Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Time of War... 1903 Additional Articles...... 1907 Adoption by United States of Additional Articles as a Modus Vivendi During War With Spain .............. 1912 International Bureau of Weights and Measures.. 1924 Exchange of Official Documents, Scientific and Literary Publications.... ments General Act for the Repression of the African Slave Trade.......... 1958 1959 1962 1964 Adhesion of the United States to the Convention of 1899 for the Regulation of 1993 Formation of an International Union for the Publication of Customs Tariffs.. 1996 2006 Law and Customs of War on Land..... 2042 Convention with Central and South American States Concerning Literary and ALGIERS. A TREATY OF PEACE AND AMITY CONCLUDED THIS PRESENT DAY Concluded September 5, 1795; ratification advised by Senate March From the date of the present treaty there shall subsist a firm and All vessels belonging to the citizens of the United States of North This treaty was superseded by the treaty of 1815. Algiers having become a province of France in 1830, the treaties with that country became obsolete. ing that all goods disembarked and not sold here shall be permitted to be re-embarked without paying any duty whatever, either for disembarking or embarking. All naval and military stores, such as gunpowder, lead, iron, plank, sulphur, timber for building, tar, pitch, rosin, turpentine, and any other goods denominated naval and military stores, shall be permitted to be sold in this Regency without paying any duties whatever at the custom-house of this Regency. ARTICLE III. The vessels of both nations shall pass each other without any impediment or molestation; and all goods, moneys or passengers, of whatsoever nation, that may be on board of the vessels belonging to either party shall be considered as inviolable, and shall be allowed to pass unmolested. ARTICLE IV. All ships of war belonging to this Regency, on meeting with merchant-vessels belonging to citizens of the United States, shall be allowed to visit them with two persons only beside the rowers; these two only permitted to go on board said vessel without obtaining express leave from the commander of said vessel, who shall compare the passport, and immediately permit said vessel to proceed on her voyage unmolested. All ships of war belonging to the United States of North America, on meeting with an Algerine cruiser, and shall have seen her passport and certificate from the Consul of the United States of North America, resident in this Regency, shall be permitted to proceed on her cruise unmolested; no passport to be issued to any ships but such as are absolutely the property of citizens of the United States, and eighteen months shall be the term allowed for furnishing the ships of the United States with passports. ARTICLE V. No commander of any cruiser belonging to this Regency shall be allowed to take any person, of whatever nation or denomination, out of any vessel belonging to the United States of North America, in order to examine them, or under pretence of making them confess anything desired; neither shall they inflict any corporal punishment, or any way else molest them. ARTICLE VI. If any vessel belonging to the United States of North America shall be stranded on the coast of this Regency, they shall receive every possible assistance from the subjects of this Regency. All goods saved from the wreck shall be permitted to be re-embarked on board of any other vessel without paying any duties at the custom-house. ARTICLE VII. The Algerines are not, on any pretence whatever, to give or sell any vessel of war to any nation at war with the United States of North America, or any vessel capable of cruising to the detriment of the commerce of the United States. |