The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-03-20

Additional Article to the Treaty for the Suppress
sion Of the African Slave-Trade, between the
United States of America and her Britanic Ma
jesty, of the 18th of April, 1862; concluded Fee
| bruary II, 1868; ratified by the United States
| March ), 1868: ratfcations exchanged, Apri
1, 1861 and proclaimed by the President o
| the United States, April %, 1868.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA.
PROCLAMATION.
Whereas an additional article to the treaty fol
the suppression of the African savc-trade, be
tween the United States Of America and her Br
tanic Majesty, OF the 18th of April, 1862, con
Ecluded and signed ut Washington by their respcc
tive plenipotcntiaries the nth day of Febru
airy, 1868, which additional article is, word for
word, as follows:
Additional Article to the Treaty between the T.
nitcd States of America and her Brtanic Maize
sly for the Suppression of African Slave-Trade,
signed at Washington April Z, 1862.
Whereas, by the first article of the treaty be-
tween the United States Of America and her Ma
jesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland for the suppression of the A
frican slavc-trade, signed at Washington on the
9TH of April, 1862, it was stipulated and agreed
that those ships Of the respective navies of the
two high contracting parties which shall be pro-
vided with special Instructions for that purpose
hereinafter mentioned, nay visit such mer-
chant-yeSSeS of the two nations as may, upon rea-
soaablc grounds, be suspected of being engaged
in the African slavc-trade, or OF having been fit
ted out for that purpose or of having, during the
voyage on which they met by the said cruis-
crS, been engaged in the African slayc-tradc con-
trary TO the provisions of the said treaty; and
that such cruisers may d2tain and send or carry
AWAY such vessels i'll order that they may be
brought to trial III the Hereinafter agreed
upon; and whereas it was by the said article fur
ther stpuac ed and agreed that the reciprocal right
of search and detention should be exercised only
within the distance OF two hundred miles from
the coast Of Africa, and to the southwark of the
thirty-second parallel of north latitude, and with
III thirty leagues from the coast of the island of
Cuba; and whereas the two high contracting, par
ties DESTROYS of rendering the said treaty still
Eiorc ctiirous for its purpose, the p!eniooten-
tiaries who signed the said treaty have, in virtue
of their full powers, agreed that the reciprocal
right of visit and detention, defined in the ar
ticlc aforesaid, may be exercised also within thir
ty leagues of the island Of Madagascar within
thirty ie gncs OF the island of Puerto Rico, and
within thirty legues of the island of Sau Do
mingo.
the present additional aaticle shall have the
same force and validity as if it had been inserted
word for word i'll the treaty concluded between
the two high utractn~ parties the 18th of A
pril, 1862, and taIl have the duration as
that treaty. 1t shall be ratified and the ratifica
tions shall be exchanged at London in six months
from this date, sooner if possible,
In witness wl.er eof the respective plenipoten-
tiaricS have signed the same, and have thereunto
affixed the seal OF their arms.
Done at Washington, the nth day of Februry,
in the year Of our Lord one thousand eight hun
WILLIE NJ II. SEWARD. IL. 81
LYONS IL. s.
And whereas the said ad dtional article has been
duly ratified on the bot! arts and the respective
notifications of the same were exchanged ut Lon
don on the LIST instant, by Charles Francis Adams,
Esq, Envoy Extraordinary an d Minister Plenipo-
Tertiary of the United States, at the Court of st.
James, and Earl Russell, her -Britanc Majesty's
prime pal Secretary of State for foreign affairs,
the part of their respective governments:
1,,, Nov; therefore, be it known, that !, A,
States of America have caused the said additional
article to be made pubic, to the. end that the
same, and every clause and part thereof, may be
observed and fulfilled with good faitt by the O.
nitcd States and the citizens thereof.
In witness whereof, l have here-lnto set my
hand, and caused the seal of the United States to
be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this twenty
second day of April, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty three,
IL. s. and of the Independence of the United
States the eighty-seventh.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
By the Presidents
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary Of State