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 520 TREATY WITH SARDINIA. 1838. Consulsz &.¤. detention, and imprisonment of the deserters from the ships of war and 3‘l:Ya;;’%*j':;° merchant vessels of their country. For this purpose they shall apply to ,,M1,,,,,h,,,m€,, the competent tribunals, judges, and officers, and shall, in writing, de. ro arrest desert- mand said deserters, proving by the exhibition of the registers of the _ °"· vessels, the rolls of the crews, or by other official documents that such individuals formed part of the crews; and this reclamation thus substantiated, the surrender shall not be refused. Such deserters when arrested shall be placed at the disposal of the said consuls, vice-consuls or commercial agents and may be confined in the public prisons at the request and cost of those who shall claim them in order to be detained until the time when they shall be restored to the vessels to which they belonged, or sent back to their own country by a vessel of the same Dew-tersmuat nation or any other vessel whatsoever. But if not sent back within l’f?t;°?”*,:’°°k three months from the day of their arrest, they shall be set at liberty r°° and shall not again be arrested for the same cause. If however the deserter should be found to have committed any crime or offence, his surrender may be delayed until the tribunal before which his case should be depending shall have pronounced its sentence and such sentence shall have been carried into execution. ART. XVIII. Power to dis- The citizens and subjects of each of the contracting parties shall have P°S:*1°f8l;°¥¤°¤¤l power to dispose of their personal goods within the jurisdiction of the g°° °’ °° other, by testament, donation, or otherwise, and their representatives, being citizens or subjects of the other party, shall succeed to their said personal goods, whether by testament or ab intestate, and may take possession thereof either by themselves or by others acting for them and dispose of the same at will, paying such taxes and dues only as the inhabitants of the country wherein the said goods are, shall be subject to pay in like cases. And in case of the absence of the representatives such care shall be taken of the said goods as would be taken of the goods of a native of the same country in like case until the lawful owner may take measures for receiving them, And if a question should arise among several claimants as to which of them said goods belong, the same shall finally be decided by the laws and judges of the land wherein In cage or ,3,,; the said goods are. And where on the death of any person holding real Estate. alien estate within the territories of one of the contracting parties such real ,,::3,: ggfgm estate would by the laws of the land descend on a citizen or subject of of {hc umu_ the other party who by reason of alienage may be incapable of holding it, he shall be allowed a reasonable time to sell such real estate, and to withdraw and export the proceeds without molestation and without pay- ing to the profit of the respective Governments any other dues, taxes or charges than those to which the inhabitants of the country wherein said real estate is situated shall be subject to pay in like cases. ART. XIX. D m-umm Or The present treaty shall continue in force for ten years countinn from ilw tr6¤¢Y· the day of the exchange of the ratifications, and if, twelve monthscbefore the expiration of that period, neither of the high contracting parties shall have announced to the other by an official notification its intention to arrest the operation of the said treaty, it shall remain obligatory one year beyond that time, and so on, until the expiration of the twelve mpntjjstwhich ipll fpllow a similar notification, whatever is the time at vv uc i may ta ·e p acc.