274 WRIGHT— POWER TO MEET RESPONSIBILITIES. 



Several protocols have been made for the suppression of 

 marauders on the Mexican border and legislation providing for the 

 embargo of arms to American countries in a condition of domestic 

 violence was passed with particular reference to Alexico.^* Doubt- 

 less under treaties and general laws, as well as the special acts 

 referred to, the President has adequate power to meet responsibil- 

 ities connected with international boundaries. ■ 



Ii8. Offenses against Treaties. 



A number of acts have been passed for preventing the violation 

 of treaties by private individuals. An act of 1847 provided for the 

 punishment of aliens committing piracy as defined by treaty. ^^ 

 Various acts passed since 1808 for the punishment of slave traders 

 seem to give adequate authority to prevent violation of the inter- 

 national Slave Trade Convention. Acts passed in 1828, 1842 and 

 1862 and on other occasions were designed to enforce particular 

 conventions for suppressing the slave trade and trade in liquor and 

 arms with natives.^® 



An act of August 12, 1848, amended on June 22, i860, and June 

 6, 1900, provides for the extradition of persons as required by 

 treaties. ^'^ An act of March 2, 1829, amended in 1855, provided for 

 the return of deserting seamen as required by treaty on application 

 of foreign consuls. ^^ This act, however, terminated upon denuncia- 

 tion of the treaties as required by the La Follette Seaman's Act of 

 March 4, 1915.^^ An act of April 14, 1792, superseded by acts of 

 Augusts, 1846, and June 11. 1864, gives United States district Courts 

 and United States commissioners power to enforce the awards, 

 arbitrations or decrees of foreign consuls exercising jurisdiction in 

 the United States as authorized by treaties.*" 



Among other acts of Congress imposing criminal penalties for 



infraction of treaties by individuals may be mentioned an act of 



^■^ Supra, note 28, and Malloy, Treaties, etc., p. 1144 et seq. 

 359 Stat. 175; Rev. Stat. 5374; Criminal Code of 1910, sec. 305. 

 36 4 Stat. 276 ; 5 Stat. 623 ; Crandall, op. cit., p. 239. 

 3^ 9 Stat. 302 ; 12 Stat. 83 ; Rev. Stat., sees. 5270-5279 ; 31 Stat. 656. 

 3*4 Stat. 359; 10 Stat. 614; Rev. Stat., sec. 280; Crandall, op. cit., p. 233. 

 3938 Stat. 1 184, sec. 17; Comp. Stat., sec. 8382b; 10129. 

 40 13 Stat. 12; Rev. Stat., sec. 728; Jud. Code of 191 1, 36 Stat. 1163, sec. 

 27; Comp. Stat., sec. 1248; Crandall, op. cit., p. 234. 



