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 TREATY WITH GREAT BRITAIN'. Arms. 7, 1862. 1229 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 _8¤bjects of of either contracting party who may be found hy a cruiserof the other §£},°_{ §‘Q"fQu_ on board a vessel of any third Power, or on board a vessel sailing with-· damned vessels out {lag or papers, which may be condemned by any competent court for °f* Blké P°'"“`· having engaged in the African slave trade. Aarrcnn X. The negroes who are found on board of a vessel con- Negroes found demned by the mixed courts of justice, in conformity with the stipulations ‘5“ l’°‘Ql °°“;, of this treaty, shall be placed at the dis; osal of the Government whose nsw; bhedis-B, cruiser has made the capture; they shall be immediately set at liberty, Pwd °*Y and shall remain free, the Government to whom they have been delivered guarantying their liberty. Axrxcnn XI. The acts or instruments annexed to this treaty, and Instruments which it is mutually agreed shall form an integral part thereof, are as *¤¤°*°“° follows: °°“°Y‘ (A.) Instructions for the ships of the navies of both nations, destined to prevent the African slave trade. SB.) Regulations for the mixed courts of justice. R·r1cLm XII. The present treaty shall be ratified, and the ratiiica· ‘1‘!¤¤¢>(.Wl¤¤¤ tions thereof shall be exchanged at London in six months from this date, z21m,;';:"?:,?; W or sooner if possible. It shall continue and remain in full force for the continue. term of ten years from the day of exchange of the ratiiications, 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 no- _ tice 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 Signature. present txleaty, and have thereunto adixed the seal of theirarms. Done at Washington the seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. L. s. WILLIAM H. SEWABD. [1.. sl LYONS. Annex (A) to the Zhaty between the United States of America and Great Britain, for the Sup ression of the African Slave Trade, signed at Washington on the 7th day of April, 1862. Instructions or the Shi o the United States and British Novica employed I¤¤¤‘¤°*l°¤¤ f it pigveht ne Af.-cm sim nm. "°"*"*"°""“' Ancrxcta I. The commander of any ship belonging to_the United d and States or British navy which shall he furnished with these instructions, ° shall have a right to search and detain any United States or British merchant·vessel which shall be actually engaged, or suspected to be engaged, in the African slave trade, or to be fitted out for the purposes thereof, or to have been engaged in such trade during the voyage in which she may be met with by such ship of the United States or British navy; and such labs commander shall thereupon bring or send such merchant-vessel (save in ”;:nt_°’J the case provided for in article V. of these instructions) as soon as possible, for judgment, befpgre lpne of th; tpree igifed tcougltstof Jgsgc; established in virtue of the t articeo the said ieay, a is = If the vessel shall be detained on the coast of Africa, she shall be Bsfm what