ADDITIONAL ARTICLES TO CONVENTION OF FRIENDSHIP, COMMERCE, AND NAVIGATION,
OF APRIL 26, 1826: Concluded July 11, 1861; Ratification advised by Senate July
17, 1861; Ratified by President August 25, 1861; Ratifications exchanged at Washing-
ton September 18, 1861; Proclaimed September 20, 1861. (13 St. at L., 605.)
(1) Consuls-general, consuls, &c., may sit as judges and arbitrators, 215: (2) Desert-
ers, arrest of, 215; offences against laws of country, to be punished, 216; Effect
of these additional articles, 216; Ratification, &c., 216.
CONVENTION RELATIVE TO NATURALIZATION: Concluded July 20, 1872; Ratification ad-
vised by Senate January 13, 1873; Ratified by President January 22, 1873; Ratifica-
tions exchanged at Copenhagen March 14, 1873; Proclaimed April 15, 1873. (17 St. at
L., 941.)
(1) When citizens of the United States are to be treated as citizens of Denmark, 909:
When Danish subjects are to be treated as citizens of the United States, 910:
(2) Citizenship in the original country may be restored, and how, 910: (3) Nat-
uralization, how may be renounced, 910: (4) Duration of convention, 910: (5)
Ratification, 910.
GENERAL CONVENTION OF AMITY, COMMERCE, AND NAVIGATION: Concluded February
8, 1867; Ratification advised by Senate March 20, 1867; Ratified by President July
31, 1867; Ratifications exchanged at Santo Domingo October 5, 1867; Proclaimed
October 24, 1867. (15 St. at L., 473.)
(1) Peace and friendship, proviso in case of war; passports, 217: (2) Exemption from
military service by citizens of one party resident in the other, 218: (3) Right
to reside, business, employ agents, access to courts, 218: (4) Religious tolera-
tion, 218: (5) Right to dispose of personal property; disposition of real property
of deceased persons, 219: (6) Tonnage duties, imports, exports, duties, and
charges, 219: (7) Coasting-trade reserved to citizens; discharge of vessels, 219:
(8) National character of ship, 220 (9) Reciprocity of duties, 220: (10) Dis-
criminating duties, 220: (11) Wrecks, stranded vessels, 220: (12) Trading to
and from enemy's ports, blockade, 221: (13) Contraband of war, 221: (14) What
not contraband, 221: (15) Free ships, free goods, 222: (16) Merchant-ships in
time of war, bound to enemy's port, must exhibit passport-certificate, 222: (17)
Passport-certificate in time of war, 223: (18) Visiting vessels on high seas, 223:
(19) Rules to apply only to ships sailing without convoy, 223: (20) Provision in
case of capture, 223: (21) Same subject, 224: (22) Prize courts, 224: (23) No
duty on prize ships, favored nation clause, 224: (24) Privateers of hostile powers,
224: (25) Further provisions as to privateers, 225: (26) Consuls, vice-consuls, resi-
dence of; deserters from ships, 225: (27) Extradition of criminals, proviso, 226:
(23) Schedule of crimes, for which surrender, &c., 226: (29) Surrender, how to
be made, 226: (30) No surrender for political offences, 226: (31) Convention to
continue eight years, and afterwards 12 months' notice, 227: (32) Ratification, 227.
TREATY OF PEACE, FRIENDSHIP, NAVIGATION, AND COMMERCE: Concluded June 13,
1839; Ratification advised by Senate July 15, 1840; Ratified by President July 31,
1840; Ratifications exchanged at Quito April 9, 1842; Proclaimed September 23,
1842. (8 St. at L., 534.)
