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Treaty for the Exchange Of Prisoners.
We have obtained copy Of the cartel which has
lust been concluded between the two billigerent
Confederaeh for the exchange Of prisoners Of war.
We publish it for the public information:
HAxALL's LANDING, ON JAMES RIVER, VA,
- s,..s... ~ July %, 1862.
Article 1st 1t is hereby agreed and stipulated
that all prisoners of War, held by either party, in
GLIDING those taken on private armed vessels known
prvatcers shall be discharged upon the condition
and terms following:
Prisoners to be exchanged man for man, and ON.
Ger for officer; priyateers to be placed upon the
footing of officers and men Of the Navy
Men and officers oflower grades may be exchangeo
for officers Of higher grade, and men and oihccrs
Of different services may be exchanged ACCORDING 70
the following scale of equivalents:
A General commanding in Chief or an Admiral
shall be exchanged for officers of equal rank or Tor
sixty prvates or common seamen:
HFlap officer or Major General shall be exchanged
for officers of equal rank, for forty prvateS or
common seamen.
A Commodore carrying broad pennant or
Bricader General shall be exchanged for officers OF
A Captain in the Navy or Colonel shall DC ex-
changed for officers Of equal rank, or for fifteen pri
Yates or common seamen.
A Lieutenant Colonel or a Commander in the
Navy shall be exchanged for officers of equal rank
or for ten privates or common seamen
A Lieutenant Commander or MAYOR shall be ex-
changed for officers of equal rank, or eight prVates
or common seamen
A Lieutenant or Master in the Navy or Cap
tain in the Army or Marines shall be exchanged for
officers of equal rank, or six privates Or common
seamen.
Masters Mates in the Navy or Leutenants and
Ensigns in the Army shall be exchanged for officers
of equal rank, or four privates or common seamen.
Mdshipmen, Warrant officers in the Navy, Mas
tiers of Merchant vessels and Commanders OF priva-
teers shall be exchanged for officers OF equal rank
or three privates or common Seamen Second Zap.
tains Lieutenants or Mates of Merchant vessels or
privateers and all petty officers in the Navy and all
non commissioned officers in the Army or Marines
shall be severally exchanged for persons of equal
rank, or for two privates or common seamen; and
private soldiers or common Seamen shall be ex-
changed for each other, man for man.
Article I'd. Local. State, civil and militia rank
held by persons not in actual military service will
not be recognized the basis of exchange being the
grade actually held in the Naval and Military SER
vice Of the respective parties.
Article Sd. If citizens held by either party on
charges of dsloyalty or any alleged civil offence
exchanged, it shall only be for citizens, captured
suffers transfers and all civilians in the actual ser
vice of either party to be exchanged for persons in
similar position
Article 4th All prisoners of war to be discharged
on parole in ten days after their capture, and the
prisoners now held and those hereafter taken to be
transported to the points mutually agreed upon, at
the expense of the capturing party. The surplus
prisoners not exchanged shall not be permitted to
take up arms again, to military police
constabulatory force in any fort garrison field
work, held by either of the respective Iarties
as guards of PRISONS depots stores, nor to dis
charge any duty usually performed by soldiers
Ill exchanged under the provisions of this cartel
The exchange is not to be considered complete until
the officer or soldier exchanged for has been actu
ally restored to the lines to which he belongs.
Article 9Th. Each party, upon the discharge of
prisoners Of the other party, is authorized to dis
charge an equal number Of their own officers or men
from parole furnishing at the same time to the other
party list oftheir prisoners discharged and of their
own officers and men relieved from parole; thus en-
abling each party to relieve from parole such Of
their own officers and men the party may choose.
The lists thus mutually furnished will keep both
parties advised of the true condition of the exchange
of prisoners
Article 6th The stipulatlons and provisions above
mentioned to be of binding obligation during the
continuance of the war; it matters not which party
may have the surplus of prisoners, the great prnci-
pies involved being:
LIST, An equitable exchange of prisoners, man for
man, officer for officer, officers of higher grade
exchanged for officers Of lower grade for privates
according to the scale of equivalents
2nd That privates and officers and men of differ
ent services may be exchanged according to the
same rule of equivalents.
3D. That all prisoners, Of whatever arm of ser.
vice. are to be exchanged or paroled in ten days
from the time Of their capture, il it practical to
transfer them to their lines in that time if not
as soon thereafter as practicable.
4th, That no officer, soldier, or employee in the
service of either party is to be considered as ex-
changed and absolved from his parole. until his
equivalent has actually reached the lines of his
friends.
9Th, That the parole forbiis the performance Of
field garrison police or guard or constabuary duty
(Signed) JOIN A. DIX, Maj. Gen.
(Sgned) D. ii. HILL, Maj. Gen. c. S. a.