PUBLIC MINISTERS AND CONSULS,
AND FOR ALL OTHERS HAVING OFFICIAL OR COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE WITI FOREIGN XATIOXS.

BY JONATHAN ELLIOT.

“ It wonld be exceedingly to the discredit of any person, who should be called to take a
“ share in the councils of the nation, if he should be found deficient in the great leading
“ principles of International Law."- Rent's Commentaries on American Law.

IN TWO VOLUMES-VOLUME THE

SECOND

WITH NOTES AND INDEXES.

JUashington:
PRINTED BY JONATHAN ELLIOT, JUNIOR,

OX TIE PENXSYLVAXIA AVESUS:

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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

GIFT OF
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART

1926

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and thirtyfour, by Jonathan Elliot, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court, for the District of Columbia.

AMERICAN TREATIES WITH THE UNITED STATES.

BRAZIL.
Treaty, or General Convention, of Peace, Commerce and Navigation, between the

United States of America and his Maje ty the Emperor of Brazil concluded
and signed at Rio de Janeiro, on the 12th day of December, 1828, on the
part of the United States, by W. Tudor; on the part of Brazil, by Marquez
de Aracaty, and Miguel de Souza Mello e Alvim,

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Negotiators appointed to conclude a treaty. Art. 1. Firm and inviolable peace, &c. 66
Art. 2. Favors of commerce to be common to both parties

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3. Mutual benefits in trade and residence to be equally enjoyed.

4. Each party
may carry its own produce to the republic of the other-equalization of duties
establisheil, and to be the basis of all trade . ...

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5. Importations and exportations to be on a reciprocal footing. No partial prohibitions

to be established. 6. Merchant, commanders of ships, and other citizens of
both countries, &c. to manage their own business; to be treated as citizens of the
most favored nation. 7. Citizens of neither of the contracting parties shall be
liable to any embargo, &c. 8. Whenever the citizens of either party seek re-

fuge, in the dominions, &c. of the other, they are to be treated as friends, &c. . . 68
9. All ships, &c. belonging to the citizens of either party captured by pirates, and
found within the dominions of either, to be delivered up to the owners.

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10. Assistance and protection to be rendered in case of wrecks, &c. within the domin-

ions of each other. 11. Citizens of each party shall have power to dispose of their
goods and effects within the jurisdiction of the other by sale, testament, or otherwise.
Alien heirs allowed 3 years to dispose of their property. 12. Complete protec-

lection in persons and property in the territories of both nations, legal redress, etc. 69
13. Liberty of conscience and rites of burial secured. 14. Both parties at liberty to

traile with those at enmily with either, ete. Free ships to make free goods. All
persons on board, except those in the actual service of an enemy to be free.

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Flag covering the property to be applied to those powers, only, who acknowledge
the principle. 15. Enemy's property, to be protected by a neutral flag, must be
shipped two months before declaration of war, etc. 16. Contraband specified. 71
Definition of blockade. 18. Contraband only, liable to confiscation. 19. la
cases of blockade, vessels to be notified but not detained, etc. Vessels entering be-
fore blockade, may quit unmolested. etc.

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20. During a visit al sua, armed vessels to remain out of reach of cannon shot,-Neutrals

not to go on board the examining vessel. 21. In case of war, sea-letters, certificates
of cargo, etc. to be furnished, expressing to whom the property belongs,

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22. Visiting regulations to apply ouly vessels without convoy,

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23. Establisheil courts only to try prize causes-Motives of condemnation to be stated, 74
21. The neutral party not to accept a commission to cruise against the other,

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25. In case of war, six months allowed to those on the coast, and 12 for those in the

interior, to remove effects, etc. 26. No sequestration of money in banks, etc, · 74
27. Official intercourse in relation to public ministers, etc., to be on a reciprocal footing, 75
28. Each party permitted to have consuls in each other's ports,

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29. Commissions to be exhibited before exequatur is obtained, .

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