New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-09
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| 'oeseis saii LOT a port or place belonging TO
| an enemy without knowing the same is be-
seiged, blockaded, or invested, it is agreed
| that every vessel so cireumstanced may be
turned away from such port or place, but
| snail not be detained, nor shall any part of
| her cargo, If not contraband of war, be con-
| hscated, unless, after warning of such
| blockade or investment from an officer com
| handing vessel of the blockading forces,
| by an Endorsement of such officer on the
| papers OF the vessel, mentioning the date
and the lattitudeNnd longitude where such
| Endorsement was made, she shall again at
| tempt to enter: but she shall be permitted
| to go to any other port or place she shall
| think proper. Nor shall any vessel Of either,
| that may have entered into such port before
the same was actually beseiged, bOckaded,
| or invested by the other, be restrained from
| quitting such place with her cargo. nor,
! if found therein after th3 reduction and
| Surrender, shall such vessel or her
| cargo be liable 10 confiscatio1, but they
| shall be restored to the owners thereof; and
| if any vessel, having thus entered any port
before the blockade took place, shall take
| on board u cargo after the blockade be es-
| tablished, she shall I've subject TO being
warned by the blOckading forces to return
to the port blockaded and discharge the
| said cargo, and if, alter receiving the said
| warning, the vessel shall persist in going
| out with the cargo, she shall be liable to
| the same consequences as vessel attempt
ing to- enter a blockaded BDrt after being
warned Oft by the blockading forces.
ARTICLE XIV.
| The liberty of navigation and commerce
secured TO nentrals by the stipulaJions of
| this treaty shall extend to all kinds of mer
chandise, excepting those only which are
| distinguished by the name of cOntraband of
| war. And, in order to remove all causes OF
| doubt and misunderstanding upon this sub
| ject, the contracting parties expressly agree
and declare that the following articles, and
no others, shall be considered as cOmpre-
| hepded under this denomination
| l. Cannons, mortars, howitgers, swivels,
| blunderbusses, muskets, fusees, rifles car
| bines, pistols pixies, swords, sabres, lances,
| spears, halberds, bombs, grenades, powder,
matches. balls, and all other things belong
| ing TO, and expressly manufactured for, the
| use of these arms.
2. Infantry belts, implements of war and
| defensive weapons, clothes cut or made up
| in a military form and for military use.
| 3. Cavalry belts, war saddles and boil
| sters.
| 4. And generally all kinds of arms and
| instruments of iron, steel, brass, and cop
| per, or of any other materials manufac-
tured, prepared, and formed expressly TO
make wRr by sea or land.
ARTICLE XVI.
H. shall be lawful for tho citizens of the
United States, and for the subjects of the
| Kingdom Of Italy, to sail with their ships
| with all manner of liberty and security, no
distinction being made who are the pro-
prieturs Of the merchandise laden thereon,
from any port to the places OF those who
now are, or hereafter shall be, at enmity
with either of the contracting parties. 1t
shall likewise be lawful for the citizens
aforesaid to sail with the ships and mer-
oh, hnfN ont al Nd to froH
with the same liberty and security from the
places, ports, and Ravens of those who are
enemies of both or either party without any
opposition or disturbance whatever, not
only directly from the places of the enemy
before mentioned to neutral places, but also
from one place belonging to an enemy to an
other place belonging to an enemy, whether
they be under the jurisdiction of one power
or under several; and il is hereby stipulated
that free ships shall also give freedom to
goods, and that everything shall be deemed
to be free and exempt from capture which
shall be found on board the ships belonging
to the citizens of either of the contracting
parties, although the whole lading or any
part thereof should appertain to the enc
mics Of the other, contra band goods being
always excepted 1t is also agreed, in like
manner, that the same liberty be extended
to persons who are on board of a free ship;
and they shall not be taken out of that free
ship unless they are officers or soldiers, and
in the actual service of the enemy; pro
vided, however, and it is hereby agreed
that the shpulations in this article con-
tanned, declaring that the flag shall cover
the property, shall be understood as apply
ing TO those powers only who recognize this
principle, but if either OF the two contract
ing parties shall be at war with a third, and
the other neutral, the flag of the neutral
shall cover the property of enemies whose
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and not of others
ARTICLE XVII.
All vessels sailing under the flag OF the
United States, and furnished with such pa
pers as their laws require, shall be regarded
in Italy as vessels of the United States, and,
reciprocally, all vessels sailing under the
flag of Italy, and furnished with the papers
which the laws of Italy require, shall be
regarded in the United States as Italian
vessels.
ARTICLE XVIII.
In order to prevent ali kinds OF disorder
in the visiting aid examination of the ships
and cargoes of both the contracting parties
on the high seas, they have agreed, mutu-
ally, that whenever a vessel OF war shall
meet with a vessel not Of war of the other
contracting party, the first shall remain at
convenient distance, and may send it's boat,
with two or three men emily, in order to
execute the said examination of the papers,
concerning the ownership and cargo of the
vessel, WITHOUT causing the least ext0rtion,
violence or ill treatment: aud it is expressly
agreed that the uDarmed party shall in no
Case be required to go on board the examin-
ing vessel for the purpose OF exhibiting bis
papers, or ior any other purpose whatever
ARTICLE XIX.
It is agreed that the stipulations contained
in the present treaty, relative to the visit
ing and examining of a vessel, shall apply
only to those which sail without convoy;
and when said vessels shall be under oon-
voy the verbal deolarativn OF the com
me- nder of the convoy, on his word of n0nOr
that the vessels under his protection belong
to the nation whose flag he carries, and
when bound to an encmy's port; that they
have no cOntraband goods @B board shall
be sufficient,
ARTICLE Ky.
IN order etfectually to provide for the
security of the citizens and subjects of the
contracting parties, it is agreed between
them that all commanders OF ships OF
war of each party, respectively, shall be
strictly enjuined to forboar from doing any
damage To, or committing any suffrage
against, the citizens or SUBJECTS of the
other OF against their vessels or property;
and if the said commanders shall act con
trary To this stipulation, they shall be Sc
vertIy punished, and made answerable in
their persons and estates for the satisfaction
ana reparation of said damages OF what
ever nature they may be.
ARTICLE XXIo
II by any fatality, which c&a not be ssx-
pected, and which may God averG the two
contracting parties should be engag ed in a
war with each other, they nave agreed and
do agree, nuw FIR then, that there shall be
allowed the term of six months to the mer-