1828. said treaty of the 12th of JanFebruary 12. uary, of 1828, and shall be approved and ratified in the manner prescribed by the Constitutions of the respective Siates. In faith of which, the said [L.S] [LS.] tratado mencionado de 12 de Enero de 1828, y será aprovado y ratificado en los terminos que establecen las Constituciones de los respectives Estados. En fé de lo cual, los referidos Plenipotenciarios lo hemos firmado y sellado con nuestros sellos respectivos. Fecho en Mejico, á los cinco dias del mes de Abril de mil ochocientos trienta y uno, undecimo de la Independencia de los Estados Unidos Mejicanos, y quincuagesimo quinto de la de JosEstados Unidos de America. LUCAS ALAMAN. [L.S.] RAFAEL MANGINO. [L.S.] A. BUTLER. [L.S.] AND WHEREAS the said Trerty has been duly ratified on both parts, and the respective ratifications of the same were exchanged at Washington, on the fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, by Edward Livingston, Secretory of State of the United States of America, and Jose Montoya, Charge d'Affaires of the United Mexican States, on the part of their respective Governments: NOW THEREFORE BE IT KNOWN, THAT I, ANDREW JACKSON, President of the United States of America, have caused the said Treaty to be made public to the ed that the same, and every clause and article thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States, and the citizens thereof IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington, this fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and of the [L. S.] Independence of the United States the fifty-sixth. By the President: ANDREW JACKSON. EDW. LIVINGSTON, Secretary of State. LAWS, &c. IN RELATION TO PUBLIC MINISTERS, CONSULS, CONVENTIONS, &c. COMPENSATION TO PUBLIC MINISTERS, AND CONSULS, &c. "No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state." FEDERAL CONSTITUTION, Art. 1, Sec. 9. No. 1.—AN ACT fixing the compensation of public ministers, and of consuls residing on the coast of Barbary, and for other purposes. U. S. Laws, vol. 4, page 309. SEC. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the president of the United States shall not allow to any minister plenipotentiary a greater sum than at the rate of nine thousand dollars per annum, as a compensation for all his personal services and expenses; nor to any chargé des affaires, a greater sum than at the rate of four thousand five hundred dollars per annum, as a compensation for all his personal services and expenses; nor to the secretary of any legation or embassy to any foreign country, or secretary of any minister plenipotentiary, a greater sum than at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum, as a compensation for all his personal services and expenses; nor to any consul who shall be appointed to reside at Algiers, a greater sum than at the rate of four thousand dollars per annum, as a compensation for all his personal services and expenses; nor to any other consul who shall be appointed to reside at any other of the states on the coast of Barbary, a greater sum than at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum, as a compensation for all his personal services and expenses; nor shall there be appointed more than one consul for any one of the said states: Provided, It shall be lawful for the president of the United States to allow to a minister plenipotentiary, or chargé des affaires, on going from the United States to any foreign country, an outfit, which shall in no case exceed one years full salary of such minister or chargé des affaires; but no consul shall be allowed an outfit in any case whatever, any usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That to entitle any chargé des affaires, or secretary of any legation or embassy to any foreign country, or secretary of any minister plenipotentiary, to the compensation hereinbefore provided, they shall, respectively, be appointed by the president of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the senate; but in the recess of the senate, the president is hereby authorized to make such appointments, which shall be submitted to the senate at the next session thereafter, for their advice and consent; and no compensation shall be allowed to any chargé des affaires, or any of the secretaries hereinbefore described, who shall not be appointed as aforesaid: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize any appointment of a secretary to any chargé des affaires, or to any consul residing on the Barbary coast, or to sanction any claim against the United States for expense incident to the same, any usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That where any sum or sums of money shall be drawn from the treasury, under any law making appropriation for the contingent expenses or intercourse between the United States and foreign nations, the president shall be, and he hereby is authorized to cause the same to be duly settled, annually, with the accounting officers of the treasury, in the manner following, that is to say: By causing the same to be accounted for, especially, in all instances wherein the expenditure thereof may, in his judgment, be made public, and by making a certificate of the amount of such expenditures as he may think it advisable not to specify; and such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum or sums therein expressed to have been expended. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for the consuls of the United States, residing on the Barbary coasts, or either of them, to expend, or to disburse, or pay, or cause to be paid, for any purpose, or on any pretence whatever, not authorized by law, to any one of the Barbary powers, or to the officers or subjects thereof, a greater sum than three thousand dollars in any one year, with intent to charge the United States with the same, without first obtaining a special approbation, in writing, from the president of the United States, for that purpose. And every such consul who shall, after notice of this act, expend or disburse, or pay, or cause to be paid, for any purpose, or on any pretence whatever, not authorized by law, to any one of the Barbary powers, or to the officers or subjects thereof, a greater sum than three thousand dollars in any one year, or shall be aiding or assisting therein, without first obtaining the approbation of the president as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay to the treasury of the United States a sum equal to one-half his yearly compensation; and shall, moreover, stand charged with, and be accountable for, all moneys se disbursed or paid, contrary to the provisions of this act. