Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-03-30
NO. 6


astics, scholars of every faculty, cultiyators of
l the earth, merchants, artisans, manufacturers,
E and fishermen, unarmed and inhabiting unfor-
titled tows, villages or places, and in general
1 all persons whose occupations are Tor the COM
mon subsistence and benefit of mankind, shall
be allowed to continue their respective en-
l Payments unmoested in their persons. Nor
Shall their houses or goods be burnt or other
! wise be destroyed, nor their cattle taken, nor
: their fields wasted by the armed force into
t whose power by the events of war, they may
happen 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 equitable
price. All churches hospitals, schools, collie
ges, Libraries, and other establishments, for
charitable and benefcent purpose, shall be re-
spected, and all persons connected with the
same, protected 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, inclemont, or UNI
wholesome districts, or crowding them into
4 close and noxious places, shall be studiously
avoided They shall not be confined in dun
+ geons, prison-ships, or prisons, nor be put in
RI irons, or bound, or otherwise restrained In the
use Of their hands. The officers shall enjoy lib
erty on their paroles, within convenient dis
tricts, and have comfortable quarters; and the
common soldier shall be disposed in canton
ments, open and extensive enough for air and
Fl exercise, and lodged in barracks as roomy and
good provided by the party in whose
power they are for its own troops. But if any
officers shall break his parole by leaving the
district SO assigned him, Or any other prisoner
shall escape from the limits of its cantonment
after they shall have been designated to him,
such individual officer, or prisoner, shall for
felt so much of the benefit of this article pro-
vldes for his liberty on parole or in cantonment.
And if an officer so breaking his parole, or any
common soldier so escaping from the limits
assigned him, shall afterwards be found in arms
previously to his being regularly exchanged,
the person so offending shall be dealt with ac-
tcording to the established laws of war.
The officers shall be daily furnished by the party
in whose power they are, with many Fashions, and
of the same articles, allowed, either in kind
by Communication, to officers of equal rank in its
army; and all Others shall be daily furnished with
such ration as is allowed 10 common soldier in ts
own servlcethe value OF all such supplies SHALL at the
close of the war, periods be agreed upon be-
tween the respective commanders be paid by the other
party, mutual adjustment of accounts for the
subsistence ofprisoners; and such accounts shall not
be mingled with set off against any others, the
. balance due on them be withheld as compensation
reprisa for any whatever, real pretended
Each party shall be allowed TO keep commissary OF
prisoners appointed by ITSELF with every cantonment
prisoners in possession OF the other; which commits
sary shall see the prisoners often he pleases;
. taxes, and to distribute whatever comforts may be
to them by their friends and shall be free
mil his reports in open letters to the party by whom
al And il is declared that neither the pretence that war
dissolves all treaties any other whatever, shall be
considered annuling or suspending the solemn cove
nant contained in this article. On the contrary the
state of is precisely that for which il is provided
and during which, its spulatons to be sacred
y observed as the most acknowledged obligations un
e der the law OF nature or nations.
ARTICLE XIII.
III This treaty shall be ratified by the President of the
United States of America, by the advice and consent
of the Senate thereof and the President of the Mex
" lean republic with The previous appreciation of its
General Congress; and the Publications shall be ex-
changed in the city of Washington in four months
from the date of the signature hereof, sooner if
practicable.
In faith whereof, we. the respective plenipotenta-
ries have signed this treaty of peace friendship linz
it's and settlements and have hereunto affixed seals
respectively Done IN quintupcate at the city Quad
: alupe Hdalgo, the second day of February in the
{ year of our Lord thousand eight hundred and
e forty eight
+ LUIS G. CUEvAs. T. ST.
~ BERNARDO CoNTo, Il. ST.
MIG ATRIsTAIN, IL. 81
Additional and secret article of the treaty of peace
friendship, limits and settlement between the Uni
ted States of America and the Mexican republic,
signed this day by their respective ptenipotentiares
81 tExpunged
In view of the possibility that the exchange of the
atificatlons of this treaty may, by the circumstances
longer than the of four months fixed by its twen-
tythird article for the exchange of racaons of the
same. 1t is hereby agreed that such delay shall not
in any manner, effect the force and validity of this
Y treaty. unless it should exceed the term of eight
months counted from The date of the signature there
ri of.
This article is to have the force and virtue
. ifinserted in the treaty to which this is addition
In faith whereof, we, the respective pleniootenia
res, have signed this additional and article and
s have hereunto affixed our SEALS respectively. Done
in quintupcae at the city of Guadalupe Hidalgo on
the second day of February in the year OF our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and forty eight
: N. P. TRIsT, Il. 81
LUIS g. CUEvAs, H. 81
BERNARDO Coyro, f.. 81
: Me. ATRIsrAIN, IL. 81
THE VOTE ITS RATIFICAT TON.
n The above treaty, with the amendments, was rati-
+ fled by the American Senate a quarter past 9o'-
clock Friday night, the 10th Of March, l94S, by
n the following vote:
-Four Senators were absent, namey:-Messrs-
u Phelps Pearce, Clayton, Wings; Houston, Dem.
o The vote for the ratification stands as follows:
e AYEs-Messrs. Ashley, Anterior, Bagby, Brad.
bury, Bright, Butler Calhoun Cameron, Cass Jeffer
son Davis Dickinson, Dix, Downs Fetch, Foote,
. Hannegan, Hunter, Herschel Johnson Mason, Moor
Miles, Rusk, Sewer, Sturgeon Turney, Yulee, DEM
ocrats Bell, Clarke, Crittenden John Davis, Day.
t, ton, Reverdy Johnson Herchel Johnson, Mangunl
q Miller, Underwood, Wings; Hale, Abolition-37
q NAYs-Messrs Allen, Atchson, Benton, Breese,