nia shall not be considered as importing a right of asylum, nor as placing the house or its inhabitants beyond the authority of magistrates who may think proper to search them, and who shall have that right in regard to them in the same manner as with regard to the houses of the other inhabitants, in the cases prescribed by the laws.

717.. ARTICLE VI.

dwellings.

The persons and dwellings of Consuls shall be subject Persons and to the laws and authorities of the country in all cases in which they have not received a special exemption by this Convention, and in the same manner as the other inhabitants.

718..ARTICLE VII.

Consuls shall not give passports to any individual of Passports. their nation, or going to their nation, who may be held to answer before any authority, court, or judge of the country for delinquencies committed by them, or for a demand which may have been legally acknowledged; provided that in each case proper notice thereof shall have been given to the Consul; and they shall see that the vessels of their nation do not infringe the rules of neutrality when the nation in which the Consul resides is at war with another nation.

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NICARAGUA.

Treaty concluded June 21, 1867, (Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation.)

If any citizen of the two high contracting parties Deaths of citishall die without a will or testament in any of the ter- zens. ritories of the other, the Minister or Consul, or other Diplomatic Agent, of the nation to which the deceased belonged, (or the representative of such Minister or Consul, or other Diplomatic Agent, in case of absence,) shall have the right to nominate curators to take charge of the property of the deceased, so far as the laws of the country will permit, for the benefit of the

lawful heirs and creditors of the deceas d, giving proper notice of such nomination to the authorities of the country.

Consuls.

Privileges and exemptions.

720..ARTICLE X.

It shall be free for each of the two high contracting parties to appoint Consuls for the protection of trade, to reside in any of the territories of the other party. But before any Consul shall act as such, he shall, in the usual form, be approved and admitted by the government to which he is sent; and either of the high contracting parties may except from the residence of Consuls such particular places as they judge fit to be excepted.

The Diplomatic Agents of Nicaragua and Consuls shall enjoy in the territories of the United States whatever privileges, exemptions, and immunities are or shall be allowed to the agents of the same rank belonging to the most favored nations; and in the like manner the Diplomatic Agents and Consuls of the United States in Nicaragua shall enjoy, according to the strictest reciprocity, whatever privileges, exemptions, and immunities are or may be granted in the republic of Nicaragua to the Diplomatic Agents and Consuls of the most favored nations.

Treaty concluded February 4, 1859, (Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation.)

Deaths of citi zens, and estates.

In the event of any citizen of either of the two contracting parties dying without will or testament in the territory of the other contracting party, the ConsulGeneral, Consul, or Vice-Consul of the nation to which the deceased may belong, or, in his absence, the representative of such Consul-General, Consul, or Vice-Consul shall, so far as the laws of each country will permit, take charge of the property which the deceased may have left, for the benefit of his lawful heirs and

creditors, until an executor or administrator be named by the said Consul-General, Consul, or Vice-Consul, or his representative.

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722.. ARTICLE XII.

It shall be free for each of the two contracting parties Consuls. to appoint Consuls for the protection of trade, to reside in the territories of the other party; but before any Consul shall act as such, he shall, in the usnal form, be approved and admitted by the government to which he is sent; and either of the two contracting parties may except from the residence of Consuls such particular places as either of them may judge fit to be excepted. The Diplomatic Agents and Consuls of the United Privileges. States of America in the territories of the republic of Paraguay shall enjoy whatever privileges, exemptions, and immunities are or may be there granted to the Diplomatic Agents and Consuls of any other nation whatever; and, in like manner, the Diplomatic Agents and Consuls of the republic of Paraguay in the United States of America shall enjoy whatever privileges, exemptions, and immunities are or may be there granted to agents of any other nation whatever.

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723..ARTICLE XIV.

The citizens of either of the two contracting parties Privileges of cit residing in the territories of the other shall enjoy, in izens of either regard to their houses, persons, and properties, the ritory of the other. protection of the government in as full and ample a inanner as native citizens.

In like manner the citizens of each contracting party shall enjoy, in the territories of the other, full liber. ty of conscience, and shall not be molested on account of their religious belief; and such of those citizens as may die in the territories of the other party shall be buried in the public cemeteries, or in places appointed for the purpose, with suitable decorum and respect.

The citizens of the United States of America residing within the territories of the republic of Paraguay shalt be at liberty to exercise, in private and in their own dwellings, or within the dwellings or offices of the Consuls or Vice-Consuls of the United States of America, their religious rites, services, and worship, and to assemble therein for that purpose without hinderance or molestation.

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PERSIA.

Treaty concluded December 13, 1856, (Friendship and Com

merce.)

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disputes.

724..ARTICLE V.

Adjustment of All suits and disputes arising in Persia between Persian subjects and citizens of the United States shall be carried before the Persian tribunal to which such matters are usually referred at the place where a Consul or Agent of the United States may reside, and shall be discussed and decided according to equity in the presence of an employé of the Consul or Agent of the United States.

All suits and disputes which may arise in the empire of Persia between citizens of the United States shall be referred entirely for trial and for adjudication to the Consul or Agent of the United States, residing in the province wherein such suits and disputes may have arisen, or in the province nearest to it, who shall decide them according to the laws of the United States. All suits and disputes occurring in Persia between the citizens of the United States and the subjects of other foreign powers, shall be tried and adjudicated by the intermediation of their respective Consuls or Agents.

In the United States, Persian subjects in all disputes arising between themselves, or between them and citizens of the United States or foreigners, shall be judged according to the rules adopted in the United States respecting the subjects of the most favored nation.

Persian subjects residing in the United States, and citizens of the United States residing in Persia, shall, when charged with criminal offenses, be tried and judged in Persia and the United States in the same manner as are the subjects and citizens of the most favored nation residing in either of the above mentioned countries.

725..ARTICLE VI.

In case of a citizen or subject of either of the_contracting parties dying within the territories of the other, his effects shall be delivered up integrally to the family or partners in business of the deceased; and in case he has no relations or partners, his effects in either country shall be delivered up to the Consul or Agent of the nation of which the deceased was a sub

ject or citizen, so that he may dispose of them in accordance with the laws of his country.

726..ARTICLE VII.

Each power may

For the protection of their citizens or subjects, and have Diplomatic their commerce respectively, and in order to facilitate Agents and three good and equitable relations between the citizens and Consuls, subjects of the two countries, the two high contracting parties reserve the right to maintain a Diplomatic Agent at either seat of government, and to name each three Consuls in either country; those of the United States shall reside at Teherau, Bender, Bushir, and Tauris; those of Persia at Washington, New York, and New Orleans.

The Consuls of the high contracting parties shall re- Privileges. ciprocally enjoy in the territories of the other, where their residences shall be established, the respect, privileges, and immunities, granted in either country to the Consuls of the most favored nation. The Diplomatic Agent or Consuls in the United States shall not protect, secretly or publicly, the subjects of the Persian government, and they shall never suffer a departure from the principles here laid down and agreed to by mutual consent.

And it is further understood, that if any of those Consuls shall engage in trade, they shall be subjected to the same laws and usages to which private individnals of their nation engaged in commercial pursuits in the same place are subjected.

And it is also understood by the high contracting parties, that the Diplomatic and Consular Agents of the United States shall not employ a greater number of domestics than is allowed by treaty to those of Russia residing in Persia.

PORTUGAL.

Treaty concluded August 26, 1840, (Commerce and Naviga

tion.)

727.. ARTICLE X.

The two contracting parties shall have the liberty of Consular Officers. having, each in the ports of the other, Consuls, Vice

Consuls, Agents, and Commissaries of their own ap