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 888 CONVENTION WITH THE HANSEATIC REPUBLICS. 1828. Consuls and Vice-Consuls 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 said vessels, or ship’s roll, or other official document, that those men were part of said crews; and on this demand being so proved, (saving, however, where the contrary is proved,) the delivery shall not be refused; and there shall be Auistancc to given all aid and assistance to the said Consuls and Vice·Consuls, for be atibrded to the search, seizure, and arrest of the said deserters, who shall even be °°“’“l“· &°· detained and kept in the prisons of the country at their request and expense, until they shall have found opportunity of sending them back. But, if they be not sent back within two months, to be counted from the day of thelpr arrest, they shall be set at liberty, and shall be no more arrested for the same cause. 1;,,,,,,,,,, It is understood, however, that if the deserter should be found to have have commitred committed any crime or offence, his surrender may be delayed until the ¤¤Y °Hs°¤°$· law tribunal before which the case shall be depending shall have pronounced Qm°y:,fr ° ° its sentence, and such sentence shall have been carried into effect. p,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,1,, The present additional article shall have the same force and value tohave rhs _ as if it were inserted, word for word, in the Convention signed at Wash- ccnvejign of and twenty-seven, and being approved and ratified by the President of 1827. the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate Rmificggionggq thereof, and by the Senates of the Hanseatic Republics of Lubeck, bq erchqnscd Bremen, and Hamburg, the ratilications shall be exchanged at Wash- ,'m,:l:sl"““ ington within nine months from the date hereof, or sooner, if possible. In faith whereof, we, the undersigned, by virtue of our respective fall powers, have signed the present additional article, and have t ereto adixed our seals. Done in quadruplicate at the City of Washington, on the fourth day of June, ip] the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eig t. II. CLAY, (r.. s.) V. RUMPFF, (L. s.)
 * .:::Enf°’°:r::}f ington, on the twentieth day of December, one thousand eight hundred