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 1.142 'I`REATY—'I`NGA. Ocromsn 2, 1886. thereof shall be permitted to barter or trade their supplies or goods for provisions for the use of their own vessels and crews, without being subject to the law relative to trading licenses, and shall be sub- . ject to no port-, or harbor-dues or pilotage whatever; but this privilege of barter and trade shall not include the supplying of spirituous liquors. or arms or ammunition to the Tongans. And such whaling or lishing vessels shall, after having entered any port of entry in the Tonga Islands, be at liberty to anchor off any island or reef thereof, ' for the purpose of whaling or boiling down; provided, such vessel does not anchor within the distance of three nautical miles from any inhabited town,—but nothing in this clause shall be so construed as to permit infringement of the quarantine laws of the dominions of the King of Tonga. ARTICLE IX. ` i,§§°'§g”‘°” "°’“ mit All citizens of the United States residing in the Tonga Islands, and y y` Tongan subjects residing in the United States, shall be exempted from all compulsory military service whether by sea or land, and from all forced loans, military requisitions and quartering of troops. They shall, moreover not be com elled to pay any other or higher taxes or license fees, or personal diies of any kind, than are or may be paid by the citizens or subjects of the High Contracting Party levying the same. _ Airricrn X. Dcsertionofswmen. Should any member of the ship’s company desert from a vessel·ofwar or merchant vessel of either of the High Contracting Parties, while such vessel is within the territorial jurisdiction of the other, the local authorities shall render all lawful assistance for the apprehension of such deserter, on application to that effect made by the Consul of the Hi h Contracting Party concerned, or if there be no Consul, then by the master of the vessel. Anricrn XI. suigpggjrméutof ¢<>¤— Each of the High Contracting Parties may appoint Consuls, Vice—· °°’Consuls, Commercial Agents and Vice—Commercial Agents, for the protection of trade, to reside in the territory of the other Hi h Contracting Party ; but before any Consular officer so appointed sdiall act as such, he shall in the usual form be approved of and admitted b the Government of the countr to which) he is sent; and all such Consular officers shall enjoy the same privileges and powers with those of the most favored nation. Anricma XII. t,_;{¤§g¤g_;>gggS3Lfg}; Consuls and Consular representatives of the United States in Tonga umsmrtuga. shall have all jurisdictional rights over C1V1l and criminal matters concerning their own citizens and vessels, in conformit T with the statutes of the United States and the law of nations; and they may call upon the authorities of Tonga for aid in making arrests or enforcing judgments : And, Citizens of the United States charged with committing odenses against Tongans shall be amenable only to the Consular jurisdiction and shall be punished according to the law of the United States: and Tongans charged with committing offenses against citizens of the United States shall be tried by Tongan courts and punished according to Tongan law. cavu suns. Claims of a civil nature against citizens of the United States shall be cognizable only__in the Consular jurisdiction, and Tongan Courts shall be gpen to citizens of the United States to rosecute such claims against ongans, according to law: frovideclp that citizens of the