By the right of entering the places, ports, and rivers mentioned in this Article, the privilege of carrying on the coasting trade is not understood, in which trade na tional vessels only are permitted to engage. Art. III. Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland engages further, that the inhabitants of the Republic of Costarica shall have the like liberty of commerce and navigation stipulated for in the preceding Article, in all her territories, dominions, and settlements situated out of Europe, to the full extent to which the same is permitted at present, or shall be permitted hereafter, to any other nation. the laws and statutes of the two minions, or settlements of Her countries, respectively. Britannic Majesty of any article being of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the Republic of Costarica, and no higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into the territories of the Republic of Costarica of any articles being the growth, produce, or manufacture of the territories, dominions, and settlements of Her Britannic Majesty, than are or shall be payable on the like articles, being the growth, produce, or manufacture of any other foreign country; nor shall any other or higher duties or charges be imposed in the territories, dominions, or settlements of either of the high contracting parties, on the exportation of any articles to the territories, dominions, or settlements of the other, than such as are or may be payable on the exportation of the like articles to any other foreign country; nor shall any prohibition be imposed upon the exportation or importation of any articles, the growth, produce, or manufacture of the territories, dominions, or settlements of Her Britannic Majesty, or of the Republic of Costarica, to or from the said territories, dominions, or settlements of Her Britannic Majesty, or to or from the Republic of Costarica, which shall not equally extend to all other nations. Art. IV. It being the intention of the two high contracting parties to bind themselves by the two preceding Articles to treat each other on the footing of the most favoured nation, it is hereby agreed between them, that any favour, privilege, or immunity whatever, in matters of commerce and navigation, which either contracting party has actually granted, or may hereafter grant, to the subjects or citizens of any other State, shall be extended to the subjects or citizens of the other high contracting party, gratuitously, if the concession in favour of that other nation shall have been gratuitous; or in return for a compensation as nearly as possible of proportionate value and effect, to be adjusted by mutual agreement, if the concession shall have been conditional. Art. V. No higher nor other duties shall be imposed on the importation into the territories, do Art. VI.-No higher nor other duties or payments on account of tonnage, of light or harbour dues, of pilotage, of salvage in case either of damage or shipwreck, or on account of any other local charges, shall be imposed in any of the ports of the Republic of Costarica on British vessels, than those payable in the same ports by Costarican vessels; nor in any of the territories, dominions, or settle ments of Her Britannic Majesty on Costarican vessels, than shall be payable in the same ports on British vessels. Art. VII. The same duties shall be paid on the importation into the territories of the Republic of Costarica, of any article being of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the territories, dominions, or settlements of Her Britannic Majesty, whether such importation shall be made in Costarican or in British vessels; and the same duties shall be paid on the importation into the territories, dominions, or settlements of Her Britannic Majesty, of any article, being the growth, produce, or manufacture of the Republic of Costarica, whether such importation shall be made in British or in Costarican vessels. The same duties shall be paid, and the same bounties and drawbacks allowed, on the exportation to the Republic of Costarica of any articles being the growth, produce, or manufacture of the territories, dominions, or settlements of Her Britannic Majesty, whether such exportation shall be made in Costarican or in British vessels; and the same duties shall be paid, and the same bounties and drawbacks allowed, on the exportation of any articles being the growth, produce, or manufacture of the Republic of Costarica, to the territories, dominions, or settlements of Her Britannic Majesty, whether such exportation shall be made in British or in Costarican vessels. affairs themselves, or to commit them to the management of whomsoever they please, as broker, factor, agent, or interpreter; nor shall they be obliged to employ any other persons in those capacities than those employed by Costaricans, nor to pay them any other salary or remuneration than such as is paid in like cases by Costarican citizens; and absolute freedom shall be allowed in all cases to the buyer and seller to bargain and fix the price of any goods, wares, or merchandize imported into, or exported from, the Republic of Costarica, as they shall see good, observing the laws and established customs of the country. The same privileges shall be enjoyed in the territories, dominions, and settlements of Her Britannic Majesty, by the citizens of the Republic of Costarica, under the same conditions. The subjects and citizens of the high contracting parties shall reciprocally receive and enjoy full and perfect protection for their persons and property, and shall have free and open access to the courts of justice in the said countries, respectively, for the prosecution and defence of their just rights; and they shall be at liberty to employ in all causes the advocates, attorneys, or agents of whatever description, whom they may think proper; and they shall enjoy in this respect the same rights and privileges therein as native subjects or citizens. Art IX.-In whatever relates to the police of the ports, the lading and unlading of ships, the safety of merchandize, goods, and effects, the succession to personal estates by will or otherwise, and the disposal of personal property of every sort and denomination, by sale, donation, exchange, testa ment, or in any other manner whatsoever, as also the administration of justice; the subjects and citizens of the two high contracting parties shall reciprocally enjoy the same privileges, liberties, and rights, as native subjects or citizens; and they shall not be charged in any of these respects with any higher imposts or duties than those which are paid, or may be paid, by native subjects or citizens; submitting of course to the local laws and regulations of each country, respectively. If any subject or citizen of either of the two high contracting parties shall die without will or testament in any of the territories, dominions, or settlements of the other, the Consul-General or Consul of the nation to which the deceased belonged, or the representative of such Consul-General or Consul, in his absence, shall have the right to nominate curators to take charge of the property of the deceased, so far as the laws of the country will permit, for the benefit of the lawful heirs and creditors of the deceased; giving proper notice of such nomination to the authorities of the country. Art. X.