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 GREAT BRITAIN, 1863. 345 And each of the high contracting parties agrees to supply deuuitively V¤<>=¤¤¤i¤¤. Wim as soon as possible, the vacancies which may arise in the above-men? *° *’° ““°°l- tioncd courts from death, or from any other cause whatever. The undersigned Plenipotentiaries have agreed, in conformity with Re g uinti ¤¤ ¤ the Xlth article of the treaty signed by them on this day, that the pre- '“°"° P*** °f ceding regulations shall be annexed to the said treaty and considered muy' an integral part thereotl Done at Y\`ashingtou the seventh day of April, i11 the vear of ourLord DIM- oue thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. ` WILLIAM H. SEWARD. [L. s. LYONS. {L. sl GREAT BRITAIN, 1863. ADDITIONAL ARTICLE TO THE TREATY WITII GREAT BRITAIN OF APRIL Feb. 11,186:1. 7, 1862, FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE, CON- -;— CLUDI-ID AT WASHINGTON FEBRUARY 11, 1862; RATIFICATION ADVISED BY SENATE FEBRUARY 27, 1863: RATIFIED BY PRESIDENT MARCH 5, 1863; RATIFICATIONS EXCHANGED AT LONDON APRIL I, 186:1; FROCLAIMED APRIL 22, 186:1. Additional Article to the Treaty between the Uizited 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 Pmmbleof America and Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the suppression of the African slave trade, [Sm, Mm,,, I signed at Washington on the 7th of April, 1862, it was stipulated and treaty or 18o2, pp: agreed that those ships of the respective navies of the two high con- 334.335-] tracting parties which shall be provided with special instructions for that purpose as thereinafter mentioned, may visit such merchant vessels of the two nations as may, upon reasonable grounds, be suspected of being engaged in the African slave trade, or of having been Iitted out for that purpose, 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 eilicacious for its purpose: The Plenipotentiaries Ri M 0,- vm, who signed the said treaty have, in virtue of their full powers, agreed and ldetention exthat the reciprocal right of visit and detention, as defined in the article tended- - 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 gem of tu is as if it had been inserted word for word in the treaty concluded between articlethe two high contracting parties on the 7th of April, 1862, and shall [Sec Art.icIeXII, have the same duration as that treaty. It shall be ratified, and the rati- géiglgy °f mm, P· ficatious shall be exchanged at London in six months from this date, or Iimncmous sooner if possible. ` In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiarics have signed the signatures. same, and have thereunto ailixed the seal of their arms. Done at Washington the 17th day of February, in the year of our Defe- Lord one thonsand eight hundred and sixty-three. WIIITIIAM H. SEWARD. [L. s.] LYON S. L. s.