Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-02-03


viduals of the other, nor shares, nor moneys
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 Sc
questered or confiScated.
ARTICLE XXX.-Both the contracting par
ties, being DESTROYS of avoiding all inequality
in relation to their public communications and
official intercourse, agree to grant to the en-
voys, ministers, and other public agents, the
same fayors, immuniticS, and exemptions
which those of the most favored nation do or
may enjoy; it being understood that whatever
favOrs, immuniteS, or privileges, the United
States of America or the republic of Bolivia
may find it proper to give to the ministers and
other public agents of any other power, shall,
by the same act, be extended to those Of each
of the contracting parties.
ARTICLE NXXI.-To make eiIectual the
protection which the United States and the re-
public of Bolivia shall afford in future to the
navigation and commerce of the citizens of
each other, they agree to receive and admit
consuls and vice consuls in all the ports open
to foreign commerce, who shall enjoy in them
all the rights, prerogatves, and immunitieS of
the consuls and vice cOnsuls of the-moSt ia
yored nation; each contracting party, howev-
er, remaining at liberty to except those ports
and places in which the admission and resi-
utlCt vi SutI CuiSulS duu VICE COuSulS MAY
not seem convenient.
ARTICLE XNXlI.-In order that the con-
suls and yice-consuls of the two contracting
parties, may enjoy the rights, immunities
and prerogatives which belong to them by
their public character, they shall, before en-
tering upon their functions, exhibit their COM
mission or patent in due form to the govern
ment to which they are accredited, and hay-
ing obtained their ere-quatu7', they shall be
held and considered as such by all the author
tiles, magistrates and Inhabitants in the con-
sular district in which they reside.
ARTICLE NXVIII.-It is also agreed the
consuls, and officers and persons attached TO
the consulate, they not being citizens of the
country in which the consul resides, shall be
exempted from all kinds of imposts and con-
tributions, except those which they shall be
obliged to pay on account of their conf
merce or property, to which the citi-
zens or inhabitants, native or foreign,
of the country in which they reside are sub
Ject, being, in everything besides, subject to
the laws Of the respective states. The ar
chives and papers of the consulates shall be
respected inyOlably, and under no preteXt
whatever shall any magistrate seize or in any
way interfere with them.
ARTICLE XNXIV.-The said consuls shall
have power to require the assistance of the
authorities of the country for the arrest, de-
tention, and custody of desertcrs from the
public and private vessels of their country;
and for that purpose they shall address them
selves to the courts, Judges, and officers COM
petent, and shall demand the said deserters
in writing, proving by an exhibition of the
registers Of the vessels or ships roll, or other
public documents, that those men were part
of the said crews; and on this demand. so
proved Saving, however, when the contrary
Is proved, the delivery shall not be refused
Such deserters. when arrested, shall be nut at
the disposal OF said cOnsulS, and may be put
IN the public prisons, at the request and ex-
pense of those who reclaim them, to be sent
to the ships to which they belonged. or to 9TH
ers of the same nation; but if they be not sent
back within two months, to be counted from
the day of their arrest, they shall be set at
liberty, and shall be no more arrested for the
same cause.
ARTICLE XXXV.-For the purpose of more
edectually protecting their commerce and
navigation, the two contracting parties agree.
as soon hereafter circumstances will permit
them, to form consular convention, which
shall declare especially the powers and immu-
mites of the consuls and vice consuls of the
respective parties.
ARTICLE XXXVI.-The United States of
America and the republic of Bolivia, desiring
to make as durable as circumstances will per-
init the relations which are established be-
tween the two parties by virtue of this treaty
of peace, amity, commerce, and navigation,
declare sOlemnly and agree to the following
points -
Ist, The present treaty shall remain in full
force and virtue TOR the term of ten years to
be counted from the day of the exchange of
the ratiicatiOnS, and further, until the end of
one year after either of the contracting par
ties shall have given notice to the other of its
intention to terminate the same: each of the
contracting parties reserving to itself the right
OF giving such notice to the other at the end of
SAID term of ten years; and it is agreed be-
tween them that, on the expiration of one year
after such notice shall have been received nv
either from the other party, this treaty in all
Its parts relative to commerce and navigation.
shall altogether cease and determine; and in
all those parts which relate to peace and
friendship, it shall be perpetual and perma-
nenhy binding on both powers.
I'd. If one or more of the citizens of either
party shall infringe any of the articles of this
treaty, such citizen shall be held personally
responsible for the same, and harmony and
good correspondence between the two nations
shall not be interrupted thereby, each party
engaging in no way to protect the offender, or
sanction such violation.
Sd. If (what indeed cannot be- expected).
unfortunately, any of the articles contained
in the present treaty shall be violated, or in
fringed in any other mode whatever it is ex-
pressly stipulated that neither of the contract
ing parties will order or authorize any act of
reprisal, nor declare war against the other,
on complaints of injuries or damages, until
the said party considering itself offended
shall have first presented to the other a state
ment of such injuries or damages, verified bv
competent proofs, and demand justice, and
the same shall have been either refused or I'M
reasonably delayed.
4th. Nothing in this treaty SHALL however,
be construed or operate contrary to former
and existing public treaties with other sover-
eigRs and states.
The present treaty of peace, amity, COM
merce, and navigation, shall be ratified by the
president of the United States of America, by
and with the advice and consent of the senate
thereof, and by the president of the republic
of Bolivia, with the appreciation of the nation
al congress; and the ratification shall be ex-
changed in the capital of the republic of Bo-
hvla within eight months to be counted from
the date of the ratification by both govern
ments.
In faith whereof we, the plenipotentiaries
of the United States of America and OF the
republic OF Bolivia, have signed and sealed
these presents.
Done in La Paz on the thirteenth (I3th)
day OF May, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, "a.
D. 1852 JOHN w. DANA, r.. s.