New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-02-13
OF FIClAL l..
TREATIES AND PROCLAN1ATIONs.

Convention between the United States of
America and the Orange Free State.
| Friendship, Commerce and Extradition.
| Concluded December %. 10l-Ratifca-
ton advised by Senate April "a, 1872.
| Ratified by President April q, 1872. Rat
| tiled by Volkeraad of Orange Free State
May 10. 1872. Ratitcations exchanged at
| Washington August lS, 1873. Proclaimed
August %, 1873.
A PROCLAMATION.
| BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA.
I WHEREAS, A general convention of
| friendship. commerce and extradition be-
| tween the United States of America and
| the Orange Free State was concluded and
signed by their respective plenipoten tiaries,
at BlOemfonten, on the twenty-second day
of December, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy one, which general convention
is word for word as follows:
General Convention of Friendship, Com
merce and Extradition between the United
States OF America and the Orange Free
State.
The United States of America and the
Orange Free State, equally animated by
the desire to draw more closely the bonds
of friendship which so happily exist be-
tween the two republics, as well as to aug
ment, by all the means at their disposal,
the commercial intercourse of their respec-
tive citizens, have mutually resolved to
conclude q general convention OF friend
ship, commerce and extradition.
For this purpose they have appointed as
:heir plenipOtentiaries, to wit: The Presi-
dent of the United States, Willard w. Edg-
comb 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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after a communication of their respective
fall 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 admitted and treated
upon q footing of reciprocal equality IN the
two countries, where such admission and
treatment shall not conflict with the cOnsti-
tutional or legal provisions OF the con-
tracing parties. No pecuniary or other
more burdensome condition shall be i'm
posed upon them than upon the citizens of
the country where they reside, nor any con-
dition whatever to which the latter shall
not be subject.
The foregoing privileges, however, shall
not extend to the enjoyment OF political
rights.
ARTICLE II.
The citizens of one of the two countries
residing or established in the other shall be
free from personal military service; but
they shall be liable to the pecuniary or
other contributions which may be required,
by way of compensation, from citizens OF
the country where they reside, who are
exempt from the said service.
No higher impost, under whatever name,
shall be exacted from the citizens OF one OF
the two countries residing or established in
A. I, II. he1 ,vs aitJ
of the country in which they reside, nor
any contribution whatever to which The
latter shall not be liable.
In case of war or of the seizure or Occu"
patton of property for pubic purposes the
citizens of one of the two countries residing
or established in the other shall be placed
upon an equal footing with the citizens OF
the country in which they reside with
respect to indemnities for damages they
may have sustained.
ARTICLE III.
The citizens of each one OF the con-
tracing parties shall have power to dispose
of their personal property within the juris.
dction of the other, by sale, testament.
donation, or in any other manner, and
their heirs, whether by testament or alb
intestato or their successors, being citizens
OF the other party, shall succeed to the said
property or inherit it, and they may take
possession UnereOl, ellntf ny tutuiStlNcb VI
by others acting for them; they may dispose
of the same as they may think proper, pay
ing 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, or other successors
the same care shall be taken by
the authorities for the preserva-
ton Of the property that would be taken for
I ba yreseryatjOu IF fhe nrOpDrtV If a native
of the same country, until the lawful pro-
prietor shall have had time to take meas
ures for possessing himself of the same.
But in case real estate situated within
the territories of one of the contracting par
ties should fall to a citizen of the other
party, who, on account OF his being an
alien, could not be permitted to hold such
property, there shall be accorded to the
said heir or other successor such term as
the laws will permit to sell such property;
he shall be at liberty at all times to with
draw and export the proceeds thereof with
out difficulty, and without paying 10 the
government any other charges than those
which, in a similar case, would be paid by
an inhabitant of the country in which the
zeal estate may be situated.
ARTICLE ".
Any controversy which may arise among
Tie claimants to the property of decedenJ
by the judges of tha country il which tie
property may be situated.
ARTICLE Y.
The contracting parties give to each Other
Che privilege OF having, each in their re.
spectives States, consuls and vice consuls OF
their own appointment, who shall enjoy the
same privileges as those OF the most favored
natiOn.
But before any consul or vice consul shall
act as such, he shall. in the ordinary form.
be approved by the government of the coun-
try in which his functions are to be dice
charged.
In their private and business transactions
consuls and vice consuls shall be submitted
to the same laws and usages as private in
iivlduals, citizens of the place in which
they reside.
It is hereby understood that in case of
ottense against the laws, by a consul or vice
consul, the government from which The re-
celVed] his exequatur may withdraw the
same, send him away from the country or
have him punished in conformity with the
laws, assigning to the other government its
reason tor so doing.
The archives and papers belonging to the
shall be inviolate, and under no
pretext whatever shall any magistrate or
other functiOnary inspect seize, or in any
way interfere with them.
ARTICLE VI.
Neither Of the contracting parties shall
impose any higher or other duties upon the
importation, expectation, or transit of the
natural or industrial products of the other,
than are or shall be payable upon the like
articles beng the produce of any other
ARTICLE -Ii.
Each Of the contracting parties hereby
engages not to grant any favor in com
'nerce to any nation v hich shall not imme-
ilately De enioYed by the nther marty