tity of feelings and interests of the new American States, which were members of the same political body under the Spanish dominion, it is mutually understood, that these exceptions will have all the latitude. which is involved in their principle; and that they will accordingly comprehend all the new nations within the ancient territory of Spanish America, whatever alterations may take place in their constitutions, names, or boundaries, so as to include the present States of Uraguay and Paraguay, which were formerly parts of the ancient vice-royalty of Buenos Ayres, those of New Granada, Venezuela, and Equador in the Republick of Columbia, and any other States which may in future be dismembered from those now existing.

ARTICLE II. It being agreed by the tenth article of the aforesaid treaty, that the citizens of the United States of America, personally or by their agents, shall have the right of being present at the decisions and sentences of the tribunals, in all cases which may concern them, and at the examination of witnesses and declarations that may be taken in their trials; and as the strict enforcement of this article may be in opposition to the established forms of the present due administration of justice, it is mutually understood, that the Republick of Chile is only bound by the aforesaid stipulation to maintain the most perfect equality in this respect between American and Chilean citizens, the former to enjoy all the rights and benefits of the present or future provisions which the laws grant to the latter in their judicial tribunals, but no special favors or privileges.

ARTICLE III. It being agreed by the twenty-ninth article of the aforesaid treaty that, deserters from the publick and private vessels of either party are to be restored thereto by the respective consuls-and whereas, it is declared by the article one hundred and thirty-two of the present constitution of Chile that, "there are no slaves in Chile;" and, that, "slaves touching the territory of the Republick are free"-it is likewise mutually understood, that the aforesaid stipulation shall not comprehend slaves serving under any denomination on board the publick or private ships of the United States of America.

ARTICLE IV. It is further agreed, that the ratifications of the aforesaid treaty of peace, amity, commerce and navigation, and of the present additional and explanatory convention, shall be exchanged in the City of Washington within the term of eight months, to be counted from the date of the present convention.

This additional and explanatory convention, upon its being duly ratified by the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by the President of the Republick of Chile, with the consent and approbation of the Congress of the same, and the respective ratifications mutually exchanged, shall be added to, and make a part of, the treaty of peace, amity, commerce and navigation, between the United States of America and the Republick of Chile, signed on the said 16th day of May, 1832, having the same force and effect as if it had been inserted word for word in the aforesaid treaty.

In faith whereof, we, the undersigned plenipotentiaries of the United States of America and the Republick of Chile, have signed by virtue of our powers, the aforesaid additional and explanatory convention, and have caused to be affixed our hands and seals, respectively.

Done in the city of Santiago this 1st day of September 1833;-and in the 58th year of the independence of the United States of America, and the 24th of the Republick of Chile.

A TREATY OF AMITY AND COMMERCE

Sept. 21, 1833. Between the United States of America and his Majesty Seyed Syeed Bin, Sultan of Muscat, and his dependen

Proclamation

of the President

of the U. S., June 24, 1837.

Perpetual peace.

Citizens of U. S. may enter all the ports of the Sultan with

their cargoes, &c.

Duties payable by vessels of the U.S.

Americans to pay no other duties, &c.

Assistance to shipwrecked vessels of U.S.

American merchants residing in ports of the Sultan, not to be taxed.

cies:

ARTICLE 1. There shall be a perpetual peace between the United States of America and Seyed Syeed Bin, Sultan, and his dependencies.

ART. 2. The citizens of the United States shall have free liberty to enter all the ports of his Majesty Seyed Syeed Bin, Sultan, with their cargoes, of whatever kind the said cargoes may consist; and they shall have liberty to sell the same to any of the subjects of the Sultan, or others who may wish to buy the same, or to barter the same for any produce or manufactures of the kingdom, or other articles that may be found there. No price shall be fixed by the Sultan, or his officers, on the articles to be sold by the merchants of the United States, or the merchandise they may wish to purchase; but the trade shall be free on both sides to sell or buy, or exchange, on the terms and for the prices the owners may think fit: and whenever the said citizens of the United States may think fit to depart, they shall be at liberty so to do; and if any officer of the Sultan shall contravene this article, he shall be severely punished. It is understood and agreed, however, that the articles of muskets, powder, and ball can only be sold to the Government in the island of Zanzibar; but, in all the other ports of the Sultan, the said munitions of war may be freely sold, without any restrictions whatever, to the highest bidder.

