The Portland daily press., 1873-09-30
INVENTION
BETWEEN
The United States Of America and the
Orange Free State.


The United States Of America and the
Orange Free State.
TION ADVISED BY SENATE APRIL "a, 1872.
RATIFIED BY PRESIDENT APRIL a7, 1872;
FREE STA 4 MAY 10, 1872; RATIFICATIoNS
EXCHANGED AT WASHINGTON AUGUST Is,
1873. PROCLAIMED AUGUST %, 1873.
By the President Of the United States Of america.
PROCLAMATION.
Whereas a general convention of friendship, COM
merce and extradiion be ween the United States of
Amer lea and the Orange Free State was concluded
and signed by their respective plenipotentafes at
Bloemfonte !, on the twenty-second day of Deem
ber one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one,
which general convention is word for word follows:
The United States of America and the Orange Free
State equally animated by the desire to di aw more
closely the bonds of friendship which happily ex-
list between the two republics as well to augment,
by all the at their disposal the commercial in
tercourse f their respective citizens have mutually
resolved to conclude general convention of friend
ship, commerce. and extradtion.
For this purpose they have appointed their pen-
ipotentiaries, to wit; The President of the United
States. Willard W. Edgecomb, special agent Of the
United States, and their consul at the Cape of Good
Hope, and the President of the Orange Free State,
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who after C mmunicaion OF their respective full
powers, have agreed to the following articles:
ARTICLE I.
The citizens of the United States of America and
the citizens of the Orange Free State shall be adj
mitted and treated upon footing of reciprocal equal
ty in the two countries, where such admission and
treatment shall not conflict with the constitutional
or legal provisions Of the contracting parties No
pecuniary or other more burdensome condition shall
be imposed upon them other than upon the citizens
of the country where they reside nor auy condition
whatever q which the latter shall m he
The foregoing privileges, however, shall net sx-
tend to the enjoyment OF political lights.
ARTICLE II.
The citizens of one of the two countries residing
OF established in the other shall be free from personal
military service; but they shall be liable to the De
cuniary or other contributions which may be re-
qured, by way of compensation from citizens of the
country where they reside, who exempt from the
said service.
No higher impost, under whatever name shall be
exaeted from the citizens of one Of the two countries
residing established in the other than shall be lev
led upon citizens of the country in which they re
sde nor any contribution whatever to which the lat
ter shall not be liable.
In case of war or of the seizure or occupation Of
property for public purposes, the citizens of of
the two countries residing established in the other
shall be placed upon equal footing with the cti-
zens of the country in which they reside with re-
spect to indemnities for damages they may have
tanned.
ARTICLE III.
The citizens of each one the contracting parties
shall have power to dispose of their personal proper
ty within the jurisdiction of the other by sale tesla
ment donation, or in any other manner, and their
heirs, whether by testament alb intestato, their
successors being citizens of the other party shall
succeed the said property or inherit it, and they
may take possession thereof either by themselves or
by others acting for them; they may dispose of
the same as they may think proper, payin no other
charges than those to which the inhabitants of the
country wherein the said property is situated shall
be liable 10 pay in similar case In the absence of
such heir, heirs OF other successors. the same care
shall be taken by the authorities for the preservation
of the property of native of the same country.
iawfuI shall haI time m
take measures for possessing himself of the same.
But in real estate situated within the terrific
res one Of the contracting parties should fall to
a citizen of the other party, who, account of his
being an alien, could not be permitted hold such
PROPERTY there shall be accorded to the said heir or
other successor such term as the laws will permit
sell snch property; he shall he liberty at all times
to Withdraw and export the proceeds thereof with
out difficulty and without paying to the government
any other chlrges than those which, in a similar
case, would be paid by inhabiant of the country
in which the real estate may be situated.
ABTIcLE ".
Any controversy which may arise among the claim
ants to the property of decedent shall be decided
according the laws and by the judges of the coun
trs in which the property may be situated.
