with their papers in due order, and having on board a Delegate of the Administration, with written instructions upon the method of contracting for, embarking, and conveying colonists, which the said vessels are authorized by their Government to engage and convey to that island, in accordance with the law of 1852, of the French Empire, upon this subject; and whereas it may happen that such vessels, under the above-mentioned legal circumstances, should call at a port within your district for the purpose of proceeding to such engagement and shipment of colonists, a speculation which is expressly prohibited by the Portarias of the Marine and Colonial Department, dated 27th February, 1855, and 30th July, 1856, and inasmuch as such vessels, in order to effect the conveyance of the colonists thus engaged, have on board articles which are mentioned in the Decree of 10th December, 1836,* as indicative of the Slave Trade; and as by an unreflected application of the provision of that decree to such vessels under the above circumstances, and by their consequent detention serious embarrassments may arise, for the said vessels can only make their shipments in accordance with the written instructions held by the Delegates of the Administration, and by the express consent of the Portuguese authorities, and not in secret or by contraband; for these reasons his Excellency the GovernorGeneral of the Province, desiring that the commands of His Majesty the King shall be duly observed in not permitting such engagements and shipments to take place in any port on the Portuguese coast, and at the same time wishing to prevent the evil results which may arise from an imperfect interpretation of the provisions of the Decree of 10th December, with regard to vessels in the circumstances above mentioned, and in the examination of which you will be scrupulously zealous, has charged me to state to you, that in the event of the arrival there of any French vessel which may include all the above-mentioned conditions without any exception, you will proceed in the following manner :

After a scrupulous examination of all the ship's papers, in which are comprehended the title-deed of ownership, the charter of French nationality, the muster-roll of the crew, the manifests and the instructions of the Delegate, given by the Administration of the Island of Réunion, and having made known to the captain the orders of His Majesty's Government, prohibiting the shipment or engagement of colonists, you will require from him a declaration according to the annexed form, and to the Delegate you will officially communicate the positive prohibition which you are bound to enforce against the carrying out of the intended engagements, and require a written acknowledgment of the said com

munication.

The declaration of the captain, and the acknowledgment of the See Vol. 5, Page 415.

Delegate, will be transmitted to this general department to be made use of hereafter if required, and copies are to be kept in your archives.

It is to be expected that such vessels, duly authorized will, not continue to frequent the ports of the Province, owing, not only to the correspondence on this subject, which has most likely passed between the Government of the metropolis and that of His Majesty the Emperor of the French, but also to that which has passed lately between this Colonial Government and the Government of the Islands of Réunion, and the Portuguese Consul residing there. It is, therefore, necessary to awaken your attention in order that you may not be misled as to the authenticity of the documents presented to you, and you will, therefore, take every means of testing them.

Finally, it is his Excellency's intention that you should act in these questions with the greatest prudence and circumspection, in order that the innocent may not be oppressed, nor the guilty escape with impunity.

God preserve, &c.

JOSE N. FERREIRA DE PASSOS, General Secretary.

[Here follows the declaration to be made by the captains of vessels.]

SALVADOR.

TREATY of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation, between Great Britain and Salvador. Signed in English and Spanish, at Guatemala, October 24, 1862.*

HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Republic of Salvador, being desirous to maintain and improve the relations of good understanding which happily subsist between them, and to promote the commercial intercourse between their respective subjects and citizens, have deemed it expedient to conclude a Treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation, and have for that purpose named as their respective Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, George Benvenuto Mathew, Esquire, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republics of Central America;

And his Excellency the President of the Republic of Salvador, Senor Doctor Don Mariano Padilla, Knight of the Royal American Order of Isabel la Católica ;

* Ratifications exchanged at London, April 16. 1868.

Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following articles:

ART. I. Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland recognizes the sovereignty and independence of the Republic of Salvador. Consequently, there shall be a perfect, firm, and inviolable peace and sincere friendship between Her Britannic Majesty and the Republic of Salvador, throughout the whole extent of their possessions and territories, and between their subjects and citizens, respectively, without distinction of persons or places.

II. The 2 High Contracting Parties being desirous of placing the commerce and navigation of their respective countries on the liberal basis of perfect equality and reciprocity, mutually agree that the subjects or citizens of each may frequent all the coasts and countries of the other, and reside therein, and shall have the power to purchase and hold all kinds of property which the laws of the country may permit any foreigners, of whatever nation, to hold, and to engage in all kinds of trade, manufactures, and mining, upon the same terms with native subjects or citizens. They shall enjoy all the privileges and concessions in these matters which are or may be made to the subjects or citizens of any country; and shall enjoy all the rights, privileges, and exemptions, in navigation, commerce, and manufactures, which native subjects or citizens do or shall enjoy, submitting themselves to the laws there established, to which native subjects or citizens are subjected.

The ships of war and post-office packets of each Contracting Party, respectively, shall have liberty to enter into all harbours, rivers, and places within the territories of the other, to which the ships of war and packets of other nations are or may be permitted to come; to anchor there, and to remain and refit; subject always to the laws of the 2 countries respectively.

The High Contracting Parties further engage that neither will grant any favour to any other nation, in respect of commerce and navigation, which shall not immediately become common to the other contracting party.

