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 494 CONVENTION WITII PERU-BOLIVIA. 1836. ARTICLE XXIV. Immunjgjeg of Both the contracting parties being desirous of avoiding all inequality Public ¤g¤n1S· in relation to their public communications and official intercourse, they have agreed, and do agree, to grant to their envoys, ministers, and other public agents, the same favors, immunities, and exemptions, as those of the most favored nation do or shall enjoy; it being understood, that whatever favors, immunities, or privileges the United States of America, or the Peru-Bolivian Confederation, may find it proper to grant to the envoys, ministers, and public agents of any other power, shall, by the same act, be granted and extended to those of the contracting parties, respectively. ARTICLE XXV. Consuls ad- To make more effectual the protection which the United States of "’l“°d l'“° all America and the Peru-Bolivian Confederation, shall affbrd in future to fg2Q2p::,,:? the navigation and commerce of the citizens of each other, they agree meree, except to receive and admit consuls and vice-consuls, in all the ports open to &·°· foreign commerce; who shall enjoy, within their respective consular districts, all the rights, prerogatives, and immunities of the consuls and vice-consuls of the most favored nation; each contracting party, however, remaining at liberty to except those ports and places in which the admission and residence of such functionaries may not seem convement. ARTICLE XXVI. conwi, to cx- In order that the consuls and vice-consuls of the two contracting parhibittheir c¤m· ties may enjoy the rights, prerogatives, and immunities which belong to m"’S‘°“s* &°' them by their public character, they shall, before entering on the exercises of their functions, exhibit their commission, or patent, in due form, to the Government to which they are accredited; and, having received their casequatur, they shall be held and considered as such consuls and vice-ccnsuls, by all the authorities, magistrates, and inhabitants in the consular district in which they reside. ARTICLE XXVII. Privileges of It is likewise agreed, that the consuls, vice-consuls, their secretaries, °°¤S¤l¤» &¤· officers and persons attached to their service, (they not being citizens of the country in which the consul or vice-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, and from which the citizens of their respective country, resident in the other, are not exempt, in virtue of the stipulations contained in this treaty; they being, in every thing be- Qonsular ar: sides, subject to the laws of the respective States. The archives and $i:j':€,;° b°m· papers of the consulates shall be respected inviolably, and, under no ' pretext whatever, shall any magistrate, or other person, seize, or in any way interfere with them. ARTICLE XXVIII. Cousuls, Gu:. The said consuls and vice-consuls shall have power to require the 33321:;:3,::: assistance of the authorities of the country tiir the arrest, detention, and mj,] audmrmes custody of deserters from the public and private vessels of their country; to arrest desert. and for this purpose they shall address themselves to the courts, judges, °'°· or officers competent, and shall demand the said deserters in writing, proving, by an exhibition of the ship’s roll, or other public document, that the men so demanded are part of the crew of the vessel from which