New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-01-22
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TREATIES AND PROCLAM-ATIONs.

Convention between the United States of
America and the Orange Free State.
Friendship, Commerce and Extradltion.
Concluded December %. l&l-Ratifica-
tion advised by Senate April "A, 1872.
Ratified by President April n, 1872 Rat
fled bv VOlkeraad of Orange Free State
May 10, 1872. Notifications exchanged at
Washington August l8. 1873. Proclaimed
August %, 1873.
A PROCLAMATION.
* THE president OF THE UNITEb STATES
OF AMERICA.
WHEREAS, 4 general convention Of
friendship. commerce and eXtradition be.
tween the United States OF America and
sbe Orange Free State was concluded and
signed by their respective plenipoteDtiarie
ut BlOemfonten, on the twenty second day
of December, one thousand eight hundred
:nd seventy One which general convention
is word for word as follows:
General Convention Of Friendship, Com
snerce 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 py
Che desire 10 draw more closely the bonds
of friendship which SO happily exist be-
tween the two republics, as we'll as to ang-
Ment. by all the means at their disposal.
the commercial intercourse of their respec.
tive citizens, have mutually resolved to
conclude general convention Of friend
chip, commerce and extraditlon.
For this purpose they have appointed as
their 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,
Friedrich Kaufman Hohne, gov. secty, who,
after communication of their respective
full powers. have agreed to the following
articles:
ARTICLE Z.
The citizens Of the United States of
America and the citizens of the Orange
Free State shall be admitted and treated
upon 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
free from personal military service; but
they shall be liable to the pecuniary or
other contributions which may be required,
5y 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
the other than shall be levied upon citizens
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 public 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
che 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 jurls-
diction of the other, by sale, testament.
donation, or in any other manner, and
their heirs, whether by testament or alb |
:ntestatO, or their successors, being cltlzens
of the other party. shall succeed to 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, pay
ing no other charges than those to which |
the inhabitants of the country wherein the |
said property is situated shall be liable to |
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 |
the preservation of the property of 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 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 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 |
Che claimants to heproperty of decedent |
shall be decided according to the laws and |
by the Judges of the country in which the |
property may be situated.
ARTICLE V.
The contracting parties give to each other |
She privilege of having, each IN their re-
spectives States, consulS and vice consuls OF |
:heir 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,
he approved by the government of the coun-
try in which his functions are to be dis
charged. I
In their private and business transactions
consuls aud vice consus shall be submitted |
70 the same laws and Usages as private in
dividuals, citizens Of the place in which |
they reside.
Ii is hereby understood that in case Of !
offense against the laws, by consul or vice !
consul. the government from which he re.
ceivedl 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 for so doing.
The archives and papers belonging to the
consulates shall be lnviolate, and under no
pretexu 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 being the produce Of any other
country.
ARTICLE VII.
Each Of the contracting parties hereby |
engages not to grant any favor IN COM
MERGE to any nation which shall no: imme'