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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

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Exchange of Official Documents, Scientific and Literary Publications....
Immediate Exchange of Official Journals, Parliamentary Annals, and Docu-

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
the Importation of Spirituous Liquors into Africa.............

1993

Formation of an International Union for the Publication of Customs Tariffs..
Final Protocol at the Conclusion of the So-called Boxer Troubles in China in
1900.....

1996

2006

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Law and Customs of War on Land.....

2042

Convention with Central and South American States Concerning Literary and

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ALGIERS.
1795.

A TREATY OF PEACE AND AMITY CONCLUDED THIS PRESENT DAY
JIMA ARTASI, THE TWENTY-FIRST OF THE LUNA SAFER, YEAR OF THE
HEGIRA 1210, CORRESPONDING WITH SATURDAY, THE FIFTH OF SEP-
TEMBER, 1795, BETWEEN HASSAN BASHAW, DEY OF ALGIERS, HIS
DIVAN AND SUBJECTS, AND GEORGE WASHINGTON, PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA, AND THE CITIZENS OF the Said
UNITED STATES.

Concluded September 5, 1795; ratification advised by Senate March
2, 1796.

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From the date of the present treaty there shall subsist a firm and
sincere peace and amity between the President and citizens of the
United States of North America and Hassan Bashaw, Dey of Algiers,
his Divan and subjects; the vessels and subjects of both nations
reciprocally treating each other with civility, honor and respect.

All vessels belonging to the citizens of the United States of North
American shall be permitted to enter the different ports of the
Regency, to trade with our subjects, or any other persons residing
within our jurisdiction, on paying the usual duties at our customs
house that is paid by all nations at peace with this Regency; observ-

This treaty was superseded by the treaty of 1815.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.

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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.

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