AMERICA. 



ANGLICAN CHUECHES. 



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Jose Gregorio Paz Soldan, and by the United States 

 of Venezuela, to Don Antonio Leocadio Guzman. 



And the Plenipotentiaries having exchanged their 

 powers, which they found sufficient and in due form, 

 have agreed herein to the following stipulations : 



AP.T. 1. The high contracting parties unite and 

 bind themselves to each other for the objects above 

 expressed, and guarantee to each other mutually 

 their independence, their sovereignty, and the integ- 

 rity of their respective territories, binding them- 

 selves in the terms of the present treaty, to defend 

 each other against any aggression which may have 

 for its object the depriving any one of them of any 

 of the rights herein expressed, whether the aggression 

 shall come 'from a foreign power, whether from any 

 of those leagued by this compact, or from foreign 

 forces which do not'obey a recognized government. 



ART. 2. The alliance herein stipulated will produce 

 its effects when there shall be a violation of the 

 rights expressed in article 1, and especially in the 

 cases of offences which shall consist 



First In acts directed to deprive any one of the 

 contracting nations of a part of its territory, with the 

 intention of appropriating its dominion or of ceding 

 it to another power. 



Second In acts directed to annul or alter the form 

 of government, the political constitution or the laws 

 which any one of the contracting parties may give or 

 may have given itself in the exercise of its sovereign- 

 ty, or which may have for their object to change 

 forcibly its internal system, or to impose upon it 

 authorities in the like manner. 



Third lu acts directed to compel any one of the 

 high contracting parties to a protectorate, sale, or 

 session of territory, or to establish over it any supe- 

 riority, right, or preeminence whatever, which may 

 impair or offend the ample and complete exercise of 

 its sovereignty and independence. 



ART. 3. The allied parties shall decide, each one 

 for itself, whether the offence which may have been 

 given to any one of them is embraced among those 

 enumerated in the foregoing articles. 



ART. 4. The casits fader is being declared, the con- 

 tracting parties compromise themselves to imme- 

 diately suspend their relations with the aggressive 

 Power, to give passports to its public ministers, to 

 cancel the commissions of its consular agents, to pro- 

 hibit the importation of its natural and manufactured 

 products, and to close their ports to its vessels. 



ART. 5. The same parties shall also appoint plen- 

 ipotentiaries to conclude the arguments necessary to 

 determine the contingents of the force, and the land 

 and nava) supplies, or of any other kind, which the 

 allies must give to the nation which is attacked, the 

 manner in which the forces must act, and the other 

 auxiliary means be realized, and every thing else 

 which may be proper to the best success of the de- 

 fence. The plenipotentiaries shall meet at the place 

 designated by the appended party. 

 - ABT. 6. The high contracting parties bind them- 

 selves in furnishing to the one which may be attacked 

 the means of defence which one of them may think 

 itself able to dispose of, even though the stipulations 

 to which the foregoing articles refer, should not 

 have preceded, provided the case should, in their 

 judgment, be an urgent one. 



ART. 7. The casus fcederis having been declared, 

 the party offended will not have authority to con- 

 clude conventions for peace or for the cessation of 

 hostilities without including in them the allies who 

 may have taken part in the war and should desire to 

 accept them. 



ART. 8. If _( which may God avert) one of the con- 

 tracting parties should offend the rights of another 

 one of them, guaranteed by this alliance, the others 

 will proceed in the same manner as though the of- 

 fence had been committed by a foreign Power. 



ART. 9. The high contracting parties bind them- 

 selves not to concede to, nor to accept from, any 

 nation or government a protectorate or preeminence 



which impairs their independence and sovereignty ; 

 and they likewise compromise themselves not to 

 transfer to another nation or government any part 

 of their territory. These stipulations do not hinder, 

 however, those parties which are conterminous to 

 make the cessions of territory which they may deem 

 proper for the better demarcation of their boundaries 

 or frontiers. 



ART. 10. The high contracting parties bind them- 

 selves to appoint plenipotentiaries, who shall meet 

 every three years, as nearly as possible, to adjust the 

 conventions proper to strengthen and perfect the 

 union established by the present treaty. A special 

 provision of the present Congress shall determine 

 the day and the place at which the first assembly of 

 the plenipotentiaries shall meet, which assembly 

 shall designate the following one, and thus thereafter 

 until the expiration of the present treaty. 



ART. 11. The high contracting parties will solicit, 

 collectively or separately^, that the other American 

 States which have been invited to the present Con- 

 gress shall enter into this treaty ; and from the mo r 

 ment the said States shall have made known their 

 formal acceptance thereof, they shall have the rights 

 and obligations which emanate from it. 



ART. 12. This treaty shall continue in full force for 

 the period of fifteen years, to be reckoned from the 

 day of this date ; and at the end of this period any 

 one of the contracting parties shall have authority to 

 terminate it on its part by announcing it to the others 

 twelve months previously thereto. 



ART. 13. The exchange of the ratifications shall 

 take place in the city of Lima within the period of 

 two years, or sooner if it be possible. 

 In testimony whereof, we, the undersigned, Min- 

 isters Plenipotentiary, sign the present and seal 

 it with our respective seals, in Lima, this 23d 

 day of January, in the year of our Lord one 

 thousand eight hundred and sixty-five. 



P. A. HERRAN. 



JUAN DE LA CRUZ BENAVENTE. 



MANUEL MONTT. 



JUSTO AROSEMENA. 



VICENTE PIEDRAHITA. 



JOSE G. PAZ SOLDAN. 



ANTONIO L. GUZMAN. 



ANGLICAN CHUECHES. The general sta- 

 tistics of the Protestant Episcopal Church of 

 the "United States, in 1865, were, according to 

 the "Church Almanac" for 1866, as follows: 



Dioceses...-. 84 



Bishops 41 



Priests and Deacons 2,426 



Whole number of Clergy 2,467 



Parishes 2,322 



Ordinations Deacons 94 



" Priests 91 



Candidates for Orders 220 



Churches Consecrated 40 



Baptisms Infants 24,689 



" Adults 5,297 



" Not stated 91 



Confirmations 15,360 



Communicants added 12,943 



" Present number 154,118 



Marriages 7,437 



Burials 15,650 



Sunday School Teachers 17,538 



" Scholars 150,400 



Contributions $2,700,004 08 



A comparison of the following tahle, which 

 presents the statistics of the Church by dioceses, 

 with the one in the ANXTJAL CYCLOPEDIA for 

 1864, giving the statistics of that year, will show 

 an increase in every diocese save Missouri and 

 Minnesota, in which there was a small decrease. 

 The statistics from the Southern dioceses are 

 still imperfect, but more full than in the pre- 

 vious years. 



