Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1863-03-21
ARTICLE XVII.

The owners or commanders Of vessels of
the United States entering the Bolivian trib-
utaries of the Amazon or La Plata shall have
the right to put up or construct, in whole or
in part, vessels adapted to shoal.river
navigation, and to transfer their cargocs
to them without the payment of addi-
tional duties; and they shall not pay duties
of any description for sections or pieces of
vessels, nor for the machinery or materials
which they may introduce for use in the COLI
structions Of said vessels. .,.....,-,.. :.
All places accessible to these, or other YES.
sells of the United States, upon the said Bo-
livians tributaries of the Amazon or La Plata,
shall be considered as ports open to foreign
commerce, and subject to the provisions of
this treaty. under such regulations as the
Government may deem necessary to establish
foi the collection of custom house, port, light
house, police, and pilot duties. And such
vessels may discharge and receive freight
or cargo, being tho effects of the country or
foreign. at any one of said ports, notwith-
standing the provisions Of article 3.
ARTICLE XVIII.
If by any fatality, (Which cannct be cx-
pected, and which Gud forbid,) the two con-
tracing parties should bc engaged in war
with each other, they 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 tho inter-
Tor. to arrange their business and transport
their effects wherever they please, giving to
taem the safe conduct necessary for it, which
may serve as a sufficient protection until they
arrive at the designated port. The citizens
Of all other occupations, who may be cstab-
lishcd in the Territories of the United States
and the Republic Of Bolivia, shall BE- respect.
I'd and maintained in the full enjoyment of
their personal liberty and property. unless
their particular conduct shall cause them TO
forfeit this protection. which, in consideration
Of humanity. the contracting parties engage
to give to them.
ARTICLE MIX.
Neither tho debts duo from the individuals
of one nation to the individuals of the other
nor shares, nor moneys which they may have
in the public funds, nor in pnblc or private
banks. shall ever. in any event Of war or Of
national difference, be sequestered or conlis-
Gated.
Both the contracting parties. being desir-
GUS of avoiding all inequality in relation to
their public communications and official inter-
course. agree to grant to the ENJOYS, miu-
listers, and other public agents, the same IA
vors, imnunities, and exemptions which those
of the most favored nation do Or may enjoy !;
it being understood tlat whatever favors, i'm.
munitics, or privileges. the United States of
America or the Republic of Bolivia may find
it proper to the ministers and other public
agents of any other Power, SHALL by the same
act, be extended to those OF each OF the coll-
tracing parties.
ARTICLE XXXI.
To make effectual tho protection which
the United States and the Republic Of Boliv.
in 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 CON-
mercc, who shall enjoy in them all the rights.
prerogatives, and immunitirs Of tho consuls
and vice consuls of the most favored nation;
each contracting party. however, remaining
at liberty to except those ports and places in
which the admission and residence of such
consnls aud vice cons,lls may not seem con.
venient.
ARTICLE XXXII.
In order that the consuls and vicc consuls
Of the two contracting parties may enjoy the
rights. immunities. and prerogatives which
belong to them by their public ch ,racter, they
shall, before entering upon their functions.
exhibit their commission or patent in due
form to tho Government to which they are
accredited. and. having obtained their ere
gmatur. they shall be held and considered as
such by all the authorities, magistrates, and
inhabitants in the consular district in which
they reside.
ARTICLE XXXIII.
1t is also agreed that the consnls, and off.
GERS and persons attached to tho consulate,
they not being citizens Of the country in
which the consul resides. shall be exempted
from oil kinds Of imposts and contribution, ex-
cept those which they shall be obliged to pay
on account OF their commerce or property, to
which the citizens or inhabitants, native or
foreign, OF the county in which they resids
are subject. being, in everything besides. sub.
ject to the laws Of the respective States.
The archives and pape,s OF the consulates
shall be respected inviolably, and rndcr no
pretext whatever shall any magistrate seize
or in any way interfere with them.
ARTICLE xxxrv.
The said consuls shall have power to re.
quire the assistance of the authorities of the
country for the arrest. detention, and custody
Of deserters from the public and private YES.
sells Of their country; aud for that purpose
they shall address themselves to the courts,
judges. and officers competent, add shall de-