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 384 PUBLIC TREATIES. Aarrcux XXIV. Letters or Whenever one of the contracting parties shall be engaged in war "’°"'1°°- with another State, no citizen of the other contracting party shall accept a commission orletter of marque for the purpose of assisting or co-operating hostilely with the said enemy against the said party so at war, under the pain of being treated as a pirate. Auricnn XXV. Riiihh °*` '°•*·- If by any fatality, which cannot be expected, and which God forbid, $,3in °°'° °f the two contracting parties should be engaged in a war with each other, ' they have agreed, and do agree, now for then,that there shall be allowed the term of six months to the merchants residing on the coast and in the ports of each other, and the term of one year to those who dwell in the interior, to arrange their business and transport their effects wherever they please, giving to them the saieconduct necessary for it, which may serve as asufllcient protection until they arrive at the designated port. The citizens of all other occupations who may be established in the territories or dominions of the United States of America and of the Republic of Guatemala shall be respected and maintained in the full enjoyment of their personal liberty and property, unless their particular conduct shall cause them to forfeit this protection, which, in consideration of humanity, the contracting parties engage to give them. Aaricrn XXVI. Debts, sw., not Neither the debts due from individuals of the one nation to individto be ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤wd· uals of the other, nor shares nor moneys which they may have in public funds or in public or private banks, shall ever, in any event of war or of national difference, be sequestered or connscated. Anrrcm XXVII. Envoys, minis- Both the contracting parties, being desirous of avoiding all inequality wv¤.&•=- in relation to their public communications and official intercourse, have agreed, and do agree, to grant to the Envoys, Minister, and other public agents the same favours, immunities, and exemptions which those of the most favoured nation do or shall enioy; it being understood that whatever favours, immunities, or privileges the United States of America or the Republic of Guatemala may find it proper to give the Ministers and public agents of any other Power, shall, by the same act, be extended to those of each of the contracting parties. ARTICLE XXVIII. g°,,.,i,,,¤dv;.,,. To make more effectual the protection which the United States of •un•ul¤. America and the Republic of Guatemala shall afford in future to the navigation and commerce of the citizens of each other, they agree to receive and admit Consuls and Vice-Consuls in all the ports open to foreign commerce, who shall enjoy in them all the rights, prerogatives, and immunities of the Consnls and Vice-Consuls of the most favoured nation; each contracting party, however, remaining at liberty to except those ports and places in which the admission and residence of such Consuls and Vice-Consuls may not seem convenient. American XXIX. E¤¤q¤¤t¤r•· In_ order that the Consuls and Vice-Oonsuls of the two contracting parties may enjoy the rights, prerogatives, and immunities which belong to them by their public character, they shall, before entering on the exercise of their functions, exhibit their commission or patent in due