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 88 PUBLIC TREATIES. of the most favored nation do or shall enjoy; it being understood that whatever favors, immunities, or privileges the United States of America or the Empire of Brazil 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. Anrxcnn XXVIII. Consul s and To make more effectual the protection which the United Sta tes and the Vi<=°·C°¤¤¤l¤· Empire of Brazil shall adord in future to the navigation and commerce of the citizens and subjects 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 Consuls and Vice-Oonsuls of the most favored nation; each contracting party, however, remaining at liberty to accept those ports and places in which the admission and residence of such Consuls may not seem convenient. Amucnn XXIX. mmqumm, In order that the Consuls and Vice·Consuls 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 commissions or patent, in due form, to the Government to which they are accredited; and having obtained their exequatur, they shall be held and considered as such by all th;alpEh]orities,(nagistrates, and inhabitants in the consular district in w ic ey resi e. Anrrcrn XXX. Privilegesoreon- It is likewise agreed that the Consuls, their secretaries, officers, and subjects of the country in which the Consul resides, shall be exempt from all public service, and also from all kinds of taxes, imposts, and contributions, except those which they shall be obliged to pay on account of commerce or their property, to which the citizens or subjects and inhabitants, native and foreign, of the country in which they reside are subject; being in everything besides subject to the laws of their respective States. The archives and papers of the consulate shall be respected inviolably, and under no pretext whatever shall any magistrate seize or in any way interfere with them. Aarrcnn XXXI. Deserters from The said Consuls shall have power to require the assistance of the '°¤¤¢]¤· authorities of the country for the arrest, detention, and custody of deserters from 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 bv an exhibition of the registers of the vessel or ship’s roll or’other public documents, that those men were part of 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 said Consuls, and may bb put in the phblic prison, at the
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not sent back Wlblllll two months, to be counted from the day of their gglelsté shall be set at liberty, and shall no more be arrested for the
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