The North-Carolina standard., 1849-03-28
ALEIeH NORTH CAROLINA MARCH 2s

mites, and exemptions which those of the most favor
ed nations do shall enjoy tbeing understood that
Whatever favors, imHunities, privileges tho Uni
ted States ofAmerica the republic of New Granada
may nd 1T proper to give the ministers and public
agents of any other power shall. by the same act be
extended to those of each of the contracting parties
. ART. AXX. TO make more effectual the protec-
ton which the United States and the republic of New
Granada shall afford in future to the navigation and
commerce ofth citizens Of each otheT they agree to
receive and admit consuls and vice consus in all the
ports open to foreign commerce, who shall enjoy in
them all the rights, prerogatiVes, and lmmunltaes OF
the consuls and vice census of the most favored ma
ton; each contracting party, however, remaining at
liberty to except those ports and places in which the
admission and residence of such consuls may not
seem convenient. Z. bs.f-yc < .I.5. 5ls. -s1 3
ART. XXI. In order that the consuls and vice
consuls of the two contracting parties may eney the
rights prerogatives, and irnmunties which belong to
them by their public character, they shall, before
entering the exercise of their functiors exhibit
their commission patent, in due form, to the gov
eminent to which they are accredited; and, having
obtained their seeqnafr, they shall be held and con-
sidered as such by all the authorities, magistrates,
and inhabitants in the consular district In which they
reside. " 49, To- t-s- i!Haa;r Fss -s-i
Arr. XXXII. Itis likewise agreed, that the con-
suls their secretaries officers, and persons attached
to the service of consuls, they not being citizens OF
the couRry in which the consul resides. shall be ex
empt from all public service; and also from all kind
which they shall be obliged to pay on account of
commerce their property, which the citizens and
inhabitants, native and foreign, of the country In
which they reside are subject, being in everything
besides subject tothe laws of the respective States!
The archives and papers of the @consuates shall be
respected Iylolaby, and under no pretext Whatever
shall any magistrates seize, or in any way Interfere
with them. I'D set = = .-~
ART. AXX1lI. The said consuls shall have pow
er to require the assistance of the authorities OF the
country for the arrest detention and custody of de-
serters from the public and private vessels of their
country; andfor that purpose they shaladdres them
selves to the courts, judges and officers competent,
and shall demand in writing the said deserters, prove
ing by exhibition of the registers of the vessels,
or ships roll, other public documents, thatthose
men were part of the said crews; and this demand
so proved, Saving, however, where the contrary is
proved by other testmones) the delivery shall not
be refused. Such deserters4 when arrested shall be
put at the disposal of the said consuls and may be
put In the public prisons, at the request and expense
of those who reclaim them, to be sent to the ships
to which they belonged, to others of the same ma
ton But ifthey be not sent back within two months,
to be counted from the day Of their arrest they shall
be set at liberty and shall be arrested for the
same cause. .--
ART. XXXIV. For the purpose of more efectu-
ally protecting their commerce and navigation, the
two contracting parties do hereby agree to form, as
hereafter circumstances will permit, consul
lar convention, which shall declare specially the pow
ers and immuntes of the consuls and vice consuls
of the respective parties. -
ART. XXXV. The United States of America and
the republic af New Granada desiring to makeas du-
rabe possible the relations, which to be estab
iished between the two parties by virtue of this trea
ty, have declared solemny and the follow
ing points ..s..--.s ... --
lst. For the better understanding of the preceding
articles, it is and has been stipulated between the
high contracting parties that the citizens, vessels
and merchandise of the United States shall enjoy in
the ports of New Granada; including those of the
part of the Granadian territory generally denom-
mated ishmus gf Panama, from its southernmost ex-
tremty until the boundary of Costa Rica, all the ex-
emptions privileges, and mmunities concerning COM
meTce and navigation, which now or may hereat-
ter be enjoyed be enjoyed by Granadian citizens,
their vessels and merchandise land that this equa-
ty of favors shall be made to extehd to the passen-
gers, correspondence and merchandise of the United
States In their transit the said territory. from
one to the other. The government of New Grana-
da guarantees the government of the United States
that the right of way transit across the fSfhmus
Panama upon any modes of communication that now
exist, OF that may be hereafter constructed, shall be
open and free to the government and citizens OF the
nied States, and for the transportation of any ar
hces of produce, manufactures, or merchandise, OF
lawful commerce, belonging to the citizens OF the
u nted States that other tolls or charges shall
be levied collected upon the citizens of the nlted
States, their said merchandise thus passing over
any Toad canal that may be made by the govern
ment of New Granada, or by the authority OF the
same, than is; under like circumstances,l levied upon
and collected FROM the Granadian citizens that any
lawful produce, manufactures, merchandise be-
longing to citizens of the United thus passing from
one to the other in either drection for the pur
pose of expectation any other foreign country, shall
notbe liable to any import duties whatever :ors faV-
ing paid such duties, they shall be entitled to draw
back upon their exporation shall the citizens of
the United States be liable to any dptes tolls, OIL
charges of any kind to which native citizens are not
subjected for thus passing the said isthnus. ARd,l
in order to themselves the tranquil and con-
slant enjoyment of these advantages and as an es-
peca compensation for the said antages, and tor
the favors they have acquired by the 4th, 5th' and
9Th articles of this treaty., the United States guaranty
positively and eficaciously to New Granada, by the
present stipulation, the perfect neutrality of the be-
aforementioned isthmus with the view that the free
transit from the one the other may not be IN
errupted or embarrassed in any future time while
this treaty exists and in consequence the United
States also guaranty, in the the rights
Of sovereignty and property which New Granada has
and possesses over the said territory. lN,,1.
I'd. The present treaty. shall remain in full force
and yigor for the term of twenty years from the day
of the exchange of the ratifcatons; and from the
day the treaty that conclud ed between the
United States and Colombia, the Sd of October,
1924, shall cease to have effect, Notwithstanding
what was disposed in the first point of its st ar
tic1e. s. :. s.-- .--- H ,t:auas 4
Sd. notwithstanding the foregoing, if neither par
ty notifies to the other its intention OF reforming any
Of or all the articles of this treaty, twelve months be-
fore the expiration of the\twenty years stipulated
above, the said treaty shall continue binding both
parties beyond the said twenty years, until twelve
months from the time that of the parties notifies
its intention of proceeding to a reform. -. saI
4th. If anyone more of the citizens of either
party shall infringe any of the articles of this treaty.
such citizens shall be held personally responsible
for the same, and the harmony and good correspon-
dence between the nations shall not be interrupted
thereby each party engaging in way to protect
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