Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-26

| Treaty betWeen the United States of Amerlc
Navigation. Signed February 26, 1871; Rati
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE
PROCL.
Whereas treaty of commerce and navigate
| Majesty the King Of Italy was concluded and S
city of Florence on the twenty sixth day of Feb
one, which treaty being in the English and TIA
Treaty of Commerce and navigation between
the United States and the Kingdom Of Italy:
ARTICLE XVI
It shall be lawful for the citizens Of the Uni
| ted 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 proprietors of the merchan-
disc laden thereon from any port to the places
| of those who now are or hereafter shall be at
| enmty with either of the contracting parties. 1t
| shall likewise be lawful for the citizens afore-
said to sail with the ships and merchandise be-
| fore mentioned and to trade with the same lib
erty and security from the places, ports and ha-
vens 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 another place belonging to an enemy whether
| they be under the jurisdiction of one power or
| under several and it is hereby stipulated that
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| that every thing 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 ladlng or any part thereof should apper-
| tain to the enemies of the other, contraband
goods being always excepted. 1t is also agreed,
in like manner that the same liberty be extend
ed to persons who are on board of free ship;
and they shall not be taken out of that free ship
unless they are officers or soldiers and in the
nal oAf% IL nh hny
| ever, and it is hereby agreed that the stipula-
tons in this article contained, declaring that
the flag shall cover the property, shall be under
stood as applying to those powers only who re-
cOgnize this principle, but if either of the two |
contracting parties shall be at war with third,
and the other neutral the flag Of the neutral |
shall cover the property of enemies whose gov
ernments acknowledge this principle and not of |
others.
ARTICLE XVII.
All vessels sailing under the flag of the Unit
ed States, and furnished wife such papers as
their laws require, shall be regarded in Italy as
vessels Of the United States anc. 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 all kinds of disorder in
the visiting and examination of the ships and |
cargoes of both the contracting parties on the
high seas, they have agreed, mutually that
whenever vessel of war shall meet with q /
vessel not of war of the other contracting party,
the hrst shall romaln at a convenient distance,
and may send its boat, with two or three men
only, In order ia execute the said examination
OF the papers, concerning the ownership and
cargo of the vessel, without causing the least
extortion, violence, or i'll treatment and it is
expressly agreed that the unarmed party shall
IN no case be required to go on board the ex-
aiming vessel for the purpose of exhibiting his
papers, or for any other purpose whatever.
ARTICLE XIX.
It is agreed that that the stipituations con-
tanned in the present treaty, relative to the
visiting and examing of vessels, shall appl
only to those which sail without CONVOY and
when said vessels shall be under convoy the
verbal declaration of the commander Of III
convoy, on his word of honor, that the vessels
under his protection belong to the nation whose
flag he carries, and when bound to an enen'S
port, that they have no contraband goods on
board, shall be sufficient.
ARTICLE XX,
La order efectually to proxide for the secur-
ty of the citizens and subjects of the CONTRACTING
parties, it is agreed between them that all COM
lively shall be strictly enjoned to forbear from
doing any damage to- or committing any out i,
'age against, the citizens or subjects Of the 9th
n, or against their vessels or property; and if
he SAID commanders shall act contrary to his E
tpulatian, they shall be severely pnnisbed Y
md made answerable in their persons and es,
ates for the satisfaction and PREPARATION of said -
damages, of whatever nature 4hey may be. l.
ARTICLE XXI d
If by any fatality, which cannot be expected
nd which may God avert, the two contracting
'arties should be engaged In a war with each |
ther, they have agreed, and do agree, now for ?
hen that the shall be allowed the term of six | II
months to the merchants residing on the coasts p
nd In the ports of each other, and the term of Il
me year to those who dwell in the interior, to p
rrange their business and transport their effects a
wherever they please, with the safe conduct =
ecessary to protrct them and their property. c
ntil they arrive at the ports designated for p
heir embarkation. And all women and chill. II
rem scholars OF every faculty, cultivators of u,
nd fishermen, unarmed and inhabiting the II
mortified towns, Villages, or places, and, in "
eneral, all others whose occupations are for u
ne common subsistence and benefit of man -
i've employments and shall not be molested in p
heir persons nor shall their houses or Sods be !c
urnt or otherwise destroyed, nor their e IL
1asted by the armed force OF tha holirorn ,slas
hose power by the tents of war '' thew man
,alI 6uI, If it be necessary thot any y
hing should be taken from them for the use of u
UGH beligerent, the same shall be paid for at p
price.
lind it is declared that neither the pretence 6,
nat war dlssoVes treaties, nor any other what ,,
yer, shall be considered as annullng or sus- ~
ending this article; but, on the contrary, that a
he state of war is pecisely that for which it is
provided, and during which its provisions are to 4
e isacredly observed as the most acknowledged q
Obligations in the law of nations. y
ARTICLE XXI.
The citizens of each of the contracting parties
hall have power to dispose of their personal y
foods within the jurisdiction of the other by p
ale, donation, testament or otherwise and their II
representatives being citizens of the other par
y shall succeed to their personal goods whether :
~ testament or alb intestato and they may take y
thereof either by themselves or 9th
RS acting for them and dispose of the same at 4
heir will, paying such dues only as the inhabi- d
ants of the country wherein such goods are ',
shall be subject to pay in like cases. :,
As for the case of real estate, the citizens and