Kansas weekly herald., 1855-02-23
8 VOLUME I---NU MBER aA.

70 : sd
in vessel bound for an enemy's port shall be
subject to detention and confscation, leaving
the owners may dispose Of them as they see prop
er.. No vessel of either OF the two nations shall
be detained on the high seas on account OF har-
ing board articles Of contraband, wheneyerths
deliver up the articles OF eentraband to the cap-
tor, unless tie Quantity Of such articles, be- 50
great effd OF so large bull. they cannot be re-
eeiSea on boaad the cap ship vi bout great
bit fai ia and Of
theneafsst copy and safe port for trial and
Judgment, kct6rungt law 49, . ',,7iesa :
.arttdIe 90. And reas it Frequently happens
that vessels sail for port or place belonging to
an enemy without knowing that the same is be-
sieged blockaded or invested, it is agreed that
every vessel so circumstanced may be turned a.
way from such port or place, but shall not be de-
tanned; nor shall any part OF her cargo, If not
contraband, be confiscated, unless; after warning
of such blockade or investment from the COM
manding officer of the blockading forces, she
shall again attempt to enter but shall be per-
mitted to go to any other port Or place she may
think proper. Nor shall any vessel that may
have entered into such port before the same was
actually beseiged blokaded, or invested by the
other, be restrained from quitting the place
wite her cargo; nor, if found therein after the
reduction and surrender, shall such vessel or her
cargo be liable to confscation, but they shall be
tresored to the owners thereof.
.Article 21. In order to prevent all kind oe
disorder in the visiting and examination of tha
ships and cargoes of both the contr acting parties
on the high seas, they have agreed mutually that
whenever national vessel of war, public or
private, shall meet with neutral of the other
contracting party, the first shall remain out Of
cannon-shot, unless in stress of weather, and may
send its boat, with two or three men only, in
order to execute the said examination of the pa
pers concerning the ownership and cargo of the
vessel, without causing the least extotrion, vio-
lence. or i'll treatment, for which the command
ers OF said armed ships shall be responsible with
their persons and property; for which purpose
the commanders Of private armed vessels shall,
before receiving their commissions, give suff-
cient security to answer for all the damage
they may commit. And it is expressly agreed
that the neutral party shall in case be requir-
ed TO go on board the examining vessel for the
purpose of exhibiting her papers, or for any
other purpose whatever.
Article 22 To avoid all kinds of veXation and
abuse in the examination of the papers relating
to the ownership of the vessels belonging to the
citizens of the two contracting parties, they
have agreed. and do hereby agree, that in case
one of them should be engaged in war, the ships
and vessels belonging to the citizens of the 9TH
er must be furnished with sea-letters or pass
ports expressing the name, property, and bulk
of the ship, as also the name and place of hab-
itation of the master and commander of the
said vessel. in order that it may thereby appear
that the ship really and truly belongs to the cit
liens Of one [of] the parties They have like
wise agreed that when such ships have a cargo,
they shall also be provided besides the said sea
letters OF passports, with certificates containing
the several particulars of the cargo and the place
whence the ship sailed, so that it may be known
whether any forbidden OF contraband goods are
on board the same, which certificates shall be
made out by the officers of the place whence
the ship sailed, in the accustomed form; without
which requisites said vessel may be detained to
be adjudged by the competent tribunal, and may
be declared lawful prize, unless the said defect
shall be proved to be owing to accident, and
shall be satisfied or supplied by testimony en-
tirely equivalent.
article %. Il is further agreed that the stipu-
lations above expressed, relative to the visiting
and examination Of vessels, shall apply only to
those which sail without convoy; and when said
vessels shall be under convoy, the verbal decla-
ration of the commander of the convoy, on his
word of honor, that the vessels under his pro-
lection belong to the nation whose flag he car
ries, and, when they may be bound to an enemy's
port, that they have no contraband goods on
board, shall be sufficient.
.4rticle "a. 1t is further agreed that in all
ses the established courts for prize causes in the
country to which the prizes may be conducted
shall alone take cognizance Of them. And when-
ever such tribunals of either party shall pro-
nounce judgment against any vessel, or goods,
or property, claimed by the citizens of the 9TH
ct party, the sentence or decree shall mention
the reasons or motives upon which the same
shall have been founded; and, an authenticated
COPY of sentence decree. and of all the
proceedingsin the case, shall, if demanded be
| delivered to the commander Or agent. Of said
vessel, without any delay, he paying the legal
| fees for the same.
article %. For the purpose of lessening the
evils of war, the two high contracting parties
| further agree that in case war should unfortu-
nateiy take place between them, hostilities shall
only be carried on by persons dniy commissions
ed by the Government, and by those under their
orders, except in repeling an attack or inv aston.
! and in defence of property.
| .d1ticfe2 20. Whenever one of the contra acting
parties shall be engaged in war with another
state, no citizen Of the other contracting party
shall accept commission or letter of maroue for
the purpose Of assisting or cooperating hostiielv
with the said enemy against the said parties so
/ at war, under the pain of being treated as pi-
rate.
Article 81. If by any fatility, which cannot
be expected, and God forbid, the two contract-
each other, they have agreed, andtio agree. now
for then, that there shall be allowed the term Of
| six months to the merchants residing on the
coasts and in the ports Of each other, and the
term OF one year to those who dwell in the ir-
terror, to arra1,ge their business and transpo: {
| their effec:1s wherever they please, giving to
them the safe conduct necessary for it, which may
serve as sufficient protection until they arrive
| es the designated port. The citizens of ali OH
/ er occupations who may be- established in the
territories or dominions-ef the United States or
of San Salvador, shall be respected and maintains
ed in the full enjoyment of their personal liber-
ty and property. unless their particular conduct
shall cause them to forfeit this projection, which
in consideration OF humanity, the contracting
parties engage to give them.
/ Article %. Neither the debts duo from indi-
viduals of the notion TO the individuals eff the
other. nor shares nor money whit they may have
inpublic funds, nor in public or private banks,
shall ever, in any eyent..of wr or OF national
difference, be Te4uestesed or confiscated.
/ Article 20. Both -he contracting parties being
desiroas Of avoiding all Inequality IN relation to