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the first day of November next, no consul of the United States residing on the Barbary coast shall own, in whole or in any part, any ship or vessel, to be concerned, directly or indirectly, in the exportation from, or importation to, any of the states on the coast of Barbary, of any goods, wares, or merchandise, on penalty that every consul so offending, and being thereof convicted, shall, for every offence, forfeit a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the consuls residing on the Barbary coast to transmit to the secretary of the treasury, annually, an account of all moneys received, and of all disbursements or expenditures made, by them, respectively, for or on account of the United States, and the particular purpose to which the moneys have been applied, and the vouchers to support the same; and the secretary of the treasury shall transmit to congress, within two months after the commencement of the first session thereof, in every year, a statement of all the moneys disbursed from the treasury of the United States, for expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers during the preceding year, therein noting as far as can be ascertained at the treasury, the sums received by the respective agents or consuls, and the purposes to which the same have been applied. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the act, entitled "An act in addition to the law of the United States concerning consuls and vice consuls," approved July sixth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, and the act, entitled "An act to ascertain the compensation of public ministers," approved May the tenth, one thousand eight hundred, be, and the same are hereby, repealed. [Approved May 1, 1810.] PRIVILEGES OF FOREIGN MINISTERS. No. 2.-Extract from the act of April 30, 1790. U. S. Laws, vol. 2, page 97. SEO. 25. Be it enacted, That if any writ or process shall, at any time hereafter, be sued forth or prosecuted by any person or persons, in any of the courts of the United States, or in any of the courts of a particular state, or by any judge or justice therein, respectively, whereby the person of any ambassador or other public minister of any foreign prince or state, authorized and received as such by the president of the United States, or any domestic or domestic servant of any such ambassador or other public minister, may be arrested or imprisoned, or his or their goods or chattels be distrained, seized, or attached, such writ or process shall be deemed and adjudged to be utterly null and void, to all intents, construction, and purposes, whatsoever. SEC. 26. And be it enacted, That in case any person or persons shall sue forth or prosecute any such writ or process, such person or persons, and all attorneys or solicitors prosecuting or soliciting in such case, and all offi cers executing any such writ or process, being thereof convicted, shall be deemed violators of the laws of nations and disturbers of the public repose, and imprisoned not exceeding three years, and fined at the discretion of the court: Provided nevertheless, That no citizen or inhabitant of the United States, who shall have contracted debts prior to his entering into the service of any ambassador or other public minister, which debts shall be still due and unpaid, shall have, take, or receive, any benefit of this act; nor shall any person be proceeded against by virtue of this act, for having arrested or sued any other domestic servant of any ambassador or other public minister, unless the name of such servant be first registered in the office of the secretary of state, and by such secretary transmitted to the marshal of the district in which congress shall reside, who shall, upon receipt thereof, affix the same in some public place in his office, whereto all persons may resort and take copies without fee or reward. SEC. 27. And be it enacted, That if any person shall violate any safe conduct or passport duly obtained, and issued under the authority of the United States, or shall assault, strike, wound, imprison, or in any other manner infract the law of nations, by offering violence to the person of an ambassador or other public minister, such person so offending, on conviction, shall be imprisoned not exceeding three years, and fined at the discretion of the court. [Approved April 30, 1790.] CONSULS AND VICE CONSULS. No. S.-An act concerning Consuls and Vice Consuls. U.S. Laws, vol. 2, page 273. For carrying into full effect the convention between the king of the French and the United States of America, entered into for the purpose of defining and establishing the functions and privileges of their respective consuls and vice consuls. SEC. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That where, in the seventh article of the said convention, it is agreed, that when there shall be no consul or vice consul of the king of the French, to attend to the saving of the wreck of any French vessels stranded on the coasts of the United States, or that the residence of the said consul or vice consul (he not being at the place of the wreck) shall be more distant from the said place than that of the competent judge of the country, the latter shall immediately proceed to perform the office therein prescribed, the district judge of the United States of the district in which the wreck may happen, shall proceed therein, according to the tenor of the said article. And in such cases it shall be the duty of the officers of the customs within whose districts such wrecks shall happen, to give notice thereof, as soon as may be, to the said judge, and to aid and assist him to perform the duties hereby assigned to him. The district judges of the *See convention, No. 4, p. 70, vol. 1. Annulled by act of July 7, 1798. This section obsolete. |