The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-22

by the national authorities of Bolivia not incon
sstent with the stipulations thereof.
ARTICLE XVII.
The owners or commanders of vessels of the
United States entering the Bolivian tributaries
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 cargoes to them without the payment of ad
dtional duties; and they shall not pay duties of
any description for sections pieces of vessels,
nor for the machinery or materials which they
may introduce for use in the construction of said
vessels.
All places accessible to these, or other vessels
of the United States, upon the said Bolivian trib
utaries OF the Amazon or La Plata, shall be con-
sidered as ports open to foreign commerce, and
subject to the provisions of this treaty, under
such regulations as the Government may deem
necessary for the collection of custOm-house,
port light house, police, and pilot duties. And
such vessels may discharge and receive freight
or CARGO being effects of the country or for
eign, at any one of said ports, nOtwithstand-
ing the provisions of article B.
ARTICLE XVIII.
If, by any fatality, (Which cannot be expected,
and which God forbid,) the two contracting par
they agree, now for then, that there shall be al
lowed 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 the interior, to arrange their busi-
ness and transport their effects wherever they
please, giving TO them the safe conduct necessary
Tor 1t, which may serve as sufficient protection
until they arrive at the designated port The cit
liens of all other occupations, who may be estal
lished in the Territories of the United States and
the Republic of Bolivia shall be respected and
maintained in the full enjoyment of their person
al liberty and property, unless their particular
conduct shall cause them 10 forfeit this protec-
ton, which, in consideration of humanity, the
contracting parties engage to give them.
ARTICLE NIX.
Neither the debts due from the Individuals of
one nation to tine individuals of the other, nor
shares, nor moneys which they may have in the
public or private banks, shall ever, iii any event
of Of national difference, be sequcstered or
cOnfiScatCu.
ARTICLE Xxx.
Both the contracting parties, being dcsirous Of
avoiding ali inequality in relation to their public
communications and official intercourse, agree to
grant to the envoys, ministers, and other public
agents, the SAME t;vOrS, mmuiities, and eXemp-
tionS which those of the most favored nation do
or may enjoy; it being understood that whatever
favors, inmuniitcs, 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 b. the
same act, be extended TO those Of each OF the cor
tracing parties.
ARTICLE XXI.
To make effrctun the protection which the
United States and the Republic of Bolivia shall
afford in future 10 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, prerogatycs and imm"ni-
ties of the conSulS and viceconsuls 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 cOnSuis and Vicc-cOnSUlS may not seem con-
ycnient.
ARTICLE XXXII.
In order that the consus and vicc-consuls Of
the two contracting parties may enjoy the rights,
immuhitics and prerogatiyes which belong to
them by their public character, they shall, before
entering upon their functions, exhibit their com
mission patent in due form to the government
to which they are accredited, and, having obtain
ell their cXcquatur, they shall be held and con-
sidered such by all the authorities, magistrates,
and inhabitants in the consular district in which
they reside
ARTICLE NXXI1I.
1t is also agreed that 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 i'm
posts and contributions, except those which they
shall be obliged to pay on account of their COM
merce or property, to which the citizens or in
habitantS, native or foreign, of the country in
which they reside are subject, being, in every
thing besides, subject to the laws Of the respcc-
tive states. The archives and papers of the con-
sulatc shall be respected inviolahly, aud under 40
prcteyt whatever shall any magistrate seize, or
in any way interfere with them.
ARTICLE
The said consuIs shall have power to require
the assistance of the authorities of the country
for the arrest detention, and custody Of descrters
from the public and private vessels of their coun
try: and for that purpose they shall address them
selves TO the courts, Judges, and officers compe-
tent, and shall demand the said deserters i'll wri
ting, proving by an exhibition of the registers of
the vessels or ships roll, OF other public docu-
ments, that those were part of the said crews;
and on this demand, so proved, (saying, howev-
cr, when the contrary is prOved,) the delivery
shall not be refused. Such descrters, when ar
rested, shall be put at the disposal of said con-
sus, and may be put in the public prisons, at the
request and expense Of those who reclaim lem,
to be sent to the ships to which they belong ed or
to Others of the same nation but if they lie not
sent back within two months, to be counted. from
the day of their arrest they shall be set at Ii oery
and shall be no more arrested for the same cause
ARTICLE XIV.
For the purpose o! more effectually protecting
their commerce and navigation, the two contract
ing parties agree as soon hereafter as circumstan
ces will permit them, TO form a consular conven-
ton, which shall declare especially the powers
and immunites of the consuls and vice-cOrsuls
of the respective parties.
ARTICLE XXXNI.
The United States of America and the Repub-
lie Of Bolivia desiring to make as durable cir
cumstances will permit the relations which are
established between the two parties by virtue of
this treaty of peace, amity, commerce, and nayi-
CATION, declare solcmnly and agree to the follow
ing points:
1st The present treaty shall remain in full
force and virtue for the term of ten years, to be
counted from the day ofthe exchange of the rati-
fcatiOns, and further, until the end of one year
after either of the contracting parties shall have
given notice to the other of its intention to ter
inmate 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 between them that on the cXpi-
ration Of one year after such notice shall have
been received by either from the other party, this
treaty, in all its parts relative to commerce and
shall altogether cease and determine
and in all those parts which relate to peace and
it shall be perpetual and permanently
binding on both parties
I'd. If one or more of the citizens of either par
ty shall infringe any of the articles of this treaty
such citizen shall be held personally responsible
for the same, and harmony and good correSpOn-
dence between the two nations shall not be in
terrupted thereby, each party engaging in no way
to protect the offender, or sanction viola |
ton.
3D. If, (what indeed cannot be expected) un- |
any Of of the articles contained in the
treaty shall be violated, or infringed in
any other mode whatever, it is expressly stipua- |
ted that neither of the contracting parties will |
order or authorize any act ofreprisal nor declare
war against the other, on complaints of injuries
or damages, until the said party considering it.
self offended shall have first presented to the
other statement of such injuries damages,
verified by competent proofs and demanded JUS
tice, and the same shall have been either refused
Or unreasonably delayed.
4th Nothing in this treaty shall, however be
construed or operate contrary to former and ex-
sting public treaties with other sovereigns and
states.