged at Queretaro,
on the 18th day of May last, by Ambrose H. Sewer
and Nathan Clifford, Commissioners the part of
the Government of the United States, and by Senor
Don Luis de la Rosa, Minister of Relations of the
Mexican Republic, on the part Of that Government:
Now, therefore, be it known, that I, JAMES X.
Polk, President of the United States of America,
have caused the said treaty to be made public, to
the end that the same, and every clause and article
thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with good
faith by the United States and the citizens thereof
In witness Whereof have hereunto set my hand,
and caused the seal of the United States be affixed.
Done at the city Of Washington, this fourth day
r, of July, one thousand eight hundred and for
I"' o. ty eight and of the Independence of the
United Staiea the seXenty-third.