mento, recibirán de la autoridad superior política un certificado de emancipacion y se pondrán inmediatamente á disposicion del Gobierno de la Nacion á la cual pertenezca el punto ó lugar de desembarco, para que sean tratados conforme al presente Reglamento.

ARTICULO III.

El Gobierno de la República Mexicana se compromete, en su caso, á asegurar á los negros la conservacion de la libertad adquirida, un buen trato, la instruccion suficiente en los dogmas de la religion y de la moral y la que sea necesaria para que puedan mantenerse como artesanos, menestrales ó criados de servicio.

ARTICULO IV.

Su Majestad Británica se obliga igualmente á tratar á los dichos negros desembarcados en cualquier punto de sus dominios, en absoluta conformidad con las leyes vigentes en las Colonias de la GranBretaña, respecto al régimen de los negros emancipados.

ARTICULO V.

Ambos Gobiernos se comprometen á tomar las disposiciones necesarias con el fin de tener noticia periódicamente de la existencia de los negros que hayan sido emancipados en virtud del Tratado de esta fecha, de las mejoras de su condicion y de los progresos de su enseñanza, así religiosa y moral como industrial, ó de las constancias de su fallecimiento. Estos datos servirán para ministrar, en su caso, el informe de que habla el artículo XII del mismo Tratado.

Los infrascritos Plenipotenciarios se han convenido, de conformidad con el artículo XIII del Tratado de esta fecha, en que el presente Reglamento, compuesto de cinco artículos, esté anexo á dicho Tratado y se considere como parte integrante de él.

Fecho en la Ciudad de México, á veinticuatro de Febrero en el año del Señor de mil ochocientos cuarenta y uno.

Luis Gonzaga Cuevas.
Richard Pakenham.

Habiéndose concluido entre la República Mexicana y Su Majestad la Reina del Reino-Unido de la Gran-Bretaña é Irlanda, en 24 de Febrero de 1841, un Tratado para la supresion del Tráfico de Esclavos bajo el pabellon Mexicano;

Yen atencion á que imprevistas circuntancias han impedido el canje de las Ratificaciones de dicho Tratado dentro del tiempo estipulado en su artículo XV, el Exmo. Sr. Presidente de la República Mexicana y Su Majestad la Reina del Reino Unido de la Gran-Betaña é Irlanda, han juzgado oportuno entrar en un arreglo para la amplia

cion del período asignado para el canje de las Ratificaciones del Tratado referido;

Por tanto, han nombrado como sus Plenipotenciarios ad hoc,

El Excelentísimo Sr. Presidente de la República Mexicana á su Excelencia el Señor Don José Maria Tornel, General de Division y Ministro de Estado y del Despacho de Guerra y Marina,

Y Su Majestad la Reina del Reino-Unido de la Gran-Bretaña é Irlanda al Señor Don Ricardo Pakenham, su Ministro Plenipotenciario en la República de México.

Quienes, habiendo examinado sus Plenos Poderes y halládolos en buena y debida forma, han convenido en el siguiente artículo adicional al Tratado de 24 de Febrero de 1841.

ARTICULO ADICIONAL.

Las Ratificaciones del Tratado para la supresion del Tráfico de Esclavos bajo el Pabellon Mexicano, concluido en México en 24 de Febrero de 1841, serán canjeadas en Londres dentro de seis meses contados desde la fecha de este convenio.

El presente artículo adicional tendrá la misma fuerza y valor que si hubiera sido insertado á la letra en el Tratado referido de 24 de Febrero de 1841, y sus Ratificaciones serán canjeadas al mismo tiempo de las del Tratado de que forma parte.

En fé de lo cual, los Plenipotenciarios respectivos han firmado el presente convenio y lo han sellado con sus sellos respectivos. Fecho en la Ciudad de México, el dia trece de Abril del año del Señor de mil ochocientos cuarenta y dos.

José Maria Tornel.
Richard Pakenham.

In the name of the Most Holy Trinity.

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and His Excellency the President of the Mexican Republic, being animated by a sincere desire to cooperate for the total extinction of the barbarous traffic in slaves, have resolved to conclude a Treaty for the special purpose of immediately attaining this object, and have named respectively, as their Plenipotentiaries, to wit: Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Richard Pakenham Esquire, Her Minister Plenipotentiary to the Mexican Government; and His Excellency the President of the Mexican Republic, His Excellency D. Luis Gonzaga Cuevas, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from that Republic at the Court of London;

Who, after having communicated to each other their respective Full

Powers, and found them to be in good and proper form, have agreed upon and concluded the following articles:

ARTICLE I.

The slave trade is declared by this Treaty to be totally and perpetually abolished in all parts of the world, on the part of the Mexican Republic, as are already slavery in the Mexican Territory, and the aforesaid traffic in slaves on the part of Great Britain.

ARTICLE II.

The Government of Mexico engages to take, immediately after the exchange of the ratifications of the present Treaty, and subsequently from time to time, when it may be necessary, the most effectual measures to prevent the Citizens of the Mexican Republic from being concerned in the slave trade, and the Flag of the said Republic from being employed, in any way, in carrying on that traffic, and binds itself specially to procure from the National Congress, as soon as possible, a penal law by which the severest punishment shall be imposed on all Citizens of the Republic who shall, under whatsoever pretext, take any part in the aforesaid Traffic in slaves.

ARTICLE III.