ART. 3. Vessels of the United States entering any port within the Sultan's dominions shall pay no more than five per cent. duties on the cargo landed; and this shall be in full consideration of all import and export duties, tonnage, license to trade, pilotage, anchorage, or any other charge whatever: nor shall any charge be paid on that part of the cargo which may remain on board unsold and re-exported: nor shall any charge whatever be paid on any vessel of the United States which may enter any of the ports of his Majesty for the purpose of refitting, or for refreshments, or to inquire the state of the market.

ART. 4. The American citizen shall pay no other duties on export or import, tonnage, license to trade, or other charge whatsoever, than the nation the most favoured shall pay.

ART. 5. If any vessel of the United States shall suffer shipwreck on any part of the Sultan's dominions, the persons escaping from the wreck shall be taken care of and hospitably entertained, at the expense of the Sultan, until they shall find an opportunity to be returned to their country, (for the Sultan can never receive any remuneration whatever for rendering succour to the distressed;) and the property saved from such wreck shall be carefully preserved and delivered to the owner, or the consul of the United States, or to any authorized agent.

ART. 6. The citizens of the United States resorting to the ports of the Sultan for the purpose of trade shall have leave to land and reside in the said ports without paying any tax or imposition whatever for such liberty, other than the general duties on imports which the most favoured nation shall pay.

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ART. 7. If any citizens of the United States, or their vessels, or other property, shall be taken by pirates and brought within the dominions of the Sultan, the persons shall be set at liberty, and the property restored to the owner, if he is present, or to the American consul, or to any authorized agent.

ART. 8. Vessels belonging to the subjects of the Sultan, which may resort to any port in the United States, shall pay no other or higher rate of duties or other charges than the nation the most favoured shall

pay.

ART. 9. The President of the United States may appoint consuls to reside in the ports of the Sultan where the principal commerce shall be carried on, which consuls shall be the exclusive judges of all disputes or suits wherein American citizens shall be engaged with each other. They shall have power to receive the property of any American citizen dying within the kingdom, and to send the same to his heirs, first paying all his debts due to the subjects of the Sultan. The said consuls shall not be arrested, nor shall their property be seized, nor shall any of their household be arrested, but their persons and property, and their houses, shall be inviolate. Should any consul, however, commit any offence against the laws of the kingdom, complaint shall be made to the President, who will immediately displace him.

Concluded, signed, and sealed at the Royal Palace, in the city of Muscat, in the kingdom of Aman, the twenty-first day of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three of the Christian era, and the fifty-seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America, corresponding to the sixth day of the moon, called Iamada Alawel, in the year of the Allhajra (Hegira) one thousand two hundred and forty-nine.

EDMUND ROBERTS, (L. s.)

WHEREAS, the undersigned, Edmund Roberts, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Portsmouth, in the State of New Hampshire, being duly appointed a special agent by letters patent, under the signature of the President, and seal of the United States of America, bearing date at the City of Washington, the twenty-sixth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, for negotiating and concluding a treaty of amity and commerce between the United States of America, and His Majesty Seyed Syeed Bin, Sultan of Muscat:

Now, know ye, that I, Edmund Roberts, special agent as aforesaid, do conclude the foregoing treaty of amity and commerce, and every article and clause therein contained, reserving the same nevertheless for the final ratification of the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States.

Done at the Royal Palace, in the City of Muscat, in the Kingdom of Aman, on the twenty-first day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the fifty-seventh, corresponding to the sixth day of the moon, called Iamada Alawel, in the year of Allhajra (Hegira) one thousand two hundred and fortynine.

Citizens of

U. S. taken by pirates to be set at liberty, &c.

Vessels of the Sultan to pay no higher duties

in U. S., &c.

President of

U. S. may ap &c. Their dupoint consuls, ties, &c.

Final ratification reserved for

President U.S.

CONVENTION

Feb. 17, 1834. For the settlement of Claims between the United States of America and her Catholic Majesty.

Proclamation

of the President

of the U. S.,

Nov. 1, 1834.

Ratifications exchanged at Madrid, Aug. 14, 1834.

Agreement by Spain to indemnify U.S.

The interest to be paid in Paris half-yearly.

All claims can

celled prior to

THE Government of the United States of America, and her Majesty the Queen Regent, Governess of Spain during the minority of her august daughter, Her Catholic Majesty Donna Ysabel II, from a desire of adjusting by a definitive arrangement the claims preferred by each party against the other, and thus removing all grounds of disagreement, as also of strengthening the ties of friendship and good understanding which happily subsist between the two nations, have appointed for this purpose, as their respective plenipotentiaries, namely: the President of the United States, Cornelius P. Van Ness, a citizen of the said States, and their Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary near Her Catholic Majesty Donna Ysabel II; and her Majesty the Queen Regent, in the name and behalf of Her Catholic Majesty Donna Ysabel II, his Excellency Don Jose de Heredia, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal American Order of Ysabel the Catholic, one of Her Majesty's Supreme Council of Finance, ex-Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, and President of the Royal Junta of Appeals of Credits against France; who, after having exchanged their respective full powers, have agreed upon the following articles:

ARTICLE I.

