238 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1818. 



liable to the highest duty, as if 

 the vessel had imported only that 

 single kind of merchandise. 



Art. 5. The high contracting 

 parties mutually grant the right 

 of maintaining consuls, vice-con- 

 suls, or agents in each other's 

 ports and commercial towns, who 

 shall enjoy full protection, and 

 receive every assistance neces- 

 sary to enable them duly to exe- 

 cute their functions ; but it is 

 hereby expressly declared, that 

 in the case of illegal or improper 

 conduct against the laws or go- 

 vernment of the country, to 

 which any such consul, vice-con- 

 sul, or agent is sent, he may be 

 punished conformably to the laws, 

 be deprived of his functions, or 

 dismissed by the offended go- 

 vernment ; the said government 

 giving an account of the transac- 

 tion to the other ; it being, how- 

 ever, well understood, that the 

 archives and documents relative 

 to the affairs of the Consulate 

 shall be subject to no examina- 

 tion, but sliall be carefully pre- 

 served, being placed under ihe 

 seals of the said Consul and of 

 the Authority of the place where 

 he shall have resided. 



The Consuls, or their substi- 

 tutes, shall, as such, have the 

 right of acting as judges or 

 arbiters in all cases of differences 

 which may arise between the 

 captains and crews of the vessels 

 of the nation whose affairs are 

 intrusted to their care. The re- 

 spective Governments shall have 

 no right to interfere in these sort 

 of affairs, except in the case of 

 the conduct of the crews disturb- 

 ing public order and tranquillity 

 in the country in which the 

 vessel may happen to be, or in 



which the Consul of the place 

 may be obliged to call for the 

 intervention and support of the 

 executive power, in order to 

 cause his decision to be respect- 

 ed; it being, however, well un- 

 derstood that this sort of judg- 

 ment or arbitration cannot de- 

 prive the contending parties of 

 their right of appealing on their 

 return to the judicial authorities 

 of their country. 



Art. 6. To remove all disputes 

 or uncertainty with respect to 

 what ought to be reputed the pro- 

 duce of the soil or manufactures 

 of the contracting parties re- 

 spectively, it is agreed that all 

 articles shall be regarded as of 

 this description which may be 

 certified as such in the clearance 

 which may be given to vessels 

 that sail from the ports of the 

 said high contracting parties. 



Art. 7. Ships of either country 

 arriving on the coasts or in the 

 ports of the other, and not wish- 

 ing to break bulk or unload, may 

 prosecute their voyage without 

 molestation, or being obliged to 

 give any account of their cargo, 

 and without paying any duties 

 except those of pilotage, if a 

 pilot have been employed ; or 

 duties for lights. Sec, if such be 

 paid by the ships of the country 

 in the like case. It being, how- 

 ever, well understood, that when 

 the vessels of either party are 

 within the jurisdiction of the 

 otlier, they shall conform them- 

 selves to the rules and ordinances 

 relative to navigation which are 

 established in the ports into 

 which they may enter, and which 

 are in force with regard to the 

 most favoured nations ; and it 

 shall be permitted to the officers 



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