Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-08-06
!. The STANDARD.
,o.tv for the Exchange Of Prisoners.

Treaty for the Exchange Of Prisoners.
We have obtained copy of the cartel when has
Just been concluded between the two oAlige'en'
Confederacies for the exchange of prisoners o. WAL
We publish it for the public informauoni
HAxALL's LANDING, ON JAMES RIVER VA,
July %, 1862.
Article LIST. It is hereby agreed and stipulated
that ali prisoners of War; held by either party IN
Guiding those taken on private armed vessels Known
as priYatcers shall be discharged upon the conoloh
and terms following:
,or f,r oescor. nriyateers to be placed upon the
foot;ro of officers and men of the Navy.
Non and officers of lower grades may be exchanged
far Officers of higher grade, and men and officers
~ Sierent services may be exchanged according to
the following scale of equivalents:
General commanding in chief, or an Admiral
shall be exchanged for officers of equal rank or for
sixty privates or common seamen
A Flag officer or Major General shall be exchanged
for officers of equal rank for forty prlVateS or
common seamen.
A Commodore carrying broad pennant or
Brigadier General shall be exchanged for officers of
equal rank, or twenty privates or common seamen
A Captain in the Navy or Colonel shall be en-
changed for officers Of equal rank, or for fifteen pr-
Yates or common seamen.
A Lieutenant Colonel or Commander in the
Navy shall be exchanged for officers Of equal rank
A Lieutenant Commander OF MAJOR shall be ex-
changed for officers of equal rank, eight privates
or common seamen
A Lieutenant or a Master in the Navy 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
Ensgns in the Army shall be exchanged for officers
of equal rank, or four privates or common seamen
Midshipmen, Warrant officers in the Navy, Mas
tiers of Merchant vessels and Commanders OF prlva-
teers shall be exchanged for officers OF equal rank
or three privateS or common seamen Second Cap.
tans Lieutenants or Mates Of Merchant vessels OF
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 ID 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 any alleged civil offence are
exchanged, it shall only be for citizens, captured
suffers transfers and all civilians in the actual
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, nor to serve as military police
or constabulaory force in any FORT garrison, field
work, held by either of the respective PARTIES, nor
as guards of prisons, depots stores, to dis
charge any duty usually performed by soldiers IN
Ill exchanged under the provisions Of this cartel
The exchange is not TO be considered complete until
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ally restored 10 the lines 10 which he belongs.
Article 9Th. Zach party, upon the discharge Of
prisoners of the other party Is authorized TO dis
charge equal number Of their own officers or men
from parole, furnishing al the time the other
party list OF their prisoners discharged and Of thHr
own officers and men relieved from parole; thus en-
aiding each party 10 relieve from parole such OF
their own officers and nsn as the party NAV choose
The lists thus mutually furnished viii keep both
parties advised OF the condition Of the exchange
of prisoners
Article 9th. The stipulat,ons and provisions above
mentioned TO De Of binding obligation during the
continuance Of the war, il matters not which party
may have the surplus Of prisoners, the great prince
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 or for pirates
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.
Sd That all prisoners Of whatever arm Of ser
vice, are to be exchanged or paroled in ten days
from the time of their capture if it be practical TO
transfer them to their lines in that time; if not
as soon thereafter 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 tho performance of
field garrison, police or guard constabulary duty
(Signed JoHN \. DIX, Maj. Gen.
tSisued) d. ii. HILL, Maj. Gen. c. s. A.