ARTICLE V.
The contracting parties give to each other the priv
ilege of having each in their respective States con-
suls and vice-consuls of their own appointment who
shall enjoy the same privileges those of the most
But before any consul or vice consul shall act as
such. he SHALL i'll the ordinary form, be approved by
the government OF the country in which his func-
lions are to be dis harged
In their private and business transactions copsuls
and vice-consus shall be submitted to the same laws
an , usageS private individuals, citizens of the
place in which they reside.
1T is hereby understood that in case of offence
against the laws by consul or vceconsul the gov
ernment from which (he received] his exequatur may
withdraw the same send him away from the coun-
try, or have him punished in conformity with the
laws, assigning % the other government its reason
for so deiIg.
The archives aud papers belonging to the consul
lates shall be inyioae, and under no pretext what
ever shall any magistrate other functionary in
spect, seize or In any way interfere with them.
ARTICLE VI.
Neither of the contracting parties shall impose
any higher other duties upon the importation ex-
portatiOu, or transit OF the natural OF industrial
products of the other than are or shall be PAYABLE
upon the like articles beng he produce of any other
country.
Each of the contracting parties hereby engages
not TO grant any favor in commerce to any nation
which shall not Immediately be enjoyed by the other
party.
ARTICLE VIII
The United States of America and the Orange
Free State, on acquisitions made in their name
through the medium OF their respective diplomatic
or consular agents, shall deliver up justice persons
who, being charged with the crimes enumerated in
the following article, committed within tie Iursdic-
ton of the requiring party, shall seek ASYLUM or
shall be found within the territories of tie other
ProUded That this shall be done only when the fact
of the commission of the crime shall be SO estab-
ment for trial if the crime had been committed in
the country where the person so accused shall be
found.
ARTICLE TX.
Persons shall be delivered up according to the pro-
visions OF this convention who shall be charged with
any OF the following crimes, to wit: Murder (in-
GLIDING assassination, parricide, ntanticide and poi
soningO attempt to commit murder; rape forgery
the emission of forged papers; arson; robbery
with violence. naturalization, fofcble entry of an
inhabited house; piracy; embezzlement by public
Officers or by persons hired or salaried to the detr
ment OF their employers when these crimes are sub
ject to infamous punishment.
ARTICLE X
The surrender shall be made by executives of the
contracting parties respectively.
ARTICLE X.
The expense of detention and delivery effected
pursuant the preceding articles shall be at the cost
Of the party making the demand.
ARTICLE XII.
Tho provisions Of the aforegoing articles relating
to the surrender of fugitive criminals shall not apply
to offences committed before the date hereof nor to
those of political character
ARTICLE XIII.
The present convention is concluded for the period
OF ten years from the day of the exchange of the
ratifcatons and if, one year before the expiration
OF that PERIOD neither of the contracting parties
shai have announced by an official notification its
intention to the other to arrest the operations of the
SAID convention, it shall continue binding Tor twelve
expiration of the twelve months which will follow
sliiu , declaration, whatever the time at which it
may take pace.
ARTICLE XIV.
Inns convention shall be submitted on both sides
TO the approval and ratification OF the respective
competent authorities and the Publications shall lie
exchanged at Washington as soon as crcumstances
shall admit In faith whereof the respectiye nleni
poenliaries have signed the above articles and have
thereuntO affixed their SEALS ' W 'o
Done In quadrupheate at Bloemfopten this 22d day
OF December, In the year Of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-oue ''NAO
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And whereas the said general convention has been
duly ratified on both parts, and the espective rai
cations Of the same exchanged at WASHINGTON
on the eighteenth instant:
Now, therefore, be it known that l. ULYSSES s.
GRANT, President of the United States of America,
have caused the said convent n to be made public
to the end that the same and every clause and arti
tcle hereof may be observed and fulfilled with good
faith by the United States and the citizens thereof
In testimony whereof have hereunto sci my hand
and caused the seal Of the United States to be affixed