(1) Peace declared, 228: (2) Commercial favors granted by either to other nations
to become common to the other, 228: (3) Trade and navigation to be free to
each, excepting as to coastwise trade and one other exception, 223: (4) Recip-
rocity in trade secured, 229: (5) What shall be considered Ecuadorian vessels,
229: (6) Each party to stand on the footing of equality with the most favored
nation, both in respect to duties and to prohibitions, 229: (7) Rights of citizens
of one nation in the territory of the other secured, 230: (8) No embargo without
indemnification, 230: (9) Vessels seeking refuge from stress of weather, &c., to
be protected, &c., 230: (10) Captures by pirates to be restored, 230: (11) Assist-
ance to be given in cases of wrecks, &c., 231: (12) Citizens of either party may
dispose of their personal goods within the jurisdiction of the other; in case of
real estate, alien heirs allowed three years to dispose of their property, 231: (13)
Protection to persons and property, 231: (14) Liberty of conscience, and the
rites of burial, secured, 231: (15) Both parties at liberty to trade with those at
enmity with either, &c.; free ships to make free goods, contraband excepted;
all persons on board, except those in the actual service of an enemy, to be free;
flag covering the property to be applied to those powers only who acknowledge
the principle, 232: (16) Enemy's property, to be protected by a neutral flag,
TREATY OF PEACE, FRIENDSHIP, NAVIGATION, AND COMMMRCE, 1839-Continued.
must be shipped within six months after the declaration of war, &c., 232: (17)
Contraband specified, 232: (18) Goods not contraband; definition of a block-
ade, 233; (19) Contraband only liable to confiscation; vessels delivering up con-
traband not to be detained, 233: (20) Provision for the case of a vessel sailing
without notice of the blockade; vessels entering before blockade to be allowed
to depart; not liable if found therein after reduction and surrender, 233: (21)
During a visit at sea, armed vessels to remain out of cannon-shot; examina-
tion, how to be made, &c., 234: (22) In case of war, sea-letters, certificates of
cargo, &c., to be furnished, showing to whom the property belongs, 234: (2)
Visiting regulations apply only to vessels without convoy, 234: (24) Prize causes
to be tried in the established courts only; decree of condemnation to specify
the reasons thereof, 234: (25) Citizens of neither party to engage in the service
of an enemy of the other, 235: (26) In case of war, merchants allowed time to
arrange their business, and transport their effects, &c.; citizens of other occu-
pations to be protected, 235: (27) No confiscations in case of war, 235: (28)
Ministers and other public agents to enjoy the same favors as those of the most
favored nation, 235: (29) Consuls and vice-consuls admitted into ports open to
foreign commerce, 236:.(30) Consuls to exhibit their commissions and obtain ex-
equaturs before they shall be considered as such, 236: (31) Consuls, &c., exempt
from certain taxes; their archives and papers inviolable, 236: (32) Consuls may
require the assistance of the authorities in securing deserters; mode of proceed-
ing; deserters, how to be disposed of, 236: (33) A consular convention to be forined,
237: (34) Construction to be put upon the words "most favored nation;" proviso,
237 (35) Duration of this treaty; citizens personally responsible for infringing
this treaty, and the harmony of the two nations not to be affected thereby; re-
prisals not to be authorized, nor war declared, until justice has been demanded
and refused, or unreasonably delayed; treaties with other powers not contra-
vened by this; this treaty to be ratified, and the ratifications to be exchanged,
within three years, 237.
CONVENTION FOR THE MÚTUAL ADJUSTMENT OF CLAIMS: Concluded November 25, 1862;
Ratification advised by Senate January 28, 1863; Ratified by President February 13,
1863; Ratifications exchanged at Quito July 27, 1864; Proclaimed September 8, 1864.
(13 St. at L., 631.)
(1) Claims between contracting parties to be referred to commissioners; appoint-
ment, vacancies, time of meeting, oath, umpire, 238: (2) Examination of claims,
papers to be furnished, amount to be paid, decision to be final, 239: (3) Certifi-
cate of amounts awarded, payment, revenues pledged, 239: (4) End of commis-
sion, secretary, 239: (5) Proceedings conclusive as to pending claims; claims to
be presented while commission exists; duty of umpire, 240: (6) Pay of commis-
sioners, and of the umpire, 240; (7) Ratification, 240.
[See "Notes," Title "Abrogated, Suspended, or Obsolete Treaties."]
