Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-09-07

To protect more ettectually the commerce and
navigation OF their respective citizens, the
United States OF America and the Republic of
Peru agree to admit and receive, mutually
coBsuls and vice-consuls in all their ports open
TO foreign commerce, who shall enjoy, within
their respective consular districts all the rights
privileges, and immunlties of the consuls and
vice consuls Of the most favored nation; but to
enjoy the rights, prerogatves, and mmunities
which belong to them in virtue OF their public
character, the consuls and vice consuls shall,
before exercising their Official functions, ex-
hibit TO the government to which they are &C
credited their commissions or patents in due
form, in order to receive their exec ustur; after
receiving which they shall be acknowledged In
their official characters by the authorities, mag
istrates, and Inhabitants of the district in which
they reside. The high contracting parties,
nevertheless, remain at liberty to except those
ports and places where the admission and resi-
deDce of consuls and vice-consuls may not seem
admit them shall likewise extend to those Of ell
nations.
ARTICLE XVIII.
Tie cOnsuls, vice consuls, their officers and
persons employed in their consulstes, all be
exempt from all public service, and from all
kinds OF taxes, imposts, and contributions, ex-
cept those which they shall be lawfully held to
pay on account of their property or commerce
and to which the citizens and other inhabitants
Of the country in which they reside are subject,
they being, in other respects, subject to the
laws OF the respective countries The archives
and papers Of the consulates shall be inviolably
respected; and no person. magistrate, or other
public authority shall, under any Fretext, inter
feIe with or seize them.
ARTICLE NNXIV.
The consu,s and vice-conSuls shall have
power TO require the assistance OF the public
~ 'Lv"Ities OF the country in which they reside
or the arrest, detention, and custody OF de-
seTtsTs from the vessels of war or merchant
vessels Of their nation; and where the deserters
clsimed shall belong 10 q merchant vessel, the
consuls or yice-consuls must address themselves
70 the competent authority, and demand the
deserters In writing, proving by the ships roll
or other public document that the individuals
claimed are a part of the crew OF the vessel
from which Ii is alleged that they have de-
cert ed: but should the individuals claimed form
a cart OF the crew Of vessel Of war, the word
tyfhonor Of q commissioned officer attached To
the said vessel shall be sufficient 70 identify the
deserters; and when the demand of the consuls
or vice consuls shall, In either case, be so
proved, the delivery Of the deserters shall not
be refused. The said deserters, when arrested,
shall be delivered to the consuls or vice consa,s
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 delivered TO
the vessels 70 which they belong or sent 70
others Of the same nation; but IL the said de-
serters should not be 30 delivered or sent within
the term OF two months, to be counted from the
day Of their arrest, they shall be Get at liberty,
and shall not be again apprehended for the
same cause. The high contracting parties
agree that 1t shall not be lawful for any public
authority or other person within their respec-