Year: 1866

The same course shall be pursued with REGARD
to subjects citizens of either contracting party
who may be found by a cruiser of the other on
board a vessel OF any third power, or on board a
vessel sailing without flag papers, which may
be condemned by any competent court for hav-
ing engaged in the African slave trade


Article x. The negroes who are found on
board of a vessel condemned by the mixed courts
OF justice in conformity with the stipnlations of
this treaty, shall be placed at the disposal of the
Government whose cruiser has made the cap
ture; they shall be Immediately set at liberty,
and shall remain free, the Government to whom
they have been delivered guaranteeing their lib
erty.


Article XI. The acts Or instruments annexed
to this treaty, and which it is mutually agreed
shall form an integral part thereof, are follows :


(A) Instructions for the ships of the navies of
both nations, destined to prevent the African
slave trade.


OBJ Regulations for the mixed courts of JUS
tice.


Article XII. The present treaty shall be rati-
fed, and the notifications thereof shall be eX-
changed at London in six months from this date,
or sooner if possible. 1t shall continue and re-
main in full force for the term of ten years from
the day of exchange of the ratificatons, and fur
ther until the end of one year after either of the
contracting parties shall have given notice to the
other OF its intention to terminate the same each
OF the contracting parties reserving to itself the
right OF giving such notice to the other at the
end of said term of years. And it is hereby agreed
between them, that on the expiration Of one year
after such notice shall have been received by
either from the other party this treaty sh I'll alto
gether cease and determine.


In witness whereof the respective plenpoten-
tiaries have signed the present treaty, and have
hereunto affixed the seal of their arms.


Done at Washington the seventh day of


April, in the year of our Lord one


thousand eight hundred and sixty two


L. s. WILLIAM HI. SEWARD.


L. 81 LYONS.


Annex (A) to the Treaty between the United


States of America and Great Britain, for the


Suppression of the African Slave Trade, signed





Instructions for the Ships of the United States


and British Navies employed to prevent the


African Slave Trade


Article l. The commander of any ship belong
ing to the United States or British navy which
shall be furnished with such instructions, shall
have right to search and detain any United
States or British merchant vessel which shall be
actually engaged, or suspected to be engaged, in
the African slave trade, or to be fitted out for the
purposes thereof or to have been engaged i'll such
trade during the voyage in which she may be met
with by such ship of the United States or British
navy; and such commander shall thereupon
bring send such merchant vessel (save in the
case provided for in article OF these lnstruc-
tions) as soon as possible, fol Judgment, before
of the three mixed courts of justice estab-
lished in virtue of the fourth article of the said
treaty, that is to say:


Ii the vessel shall be detained the coast of
Africa, she shall be brought before that one OF
the two mixed courts of justice to be established
= at the Cape of Good Hope and at Sierra Leone,
which may be nearest to the place of detention
which the captor, on his own responsibility,
may think can be soonest reached from such
place.


If the vessel shall be detained the coust of
the Island of Cuba, she shall be brought before
the mixed court of justice at New 7 ork.


Article II. Whenever ship of either OF the two
navies duly authorized as aforesaid, shall meet
merchant vessel liable to be searched under the
provisions of the said treaty, the search shall be
conducted with the courtesy and consideration
which ought to be observed between allied and
fri 11xr and
be made by officer holding a rank not lower
than that of ieuteI ant in the navy; or by the
officer who at the time shall be second IN com
mand of the ship by which such search is made.


Article Ill The commander of any ship OF the
two navies, duly authorized as aforesaid, who
may detain any merchant vessel, in pursuance OF
the tenor of the present instructions, shall leave
on board the vessel so detained, the MASTER mate
or boatswain, and two or three, at least, of the
crew, the whole of the negroes, any, and all the
cargo. The captor shall, at the time OF deten-
tion, draw up in writing declaration which
shall exhibit the sttte in which he found the de-
tanned vessel; such declaration shall be signed
by himself and shall be given in or sent, together
with the caTtured vessel, to the mixed court OF
justice befoIe which such vessel shall be carried
or sent for adjudication. He shall deliver to the
master OF the detained vessel signed and certl-
fed list OF the papers found on board the same,
as well as a certificate of the number OF negroes
found on board at the moment OF detention.


In the declaration which the captor is hereDy
required to make, as well as in the certified list
of the papers seized and in the certificate OF the





vessel, he shall insert his own name and surname,
the name of the capturing ship, and the latitude
and lonXitude of the place where the detentlon
shall have been made.


The officer in charge of the detained vessel,
shall, at the time of bringing the vessels papers
into the mixed court of justice, deliver into the
court certificate signed by himself, and verified
on oath, stating any changes which may have ta-
ken place in respect to the vessel, her crew, the
negroes if any, and her cargo, between the perlod
of her detention and the time OF delivering In
such paper.


length of the voyage, the state of health OF the
negroes, any other cause, should require that
either the whole or portion of such negroes
should be disembarked before the vessel can ar
rive at the place at which of the mixed courts
of justice is established, the commander OF the
capturing ship may take upon himself the re-
vided the necessity of the Decentralization and the
causes thereof be stated in certificate in proper
form Such certificate shall be drawn up and eE-
tered on the og-book of the detained vessel.


Article V. In case any merchant vessel detained
in pursuance of the present instructions, should
prove to be unseaworthy, or in sush condition
the mixed courts of justice are to be established
in pursuance of the treaty of this date, the COM
mander of the detaining cruiser e may take upon
stroying her, provided the exact causes which
made such step mperatively necessary be stated
in a certificate verified on OATH Such certificate
shall be drawn up and formally executed in du
plicate at the time.


In case of the abandonment or destruction of a
with the negsoes aud papers found on board, and
one copy of the sworn certificate mentioned in
the preceding paragraph of this article shall be
sent and delivered to the proper mixed courts of
justice at the earliest possible moment


The undersigned plenipotentiares have agreed,
in conformity with the XIth article of the treaty
signed by them on this day, that the present in
structions shall be annexed to the said trea-
ty, and be considered integral part the
reof.


Done at Washington the seventh day of April
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun
dred and sixty-two.


H. 81 WILLIAM II. SEWARD.


L. s. LYONS