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 780 CONVENTION WITH GREAT BRITAIN. JUNE 3, 1870. List °f£P°”. He shall deliver to the master of the detained vessel a Signed- and cer. '°$'°°°* tined list of the papers found on board the same, as well as a. certincate of. the number of negroes or other persons destined for slavery, who may have been found on board at the moment of detention. In the declaration which the captor is hereby required to make, as well as in the certided list of the papers seized, and in- the certificate of the number of negroes or others destined for slavery who may be found on board the detained vessel, he shall insert his own name and surname, the name of the capturing ship, and the latitude and longitude of the place where the detention shall have been made. The officer in charge of the detained vessel shall, at the time of delivering the vessel’s papers and the certificate of the commander into court, deliver also a certificate, signed by himself, and verified on oath, stating any changes which may have taken place in respect to the vessel, her crew, and her cargo, between the time of her detention and the time of delivering in such paper. _N¢¤<·>¤¤¤¤‘y Where a detained vessel is handed over to a cruiser of her own nation, pany the vessel. BiCCOmp21I1y the vessel. Negroes to be Amrcnn IV. All the negroes or others (necessary witnesses ex- timmy, vessel, for the purposes of being consigned to slavery, shall be handed over by the commander of the capturing ship to the nearest British authority. Proceedings Aarxcrn V. In case any merchant vessel detained in pursuance of Kiss; Qggsgfgs the present instructions should prove to be, unseaworthy, or in such a con— unseaworthy, dition as not to be taken in for adjudication as directed by the additional convention of this date, the commander of the detaining cruiser may take upon himself the responsibility of abandoning or destroying her, provided the exact causes which made such a step imperatively necessary be stated in a certificate verified on oath. Such certincate shall be drawn up and formally executed by him in duplicate at the time, and shall be received as prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated, subject to rebuttal by counter proof In case of the abandonment or destruction of a detained vessel, the master and crew, together with the papers found on board, and other necessary proofs and witnesses, and one of the certificates mentioned in the preceding paragraph of this article, shall be sent and delivered at the earliest possible moment to the proper court before which the vessel would otherwise have been sent. Upon the production of the said certificate, the court may proceed to adjudicate upon the detention of the vessel in the same manner as if the vessel had been sent in. The negroes or others intended to be consigned to slavery shall be handed over to the nearest British authority. b I¤¤¤¤wti<>¤¤f<> The undersigned plenipotentiaries have agreed, in conformity with the °p°‘"°f°"°“lY‘ IVth article of the additional convention, signed by them on this day, that the present instructions shall be annexed to the said convention, and be considered an integral part thereof Done at Washington, the third day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy. Esau,.] HAMILTON FISH. SEAL. EDWD. THORNTON. Batmoation. And whereas the said additional convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the respective ratiiications of the same were exchanged _ at London on_the 10th ultimo: Y¥¤¢1¤m¤¤0¤· Now, therefore, be it known that I, Unrssns S. GRANT, President of the United States of America, have caused the said additional convention to be made public, to the end that the same, and every clause and part
 * ,"m°§$Q°u°c';'},m_ an officer in charge, and other necessary witnesses and proofs, shall
 * ‘;“,‘;fgi;‘L’;‘:f" cepted) who may be on board either an American ·or a British detained