The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-11-26
Official.
LAWS OF THE D. STATES.
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name, burden of the vessel, and the name
and place of residence of the owner and mas
that the vessel really and truly belongs to citizens
of the said other party II is also agreed that such
vessel, being laden, besides the said sea-letters,
patents or PASSPORTS, shall be provided with mani
tests or certificates containing the particulars Of
the cargo, and the place where it was taken on
/ board, so that 1t may be known whether any part
I OF me same consists of contra6and or prohi0ifed
articles; which certificate shall be made out in the
accustomed form BY the authorities of the port
whence the vessel sailed without which requisites
the vessel may be detained, to be adjudged BY the
competent tribunals, and may be declared good and
legal prize. unless il shall be proved that the said
defect or omission owing TO accident, unless
!. snail De satisfied or supplied hy testimony equiv
purpose there shall be allowed reasonable length
Of time to procure and present II. a.-..-1
/ ARTICLE XVI.
The preceding stipulations relative to the visit
and examination of vessels shall apply only TO those
which sail without convoy; for when said vessels
shall be under convoy, the verbal declaration Of
the commander of the convoy, on his word of hon
or that the vessels under his protection belong to
the nation whose flag they carry, and, when they
are bound to an enemy's port, that they have no
c0ntraband goods on board, shall be sufficient.
ARTICLE XVII.
It is further agreed that in all prize-cases, the
courts specially established for such in the
country to which the prizes may be conducted
shall alone take cognlzance of Ihem- And when
judgment against any vessel, merchandise, prop
erty claimed by the citizens of the other party the
sentence or decree shall set forth the reasons or
motives which the same shall have been found
ed and an authenticated copy of the sentence or
decree, and Of all the proceedings connected with
the case, shall, if demanded, be delivered to the
commander or agent of the said vessel, merchan-
disc or property, without any excuse or delay upon
payment of the established legal fees for the same.
ARTICLE XVIII.
Whenever one of the contracting parties sha
be engaged in war with another nation, no citizen
of the other contracting party shall accept COM
sisting or cooperating hOstely with the said enc
my against the said party so at war, under pain OF
being treated as pirate.
ARTICLE xxx.
If, which is not to be expected. rupture should
at at any time take place between the two contract
ing nations, and they should engage in war with
each other, they have agreed, now for then, that
the merchants, traders, and other citizens of all
occupationspOf either of the two parties residing in
the cities, ports and dominions Of the other, shall
have the privilege of remaining and continuing
their trade and business therein, and shall be re-
spected and maintained in the full and undisturbed
enjoyment of their personal liberty and property
long as they conduct themselves peaeesbly and
properly, and commit no offense against the laws
And ia case their acts should render them justly
suspected, and having thus forfeited this privilege
the respective Governments should order them to
leave the country, the term of twelve months from
the publication intimatiOn of the order therefor
shall be allowed them in which to arrange and set
tie their AFFAIRS and remove with their families, ef
fects and property to which end the necessary safe
conduct 5 ball be given them, which shall serve as
sufficient protection, until they arrive at the des
ignated port aud there embark but this favor shall
not be extended to those who actcontrary to the
established laws. 1t is, nevertheless, understood
that the respective Governments may order the
persons so suspected TO remove forthwith TO
such places in the interior as may be designated.
ARTICLE Xxx.
I'M fho tof of info of
friendly Intercourse between the high contracting
parties, the money private debts shares in the pub
lie funds. or in the public or private banks. or any
other property whatever, belonging to the citizens
of the party in the territories of the other shall
in no case be sequestrated or confscated.
ARTICLE XXI.
The high contracting parties, desiring to avoid all
inequality in their public communications and
minister's charges d'afaires, and other diplomatic
agents, the same favors, privileges, immunities,
and exemptions that those of the most favored ma
ton do shall enjoy it being understood that the
favoTs, privileges immunties and exemptions grant
ed by the one party to the ENJOYS, ministers,
charges daaires orother diplo matte agents of the
other party, or to those Of any other nation, shall
be reciprOcally granted and extended to those of
both the high contracting parties respectively
ARTICLE XXXII.
To protect more effectuaIy the commerce and
navigation of their respective citizens the United
States of America and the Republic of Peru agree
to admit and receive, mutually, c0nsuls and vice
cDnsuls in all their ports open TO foreign Commerce,
who shall enjOy, within their respective consular
districts, all the rights, privileges, and immunities
of the consuls and vceconsuls of the most favored
nation; but to enjoy the rights, prerogatives and
immunites which belong to them in virtue OF their
public character the conSuls and yice-cOnsuls SHALL
before exercising their official functions exhibit to
the Government to which they are accredited
their commissions patents in Que form, in order
to receive their exequatur; after receiving which
they shall be acknowledged in their Official charac-
ters by the authorities magistrates, and
of the district in which they reside. The high
tracing parties, nevertheless, remain at liberty to
except those ports and places where the admission
and residence of consus and vice-consuls may not
seem to be convenient, provided that the refusal to
admit them shall likewise extend to those of all
nations.