-The subjects of Her Britannic Majesty residing in the Republic of Costarica, and the citizens of the Republic of Costarica residing in any of the territories, dominions, or settlements of Her Britannic Majesty, shall be exempted from all compulsory military service whatsoever, either by sea or by land, and from all forced loans or military exactions or requisitions; and they shall not be compelled, under any pretext whatsoever, to pay other ordinary charges, requisitions, or taxes, greater than those that are paid by native subjects or citizens of the contracting parties, respectively. Art. XI.-It shall be free for each of the two high contracting parties to appoint Consuls for the protection of trade, to reside in any of the territories, dominions, and settlements of the other party; but before any consul shall act as such, he shall, in the usual form, be approved and admitted by the Government to which he is sent; and either of the high contracting parties may except from the residence of consuls such particular places as they judge fit to be excepted. The Costarican diplomatic agents and consuls shall enjoy, in the territories, dominions, and settlements of Her Britannic Majesty, whatever privileges, exceptions, and immunities are or shall be granted to agents of the same rank belonging to the most favoured nation; and in like manner, the diplomatic agents and consuls of Her Britannic Majesty in the Costarican territories shall enjoy, according to the strictest reciprocity, whatever privileges, exemptions, and immunities are or may be granted in the territories of the Republic of Costarica, to the diplomatic agents and consuls of the most favoured nation. of Art. XII. For the better security of commerce between the subjects of Her Britannic Majesty and the citizens of the Republic of Costarica, it is agreed, that if at any time any interruption friendly intercourse, or any rupture, should unfortunately take place between the two high contracting parties, the subjects or citizens of either of the two high contracting parties who may be within any of the territories, dominions, or settlements of the other, shall, if residing upon the coasts, be allowed six months, and if in the interior, a whole year, to wind up their accounts and dis pose of their property; and a safe conduct shall be given them to embark at the port which they themselves shall select; and even in the event of a rupture, all such subjects or citizens of either of the two high contracting parties who are established in any of the territories, dominions, and settlements of the other, in the exercise of any trade or special employment, shall have the privilege of remaining and of continuing such trade and employment therein, without any manner of interruption, in the full enjoyment of their liberty and property, as long as they behave peaceably, and commit no offence against the laws; and their goods and effects, of whatever description they may be, whether in their own custody or entrusted to individuals or to the State, shall not be liable to seizure or sequestration, nor to any other charges or demands than those which may be made upon the like effects or property belonging to the native subjects or citizens of the country in which such subjects or citizens may reside. In the same case, debts between in dividuals, property in public funds, and shares of companies, shall never be confiscated, sequestered, nor detained. Art. XIII. The subjects of Her Britannic Majesty, and the citizens of the Republic of Costarica, respectively, residing in any of the territories, dominions, or settlements of the other party, shall enjoy, in their houses, persons, and properties, the protection of the Government, and shall continue in possession of the guarantees which they now enjoy. They shall not be disturbed, molested, or annoyed in any manner on account of their religious belief, nor in the proper exercise of their religion, either within their own private houses, or in the places of worship destined for that purpose, agreeably to the system of tolerance established in the territories, dominions, and settlements of the two high contracting parties; provided they respect the religion of the nation in which they reside, as well as the constitution, laws, and customs of the country. Liberty shall also be granted to bury the subjects or citizens of either of the two high contracting parties who may die in the territories, dominions, or settlements aforesaid, in burial-places of their own, which in the same manner may be freely established and maintained; nor shall the funerals or sepulchres of the dead be disturbed in any way or upon any account. Art. XIV.-The Government of the Republic of Costarica, in order to co-operate with Her Britannie Majesty for the total abolition of the Slave Trade, engages to execute perfectly the laws of the said Republic, which prohibit in the most effectual manner all persons inhabiting within the territories of the Republic of Costarica, or in places subject to their jurisdiction, from taking any share in such trade. Art. XV. In order that the two high contracting parties may have the opportunity of hereafter treating and agreeing upon such other arrangements as may tend still further to the improvement of their mutual intercourse, and to the advancement of the interests of their respective subjects and citizens, it is agreed that at any time after the expiration of seven years from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty, either of the high contracting parties shall have the right of giving to the other party notice of its intention to terminate Articles V., VI., and VII. of the present treaty; and that at the expiration of twelve months after such notice shall have been received by either party from the other, the said Articles, and all the stipulations contained therein, shall cease to be binding on the two high contracting parties. Art. XVI. The present treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Lon don or at San José de Costarica, within the space of eight months, or sooner if possible. In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto their respective seals. Done at San José, this twentyseventh day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. (L.S.) FREDK. CHATFIELD. TREATY of PEACE, AMITY, COMMERCE, and NAVIGATION, between HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY and the DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; with an Additional Article thereunto annexed. (Signed at Santo Domingo, March 6, 1850.-Ratifications exchanged at Santo Domingo, September 10, 1850.) In the Name of the Most Holy of the French Republic; her Trinity. Consul to the Dominican Republic; Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the President of the Dominican Republic, being desirous to consecrate the formal recognition of the independence of the same, and to conclude a treaty of peace and friendship, and to regulate thereby the commercial intercourse between the dominions and subjects of Her Majesty and the territories and citizens of the Republic, they have for this purpose named as their respective Plenipotentiaries, that is to say: Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk, Knight, Doctor of Philosophy, Knight of the Royal Prussian Order of the Red Eagle; of the Royal Saxon Order of Merit; of the Legion of Honour And the President of the Dominican Republic, Señor José Maria Medrano, Minister Secretary of State for the Departments of Police and the Interior, and charged with those of Justice, Public Instruction, and Foreign Affairs; 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 : Art. I.-There shall be perpetual peace and friendship between Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, her heirs and successors, and the Dominican Republic, and between their respective subjects and citizens. Art. II. There shall be re |