ARTICLE II. The payment of the above sum of six hundred and fifty thousand Spanish milled dollars shall be made in the times and man- Taymet of said ner following: indemnity. On the 31st March, 1831, two hundred and sixteen thousand six hun dred and sixty-six dollars and two-thirds of a dollar. On the 30th September, 1831, two hundred and sixteen thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and two-thirds of a dollar. On the 30th September, 1832, two hundred and sixteen thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and two-thirds of a dollar. To the second payment shall be added the interest for that, and for the last payment, at four per centum per annum, to be computed from the first payment, on the 31st March, 1831. To the third payment shall also be added the interest for that payment, at four per centum per annum, to be computed from the second payment, on the 30th September, 1831. The above sums, thus specified in Spanish milled dollars, shall be paid in bills of exchange, at fifteen days' sight, at Hamburg; for the payment of which the Danish Government shall be responsible. At the time when the first payment shall be made, on the 31st March, 1831, two obligations, corresponding to the two last payments to be effected for the capital and the interest thereof, shall be issued by the Direction for the public debt and the sinking fund of Denmark, to the order of the Department of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, and assigned to the Government of the United States. By the said obligations, His Majesty the King of Denmark shall acknowledge himself debtor for the sums not yet paid to the Government of the United States of America, and the same shall be delivered to such person or persons as may be authorized to receive the same by the said Government; and when the said obligations are to be discharged, according to the tenor thereof, by the Danish Government, the person or persons authorized by the Government of the United States to receive the stipulated payments shall deliver up the said obligations, with receipts for the amount thereof, from the said Government. ARTICLE III. A board of com pointed to ascertain claime. To ascertain the full amount and validity of the claims, mentioned in Article I, a Board of Commissioners, consisting of three citizens of the United States, shall be appointed by the Pres- missioners to be ap ident, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who the validity, &c., of shall meet at Washington, and within the space of two years from the time of their first meeting shall receive, examine, and decide upon the amount and validity of all such claims, according to the merits of the several cases, and to justice, equity, and the law of nations. 1831, ch. 36. The Commissioners shall take an oath or affirmation, to be entered in the journal of their proceedings, for the faithful and diligent discharge of their duties. In case of the death, sickness, or necessary absence of any Commissioner, his place may be supplied by the appointment of another Commissioner, in the manner before mentioned, or during the recess of the Senate, by the President of the United States. The Commissioners shall be authorized to hear and examine, on oath or affirmation, every question relating to such claims, and to receive all suitable authentic testimony concerning the same. In order to facilitate the proceedings of this board, His Majesty the King of Denmark engages, when thereunto required, to cause to be delivered to any person or persons who shall be duly authorized for that purpose by the Government of the United States, in addition to the papers already delivered, all the acts, documents, ship's papers and prize proceedings which may stiH remain in the archives of the High Court of Admiralty, or the Prize Tribunals of Denmark, relating to the seizure, detention, condemnation, or confiscation of the vessels, cargoes, or property whatsoever, belonging to the citizens of the United States of America before the said tribunals. The Commissioners shall award and cause to be distributed, among the several parties whose claims shall be allowed by the board, the sum mentioned in Article I and II, in a rateable proportion to the amount of the respective claims thus allowed. No further claims U. S. ARTICLE IV. In consideration of the renunciation and payments mentioned in Article I and II, on the part of His Majesty the King of Denshall be presented by mark, the Government of the United States declares itself entirely satisfied, not only in what concerns the said Government, but also in what concerns the citizens of the said United States, on account of the claims hitherto preferred, or which may hereafter be preferred, relating to the seizure, detention, condemnation, or confisca tion of their vessels, cargoes, or property whatsoever, which in the last maritime war of Denmark have taken place under the flag of Denmark, or in the States subject to the Danish sceptre; and the said claims shall consequently be regarded as definitively and irrevocably termi nated. The present con ARTICLE V. The intention of the two high contracting parties being solely to ter minate, definitively and irrevocably, all the claims which ention only applica have hitherto been preferred, they expressly declare that the present convention is only applicable to the cases therein mentioned; and, having no other object, can never hereafter be invoked by one party or the other as a precedent or rule for the future. ble to the cases therein meationed. ARTICLE VI. The present convention shall be duly ratified by the high contracting parties, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington, in the space of ten months, or sooner if possible. In faith thereof, and in virtue of our respective full powers, we have signed the present convention, and have thereunto set the seals of our arms. Done at Copenhagen, this 28th day of March, 1830. DENMARK, 1857. CONVENTION WITH DENMARK. CONCLUDED APRIL 11, 1857; RATIFICATIONS EXCHANGED JANUARY 12, 1858; PROCLAIMED JANUARY 13, 1858. The United States of America and His Majesty the King of Denmark, being desirous to terminate amicably the differences which have arisen between them in regard to the tolls levied by Denmark on American vessels and their cargoes passing through the Sound and Belts, and commonly called the Sound dues, have resolved to conclude a convention for that purpose, and have named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say: The President of the United States, Lewis Cass, Secretary of State of the United States, and His Majesty the King of Denmark, Torben Bille, Esquire, Knight of the Dannebrog, and decorated with the cross of honor of the same order, his said Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires near the Government of the United States; Who, after having communicated to each other their full powers in due form, have agreed to and signed the following articles: ARTICLE I. be free to Amrican His Majesty the King of Denmark declares entire freedom of the navigation of the Sound and the Belts in favor of American ves- Navigation of the sels and their cargoes, from and forever after the day when Sound and Belts to this convention shall go into effect as hereinafter provided. Vessels, And it is hereby agreed that American vessels and their cargoes, after that day, shall not be subject to any charges whatever in passing the Sound or the Belts, or to any detention in the said waters, and both Governments will concur, if occasion should require it, in taking measures to prevent abuse of the free