The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-11-29
RALEIGH. n. c., THURSDAY,

may wish to carry with them or send away, and
sucn passports shall be safe conduct against the
| Insults and captures, which prlVateerS may at
| tempt against their persons and effects, and the
money, debts, shares in the public funds, in
| banks or any other property, personal or real,
belonging to the citizens OF the one party in the
territories of the other shall not be contscated or
sequestrated.
The citizens of each of the high contracting
parties, residing established in the territory of
the other, shall be exempt from all compulsory
| military service by or by land, and from all
forced loans military eXactlons or acquisitions;
nor shall they be compelled to pay any contribu-
tions whatever higher or other tlan those that
or may be paid by native citizens.
ARTICLE
The citizens of the contracting parties shall be
permitted to enter, soourn, settle, and reside in
all parts of said terri and such as may wish
and occupy warehouses, provided they submit to
the laws, we'll general special relative to the
rights of travelling, residing, or trading. While
they conform laws and regulations in force,
they shall be ut liberty to manage themselves
their own business subject to the jurisdiction of
either party, as well in respect to the consign-
ment and sale of their goods by wholesale
tail, as with respect to the Loading, unloading,
and sending off their ships. They may also EN-
ploy such agents or brokers as they may deem
proper and shall in all these cases be treated
the citizens of the country wherein they reside;
it being, nevertheless distinctly understood that
they snail be sub ject to such laws and regulations
also i'll respect to wholesale or retail. They shall
have free access to the tribunals of justice, in
cases to which they may be party, on the same
terms which are granted by the laws and usage
OF the country to native citizens; Tor which pur-
poses they may employ in defence of their inter
ests and rights such advocates, attorneys, and
other agents as they may think proper
ARTICLE ".
The citizens of each of the high contracting
parties, residing in the other shall enjo the
most perfect liberty of conscience. They shall
be subjected to no Inconvenience whatever on
off thIir ralit lnf Sho hey
in any manner be annoyed or disturbed in the
| exercise of their religious worship in private
houses or in the clIapcls and places which they
may select for that purpose, provided that, i'll SO
doing, they observe the dccorum due to the laws,
usagcs, and customs of the country. 1t is like
wise agreed tuat the citizens OF the one country
dying in the territory of the other, may be in
TERED either i'll the ordinary cemeteries, in
such otl may be selected for that purpose
by their own government, or by their personal
friends or representatives, with the consent Of
the local authorities. All such cemeteries and
funeral professions going to or returning from
them, shall be protected from violation or dis
turDance.
The citizens of each of the high contracting
parties within the jurisdiction OF the other shall
have power TO dispose of their personal property
10y salc donation, testament, or otherwise; and
tlcir personal representatives, being citizens of
the other contracting party, snail succeed 10 their
personal property, whether by testament ab
intestato. They may take possession thereof,
either 10y themselves or oihers acting for them,
ut Their pleasure, ana Oh the PAYING
such duty only as the citizens of the country
wherein the said personal property is situated,
Shall be subject to pay in like cases. In the alb
| Scncc OF personal representative, the same
snail be taken OF the property as by law would
be taken of the property OF native in Il similar
case, whilst tie lawful owner may take measures
for securing it. If question should arise among
claimants as 10 rghttul ownership of the proper
ty, the same shall be tinallyl decided by the jul
dicial tribunal oi the country i'll which it is situ
! atcd.
! When on the decease of any person holding
real estate within the territory of party, such
real estate would by the law of the land descend
on citizen of the other were he not disqualified
| by alienaTe, the longest term which the laws of
! the country in which it is stu ted will permit
shall be accorded 70 him to dispose of the same :;
nor shall he be subjected, in doing SO, to higher
| or other dues, than if he a citizen of the
country wherein such real estate is situated.
! ARTICLE VI.
The high contracting parties hereby agree that
| whatever kind OF produce, manufactures, or mer-
| chandise of any foreign country can be, from
| time to time, lawfully imported into the United
States in their own vessels, may also be imported
in the vessels of Venezuela, and no higher or 9TH
er duties upon the tonnage or cargo OF the yes
scIs shall be levied collected, whether the i'm
importation be made i'll a vessel under the flag OF
| the United States or Il vessel ulidcr the nag OF
Venezuela. And rcciprocally whatever kind oil
! produce, manufactures merchandise of any
/ foreign country can be, from time to time, law
| fully imported into Venezuela in her own vessels
may also be imported in vessels of the United
States, and no hig! other duties upon the
tonnage or cargo OF Inc vessel snail DC lcNlCO OF
| collected, whether the importation be made in a
vessel under the flag of Venezuela, or under the
flag of the United States.
! Whatever can be lawfully exported or re-export-
| ed by party in its own vessels, to any foreign
! country, may in like manner be exported or re-
exported i'll the vessels of the other; and the same
duties, bounties, and drawbacks shall be celleted
and aiIowed, whether such expiration or re-eX-
piration be made in vessels of the the other
imposed in the ports of any party on vessels OF
the other, than shall be payable in the same
ports by national vessels.
ARTICLEv VII.
The proceeding article is not applicable to the
coaSting trade of the contracting parties, which
is respectively reserved by each exclusively for
| its citizens.
| But vessels of either country shall be allowed
| to discharge part of their cargoes at one port,
and proceed to any other port ports in the ter
ritories of the other to discharge the remainder,
| tonnage dues than would be paid by national YES
sells in such cases, long thiS liberty shall be
conceded to any foreign vessels by the laws OF
both countries.
| ARTICLE VIII.
For the better understanding of the preceding
stpulations, it has been agreed that every vessel
| belonging exclusively to citizen or citizens of
Venezuela, and whose captain is also citizen of
! the saIne,. such vessel having also complied wi h
all the other requisites established by law to ac-
quire such national character, though the con-
| struction and crew may be foreign, shall
be considered, for all the objects of this treaty,
| a Venezuelan vessel.
| ARTICLE TX.
No higher or other duty shall be imposed on
the importation into the United States OF any ar
| ticle the growth, produce, or manufacture OF We
nezueia or of her fisheries; and no higher or
other duty shall be imposed on the importation
into Venezuela of any article the growth produce
or manufacture of the United States their fish
eries, than are or shall be payable on the like ar
ticles the growth, produce, or manufacture of any
other foreign country or its fisheries
No other or higher duties or charges shall be
imposed in the United States on the expectation
of any article to Venezuela, nor in Venezuela, on
the expectation of any article to the United Sates
than such as are or shall be payable on the expor-
tation of the like article to any foreign coun-
try.
No prohibition shall be imposed on the impor-
tation of any article the growth, produce or ma
nufacture of the United States or their fisheries,
or of venezuela and her fisheries, from or to the
ports OF the United States or Venezuela, which
shall not equally extended to every other foreign
country. Ii, however, either party shall hereat-
ter grant to any other nation any particular favor
IN navigation or commerce, i. shall immediately
become comon to the other party, freely, where
it shall be freely granted to other nation, or
for the same equivalent when the grant shall be
conditional.
ARTICCE Z.