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 TREATY WITH BRAZIL. 1828. 397 ARTICLE XXIX. In order that the Consuls and Vice-Consuls of the two contracting Emq,,mu,,_ parties, may enjoy the rights, prerogatives, and immunities, which belong to them, by their public character, they shall before entering on the exercise of their functions, exhibit their commissions or patent in due form, to the government to which they are accredited: and having obtained their ezrcguatur, they shall be held and considered as such, by all the authorities, magistrates, and inhabitants, in the consular district in which they reside. ARTICLE XXX. It is likewise agreed, that the Consuls, their Secretaries, officers, and Privileges of persons attached to the service of Consuls, they not being citizens or °°¤°¤l¤• &°· subjects of the country, in which the Consul resides, shall be exempt from all public service, and also from all kinds 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 or subjects and inhabitants, native and foreign, of the country in which they reside are subject; being in every thing besides subject to the laws of their 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 XXXI. The said Consuls shall have power to require the assistance of the Dew-ms {mm authorities of the country, for the arrest, detention and custody of de- vesselsserters from 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 ships roll, or other public documents, that those men were part of 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 said Cousuls, and may be put in the public prison, 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 no more be arrested for the same cause. ARTICLE XXXII. For the purpose of more elfectually protecting their commerce and Consular can navigation, the two contracting parties do hereby agree, as soon here- '°;",;‘{“,:;’dl’° after, as circumstances will permit them, to form a Consular Convention, BS ° is ' which shall declare specially the powers and immunities of the Consuls and Vice-Consuls of the respective parties. ARTICLE XXXIII. The United States of America, and the Emperor of Brazil 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 be in force for twelve years from the Tmutyte be date hereof, and further until the end of one year after either of the l¤ f¤r·=<gw¤lv¤ contracting parties shall have given notice to the other, of its intention Y°“"’ °‘ to terminate the same: each of the contracting parties reserving to itself the right of giving such notice to the other, at the end of said term of twelve years: and it is hereby agreed between them, that on the expiration of one year after such notice shall have belen received by