New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-12
to create an evident danger on their part to

| vessels sail for port or place belonging to
an enemy without knowing the same is be-
| seiged, biOckaded, or invested, it is agreed
| that every vessel so circumstanced may be
| turned away from such port or place, but
shall not be detained, nor shall any part of
| her cargo, If not contraband of war, be con
| fiscated, unless, after warning OF such
| blockade or investment from an officer COM
! handing a vessel of the blockading forces,
| by an Endorsement of such officer on the
| papers of the vessel, mentioning the date
and the latitude and 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, blockaded,
| or invested by the other, be restrained from
| quitting such place with her cargo, nor,
! if found therein after tia reduction and
| surrender, shall such vessel or her
| cargo be liable TO eonfscation, but they
| shall be restored b the owners thereof; and
| if any vessel, having thus entered any port
| before the blockade took place, shall take
| on board cargo after the blockade be es-
| tablished, she shall be subject to being
warned by the bloekading forces to return
| to the port blockaded and discharge the
said cargo, and if, after 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 blockaded port after being
warned off by the blockading forces.
ARTICLE Nv.
The liberty of navigation and commerce
secured to nentrals by the stipulauions 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 20 remove all causes of
doubt and misunderstand ding upon this sub
ject, the contracting parties expressly agree
and declare that the following articles, and
no others, shall be considered as eompre-
hended under this denomin alton:
l. Cannons, ruOrtars, howitzers, swivels,
blunderbusses, muskets, fusees, rifles, car
bines, pistols, pixies, swords, sabres, iances,
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 q military form and for a military use.
3. Cavalry belts, war saddles and boil
sters.
4. And generally all kinds of arms and
| instruments of iron, steel, braas, and cop
per, or of any other materials manufac-
tured, prepared, and formed expressly TO
make var by sea or land.
ARTICLE XVI
1t shall be lawful for the 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 whS are the pro-
prietors 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
of To NTH hn ohinn aDR
chandise before mentioned, and to trade
with the same liberty and security from the
places, ports, and havens of those who are
enemies of both or either party without any
opposition OF 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 it 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, cOntraband goods being
always excepted. It is also agreed, in like
manner, that the same liberty be extended
to persons who are on board of D 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
vsded, however, and it is hereby agreed,
that the stipulations 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 third, and
the other neutral, the flag of the neutral
shall cover the property of enemies whose
governments acknowledge this principle.
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 4vuf.
In order to prevent all 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 q vessel of war shall
meet with a vessel not of war of the other
contracting party, the fret shall remain at
convenient distance, and may send its boat,
with two or three men only, in order to
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 unarmea party shall in no
Case be required to go on board thu examin-
ing vessel for the purpose OF exhibiting his
papers. or for any other purpose whatever
ARTICLE XIX.
It "a agreed that the stipulations contained
in the present treaty, relative TO the visit
ing and examining of q vessel, shall apply
onIy to thOse which sail without a convoy;
and when said vessels shall be under oOQ-
voy the verbal declarations OF the COM
msnder of the 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 snemy's port; that they
have no contTsbsnd goods @D hoard. shali
be sufficient.
ARTICLE XK.
In ordes sfectually 60 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 enjoined to forbear from doing any
damage 20, or committing any outrage
against, the citizens or subjects of the
other, or against their vessels or property;
and if the said commanders shall act con
trary to this stipulation, they shall be &C.
verify punished, and made answerable in
their persons and estates for the satisfaction
and PREPARATION of said damsges, o! what. !
ever nature they may be.
ARTICLE XXI.
u by any fatality. which can net be ex.
nected, and which may God avert. the two |
contracting parties should be engsg. in 8 !.
war with each other. they Save agreed and |
do agree, now for then. that there shall be |
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