The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-08-18

extended to those of both the high contract
Ing parties respectively.
AarlcLE XXXV.
To protect more effecually the commerce
and navigation Of their respective citizens, the
United States Of America and the republic of
Peru agrees TO admit and receive, mutually,
consuls and vice consus in all their ports open
to foreign commerce, who shall enjoy, within
their respective consular districts all therghts,
prerogaiives and immuntics ofthe consuis and
! vice Onsuls of the most favorved nation; but
to enjoy the rights, prerogatiyes and immuni-
ties which belong to them, In virtue of their
public character, the consul and vice-cc nGuls
shall, before exercising their official functions,
exhibit to the government to which they are
accredited their commissions or patents in due
| form, in order to receive their cIcqudtur af-
ter receiving which, they shall be acknowledg-
ed, in their official characters, by the author
! tiles, magistrates and inhabitants of the dis
trct in which they reside The high contract
ing parties, nevertheless remain at liberty to
except those ports and places where the
mission and residence of consuls or vice
consuls may not seem convenient, provided
that the refusal to admit them shall likewise
ARTICLE XXXVI. 49,
| The consu,s, vice consuls, their officers, and
persons employed in their consulatcs, shall be
exempt from all public service and from all
kinds of taxes, iinpostS, and contributions, cx-
ccpt those which they shall lawfully be held
/ to pay on account of their property or com
merce, and to which the citizens and other in
habitants of the country in which they reside
/ a pa snbiapt tbpV bui in oil a..
subj ,ct to the laws of the respective countries
The archives and papers Of the consuates
shall be inviolaby respected, and no person,
magistrate, or other public authority shall,
under any prctext, interfere with, or seize
them.
ARTICLE XXXVII
The consuls and vicc-consuls shall have
| power to require the assistance of the public
authorities Of the country in which tn re-
| side, for the arrest, detention, and custody of
dcscrters from the vessels of war or MGR
chant vessels of their nation; and where the
| deserters claimed shall belong to n merchant
vcssel, the consuls or Nice-t on uls must adj
| dress themselves TO the competent authority,
and demand the dcscrtcrs in writing, proving,
by the ships roll or other public document,
| that the individuals claimed are a part Of the
crew of the vessel from which it is al eyed
that they have deserted but should the n-
| dlviduals aimed form part of the crew ola
vessel of war, the word of honor of "A commits
stoned officer attached to the said vessel shall
be sufficient to identify the deserters and
when the demand of the consuls or vice con
suls SHALL in either case, be so proved the de
livery of the deserters shall not he refused
| The said descrters, when arrested, shall be de-
| livcred to the consuls or vice-consuls, or, at
the request of these, shall be put in the pub
lie prisons and mai tanned at the expens, OF
hose wi reclaim them, to be delivered to
the V, sscls to which they belong, or seat to o.
| theirs of the same nation but if the said de
s,rters should not be SO delivered or sent with
in the term oftwo mon h, to b, tinted from
the day of their arrest, they shall be ct at
liberty, and shall not be again apprehcnd,d
for the same cause The high contrac any par
ties agree that it shall not be lawful for any
public authority, or other person within their
respective dominions,to ha. bJr or protect sach
4, deserters.
ARTICLE XXXVIII
For the purpose of more ciiec,ually pro-
tcc;ing their commerce and navigation, the
two contracting parties do hereby agree to
form, as soon hereafter as may be mutually
convenient, u consular convention, which shall
declare specially the powers and immunities
Of the consuls and vice-coMsuls of the respec-
tive parties.
ARTICLE XXXIX.
Until the conclusion of n consular CONVEX.
ton, the high contracting parties agree that
in the absence of the legal heirs or repre-
scntatiycs, the consuls or vice consuls of eli
/ ther patJ shal BE- 81 III / tn, OK lcutors or ad
Ininist -atorS ofthc citizens OF their nation who
| may die within their consulars Jurisdictions
I and of their countrymen dying at sea, whost
! property nay be brought within their dist let
/ The said consuis or viccconsuls shall call in 4
Justice of the peaca,or other local authority tic
make IN inventory OF The oilcctSS property left
/ by the deceased afer which, the said effect.
{ shall remain in the hands of the said consul,
or vicl go ,suls, who shall be authorized to sci
immediately such of the effects or property as
may he of perishab'e nature, and To dispose
of the remainder according 20 the instructions
of their respective governments. And WHERE
the deceased has heeu engaged in commerce
or other business, the consuls or vice-consuls
shall hold the effects and property so remain
d irg until the expiration OF twelve calendar
months during which time the creditors, il
any, of the deceased shall have the right to
to present their claims or demands against
the said effects and property and all questions
ars ing out of such claims or demands shall
be decided by the laws Of the country where
in the said citizens may have died. 1t is un.
derstood, nevertheless, that if no claim or de-
mand shall have been made against the eff
( cts and property of an individual so deceas-
ed. the conSus or vice-consuls, nj. the expir;,.
tion of the twelve calendar months, may close
the estate and dispose of the effects and prop
erty in accordance with TIL instructions from
their own governments.
ARTICLE Nj.
Tn" United States of America and the re-
public OF Peru, desiring to make rs durable
as circumstances will permit the relations cs-
tablished between the two parties in virtue of
this treaty of friendship, commerce and nav
igation, declare soemnly aud agree AS fol-
lows:
|. Tie present treaty shall remain in force
for the term of ten years from the day of the
exchange Of ,he ALLEGATION thereof; and
further, until the end of one year after either
of the high contracting parties shall have Civ
en- notice to the other of its intention to ter
inmate the samc-each of them rcscrving tC
itself the right of giving such notice to the
other at the end of the said term Of ten years
And it is hereby agreed between the parties
that, on the expiration of one year after sucl
notice shall have been received by either OF
them from the other party, as above mention
ed, this treaty shall altogether cease and de
tcrmine.
> If any citizen or citizens of either party
shall infringe any of the articles of the treaty
such citizen or citizens shall be held person
ally responsible therefor and the harmony
and good understanding between the two ma
tons shall not he interrupted thereby-eacl
party engaging in no way to protect the often