The Mexican Government engages to propose in the National Congress a Law which shall declare to be pirates all such Citizens of the Republic as may be engaged in the slave trade, as well as all such individuals as may carry it on under the National Flag. And Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and His Excellency the President of the Republic, mutually bind themselves to promulgate or propose in their respective Legislatures the most suitable measures for immediately carrying into execution the laws of piracy which are to be applicable to the said traffic, in conformity with the legislative enactments of each of the two Countries with respect to the vessels and subjects or citizens of the two Nations.

ARTICLE IV.

In order to prevent completely all infringement of the spirit of the present Treaty, the two High Contracting Parties mutually consent that the ships of their respective Navies, which shall be provided as hereinafter mentioned which special instructions for the purpose, may search such Merchant Vesseles of the two Nations as may be suspected, on reasonable grounds, of being engaged in the traffic in slaves or of having been fitted out for the purpose thereof or of having, during the voyage in which they may be met with by the said cruisers, been engaged in the traffic in slaves, in contravention of the stipulations of the present Treaty; and the two Contracting Parties

also agree that the said cruisers may detain such vesseles and send or convey them to be tried in the manner hereinafter provided.

With a view to avoid even the possibility of annoyance to the coas ting trade of Mexico from the exercise of the mutual right of search stipulated in the present Article, the High Contracting Parties agree that the said right shall not be enforced within a line drawn from the mouth of the Rio Bravo del Norte in twenty five degrees, fifty five minutes, of north latitude, and ninety seven degrees, twenty five minutes of longitude west from Greenwich, to the port of Sisal in the Peninsula of Yucatan, in twenty one degrees six minutes of north latitude, and ninety degrees, four minutes of longitude west from Greenwich; it being always understood that if a vessel suspected of being engaged in the slave trade, shall be discovered without the said line by a British or Mexican Cruiser, and shall succeed in passing within that line, it shall not on that account be considered as protected by the present restriction, which is solely adopted for the greater security of the coasting trade of Mexico.

Nor shall the reciprocal right of search be exercised in the Mediterranean sea, nor in the seas of Europe lying without the straights of Gibraltar and to the north of the thirty seventh parallel of North latitude and to the East ward of the Meridian of twenty degrees west of Greenwich.

ARTICLE V.

In order to regulate the mode of carrying into execution the provisions of the preceding article, it is agreed:

First. That their respective Governments shall provide the ships of the Navies of the two Nations to be employed in future in the prevention of the Slave Trade, with copies, in the english and spanish languages, of the present Treaty; of the instructions for cruisers annexed thereto sub literâ A; and of the regulations for the tribunals which shall have to try the vessels detained by virtue of the stipula tions contained in this Treaty, which are also annexed sub literâ B; which annexes respectively shall be considered as integral parts of the said Treaty.

Secondly. That each of the High Contracting Parties shall, from time to time, communicate to the other the names of the several ships destined for this service and furnished with such instructions, the force of each and the name of their Commanders.

Thirdly. That when the Commander of a cruiser of either of the two Nations shall suspect that any one or more vessel or vessels navigating under the escort or convoy of a ship of war of the other Nation, carries slaves on board or has been engaged in this prohibited traffic or is fitted out for it, he shall communicate his suspicions to the Commanding officer of the convoy, who, accompanied by the Commanding officer of the cruiser, shall proceed to the search of the suspected vessel and in case that the suspicions appear well founded according to the tenor of this Treaty, then the said vessel shall be conducted or sent to the place where it is to be brought to trial, in order that the just sentence may there be pronounced.

Fourthly. It is further agreed that the Commanders of the ships of the two Navies who shall be employed on this service, shall adhere in each case to the exact tenor of the said instructions.

ARTICLE VI.

As the two preceding Articles are entirely reciprocal, the High Contracting Parties engage to make good any losses incurred by their respective Subjects or Citizens by the arbitrary and illegal detention of their vessels; it being understood that this compensation shall be paid invariably by the Government whose cruiser shall have been guilty of such arbitrary and illegal detention, and they also engage that the visit and detention of vessels specified in the IV Article of this Treaty, shall only be effected by such english or mexican ships as may form part of the Royal and National Navies of the High Contracting Parties, and which are provided with the documents mentioned in the preceding Article.

ARTICLE VII.

It is agreed, by the present Article, that the vessels detained in conformity with the fourth Article of this Treaty by British or Mexican cruisers, shall be conducted or sent together with their Commanders, crews and cargoes to the nearest point in the country to which the captured vessel belongs, where there may be a competent tribunal to try it; that is to say, British vessels are to be conducted or sent to the nearest possession of Her Britannic Majesty where such tribunal exists, and Mexican Vessels to the Port of Veracruz, except in cases in which slaves shall be on board at the time of capture. In such cases the vessel shall be sent or conducted to the nearest possession of either of the two Powers, or to such place belonging to either as may be soonest reached, according to the judgement of the Commander of the capturing ship, under his own responsibility, in order that the slaves may be landed; the vessel with the remainder of her cargo, her Commander and crew shall be afterwards sent or conducted to the place where she is to be tried in conformity with the before mentioned provisions of this Article.

The Governments of the High Contracting Parties shall have the power to name by themselves or through the medium of their Legations or Consulates, an advocate who may be a subject or citizen of either of the two Nations, to undertake the prosecution or defence, as the case may be, of the vessels brought to trial, and solemnly pledge themselves to afford to such advocates all necessary liberty and protection, and such as is allowed by law to the advocates of the Country.

For the more speedy conclusion of these trials, the High Contracting Parties engage to procure the enactment of laws which shall abridge, as much as possible, the forms of indictment and sentence.