ARTICLE IX.

The captain, master, pilot, and crew of any vessel condemned by the Mixed Courts of Justice shall be punished according to the laws of the country to which such vessel belongs, as shall also the owner or owners, and the persons interested in her equipment or cargo, unless they prove that they had no participation in the enterprize.

For this purpose the two High Contracting Parties agree that, in so far as it may not be attended with grievous expense,and inconvenience, the master and crew of any vessel which may be condemned by a sentence of one of the Mixed Courts of Justice, as well as any other persons found on board the vessel, shall be sent and delivered up to the jurisdiction of the nation under whose flag the condemned vessel was sailing at the time of capture; and that the witnesses and proofs necessary to establish the guilt of such master, crew, or other persons, shall also be sent with them.

The same course shall be pursued with regard to subjects or citizens of either Contracting Party who may be found by a cruizer of the other on board a vessel of any third Power, or on board a vessel sailing without flag or papers, which may be condemned by any competent Court for having engaged in the African Slave Trade.

ARTICLE X.

The negroes who are found on board of a vessel condemned by the Mixed Courts of Justice, in conformity with the stipulations of this Treaty, shall be placed at the disposal of the Government whose cruiser has made the capture; they shall be immediately set at liberty and shall remain free, the Government to whom they have been delivered guaranteeing their liberty.

ARTICLE XI.

The Acts or Instruments annexed to this Treaty, and which it is mutually agreed shall form an integral part thereof, are as follows: (A.) Instructions for the ships of the navies of both nations destined to prevent the African Slave Trade.

(B.) Regulations for the Mixed Courts of Justice.

ARTICLE XII.

The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged at London in six months from this date, or sooner if possible.

It shall continue and remain in full force for the term of ten years, from the day of exchange of the ratifications, and further, until the end of one year after either of the contracting parties shall have given notice to the other of its intention to terminate the same; each of the contracting parties reserving to itself the right of giving such notice to the other at the end of said term of ten years: And it is hereby agreed between them, that, on the expiration of one year after such notice shall have been received by either, from the other party, this Treaty shall altogether cease and determine.

In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty, and have thereunto affixed the seal of their arms.

Done at Washington the seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

[SEAL.] [SEAL.]

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
LYONS

Annexes A and B to this treaty were superseded by the Convention of 1870 and by Instructions annexed thereto, p. 247.

1863.

ADDITIONAL ARTICLES TO THE TREATY FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF SLAVE TRADE, 1862.

Concluded February 17, 1863; ratification advised by the Senate February 27, 1863; ratified by the President March 5, 1863; ratifications exchanged April 1, 1863; proclaimed April 22, 1863. (Treaties and

(This treaty extends the right of visit and detention to within 30 leagues of Madagascar, Puerto Rico, and Santo Domingo.)

Whereas by the first Article" of the treaty between the United States of America and Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the suppression of the African slave trade, signed at Washington on the 7th of April, 1862, it was stipulated and agreed that those ships of the respective navies of the two High Contracting Parties which shall be provided with special instructions for that purpose, as thereinafter mentioned, may visit such merchant vessels of the two nations as may, upon reasonable grounds, be suspected of being engaged in the African slave trade, or of having been fitted out for that purpose, or of having, during the voyage on which they are met by the said cruisers, been engaged in the African slave trade contrary to the provisions of the said treaty; and that such cruisers may detain and send or carry away such vessels in order that they may be brought to trial in the manner thereinafter agreed upon: And whereas it was by the said Article further stipulated and agreed, that the reciprocal right of search and detention should be exercised only within the distance of two hundred miles from the Coast of Africa, and to the southward of the thirty-second parallel of north latitude, and within thirty leagues from the coast of the Island of Cuba: and whereas the two High Contracting Parties are desirous of rendering the said treaty still more efficacious for its purpose; the Plenipotentiaries who signed the said treaty have, in virtue of their full powers, agreed that the reciprocal right of visit and detention, as defined in the Article aforesaid, may be exercised also within thirty leagues of the Island of Madagascar, within thirty leagues of the Island of Puerto Rico, and within thirty leagues of the Island of San Domingo. The present Additional Article shall have the same force and validity as if it had been inserted word for word in the treaty concluded between the two High Contracting Parties on the 7th of April, 1862, and shall have the same duration as that treaty. It shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at London in six months from this date, or sooner if possible.

In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have thereunto affixed the seal of their arms.

Done at Washington the 17th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

[SEAL.] [SEAL.]

WILLIAM H. SEWARD
LYONS.

1863.

CLAIMS TREATY.

Concluded July 1, 1863; ratification advised by the Senate January 18, 1864; ratified by the President March 2, 1864; ratifications exchanged March 3, 1864, proclaimed March 5, 1864. (Treaties and Conventions, 1889, p. 467.)