TREATY OF ALLIANCE: Concluded February 6, 1778; Ratified by Congress May 4, 1778.
(8 St. at L., 6.)
(1) If war should break out between France and Great Britain, it shall be a common
cause, 241: (2) The essential and direct object of this alliance is the independ-
ence of the United States, 241: (3) Both parties to make every effort to attain
the same, 242: (4) Concurrence in enterprises, 242: (5) If United States shall
reduce from the British power the northern parts of America, or the Islands of
Bermudas, they shall be confederated with or be dependent on the United States,
-242: (6) France relinquishes all claims to the Islands of Bermudas, or any part
of North America, 242: (7) Conquests which shall belong to France, 242; (−)
Neither party to conclude a treaty without the consent of the other, 242: (9)
No claim of compensation after the war, 243: (10) Agreement to admit other
powers to the alliance, 243: (11) Mutual guaranty, 243: (12) Guaranty, when to
comiuence, 243: (13) Ratification, 243.
TREATY OF AMITY AND COMMERCE: Concluded February 6, 1778; Ratified by Congress
May 4, 1778; Congress instruct Commissioners to procure abolition of 11th and 12th
articles May 5, 1778; 11th and 12th articles suppressed September 1, 1778. (8 St. at L.,
12.)
(1) Peace and friendship between the nations, 244: (2) Neither party to grant favors
to other nations which shall not become common to the other party, 245: (3)
Subjects of the King of France entitled to the same privileges in the United
States as the most favored nations, 245: (4) Citizens of the United States to be
TREATY OF AMITY AND COMMERCE, 1778-Continued.
entitled to the same privileges in the dominions of France as the most favored
nations, 245 (5) Particular exception, 245: (6) France to protect vessels of the
citizens of the United States in her jurisdiction; to restore them when captured,
and to convoy them in certain cases, 245: (7) The United States to do the same,
246 (8) The King of France to aid the United States to make treaties with the
Barbary powers, 246 (9) Subjects of either party not to fish in the dominions of
the other, 246: (10) Citizens of the United States not to disturb the subjects of
France in their right of fishing on the banks of Newfoundland, 246: (11) Citi-
zens of the United States exempted from droit d'aubaine, and may dispose of
their estates; subjects of France have similar privileges, 247: Two articles
originally agreed to, rescinded, 247 : (12) Ships suspected shall exhibit passports
and certificates, 248: (13) Proceedings in case of contraband goods, 248 (14)
Goods found in an enemy's ship may be confiscated, unless put on board before
the declaration of war, or within two months after, 249: (15) Ships of war and
privateers to do no injury to either party; punishment for so doing, and repa-
ration to be made, 249: (16) All merchandise rescued out of the hands of pirates
to be restored, 249: (17) Prizes may be carried into the ports of either party;
no shelter to be given to the captors of prizes taken from either party, 249: (18)
In case of shipwreck, relief to be given, 250: (19) Vessels in distress, forced into
ports of either party, to be protected and permitted to depart, 250: (20) In case
of war six months to be allowed to the citizens or subjects to remove with their
effects, 250 (21) Citizens or subjects of neither party to take commissions or
letters of marque from any foreign power or state with whom the other party is
at war, nor act as privateers, 250 : (22) Foreign privateers not to be allowed to
be fitted out or to sell their prizes in the ports of the other party, 251: (23) Lib-
erty for either party to trade with a nation at war with the other party; free
ships make free goods, excepting contraband articles, 251: (24) What goods
shall be deemed contraband, 251; (25) Ships or vessels to be furnished with sea-
letters or passports and certificates, 252: (26) Vessels coming on the coast, or
entering the ports of either party, how to be treated, 252: (27) How vessels are
to be treated if met by ships of war or privateers, 252: (28) No search after
goods are put on board of vessels, except in case of fraud, 253: (23) Consuls to
be allowed in the ports of either party, 253: (30) Free ports, 253: (31) Ratifica-
tion, 253.
