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 320 CONVENTION WITH COLOMBIA. 1824. ARTICLE 30th. Furrheragree- For the purpose of more effectually protecting their commerce and ’“°”* °{.*h° navigation, the two contracting parties do hereby agree, as soon hero. §°;!:m°“"g W` after as circumstances will permit them, to form a consular convention, which shall declare specially the powers and immunities of the consuls . and vice-consuls of the respective parties. ARTICLE 31st. Contracting '1‘he United States of America and the Republic of Colombia, de. {’,f;'}g§’,:$§°’° siriug to make as durable as circumstances will permit, the relations P05mg_ g which are to be established between the two parties by virtue of this Treaty, or General Convention of Peace, Amity, Commerce, and Navi. gation, have declared solemnly, and do agree to the following points: 1st. The present Treaty shall remain in full force and virtue for the term of twelve years, to be counted from the day of the exchange of the ratifications, in all the parts relating to commerce and navigation; and in all those parts which relate to peace and friendship, it shall be permanently and perpetually binding on both powers. 2dly. If any one or more of the citizens of either party shall infringe any of the articles of this Treaty, such citizen shall be held personally responsible for the same, and the harmony and good correspondence between the two nations shall not be interrupted thereby; each party engaging in no way to protect the offender, or sanction such violation. 3dly. Ii] (what, indeed, cannot be expected,) unfortunately, any of the articles contained in the present Treaty shall be violated or infringed in any other way whatever, it is expressly stipulated, that neither of the contracting parties will order or authorize any acts of reprisal, nor declare war against the other, on complaints of injuries or damages, until the said party considering itself offended, shall first have presented to the other a statement of such injuries or damages, verified by competent proofQ and demanded justice and satisfaction, and the same shall have been either refused or unreasonably delayed. 4thly. Nothing ln this Treaty contained shall, however, be construed, or operate contrary to former and existing public Treaties with other Sovereigns or States. To i,, ,,,,,0,, The present Treaty of Peace, Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, ed and ratified shall be approved and ratified by the President of the United States of £]¥Qh°lf:?£*:;; America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof) and ,,,mI:,,;,,,,,; cx, by the President of the Republic of Colombia, with the consent and changed, within approbation of the Congress of the same, and the ratifications shall be Wm m°“ih“·’ exchanged in the City of Washington within eight months, to be counted from the date of the signature hereof, or sooner if possible. In faith whereof, We, the Plenipotentiaries of the United States of America, and of the Republic of Colombia, have signed and sealed these presents. Done in the City of Bogota, on the third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, in the forty-ninth year of the Independence of the United States of Ame rica, and the fourteenth of that of the Republic of Colombia. RICHARD CLOUGH ANDERSON Jn. (L. s.) PEDRO GUAL, (L. s.)