By this treaty the claims of the Hudson's Bay Company and the Puget's Sound Agricultural Company against the United States were referred to a commission. The commission met in Washington January 7, 1865, and on September 10, 1869, rendered their awards of $450,000 to the Hudson's Bay Company, and $200,000 to the Puget's Sound Agricultural Company.

1870.

NATURALIZATION CONVENTION.

Concluded May 13, 1870; ratification advised by the Senate July 8, 1870; ratified by the President July 19, 1870; ratifications exchanged August 10, 1870; proclaimed September 16, 1870. (Treaties and Conventions, 1889, p. 470.)

ARTICLES.

I. Naturalization recognized.

III. Resumption of original citizenship.

II. Renunciation of previous naturaliza- IV. Ratification. tion.

The President of the United States of America, and Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, being desirous to regulate the citizenship of citizens of the United States of America who have emigrated or who may emigrate from the United States of America to the British dominions, and of British subjects who have emigrated or who may emigrate from the British dominions to the United States of America, have resolved to conclude a Convention for that purpose, and have named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:

The President of the United States of America, John Lothrop Motley, Esquire, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Her Britannic Majesty;

And Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable George William Frederick, Earl of Clarendon, Baron Hyde, of Hindon, a Peer of the United Kingdom,

a member of Her Britannic Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of Bath, Her Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs;

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

ARTICLE I.

Citizens of the United States of America who have become, or shall become, and are naturalized according to law within the British dominions as British Subjects, shall, subject to the provisions of Article II, be held by the United States to be in all respects and for all purposes British Subjects, and shall be treated as such by the United States.

Reciprocally, British Subjects who have become, or shall become, and are naturalized according to law within the United States of America as Citizens thereof, shall, subject to the provisions of Article II, be held by Great Britain to be in all respects and for all purposes Citizens of the United States, and shall be treated as such by Great

Britain.

ARTICLE II.

Such Citizens of the United States as aforesaid who have become and are naturalized within the Dominions of Her Britannic Majesty as British Subjects, shall be at liberty to renounce their naturalization and to resume their nationality as Citizens of the United States, provided that such renunciation be publicly declared within two years after the exchange of the ratifications of the present Convention.

Such British Subjects as aforesaid who have become and are naturalized as citizens within the United States, shall be at liberty to renounce their naturalization and to resume their British nationality, provided that such renunciation be publicly declared within two years after the Twelfth day of May, 1870.

The manner in which this renunciation may be made and publicly declared shall be agreed upon by the Governments of the respective Countries.

ARTICLE III.

If any such Citizen of the United States as aforesaid, naturalized within the Dominions of Her Britannic Majesty, should renew his residence in the United States, the United States' Government may, on his own application and on such conditions as that Government may think fit to impose, readmit him to the character and privileges of a Citizen of the United States, and Great Britain shall not, in that case, claim him as a British Subject on account of his former naturalization.

In the same manner, if any such British Subject as aforesaid naturalized in the United States should renew his residence within the Dominions of Her Britannic Majesty, Her Majesty's Government may, on his own application and on such conditions as that Government may think S. Doc. 318, 58-2-22

fit to impose, readmit him to the character and privileges of a British Subject, and the United States shall not, in that case, claim him as a Citizen of the United States on account of his former naturalization.

ARTICLE IV.

The present Convention shall be ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by Her Britannic Majesty, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at London as soon as may be within twelve months from the date hereof.

In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto their respective seals.

Done at London, the Thirteenth day of May, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy.

[SEAL.
[SEAL.]

JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY
CLARENDON

1870.

CONVENTION FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF SLAVE TRADE."

Concluded June 3, 1870; ratification advised by the Senate July 8, 1870; ratified by the President July 19, 1870; ratifications exchanged August 10, 1870; proclaimed September 16, 1870. (Treaties and Conventions, 1889, p. 472.)

I. Mixed courts abolished.

II. Jurisdiction over vessels seized. III. Procedure.

IV. Instructions to war ships.

ARTICLES.

V. Former treaty continued. VI. Notification of effect of convention.

VII. Duration; ratification.

b

The United States of America, and Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, having come to the conclusion that it is no longer necessary to maintain the three Mixed Courts of Justice established at Sierra Leone, at the Cape of Good Hope, and at New York, in pursuance of the treaty concluded at Washington on the 7th day of April, 1862, for the suppression of the African Slave Trade, they have resolved to conclude an Additional Convention for the purpose of making the requisite modifications of the said Treaty, and have named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to

sav:

The President of the United States of America, Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State,

And Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Edward Thornton, Esquire, Companion of the Order of the Bath, and Her Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America.

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:

a See General Act for Suppression of Slave Trade, p. 861.

See p. 329