ACT SEPARATE AND SECRET: Concluded February 6, 1778; Ratified by Congress May
4, 1778. (17 St. at L., 795.)
Reserves right for King of Spain to agree to foregoing treaties, 254 : King of France
to exercise good offices with King of Spain, 254.
CONTRACT RELATIVE TO PAYMENT OF LOAN: Concluded July 16, 1782; Ratified by Con-
gress January 22, 1783. (8 St. at L., 614.)
(1) Amount of different loans, 255: (2) Repayment of loans, 256: (3) Abatement of
interest, 256: (4) Interest to diminish in proportion to payments, 256: (5) Loan
made by France in Holland, acknowledged to be for benefit of United States,
256 (6) Engagement of French King to repay said loan, 257: (7) Agreement to
repay amount of the loan in Holland, 257: (8) Interest on loan in Holland to be
paid by United States to France for five years; ratifications to be exchanged in
nine months, 257-258.
CONTRACT RELATIVE TO NEW LOAN: Concluded February 25, 1783: Ratified by Congress
October 31, 1783. (17 St. at L., 797.)
(1) Amount and terms of loan, 259: (2) Time, place, and mode of repayment of old
loan, 259: (3) Time, place, and terms of payment of new loan, 260: (4) Interest,
rate of, and terms of payments, 260: (5) Interest to diminish in proportion to
payments, 260: (6) Ratifications to be exchanged in nine months, 260.
CONVENTION RELATIVE TO CONSULS, VICE-CONSULS, &C.: Concluded November 14, 1783;
Ratification advised by Senate July 29, 1789; Ratified by President September 9, 1789.
(8 St. at L., 106.)
(1) Consuls to present commissions and to be entitled to an exequatur, 261 : (2) Priv-
ileges of consuls, 261: (3) Consuls may appoint agents, 251: (4) Consuls may
establish a chancery, 262: (5) Power and duty of consuls, 262: (6) Consuls to
receive declarations, &c., from captains, of losses at sea, 263: (7) Power of con-
suls in cases of shipwreck, 263: (5) Power of consuls respecting vessels of their
own nation, 264 (9) Power of consuls in regard to deserters, and mode of pro-
ceeding, 264: (10) Citizens amenable for crimes to the judges of the country,
264: (11) How to proceed when offenders withdraw on board their vessels, 264 :
(12) Disputes between citizens in a foreign country to be settled by consuls, 265:
(13) Tribunals to decide commercial affairs, 265 (14) Citizens exempted from
personal service in places of settlement, 265: (15) If either party grant greater
consular privileges to another nation they shall be common to both, 265: (16)
This convention shall be in force during twelve years, 265.
CONVENTION OF PEACE, COMMERCE, AND NAVIGATION: Concluded September 30, 1800;
Ratification advised by Senate, with amendments, February 3, 1801; Ratified by Presi-
dent February 18, 1801; Ratified by First Consul of France, with Senate's amend
ments, on condition of acceptance of other amendments proposed by him, July 31, 1801:
Ratifications exchanged at Paris July 31, 1801; Senate resolved, December 19, 1801,
that it considered the convention as fully ratified, and that, as ratified by the First Con-
sul of France, it be returned to the President for the usual promulgation; Proclaimed
December 21, 1801. (8 St. at L., 178.)
(1) Firm, inviolable, and universal peace between the French Republic and United
States of America, 266: (2) Treaty of 6th of February, 1788, and convention of
the 14th November, 1788, abrogated, 266: (3) Captured public ships to be re-
stored, 267: (4) Captured property, if not definitively condemned, to be restored;
form of the passport to merchant ships; proof of captured vessels restored:
proof with respect to cargo; this article to take effect from the signature of
this convention, 267: (5) Debts due by individuals of either nation may be paid.
