Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1861-10-31
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/ PROCLAMATION.

By The President of The United States of
america a
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas additional articles to the
general convention of friendship, COM
merce, and navigation between the
United States and Denmark Of the 26th
April, 1926, were concluded aud sign
ed by the respective plcnipotentiaries
of the parties, at Washington, on the
llth day Of July last which addition
al articles, being in the English aud
French languages, the English only
is here given, are word for word, as
follows
Additional articles to the general con-
vention of friendship, commerce,
and navigation. concluded at Wash.
ington on the twcnty-sixth day of
April, eighteen hundred and twenty
six, between the United States Of
America and his Majesty the King
Of Denmark.
The United States of America and
his Majesty the King of Denmark,
wishing to favor their mutual COM
merce by affording, in their ports,
every necessary assistance to their
vessels, the undersigned
plenipotentiarics, being duly empow.
cred for that purpose, have agreed
upon the following additional articles
to the general convention of friend.
ship, commerce. and navigation, con.
clndcd at Washington on the 26th day
Of April, 1925, between the contract.
ing parties .--
The respective consuls general, con-
suls, vice consuls, and commercial
agents shall have the right as snch to
sit as judges and arbitrators in such
as may arise, either at sea
or in port, between the captain, Off
GERS and crew Of the vessels belong
ing to the nation whose interests are
to their charge. particular
y in reference to the adjustment Of
wages and the execution of contracts,
the interference of the local
authorities, unless the conduct of the
crew and the officers, or Of the cap
tains, should disturb the order or tran
guilty of the country.
1t is, however, understood that this
species Of judgment or arbitration
shall not deprive the contcnding par
tics Of the right they have to resort
On their return to the judicial authori-
ty Of their country.
ARTICLE II.
The consuls general, consuls, vice
and commercial agents arc
to require the assistance
Of the local authorities for the search,
arrest, and Imprisonment of the de-
sertcrs from the ships Of war and
merchant vessels of their country.
For this purpose they shall apply to
the competent tribunals. judges, and
officers, and shall, in writing. demand
said descrters, proving, by the exhi-
bition of theregistcrs OF the vessels, the
rolls of the crews, or by other official
or, if the vessel shall have
departed, by copy of said documents
duly certified by them, that such indi-
viduals form part of the crew. and.
On this reclamation being thus substan-
tiatcd, tho surrender shall not be re-
fused, unless there be sufficient proof
Of the said persons being citizens or
subjects of the country where their
is demanded. Snch desert
ers, when arrested, shall be placed at
the disposal of said consuls general,
vice consuls, or commercial
and may be confined in the
public prisons at the request and cost
of those who shall claim them, in
order to be detained until the time
when they shall be restored to the
vessels to which they belonged, or
sent back to their own country by a
vessel of the same nation, or any other
vessel whatsoever. But if not sent
back within three months from the
day Of their arrest they shall DC set
at liberty, and shall not be again ar
rested for the same cause.
However, il the dcsertcr sould be
found to have committed any crime or
offence, his surrender may be delayed
until the tribunal before which his
case shall be depending shall have
pronounced its sentence aud such SEN
tcncc shall have been carried into
effect.
The present additional articles shall
have the same force and value as if
they were inserted, word for word, in
the convention signed at Washington,
on the twenty-sixth day Of April, one
thousand eight hundred and twen-
ty-six, and being approved and rati-
fled by the President Of the United
States, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate thereof, and by
his Majesty the King of Denmark, the
shall he exchanged at
Washington within six months from
the date hereof, or sooner, il possible.
In faith whereof, we the undersign.
ed, in virtue of our respective full
have signed the present sddi.
tional articles, aud have thereto afix-
cd our seals.
Done in triplicate at the city OF
Washington, on the eleventh day Of
July, in the year Of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty one.
WILLIAM II. SEWARD. f.. q.
w. r.. RAASLOFF. l. 8.
And Whereas tho said additional no.
ticles have been duly ratified on both
parts, and the respective ratifcations
Of the same were exchanged in the
city Of Washington, on the eighteenth
instant, by William II. Seward, Secre-
tary Of State of the United States, and
w. X. Raasloff, Charge dAfi'aires OF
his Majesty the King Of Denmark in
the United States, ON The part Of their
respective Governments.
Now, therefore, be it known that /
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Presidcnt of the