Her Majesty the Queen Regent and Governess, in the name and in behalf of Her Catholic Majesty Donna Ysabel II, engages to pay to the United States, as the balance on account of the claims aforesaid, the sum of twelve millions of rials vellon, in one or several inscriptions, as preferred by the Government of the United States, of perpetual rents, on the great book of the consolidated debt of Spain, bearing an interest of five per cent. per annum. Said inscription or inscriptions shall be issued in conformity with the model or form annexed to this Convention, and shall be delivered in Madrid to such person or persons as may be authorized by the Government of the United States to receive them, within four months after the exchange of the ratifications. And said inscriptions, or the proceeds thereof, shall be distributed by the Government of the United States among the claimants entitled thereto, in such manner as it may deem just and equitable.

ARTICLE IL

The interest of the aforesaid inscription or inscriptions shall be paid in Paris every six months, and the first half-yearly payment is to be made six months after the exchange of the ratifications of this Convention.

ARTICLE III.

The high contracting parties, in virtue of the stipulations contained in article first, reciprocally renounce, release, and cancel all claims the date of this which either may have upon the other, of whatever class, denomination, or origin they may be; from the twenty-second of February, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, until the time of signing this Convention.

convention.

CONVENIO

Para el arreglo de las reclamaciones entre Su Magestad Catolica y los Estados Unidos de America.

DESEANDO S. M. la Reina Regenta Gobernadora de España, durante la minoridad de Su Magestad Catolica Doña Ysabel 2a, su augusta hija, y el Gobierno de los Estados Unidos de America, terminar por un arreglo definitivo las reclamaciones promovidas por una y otra parte, evitando, de esta manera, todo motivo de desavenencia, y estrechando los vinculos de amistad y buena inteligencia que existen felizmente entre ambas nacionnes; han nombrado con este objeto, por sus respectivos plenipotenciarios, a saber: S. M. la Reina Regenta Gobernadora á nombre y en representacion de S. M. Catolica Dona Ysabel 2', al Exmo. Señor Don Jose de Heredia, Caballero Grand Cruz de la Real Orden Americana de Ysabel la Catolica, del Consejo de S. M. en el Supremo de Hacienda, Enviado Extraordinario y Ministro Plenipotenciario cesante, y Presidente de la Real Junta de Apelaciones de Creditos contra la Francia; y el Presidente de los Estados Unidos de America á Don Cornelio P. Van Ness, ciudadano de dichos Estados, y Enviado Extraordinario y Ministro Plenipotenciario cerca de S. M. Catolica Doña Ysabel 2, los cuales despues de haber cangeado sus respectivos plenos poderes, han convenido en los articulos siguientes:

ARTICULO 1o.

S. M. la Reina Regenta Gobernadora, á nombre y en representacion de S. M. Catolica Doña Ysabel 2, se obliga á pagar á los Estados Unidos por saldo de las reclamaciones arriba mencionadas, la cantidad de doce millones de reales vellon, en una ó varias inscriptiones, á eleccion del Gobierno de los Estados Unidos, de renta perpetua sobre el gran libro de la deuda consolidada de España, con el interes de cinco por ciento anual. Esta inscripcion ó inscripciones seran conformes al modelo ó formula de que va unida copia al presente conveoio: y se entregarán en Madrid cuatro meses despues del cange de sus ratificaciones, á la persona ó personas que autorize el Gobierno de los Estados Unidos para recibirlas, el cual distribuirá las expresadas inscripciones, ó su producto entre los reclamantes, que tengan derecho á el, del modo que le parezca mas justo y conveniente.

ARTICULO 2o.

El pago de los intereses de la mencionada ó mencionadas inscripciones se verificará en Paris cada seis meses; y el primer semestre sera pagado á los seis meses depues de verificado el cange de las ratificaciones del presente convenio.

ARTICULO 3°.

Las altas partes contratantes, en virtud de lo que se estipula en el articulo primero, renuncian y dan reciprocamente por satisfechas, y canceladas, todas las reclamaciones sean cual fuere su clase, titulo ú origen, que cualquiera de las dos, tenga contra la otra, desde el dia veinte y dos de Febrero de mil ochocientos diez y nueve, hasta la fecha de este convenio.