TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1916-05-20
ARTICLE XIII.

If war should arise between the two contracting parties, the
merchants Of either country then residing in the other shall be
allowed to remain nine months to collect their debts and settle
their affairs, and may depart freely, carrying off all their effects
without molestahon or hindrance ;and all women and children,
scholars of every faculty, cultivatofs of the earth, artisans, manu-
features, and fishermen, unarmed and i~nhabiting unfortfied
towns, villages. or places, and in general all others whose occu-
pations are for the common subsistence and benefit of mankind,
shall be allowed to continue their respective empIoyments, and
shall not be moesed in their persons, nor shall their houses or
goods be burnt or otherwise destroyed, nor their fields wasted
by the armed force of the enemy, into whose power by the
events of war they may happen to fall; but if anything is neces-
sary to be taken from them for the use Of such armed force, the
same shall be paid for at a reasonable price.
ARTICLE XIV.
And to prevent the destruction of prisoners OF war, by send
ing them into distant and inclement countries, or by crowding
them into close and noxious places, the two contracting parties
soemnly pledge themselves to the world and to each other that
they will not adopt any such practice; that neither will send the
prisoners whom they may take from the other into the East
Indies or any other parts Of Asia or Africa, but that they shall
be placed in some parts Of their dominions in Europe or America,
in wholesome situations; that they shall not be confined in dun
geons, prisonships, nor prisons, nor be put into irons, nor bound,
nor otherwise restrained in the use of their limbs; that the Of
Ecers shall be enlarged on their paroles within convenient
districts, and have comfortable quarters, and the common men
be disposed in environments open and extensive enough for air
and exercise, and lodged in barracks as roomy and good as are
provided by the party in whose power they are for their own
troops; that the officers shall also be daily furnished by the
party in whose power they are with as many ratons, and Of the
same articles and quality as are allowed by them, either in kind
or by Communication, to officers Of equal rank in their own army;
and all others shall be daily furnished by them with such ration
as they shall allow to a common soldier in their own service;
the value whereof shall be paid by the other party on a mutual
adjustment Of accounts for the subsistence Of prisoners al the
close Of the war; and the said accounts shall not be mingled
with or set off against any others, nor the balances due on them
be withheld as a satisfaction or reprisal for any other article or
for any other cause, real or pretended, whatever. That each party
shall be allowed to keep a commissary Of prisoners of their own
appointment with every separate cantonment Of prisoners in pos
session Of the other, which con1nissary shall see the prisoners as
often as he pleases, shall be allowed to receive and distribute
watever comforts may be sent to them by their friends, and shall
be free to make his reports in open letters to those who employ
him; but if any officer shall break his parole, or any other pn-
soner shall escape from the limits Of his cantonment after they
shall have been designated to him, such individual officer or other
prisoner shall forfeit so much Of the benefit Of this article as
provides for his enlargement on parole or cantonment. And ii
is declared, that neither the pretence that war dissoives all treat
les, nor any other whatever, shall be considered as annuIing or
suspending this and the next preceding article; but on the cons
trary, that the state Of war is precisely that for which they are
provided, and during which they are to be a saeredly observed