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 982 TREATY WITH THE IIAWAIIAN ISLANDS. Dec. 20, 1849. issue a warrant for the apprehension of the person so charged, that he may be brought before such judges or other magistrates respectively, to the end that the evidence of criminality may be heard and considered; and if] on such hearing, the evidence be deemed sufficient to sustain the charge, it shall be the duty of the examining judge or magistrate to certify the same to the proper executive authority, that a warrant may issue for the surrender of such {hgitive. The expense of such apprehension and delivery shall be borne and defrayed by the party who makes the requisition and receives the fugitive. ARTICLE XV. Mail arrange- So soon as steam or other mail packets under the Hag of either of ments- the contracting parties shall have commenced running between their respective ports of entry, the contracting parties agree to receive at the pcsvotiices of those ports all mailable matter, and to forward it as directed, the destination being to some regular post-office of either country, charging thereupon the regular postal rates as established by law in the territories of either party receiving said mailable matter, in addition to the original postage of the office whence the mail was sent. Mails for the United States shall be made up at regular intervals at the Hawaiian post-ofiice, and despatched to ports of the United States; the postmasters at which ports shall open the same, and forward the enclosed matter as directed, crediting the Hawaiian government with their postages as established by law, and stamped upon each manuscript or printed sheet. All mailable matter destined for the Hawaiian Islands shall be received at the several post·0ftices in the United States, and forwarded to San Francisco, or other ports on the Pacific coast of the United States, whence the postmasters shall despatch it by the regular mail packets to Honolulu, the Hawaiian government agreeing on their part to receive and collect for and credit the posbofiice department of the United States with the United States` rates charged thereupon. It shall be optional to prepay the postage on letters in either country, but postage on printed sheets and newspapers shall in all cases be prepaid. The respective post-office departments of the contracting parties shall in their accounts, which are to be adjusted annually, be credited with all dead letters returned. ARTICLE XVI. gontinumcc The present treaty shall be in force from the date of the exchange <>? this ¤€¤*F· of the ratilications, for the term often years, and further, until the end of twelve months afier either of the contracting parties shall have given notice to the other of its intention to terminate the same, each of the said contracting parties reserving to itself the right of giving such notice at the end of the said term of ten years, or at any subsequent term. Amity not to be Any citizen or subject of either party infringing the articles of this brqkeplzkvacts treaty shall be held responsible for the same, and the harmony and °f”‘d“" “1"’· good correspondence between the two governments shall not be interrupted thereby, each party engaging in no way to protect the offender, or sanction such violation. Arvrtcus XVII. Rammum The present treaty shall be ratified hy the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the said States, and by his Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands, by and with the advice of his Privy Council of State, and the