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 354 TREATY WITH SWEDEN. 1827. viduals formed part of the crews, and on this reclamation being thus substantiated, the surrender shall not be refused. Dm,,,,., to Such deserters, when arrested, shall be placed at the disposal of the be placed at the said consuls, vice consuls, or commercial agents, and may be confined ?,;;P,$‘°?s°§L in the public prisons, at the request and cost of those who claim them, Su ’ c' in order to be sent to the vessels to which they belonged, or to others of the same country. But, if not sent back within the space of two months, reckoning from the day of their arrest, they shall be set at liberty, and shall not be again arrested for the same cause. ¤n¢h¤ nurwf have committed any crime or offence, his surrender may be delayed 'h° d°""°"· until the tribunal before which the case shall be depending, shall have pronounced its sentence, and such sentence shall have been carried into effect. ARTICLE XV. 1,,,,,,,, ,.,m,,,,_ In case any vessel of one of the high contracting parties shall have wreck, Sec. been stranded or shipwrecked, or shall have sulfered any other damage on the coasts of the dominions of the other, every aid and assistance shall be given to the persons shipwrecked or in danger, and passports shall be granted to them to return to their country. The shipwrecked vessels and merchandize, or their proceeds, if the same shall have been sold, shall be restored to their owners, or to those entitled thereto, if claimed within a year and a. day, upon paying such costs of salvage as would be paid by national vessels in the same circumstances; and the salvage companies shall not compel the acceptance of their services, except in the same cases, and after the same delays, as shall be granted to the captains and crews of national vessels. Moreover, the respective governments will take care that these companies do not commit any vexatious or arbitrary acts. ARTICLE XVI. Q,,,,,.,,,,,,,.,,_ lt is agreed that vessels arriving directly from the United States of America, at aport within the dominions of His majesty the King of Sweden and Norway, or from the territories of his said Majesty in Europe, at a port of the United States, and provided with a bill of health granted by an officer having competent power to that effect, at the port whence such vessels shall have sailed, setting forth that no malignant or contagious diseases prevailed in that port, shall be subjected to no other quarantine than such as may be necessary for the visit of the healthofficer of the port where such vessel shall have arrived; alter which said vessels shall be allowed immediately to enter and unload their cargoes; provided always, that there shall be on board no person who, during the voyage, shall have been attacked with any malignant or contagious diseases; that such vessels shall not, during their passage, have communicated with any vessel liable, itself, to undergo a quarantine; and that the country whence they came shall not, at that time, be so far infected or suspected, that, before their arrival, an ordinance had been issued, in consequence of which all vessels coming from that country should be considered as suspected, and consequently subject to quarantine. ARTICLE XVII. 0,,,,,,,,, ,,,.,;_ The second, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, cies of the trea- thirteenth, fourteenth, hfteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nine- teenth, twenty-first, twenty-second, twenty-third, and twenty-fifth articles ’ ’ of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce concluded at Paris on the third of April, one thousand seven hundred eighty-three, by the Plenipotentiaries of the United States of America, and of His Majesty the King of Sweden, together with the first, second, fourth, and fifth separate articies, signed on the same day by the same Plenipotentiaries, are revive-tl,
 * ,,,,,,,,,°{c,im, It is understood, however, that, if the deserter should be found to