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 GUATEMALA, 1849. 335 form to the Government to which they are accredited · and having obtained their exequatur, they shall be held and considered as, such by all the authorities, magistrates, and inhabitants in the consular district in which they reside. Anrrcnn XXX. It IS likewise agreed that the Uonsnls, their secretaries, officers, and Exemptions of persons attached to the service of Consuls, they not being citizens of the °°“'“l" °m°°”· country in which the Consul resides, -shall be exempt from all public service, and also from all kind of taxes, imposts, and contributions, except those which they shall be obliged to pay on account of commerce or their property, to which the citizensand inhabitants, native and foreign, of the country in which they reside, are subject; being in everything besides subject to the laws of the respective States. The archives and papers of the consulate shall be respected inviolably, and under no pre- {Ext whatever shall any magistrate seize or in any way interfere with em. Aarrronn XXXL The said Consuls shall have power to require the assistance of the D¤¤¤1‘W¤ from authorities of the country for the arrest, detention, and custody of de- ""°1“· serters from the public and private vessels of their country, and for that purpose they shall address themselves to the courts, judges, and officers competent, and shall demand the said deserters in writing, proving by an exhibition of the registers of the vessel’s or ship’s roll, or other public documents, that those men were part of the said crews; and on this demand, so proved, (saving, however, where the contrary is proved,) the delivery shall not be refused. Such deserters, when arrested, shall be put at the disposal of the said Consuls, and may be put in the public prisons, at the request and expense of those who reclaim them, to be sent to the ships to which they belonged, or to others of the same nation. But if they be not sent back within two months, to be counted from the day of their arrest, they shall be set at liberty, and shall he no more arrested for the same cause. Axrrcnn XXXIL For the purpose of more edectually protecting their commerce and _C<>¤¤¤l¤·¤=¤¤V¤¤- navigation, the two contracting parties do hereby agree, as soon here- "‘°°· after as circumstances will permit, to form a consular convention, which shall declare specially the powers and immunities of tho Consuls and Vice-Consuls of the respective parties. Aacrrcna XXXIII. The United States of America and the Republic of Guatemala, desiring to make as durable as circumstances will permit the relations which are to be established between the two parties by virtue of this treaty or general convention of peace, amity, commerce, and navigation, have declared solemnly, and do agree to, the following points: 1st. The present treaty shall remain in full force and virtue for the Duration o I term of twelve years, to be counted from the day of the exchange of ¤‘¤¤·*¥· the ratitlcations, 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 notice to the other at the end of said term of twelve 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, in all its parts relative to commerce and navigation, shall altogether cease and determine, and in all those parts which relate to peace and friendship it shall be perpetually binding on both Powers. n s rv_-25