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of the ratifications of the present 

 treaty ; provided, however, that 

 six months shall be allowed for 

 completing the voyages of vessels, 

 conformably to the tenor of the 

 second article of this treaty. 3rd. 

 Either by Spanish ships, and 

 under the Spanish flag, or for the 

 account of Spanish subjects, by 

 any vessel or under any flag 

 whatsoever, after the 30th of May 

 1820, when the traffic in slaves, 

 on the part of Spain, is to cease 

 entirely ; provided always, that 

 five months shall be allowed for 

 the completion of voyages com- 

 menced in due time, conformably 

 to the first article of this treaty. 

 4th. Under the British or Spanish 

 flag, for the account of the sub- 

 jects of any other government. 

 5th. By Spanish vessels bound 

 for any port not in the dominions 

 of his Catholic Majesty. 



Art. 6. His Catholic Majesty 

 will adopt, in conformity to the 

 spirit of t!iis treaty, the mea- 

 -sures which are best calculated 

 to give full and complete effect 

 to the laudable objects which the 

 high contracting parties have in 

 view. 



Art. 7. Every Spanish vessel 

 which shall be destined for the 

 slave trade, on any part of the 

 coast of Africa where this traffic 

 still continues to be lawful, must 

 be provided with a royal passport, 

 conformable to the model annex- 

 ed to the present treaty, and 

 which model forms an integral 

 part of the same. This passport 

 must be written in the Spanish 

 language, with an authentic 

 translation in English annexed 

 thereto; and it must be signed 

 by his Catholic Majesty, and 

 countersigned by the minister of 



marine, and also by the principal 

 naval authority of the district, 

 station, or port from whence the 

 vessel clears out, whether in 

 Spain, or in the colonial posses- 

 sions of his Catholic Majesty. 



Art. 8. It is to be understood 

 that this passport, for rendering 

 lawful the voyages of slave ships, 

 is required only for the continua- 

 tion of the traffic to the south of 

 the line ; those passports which 

 are now issued, signed by the first 

 secretary of state of his Catholic 

 Majesty, and in the form pre- 

 scribed by the order of the 16th 

 of December 1816, remaining in 

 full force for all vessels which 

 may have cleared out for the 

 coast of Africa, as well to the 

 north as to the south of the Line, 

 previously to the exchange of the 

 ratifications of the present treaty. 



Art. 9. The two high contract- 

 ing parties, for the more complete 

 attainment of the object of pre- 

 venting all illicit traffic in slaves, 

 on the part of their respective 

 subjects, mutually consent, that 

 the ships of war of their royal 

 navies, which shall be provided 

 with special instructions for this 

 purpose, ashereinafter mentioned, 

 may visit such merchant vessels, 

 of the two nations as may be sus- 

 pected, upon reasonable grounds^ 

 of having slaves on board, acquired, 

 by an illicit traffic and in the 

 event only, of their finding slaves 

 on board, may detain and bring 

 away such vessels, in order that 

 they may be brought to trial 

 before the tribunals established 

 for this purpose, as shall herein- 

 after be specified. Provided 

 always that the commanders of 

 the ships of war of the two royal 

 navies, who shall be employed on 



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