ARTICLE XXXlII.
The consuls vice-cousuls, their officers and per-
employed in their coDsulates, shall be exempt
from public service, and from all kinds of taxes,
imposts, and contributions, except those which
they shall be lawfully held to pay on account of
their property commerce, and to which the citi-
zens aud other inhabitants of the country in which
they reside subject, they being, in other re-
spects, subject to the laws of the respective coun-
tries. The archives and papers of the consulates
shall be inviOlably respected; and no person, mag
istrate, or other public authority shall, under any
pretext, interfere with or seize them.
ARTICLE XXXIV.
The consuls and vice-cousuls shall have power
to require the assistance of the public authorities
of the country in which they reside for the arrest
detention and custody of deserters from the YES
sells of war or merchaDt-yessels of their nation;
and where the deserters claimed shall belong to
merchant-vessel, the consus or vlce-cOnsuls must
address themselves to the competent authority and
demand the deserters in writing, proving BY the
ship roll or other public document that the indl-
vduals claimed part of the crew of the vessel
from which it is alleged they have deserted; but
sheud the individuals claimed form part of the
crew of a vessel of war, the word of honor of a
commissioned officer attached TO the said vessel
sha be sufficient to identify the deserters; and
when the demand of the consuls or vice-consuls
SHALL in either c6se, be so proved, the delivery OF
the deserters shall not be refused. The said de-
serters when arrested, shall be delivered to the
consuls vice consuls or at the request OF these
shall be put in the public prisons. and maintained
at the expense of those who reclaim them. to be de
iyered to the vessels to which they belong or semi
to others of the same nation; but if the said deser
tiers should not be so .deliveredor sent wlthIn the
term of two months to be counted from the day of
their arrest they shall be set at liberty, and shall
not be again apprehended for the same cause. The
high contracting parties agree that il shall not be
lawful for any public authority or other person
within their respective dominicns to harbor or
protect such deserters.
ARTICLE XXXV.
For the purpose of more effectnaIy protecting
their commerce and navigation the two contract
ing parties do hereby agree to form, as soon
hereafter as may be mutually convenient, consul
lar convention, which shall declare especially the
powers and immunities of the consuls and vice
consuls of the respective parties
ARTICLE XXXVI.
Until the conclusion of a consular convention, |
the high contracting parties agree that in the ab-
sence of the legal heirs representatives the con-
sus or vice-consu5 of either party shall be ex-Of
clio the executors or administrators of the citizens
of their nation who may die within their consular
jurisdictions, and of their cOuntrymen dying at
sea whose property may be brought within their |
district. The said cOnsuls vice-consuls shall |
call in Justice of the peace or some other judicial
authority to assist in taking inventory OF the
effects and property left by the deceased after which
the said effects shall remain in the hands OF the
said consuls vice-consuls, who shall be author
lied to sell Immediately such of the effects or
property as may be of perishable nature, and to
dispose of the remainder according to the instruct
tiOns of their respective Governments. And where
the deceased has been engaged in commerce or
other business, the cOnsulS or vice-consuls shall
hold the effects and property SO remaining I'M
til the expiration of twelve calendar months, during
which time the creditors, if any, of the deceased,
shall have the right to present their claims ana
all questions arising out OF such claims or demands
shall be decided by the laws OF the country where
in the said citizens may have died 1t Is UNDER
stood, nevertheless, that If no claim or demand
shall have been made against the effects and prop
erty OF an individual so deceased, the cOnsuls or
vce-consuls at the expiration OF the twelve calendar
months may close the estate and dispose of the eff
fects and property in accordance with the instruc
tions from their own Governments.
ARTICLE XXXVII.
Asa consequence of the principles of equality
herein established, in virtue of which the citizens
of each one of the high contracting parties enjoy
in the territory of the other the same rights as ma
tives and receive from the respective Governments
the same protection in their persons and property,
it is declared that only the that such pro-
lection should be denied, on account OF the fact
that the claims preferred have not been promptly
attended to by the legal authorities, that mani
fest injustice has been done by s1ch authorities
and after all the legal means have been exhausted,
then alone shall diplomatic Intervention take place.