1816 mitted to pursue her from the same port within twenty-four hours after her departure. ART. XII. The commerce between the United States of America and the Regency of Algiers, the protections to be given to merchants, masters of vessels, and seamen, the reciprocal rights of establishing consuls in each country, the privileges, immunities, and jurisdictions, to be enjoyed by such consuls, are declared to be on the same footing, in every respect, with the most favored nations, spectively. re ART. XIII. The consul of the United States of America shall not be responsible for the debts contracted by the citizens of his own country, he gives previously written obligations so to do. unless ART. XIV. On a vessel or vessels of war belonging to the United States anchoring before the city Algiers, the consul 'is to inform the Dey of her arrival, when she shall receive the salutes which are, by treaty or custom, given to the ships of war of the most favored nations on similar occasions, and which shall be returned gun for gun; and if, after such arrival, 80 announced, any Christians whatever, captives in Algiers, make their escape and take refuge on board any of the said ships of war, they shall not be required back again, nor shall the consul of the United States or commander of the said ship be required to pay any thing for the said Christians. ART. XV. As the government of the United States has, in itself, no character of enmity, against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of any nation, and as the said states have never entered into any voluntary war, or act of hostility, except in defence of their just rights on the high seas, it is declared, by the contracting parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony between the two nations; and the consuls and agents of both nations shall have liberty to celebrate the rites of their respective religions in their own houses. The consuls respectively, shall have liberty and personal security given them to travel within the territories of each other by land and sea, and shall 1816 not be prevented from going on board any vessel. they may think proper to visit; they shall likewise have the liberty to appoint their own drogoman and broker. no ART. XVI. In case of any dispute arising from the violation of any of the articles, of this treaty, appeal shall be made to arms, nor shall war be declared on any pretext whatever; but if the consul residing at the place where the dispute shall happen, shall not be able to settle the same, the government of that country shall state their grievance in writing, and transmit the same to the government of the other, and the period of three months shall be allowed for answers to be returned, during which time no act of hostility shall be permitted by either party; and in case the grievances are not redressed, and a war should be the event, the consuls, and citizens, and subjects, of both parties, respectively, shall be permitted to embark with their effects unmolested, on board of what vessel or vessels they shall think proper, reasonable time being allowed. for that purpose. ART. XVII. If, in the course of events, a war should break out between the two nations, the prisoners captured by either party shall not be made slaves; they shall not be forced to hard labor, or other confinement than such as may be necessary to secure their safe keeping; and shall be exchanged rank for rank; and it is agreed that prisoners shall be exchanged in twelve months after their capture; and the exchange may be effected by any private individual legally authorized by either of the parties. ART. XVIII. If any of the Barbary powers, or other states at war with the United States, shall capture any American vessel and send her into any port of the Regency of Algiers, they shall not be permitted to sell her, but shall be forced to depart the port on procuring the requisite supplies of provisions; but the vessels of war of the United States, with any prizes they may capture from their enemies, shall have liberty to frequent the ports of Algiers for refreshment of any kind, and to sell 1816 such prizes in the said ports, without paying any other customs or duties than such as are customary on ordinary commercial importations. ART. XIX. If any of the citizens of the United States, or any persons under their protection, shall have any disputes with each other, the consul shall decide between the parties; and whenever the consul shall require any aid or assistance from the government of Algiers to enforce his decision, it shall be immediately granted to him; and if any disputes shall arise between any citizens of the United States and the citizens or subjects of any other nations having a consul or agent in Algiers, such disputes shall be settled by the consuls or agents of the respective nations; and any disputes or suits of law that may take place between any citizens of the United States, and the subjects of the Regency of Algiers, shall be decided by the Dey in person, and no other. ART. XX. If a citizen of the United States should kill, wound, or strike, a subject of Algiers, or, on the contrary, a subject of Algiers should kill, wound, or strike, a citizen of the United States, the law of the country shall take place, and equal justice shall be rendered, the consul assisting at the trial; but the sentence of punishment against an, American citizen shall not be greater or more severe than it would be against a Turk in the same predicament; and if any delinquent should make his escape, the consul shall not be responsible for him in any manner whatever. ART. XXI. The consul of the United States of America shall not be required to pay any customs or duties whatever on any thing he imports from a foreign country for the use of his house and family. ART. XXII. Should any of the citizens of the United States of America die within the Regency of Algiers, the Dey and his subjects shall not interfere with the property of the deceased, but it shall be under the immediate direction of the consul, unlefs otherwise disposed of by will. Should there be no consul, the effects shall be deposited in the hands of some person worthy of trust, until the party shall 1816 appear who has a right to demand them, when they shall render an account of the property; neither shall the Dey or his subjects give hindrance in the execution of any will that may appear. Article additional and explanatory. The United States of America, in order to give to the Dey of Algiers a proof of their desire to maintain the relations of peace and amity between the two powers upon a footing the most liberal, and in order to withdraw any obstacle which might embarrass him in his relations with other states, agree to annul so much of the eighteenth article of the foregoing treaty, as gives to the United States any advantage in the ports of Algiers over the most favored nations having treaties with the Regency. Done at the palace at the government, in Algiers, on the 22d day of December, 1816, which corresponds to the third of the moon Safar, year of the Hegira 1232. Whereas the undersigned William Shaler, a citizen of the state of New-York, and Isaac Chauncey, commander in chief of the naval forces of the United States, stationed in the mediterranean, being duly appointed commissioners, by letters patent under the signature of the president and seal of the United States of America, bearing date at the city of Washington, the twent- fourth day of August, A. D. 1816, for negociating and concluding the renewal of a treaty of peace between the United States of America and the Dey and subjects of the Regency of Algiers, we, therefore, William Shaler and Isaac Chauncey, commissioners as aforesaid, do conclude the foregoing treaty, and every article and clause therein contained, reserving the same, nevertheless, for the final ratification of the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States. 1816 Done in the Chancery of the Consulate General of the United States, in the city of Algiers, on the 23d day of December, in the year 1816, and of the independence of the United States the forty-first. WM. SHALER. The signature of the Dey is I. CHAUNCEY. (The foregoing treaty was ratified on the 11th February, 1822.) 3. 1817 Convention entre la Prusse et la Saxe royale, concernant la remise et la continuation des procès pendans dans le royaume et dans le duché de Saxe, conclue le 28 Juillet 1817. (Beilagen zum 19ten Stück der Gesetzsammlung für das Königreich Sachsen vom Jahr 1819. p. 319.) Nachdem die, in dem Wiener Friedens - Tractate, zwischen Ihren Königlichen Majestäten von Sachsenund Preufsen, vom 18ten Mai v. J., an Preussen erfolgte Abtretung einiger Provinzen, Districte, Gebiete oder Gebietstheile, auch Bestimmungen wegen des veränderten Gerichtsstandes bei den betreffenden Landestheilen nothwendig macht; so ist, wegen Abgabe und Forteetzung der bei den Gerichtshöfen beider Lande verhandelten Prozefs-, Vormundschafts-, Hypotheken-, Lehns- und anderer Rechtsangelegenheiten, und wegen der dazu gehörigen Acten, Depositen und Documente, es mögen sich nun diese bei obern oder niedern Civil, geistlichen oder Militair Gerichten, oder sonstigen Behörden befinden, unter Vermittelung des mit unterzeichneten Kaiserl. Königl. Oesterreichischen Herrn Commissarii, von |