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 472 TREATY WITH VENEZUELA. 1836. ARTICLE 13. P,.,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,0 Both the contracting parties promise and engage, formally, to give persons and their special protection to the persons and property of the citizens of PY°P°¤Y· each other, of all occupations, who may be in the territories subject to the jurisdiction of the one or the other, transient or dwelling therein, leaving open and free to them the tribunals of justice, for their judicial recourse, on the same terms which are usual and customary with the natives or citizens of the country in which they may be; for which they may employ in defence of their rights, such advocates, solicitors, notaries, agents and factors, as they may judge proper, in all their trials at law; and such citizensor agents shall have free opportunity to he present at the decisions and sentences of the tribunals, in all cases which may concern them; and likewise at the taking of all examinations and evidence which may be exhibited on the said trials. ARTICLE 14, Lgbmyorcon. The citizens of the United States residing in the territories of the npiencc. and _ Republic of Venezuela, shall enjoy the most perfect and entire security £"·:“:§gl:5mP• of conscience, without being annoyed, prevented or disturbed on account `of their religious belief Neither shall they be annoyed, molested cr disturbed in the proper exercise of their religion in private houses, or in the chapels or places of worship appointed for that purpose, with the decorum due to divine worship, and with due respect to the laws, usages, and customs of the country. Liberty shall also be granted to bury the citizens of the United States who may die in the territories of the Republic of Venezuela, in convenient and adequate places, to be appointed and established by themselves, for that purpose, with the knowledge of the local authorities, or in such other places of sepulture as may be chosen by the friends of the deceased; nor shall the funerals or sepulcres of the dead be disturbed, in any wise, nor upon any account. In like manner, the citizens of Venezuela shall enjoy within the Government and territories of the United States, a perfect and unrestrained liberty of conscience and of exercising their religion publicly or privately, within their own dwelling-houses, or in the chapels and places of worship appointed for that purpose, agreeable to the laws, usages, and customs of the United States. ARTICLE 15. _Both parties at It shall be lawful for the citizens of the United States of America u2f,:l:'h;g;$d° and of the Republic of Venezuela, to sail with their ships, with all cnmpy wm, manner of liberty and security, no distinction being made who are the either, &.c. proprietors of the merchandises laden thereon, from any port, to the places of those who now are, or hereafter shall be at enmity with either of the contracting parties. It shall, likewise, be lawful for the citizens aforesaid to sail with their ships and merchandises before mentioned, and to trade with the same liberty and security from the places, ports, and havens of those who are enemies of both, or either patty, without any opposition or disturbance whatsoever, not only directly from the places of the enemy before mentioned to neutral places, but also from one place, belonging to an enemy, to another place, belonging to an euuny, whether they be under the jurisdiction of one power, or under Free shlpsto several. And it is hereby stipulated, that free ships shall also give ¤¤¤l:,° fl’°° freedom to goods, and that every thing shall be deemed .to be free and g°° °' exempt, which shall be found on board the ships belonging to the citizens of either of the contracting parties, although the whole lading, or any part thereof, should appertain to the enemies of either; contraband goods being always excepted. It is also agreed, in like manner, that the same liberty shall be extended no persons who are on board a free