26 TREATIES AND AGREEMENTS. 



ART. 22. In the event of a shipwreck happening in a place belong- 

 ing to one or other of the high contracting parties, not only every 

 assistance shall be given to the unfortunate persons, and no violence 

 done to them, but also the effects which they shall have thrown out 

 of the ship into the sea shall not be concealed or detained, or damaged, 

 tinder any pretext whatever. On the contrary, the above mentioned 

 effects and merchandise shall be preserved, and restored to them upon 

 a suitable recompense being given to those who shall have assisted in 

 saving their persons, vessels, and effects. 



ART. 23. And it being the intention of the high contracting par- 

 ties, that the people of their respective dominions shall continue to be 

 on the footing of the most favored nation, it is agreed that, in case 

 either party snail hereafter grant any additional advantages in navi- 

 gation or trade to any other nation, the subjects or citizens of the 

 other party shall fully participate therein. 



ART. 24. The high contracting parties engage to communicate to 

 each other, without delay, all such laws as have been or shall be 

 hereafter enacted by their respective Legislatures, as also all measures 

 which shall have been taken for the abolition or limitation of the 

 African slave trade ; and they further agree to use their best endeavors 

 to procure the cooperation of other Powers for the final and com- 

 plete abolition of a trade so repugnant to the principles of justice 

 and humanity. 



ART. 25. And it is further agreed, that nothing herein contained 

 shall contravene or affect the due execution of any treaty or treaties 

 now actually subsisting between either of the high "contracting parties 

 and any other Power or Powers. 



ART. 26. This treaty, when the same shall have been ratified by 

 His Majesty and by the President of the United States, with the 

 advice of their Senate, and the respective ratifications mutually 

 exchanged, shall be binding and obligatory on His Majesty and on 

 the said States for ten years, from the date of the exchange of the 

 said ratification, and shall be reciprocally executed and observed 

 with punctuality and the most sincere regard to good faith. 



In faith whereof, we. the undersigned, plenipotentiaries on the part 

 of His Majesty the King of Great Britain, and the commissioners 

 extraordinary and plenipotentiaries on the part of the United States 

 of America, have signed this present treaty, and have caused to be 

 affixed thereto the seal of our arms. 



Done at London, this thirty-first day of December, one thousand 

 eight hundred and six. 



VASSAL HOLLAND, 

 AUCKLAND, 

 JAS. MONROE, 



WM. PlNKNEY. 



