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 680 TREATY WITH VENEZUELA. 1836. agreed, and do agree, to grant to the envoys, ministers and- other public agents, the same favour, immunities and exemptions, which those of the most favoured nation do, or shall enjoy: it being understood that whatever favours, immunities or privileges, the United States of America or the Republic of Venezuela may find it proper to give to the ministers and other public agents of any other power, shall, by the same act, be extended to those of each of the contracting parties. ARTICLE 29. Each pm to To make more effectual the protection which the United States and hsvsconsulls, the Republic of Venezuela. shall afford in future to the navigation and &°· l}" °"°h commerce of the citizens of each other, they agree to receive and admit other s ports. . . . consuls and vice-consuls in all the ports open to foreign commerce, who shall enjoy in them all the rights, prerogatives, and immunities, of the consuls and vice·consuls of the most favoured nation; each contracting party, however, remaining at liberty to exept those ports and places in which the admission an residence of such consul [and vice-consuls] may not seem convenient. ARTICLE 30. C,,,,,,,;, &,,_ In order that the consuls and vice~consuls of the two contracting { _ . . • · • . • • must exhibit parties may enjoy the rights, prerogatives and immunities which belong ¥l‘°“' °°mm*¤· to them by their public character, they shall, before entering on the ex- °1°n°` ercise of their functions, exhibit their commission or patent in due form to the government to which they are accredited, and, having obtained their ezeguatur, they shall be held and considered as such by all the authorities, magistrates and inhabitants in the consular district in which they reside. ARTICLE 31. Immunities of It is likewise agreed that the consuls, their secretaries, officers and ¤°¤¤¤l¤· &¢· persons attached to the service of consuls, they not being citizens of the country in which the consul resides, shall be exempt 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 and inhabitants, native and foreign, of the country in which they reside are subject, being in every thing besides, subject to the laws of the respective States. The archives and papers of the consulates shall be respected inviolably, and, under no pretext whatever, shall any magistrate seize or in any way interfere with them. ARTICLE 32. May reguire The said consuls shall have power to reguire the assistance of the $:,{*£1;L°;l',; authorities of the country for the arrest, etention and custody, of t,, ,,1.,,,, dm; deserters from the public and private vessels of their country, and for ern. 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 vessel’s or ship’s roll, or other public documents, that those men were putt of the said crews, and on this demand so proved, (saving, however, where the contrary is proved,} the delivery shall not be refused. Such deserters, when arrests, shall be put at the disposal of said consuls, and may be put in the public prisons, at the request and expence of those who reclaim them, to be sent to the ships to which they belonged, or to others of the Descrtersmurrt same nation. But if they be not sent back within two months, to be b? “‘?"* b"°l‘ counted from the day of their arrest, the shall be set at libert , and within two y Y mouths, shall be no more arrested for the same cause.