III. The High Contracting Parties agree that, in regard to the coasting trade, the ships, subjects, and citizens of each shall enjoy. in the dominions and territories of the other, the same privileges, and shall be treated in all respects in the same manner, as national vessels, and as native subjects and citizens.

IV. The Contracting Parties likewise agree, that whatever kind of produce, manufacture, or merchandize can be from time to time lawfully imported into the British dominions in British vessels, may also be imported in vessels of the Republic of Salvador; and that no higher or other duties upon the vessel or upon her cargo shall be levied and collected, whether the importation be made in vessels of the one country or of the other: and in like manner that

whatever kind of produce, manufacture, or merchandize can be from time to time lawfully imported into the Republic of Salvador in its own vessels, may be also imported in British vessels; and that no higher or other duties upon the vessel or upon her cargo shall be levied or collected, whether the importation be made in vessels of the one country or of the other.

And they further agree, that whatever may be lawfully exported or re-exported from the one country in its own vessels to any foreign country, may in like manner be exported or re-exported in the vessels of the other country; and that the same bounties, duties, and drawbacks shall be allowed and collected, whether such exportion or re-exportion be made in British vessels, or in vessels of the Republic of Salvador.

V. No higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into the British dominions of any article the growth, produce, or manufacture of the Republic of Salvador, and no higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into the Republic of Salvador of any article the growth, produce, or manufacture of the British dominions, than are or shall be payable on the same or the like article being the produce or manufacture of any other foreign country. Nor shall any higher or other duties or charges be imposed, in either of the 2 countries, on the exportation of any article to the territories of the other, than such as are payable on the exportation of the same or the like article to any other foreign country.

No prohibition shall be imposed upon the importation of any article the growth, produce, or manufacture of the territories of either of the 2 Contracting Parties into the territories of the other, which shall not equally extend to the importation of the same or the like article being the growth, produce, or manufacture of any other country; nor shall any prohibition be imposed on the exportation of any article from the territories of either of the 2 Contracting Parties to the territories of the other, which shall not equally extend to the exportation of the same or the like article to the territories of all other nations.

VI. The subjects and citizens of one of the Contracting Parties shall enjoy, in the dominions, possessions, and territories of the other, equality of treatment with native subjects and citizens, or with the subjects and citizens of the most favoured nation, in regard to warehousing, transit, and re-export, and also in regard to bounties, facilities, and drawbacks.

VII. No duties of tonnage, harbour, pilotage, lighthouse, quarantine, or other similar or corresponding duties, of whatever nature or under whatever denomination, levied in the name or for the profit of the Government, public functionaries, corporations, or establishments of whatever kind, shall be imposed in the ports of either country upon the vessels of the other country, which shall not be equally imposed in the like cases on national vessels

VIII. In order to prevent the possibility of any misunderstanding, it is hereby declared that the stipulations contained in the preceding Articles are, to their full extent, applicable to British vessels and their cargoes arriving in the ports of Salvador, and reciprocally to the vessels of the said Republic and their cargoes arriving in British ports, whether they proceed from the ports of the country to which they respectively belong, or from the ports of any other foreign country; and, in either case, no discriminating duty shall be imposed or collected in the ports of either country on the said vessels or upon their cargoes, whether such cargoes shall consist of native or of foreign produce or manufacture.

IX. All vessels which, according to the laws of Great Britain, are to be deemed British vessels, and all vessels which, according to the laws of the Republic of Salvador, are to be deemed vessels of that Republic, shall, for the purposes of this Treaty, be deemed British vessels and vessels of Salvador respectively.

X. It is likewise agreed, that it shall be wholly free for all merchants, commanders of ships, and other subjects or citizens of both countries, to manage, by themselves or agents, their own business in all the ports and places subject to the jurisdiction of each other, as well with respect to the consignment and sale of their goods and merchandize, by wholesale or retail, as with respect to the loading, unloading, and sending off their ships; they being, in all these cases, to be treated as subjects or citizens of the country in which they reside or are conducting their business, and to be subject to the laws of that country.

XI. Whenever the citizens of either of the Contracting Parties shall be forced to seek refuge or asylum in the rivers, bays, ports, or dominions of the other, with their vessels, whether merchant or of war, public or private, through stress of weather, pursuit of pirates or enemies, or want of provisions or water, they shall be received and treated with humanity, and all favour and protection shall be given to them for repairing their ships, procuring provisions, and placing themselves in a situation to continue their voyage without obstacle or hindrance of any kind.

XII. If any ship of war or merchant-vessel of either of the High Contracting Parties should be wrecked on the coasts of the other, such ship or vessel, or any parts thereof, and all furniture and appurtenances belonging thereunto, and all goods and merchandize which shall be saved therefrom, or the produce thereof if sold, shall be faithfully restored to the owners, upon being claimed by them or by their duly authorized agents; and if their are no such owners or agents on the spot, then the said ships, or parts of ships, furniture, appurtenances, goods, and merchandize or the proceeds thereof if sold, as well as all the papers found on board such wrecked ship or vessel, shall be delivered to the British Consul or Vice-Consul, or to the Consul or Vice-Consul of the republic of Salvador, in whose district the wreck may have taken place,