Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 185?-1859, 1856-01-19

the country to which the prizes may be con-
Quoted shall alone take cognizance Of them.
And whenever such tribunals or either party
shall pronounce judgment against any vessel,
or goods, or property, claimed by the citizens
of the other party, the sentence or decree shall
mention the reasons or motives upon which the
same shall have been founded and On authenti-
Gated copy of the sentence or decree, and Of all
the proceedings in 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 25. For the purpose of lessening tho
evils Of war, tho two high contracting parties
further agree thUt in case q war should unfur-
tunately take place between then, hostilities
shall only be carried on by persons duly COM
missoned by the government, aud by those un-
ther their orders, except in .repelling an attack
or invasion, and in the defence Of property.
Article 26. Whenever one Of the contract
ing parties shall be engaged in war with anOth.
er state, no citizen of the Othsr contracting par
ty shall accept commission or letter Of mar.
que for the purpose Of assisting or cooperating
hoStiely with the said enemy against the said
parties so at war, under the pain of being treat.
cd as pirate
Article 27. Ifby any fatality, which cannot
be expeated, and God forbid, the two Contrac.
ting parties should be engaged in war with
each ,ther, they have agreed, and do 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
interior, to arrange their business and transport
their effects wherever they please, giving to
them the safe conduct necessary for it, which
may serve as sufficient protection until they
arrive at the designated port. The citizens Of
all other occupations who may be established in
the Territories or dominions of the United Sta
tes or of San Salvador, shall be respected and
maintained in the full enjoyment Of their per.
sonal liberty and property, unless their part-
cular conduct shall cause them to forfeit this
protection, which, in consideration Of humani-
, ny, the contracting parties engage to give them.
Article 26. Neither the debts due from in.
, dividuas Of the one nation to tue individuals
Of the other, nor shares nor money which they
may have in the public funds, nor in public or
private banks, shall ever, in any event Of war,
or of national difference, be sequestcrcd or con-
fscated.
Trtcle 90. Both the contracting parties DO.
ing desrous Of avoiding all inequality in rcla-
ton to their public communications and official
intercourse, have agreed, and do agree, to grant
to the conveys, ministers, and other public IL
; gents, the same favors, ilnmunties, and ex.
0 emptons which those Of the most favored na.
tions do or shall enjoy; it being understood that
r whatever favorS, immunities, or privileges tho
United States of America or the Republic of San
, Salvador may find it proper to give to the mi.
: nisters and public agents Of any other power,
shall, by the same act, be extended to those Of
each of the contracting parties.
Article 80, To mako moro eacCtual the pro.
: lection which tho United States and the Repub-
lie of San Salvador shall afford in future to the
navigation aud commerce Of the citizens Of each
, other, they agree to receive and to admit con.
suls and viceconsuls in all the ports open to
foreign commerce, who shall enjoy in them all
the rights, prerogatiees, and immunities Of the
consuls and vice-consuls of the most faAored NO.
ton; each contracting party, however, remain
ing at liberty to except those ports and places
in which the admission and residence of such
Consuls may not seem convenient.
Article 81. In order tnat the consuls and
vice-consuls Of the two contracting parties may
enjoy the rights, prerogatlveS, and immunites
which belong to them by their public charact.
er, they shall, before entering on the exercise
: of their functions, exhibit their commission or
Q patent in due form to tho government to which
y they are accredited; and, having obtained their
cxcquatur, they shall be held and considered as
such by all the authorities, magistrates, and
. inhabitants in the Consular District in which
/. they reside.
i Article 32. It is likewise agreed that tho
Q consuls, their secretaries, officers, and persons
: attached to the service Of consuls they not be-
ing citizens Of the country in which the consul
: resides, shall be exempt from all public SER
: vice, and also from all kind of taxes, imposts,
and contributions, except those which they shall
n be obliged to pay on account of commerce or
:, their property, to which the citizens mud nhab!
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