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 318 CONVENTION WITH COLOMBIA. 1824. Same favors to agents, the same favours, immunities, and exemptions, which those of be s¤‘¤¤¤¤d W the most favoured nation do or shall enjoy; it being understood that gf'; 6§§‘{,,?S whatever favours, immunities, or privileges, the United States of Ame. those ofy the rica or the Republic of Colombia may find it proper to give to the m°?* *`¤V°¤°d ministers and public agents of any other power, shall by the same act be °°°°"°‘ extended to those of each of the contracting parties. ARTICLE 26th. The contract. T0 make more effectual the protection which the United. States and insparties agree the Republic of Colombia shall afford in future to the navigation and {g,;d;m,f;’“g‘j}; commerce of the citizens of each other, they agree to receive and admit cpan to fgrgjgn consuls and vice-consuls in all the ports open to foreign commerce, who ¤¤mm¤t¤¤. 6w- shall enjoy in them all the rights, prerogatives, and immunities, of the consuls 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 may not seem con venient. ARTICLE 27th. g,,,,,,,l,,b,,_ In order that the consuls and vice-consuls of the two contracting fore entering on parties may enjoy the rights, prerogatives, and immunities, which be- long to them, by their public character, they shall,_before entering on shujjexhibi,the exercise of their functions, exhibit their commission or patent m their commis- 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 the authorities, magistrates, and inhabitants, in the consular district in which they reside. ARTICLE 28th. Console, and It is likewise agreed, that the consuls, their secretaries, officers, and persons attached to the service of consuls, they not being citnzens of vm, SMH be the country in which the consul resides, shall be exempt from all public exempt from all service, and also from all kind of taxes, imposts, and contributions, ex- Iggllc ¤°"'1°°» cept those which they shall be obliged to pay on. account of commerce, ' or their property, to which the citizens and inhabitants, native and foreign, of the country in which they reside are subject, being in every thing besides subject to the laws of the respective States. The archives and papers of the consulates shall be respected inviolably and under no pretext whatever shall any magistrate seize, or in any way interfere with them. ARTICLE 29th. Consuls shall The said consuls shall have power to require the assistance of the j¤g§,j;°3:¤':; authorities of the country for the arrest, detention, and custody of desmmcc of ,,,8 serters from the public and private vessels of their country, and for that authorities for purpose they shall address themselves to the courts judges, and officers Wi '¤’¥°¤‘» &¤· competent, and shall demand the said descrters iri writing, provino by 2n_:°°°“°"’ an exhibition of the registers, of the vessel’s or ship’s roll, or oliher 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 be no more arrested for the same cause.