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 336 CONVENTION WITH CENTRAL AMERICA. 1825. ARTICLE 29th. comm M_ In order that the Consuls and Vice Consuls of thetwo contracting to enjoy fha parties may enjoy the rights, prerogatives, and immunities, which belong rights. &·¤-be- to them, by their public character, they shall, before entering on the g’"$jl';§,,'°£'Ec'“ exercise of their functions, exhibit their commission or patent, in due charectes form to the government to which they are accredited; and having obtained their ezequatur, they shall be held and considered as such, by all the authorities, magistrates and inhabitants, in the Consular District in which they reside. ` ARTICLE 30th. Pm0m nM0h_ It is likewise agreed, that the Consuls, their Secretaries, Officers, and ed to the ser- persons attached to the service of Consuls, they not being citizens of ">° °f °°¤¤¤l¤» the country in which the Consul resides, shall be exempt from all public m' 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 citizens and inhabitants, native and foreign, of the country in which they reside are subject, being in ever y thing besides subject to the laws of the 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. ARTICLE 31st. Powe; of eqn. The said Consuls shall have power to require the assistance of the ¤¤l¤ ?°¤P°°Ii¤8 authorities of the country for the arrest, detention, and custody of ded°“°'°°"“‘ 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 vessels or ship’s roll, or other public documents, that those men were part of the said crews; and, on this demandso proved, (saving, however, where the contrary is proved,} the delivery shall not be refused. Such deserters, when arrested, shal 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 hom the day of their arrest, they shall be set at liberty, and shall be no more arrested for the same cause. ARTICLE 32d. comm,,,,, For the purpose of more etfectually protecting their commerce and and navigation. navigation, the two contracting parties do hereby agree, as soon hereafter 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 33d. pom, umd The United States of America and the Federation of the Centre of on. America, 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: lst. 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 per manently and perpetually binding on both powers.