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 TREATY WITH GREAT BRITAIN. FEBRUARY 17, 1863. 645 Additional Article to the Treaty for the Suppression of the African Slave- Trade, between the United States of America and her Britannia Jllajesty, of the 7th of April, 1862; concluded February 17, 1863; ratified by ` the United States,March 5, 1863 ; ratifications exchanged, April 1, 1863; and proclaimed by the President of the United States, April 22, 1863. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A PROCLAMATION. February 17, 1863. WHEREAS an additional article to the treaty for the suppression of the p,eamb]e_ African slave-trade, between the United States of America and her Britannic Majesty, of the 7th of April, 1862, was concluded and signed at Washington by their respective plenipotentiaries, on the 17th day of February, 1863, which additional article is, word for word, as follows :— Additional Article to the Treaty between the United States of America and her Britannic Majesty for the Suppression of the African Slave- Trade, signed at Washington April 7, 1862. WHEREAS, by the first article of the treaty between the United States RiP.'h*<>*`§¤¤¤>h of America and her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great 22ga?:t$2;;;¥s°f Britain and Ireland, for the suppression of the African slave·trade, signed maybe egcercised at Washington on the 7th of April, 1862, it was stipulated and agreed Y;;hS;s*l;;P`%ad _ that those ships of the respective navies of the two high contracting @8,, pmt, ° parties which shall be provided with special instructions for that purpose §,_a¤d San as thereinafter mentioned, may visit such merchantryessels of the two D°"“"g°‘ 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, Vol. xii. p. 1225. 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 This utters to if it had been inserted word for word in the treaty concluded between MY: §**,*P¤ ¤“:;°* the two mg}. connecting parties on me ml or April, 1862, and Smit ;§Q,g,¥,»§’,‘Q,,‘},;, have the same duration as that treaty. It shall be ratified, and the ratiii-` treaty, _ cations shall be exchanged at London in six months from this date, or b€};;°;€;°;t?°gs.°° ,, Q6 lll S00h8K` li. POSS1l)1€. gig mouths, * In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have thereunto affixed the seal of their arms.