Washington sentinel., 1855-11-17

tutional and legal provisions aforesaid, and
yielding obedience to the laws regulations, and
usages Of the country wherein they reside, shall
be at liberty TO come, 60, sojourn temporarily,
domiciliate, or establish themselves perma-
nently, the former in the cantons of the Swiss
Confederation, the Swiss in the States of the
American Union, to acquire, possess, and alien
ate therein property, (as is explained in article
vi to manage their affairs to exercise their
profession, their industry, and their commerce;
to have establishments; to possess warehouses;
to consign their products and their merchan-
disc, and to sell them by wholesale or retail,
either by themselves or bysuch brokers or other
agents as they may think proper; they shall
have free access to the tribunals, and shall be
at liberty to prosecute and defend their rights
before courts OF justice in the same manner as
native citizens, either ny themselves or by such.
advocates, attorneys, or other agents as they
may think proper to select No pecuniary or
other more burdensome condition shall be i'm
posed upon their residence or establishment, or
upon the enjoyment of the aforementioned
rights, than shall be imposed upon citizens of
the country where they reside, nor any condi-
ton whatever to which the latter shall not be
subject.
The foregoing privileges, however, shall not
extend to the exercise of political rights nor to
participation in the property of communities,
corporations, or institutions, of which the citi-
zens OF one party, established in the other,
shall not have become members or coproprie.
tors.
The other articles down to article l3 are of
the usual character entered into by States
which desire to place their relations and COM
merce on the most liberal basis of friendly re-
ciprocity. The following are the articles re-
lating to the surrender of fugitive criminals:
ARTICLE XIII.
| The United States of America and the Swiss
confederation, on requistion made in their
name through the medium of their respective
| diplomatic or consular agents, shall deliver up
| to justice persons who, being charged with the
crimes enumerated in the following article,
| committed within the jurisdiction Of the re-
| quiring party, shall seek asylum or shall
be found within the territories of the other:
| Prorided, That this shall be done only when
the fact Of the commission of the crime be so
established as to justify their apprehension and
commitment for trial if the crime had been
committed in the country where the persons so
accused shall be found
ARTICLE XIV.
Persons shall be delivered up, according to
the provisions of this convention, who shall be
charged with any of the following crimes, to
wit: Murder (including assassination, parricide,
infanticide and poisoning y attempt to com.
NIT murder, rape, forgery, or the emission Of
forged papers; arson, robbery with violence,
intimidation, or forcible entry of an inhabited
house; piracy, embezzlement by public officers,
or by persons hired or salaried to the detr-
ment of their employers, when these crimes are
subject to infamous punishment.
ARTICLE XIV.
On the part Of the United States the sur
render shall be made only by the authority of
the Executive thereof; and on the part of the
Swiss Confederation by that of the Federal
Council.
ARTICLE XVI.
The expenses of detention and delivery,
effected in virtue of the preceding articles,
shall be at the cost of the party making the
demand.
ARTICLE XVII.
The provisions of the aforegoing articles re-
lating to the surrender of fugitive criminals,
shall not apply to offences committed before
the date hereof nor to those of political char
acter.