flag of the United States by the shipping of other nations which shall not have secured the same freedom and exemption from charges enjoyed by that of the United States. ARTICLE II. and buoyed as here His Danish Majesty further engages that the passages of the Sound and Belts shall continue to be lighted and buoyed as here- Passages of Sound tofore without any charge upon American vessels or their and Belts to be lighted cargoes on passing the Sound and the Belts, and that the tofore, &c. present establishments of Danish pilots in these waters shall continue to be maintained by Denmark. His Danish Majesty agrees to make such additions and improvements in regard to the lights, buoys, and pilot establishments in these waters as circumstances and the increasing trade of the Baltic may require. He further engages that no charge shall be made, in consequence of such additions and improvements, on American ships and their cargoes passing through the Sound and the Belts. It is understood, however, to be optional for the masters of vessels either to employ, in the said waters, Danish pilots, at reasonable rates fixed by the Danish Government, or to navigate their vessels without such assistance. ARTICLE III. American Masters of Amer can vessels may en ploy Dani-h pilots, or otherwise, In consideration of the foregoing agreements and stipulations on the part of Denmark, whereby the free and unincumbered navi- United States to gation of American vessels through the Sound and the Belts pay to Dena T is forever secured, the United States agree to pay to the $393,011. Government of Denmark, once for all, the sum of seven hundred and seventeen thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine rix dollars, or its equivalent, three hundred and ninety-three thousand and eleven dollars in United States currency, at London, on the day when the said convention shall go into full effect, as herein afterwards provided. joy further privi mark to commerce of any nation. ARTICLE IV. It is further agreed that any other or further privileges, rights, or adCitizens of the Vantages which may have been, or may be, granted by DenUnited States to en- mark to the commerce and navigation of any other nation leges granted by Den at the Sound and Belts, or on her coasts and in her harbors, with reference to the transit by land through Danish territory of merchandise belonging to the citizens or subjects of such nation, shall also be fully extended to, and enjoyed by, the citizens of the United States, and by their vessels and property in that quarter. Convention of April article, to be again in force. Vol. viii, p. 34). ARTICLE V. The general convention of friendship, commerce, and navigation, con cluded between the United States and His Majesty the King 26, 1826, except 5th of Denmark, on the 26th of April, 1826, and which was abrogated on the 15th of April, 1856, and the provisions contained in each and all of its articles, the 5th article alone excepted, shall, after the ratification of this present convention, again become binding upon the United States and Denmark; it being, however, understood, that a year's notice shall suffice for the abrogation of the stipulations of the said convention hereby renewed. When convention ARTICLE VI. The present convention shall take effect as soon as the laws to carry it into operation shall be passed by the Governments of the to take effect. contracting parties, and the sum stipulated to be paid by the United States shall be received by or tendered to Denmark; and for the fulfilment of these purposes, a period not exceeding twelve months from the signing of this convention shall be allowed. But if, in the interval, an earlier day shall be fixed upon and carried into effect for a free navigation through the Sound and Belts in favor of any other power or powers, the same shall simultaneously be extended to the vessels of the United States and their cargoes, in anticipation of the payment of the sum stipulated in Article III; it being understood, however, that in that event the Government of the United States shall also pay to that of Denmark four per cent. interest on the said sum, from the day the said immunity shall have gone into operation until the principal shall have been paid as aforesaid. Ratification. ARTICLE VII. The present convention shall be duly ratified, and the exchange of ratifications shall take place in Washington within ten months from the date hereof, or sooner if practicable. In faith whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present convention, in duplicate, and have thereunto affixed their seals. Done at Washington this eleventh day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, and of the Independ ence of the United States the eighty-first. DENMARK, 1861. ADDITIONAL ARTICLES TO THE GENERAL CONVENTION OF FRIENDSHIP, Additional articles to the general convention of friendship, commerce, and Additional articles. The United States of America and His Majesty the King of Denmark, wishing to favor their mutual commerce by affording, in their ports, every necessary assistance to their respective vessels, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries, being duly empowered for that purpose, have agreed upon the following additional articles to the general convention of friendship, commerce, and navigation, concluded at Washington on the twenty-sixth day of April, 1826, between the contracting parties. ARTICLE I. Consula General, Consuls, &c., may sit as judges and The respective Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, and commercial agents shall have the right as such to sit as judges and arbitrators in such differences as may arise, either at sea or in port, between the captain, officers, and crew of the ves- arbitrators. sels belonging to the nation whose interests are committed to their charge, particularly in reference to the adjustment of wages and the execution of contracts, without the interference of the local authorities, unless the conduct of the crew and the officers, or of the captains, should disturb the order or tranquillity of the country. It is, however, understood that this species of judgment or arbitration shall not deprive the contending parties of the right they have to resort on their return to the judicial authority of sort to the judicial their country. ARTICLE II. Not to prevent re author ty Deserters. The Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, and commercial agents are authorized to require the assistance of the local authorities for the search, arrest, and imprisonment of the deserters from the ships of war and merchant vessels of their country. For this purpose they shall apply to the competent tribunals, judges and officers, and shall in writing demand said deserters, proving by the exhibition of the registers of the vessels, the rolls of the crews, or by other official documents, or, if the vessel shall have departed, by copy of said documents duly certified by them, that such individuals form part of the crew; and on this reclamation being thus substantiated, the surrender shall not be refused, unless there be sufficient proof of the said persons being citizens or subjects of the country where their surrender is demanded. Such deserters, when arrested, shall be placed at the disposal of said Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, or commercial agents, and may be confined in the public prisons at the request and cost of those who shall claim them, in order to be detained until the time when they shall be restored to the vessels to which they belonged, or sent back to |