New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-04
to create an evident danger on their part to
ARTICLE XIV.

an CHIEFLY hltuouG hLO Guo cduiO uO-
| seiged. blockaded, or invested, it is agreed
that every vessel SO cireumstancea may be
| turned away from such port or place, but
| shall not be detained, nor shall any part of
| her cargo, if net cOntraband of war, be con
| fiscated, unless, after a warning of such
| blockade or investment from an officer COM
| manding 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 thu reduction and
| surrender, shall such vessel or her
| cargo be liable to cOnfscatiou, 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 a cargo after the blockade be es-
tablished, she shall be subject to being
| warned by the blOckading 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 a blockaded port after being
warned off by the blockading forces. d
ARTICLE XIV.
The liberty of navigation and commerce
secured to neutral5 by the stipulations 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-
hended under this denomination
l. CannOns, mortars, howitzers, swivels,
biunderhusses, muskets, tusees, rifles, car
blnes, 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.
g Infantry belts, implements of war and
defensive weapons, clothes cut or made up
in q military form and for a military use
B. Cavalry belts, war saddles and Dol
sters.
f. 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 war 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 who 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
aforesaid to sail with the ships and mer-
Chandise before mentioned, and to trade
with the same liberty and security from the
places, ports, and baVens 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 tCan enemy, whether
they be under the jurisdiction of one power
or under several; aud 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 apperlain to the enc
mics of the other, cOntraband 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
sDlp unless lutG are Objects OF SOlul6TS, ana
in the actual service of the enemy; pro
vided, however, and it is hereby agreed,
that the stlpulatiOns in this article con
tanned, declaring that the flag shall cover
the property, shall be understood as apply
ing to those powers Onl Y 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
governments acknowledge this principle,
and not of others.
ARTICLE xvIg
oSn 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
reciprocaly, 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 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 vessel not of war of the other
contracting party, the first shall remain at
convenient distaslce, 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 unarmed party shall in no
case be required to go on board the examin-
ing vessel for the purpose of exhibiting his
papers or for any other purpose whatever
ARTICLE XIX.
1t is agreed that the stipulations contained
in the present treaty, relative to the visit
ing and examining of vessel, shall Apply
only to those which sail without a convoy;
and when said vessels shall be under con Z
YOy the verbal declaration of tho com
mander 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 encmy's port; that they
have no cOntraband goods on board, shall
be sufficient.
aRTICLE Xxx.
In order effectually to provide for the |
security of toe citizens and subjects of the
contracting parties, it ia agreed between |
them that all commanders OF ships of
war of each party, respectively, shall be |
strictly eDioineG to forbear from doing am |
damage to, 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 Sc
verely punished, and made answerable in |
their persons and estates for the satisfaction |
and reparation of said damages, OF what |
ever nature they may be.
ARTICLE XXI.
II by any fatality, which can not be ex- |
pected, and which may God avert, the twS |
contracting parties should be engaged in |
war with each other, they have agreed aIs1 |
do agree, now for then, that there shall be |
allowed the term of six months to the mer- |
chants residing on the coasts and in the |