&c., 268: (6) Commerce between the parties to be free, 268: (7) The citizens of
either country to be at liberty to devise their property, and to have the right to
take, to give, or devise, without naturalization, 268: (8) In case of war between
the two nations, six months to be allowed to remove property, 268: (9) No debts
to be sequestered or confiscated in case of war, 269: (10) Commercial agents may
be appointed; agents to act after being furnished with exequatur, 269: (11) No
more duties to be paid than the duties paid by the most favored nation, 269 :
(12) Citizens of France and of the United States to be at liberty to trade from
enemies' ports to the ports of either country, unless blockaded; notice of block-
ade to be given before capture of vessels, and vessels to be permitted to go to other
ports, 269: (13) Contraband; vessels laden with contraband goods, and the
residue of the cargo, not to be affected by the prohibited goods, 270: (14) Free
ships make free goods; not contraband, although belonging to an enemy; per-
sons not military to be protected in free ships, 270: (15) Confiscation of free
goods laden on board of an enemy's vessel after war is declared, 270: (16) Pass-
ports to be exhibited, and also certificates of the quality of goods, 271: (17) In
time of war, the ships of a neutral nation to be furnished with passports men-
tioned in the fourth article; if contraband goods found on board are delivered
up, the ship may pursue her voyage; if there is no passport, and other proof of
the neutrality of the vessel, then no condemnation; if the master of a vessel
dies, the ship and cargo shall be secure, 271: (18) Ships of either nation, if exam-
ined at sea, boats to be sent, and ships of war and privateers to remain out of
canuou-shot, 272: (19) Ships under convoy not to be examined, 272: (20) Receipts
to be given for the papers of captured vessels; sale of captured vessels not to be
made without lawful condemnation, 272: (21) Master, commander, or supercargo,
not to be removed; treatment of crew and passengers, 273: (22) Prizes to be
condemned by established prize courts, 273: (23) Damages by men-of-war or
privateers, to be paid; commanders of privateers to give security, 273: (24)
Armed vessels and prizes not to pay duty, and not to be examined, 274: (25)
Restrictions on foreign privateers, 274: (26) Pirates to be prohibited entering the
ports of either nation; the ships and goods taken by pirates to be seized, 274 :
(27) The fisheries of either party not to be interfered with; ratifications ex-
changed within six months, 274: Second article of the treaty expunged; this
convention to be in force for ten years, 274: Ratification by the First Consul of
France, declaring the convention to be in force for eight years, 275.
TREATY FOR THE CESSION OF LOUISIANA: Concluded April 30, 1803; Ratification að-
rised by Senate October 20, 1803; Ratified by President October 21, 1803; Ratifi-
cations exchanged at Washington October 21, 1803; Proclaimed October 21, 1803.
(8 St. at L., 200.)
(1) Recital of the French treaty with Spain, of October 1, 1800; retrocession from
Spain to France of the province of Louisiana; cession of Louisiana to the
United States, 276: (2) Islands, &c., included in the cession by the preceding
article, 276: (3) Inhabitants of the ceded territory incorporated with the Union
of the United States upon certain principles, 276: (4) Commissary to be sent
from France to receive the province of Louisiana and pass it over to the United
States, 276: (5) When the commissaries of the United States shall have posses-
sion, 276: (6) United States to execute certain Indian treaties agreed upon be-
tween Spain and the Indians, 277: (7) Vessels of France and Spain laden with
the productions of their respective countries entitled to the same privileges
with vessels of the United States, during the space of twelve years; no other
vessels entitled to the same privilege during the said period, 277: (8) After the
expiration of twelve years vessels of France to be on the footing of the most
favored nations. 277: (9) The convention providing for the payment of debts to
citizens of the United States to be ratified when this treaty is ratified; another
convention to be ratified at the same time, 277-278: (10) Ratifications to be ex-
changed within six months, 278.
CONVENTION FOR PAYMENT OF SIXTY MILLIONS OF FRANCS BY THE UNITED STATES:
Concluded April 30, 1803; Ratification advised by Senate October 20, 1803; Rat-
ified by President October 21, 1803; Ratifications exchanged at Washington October
21, 1803; Proclaimed October 21, 1803. (8 St. at L., 206.)
(1) United States engage to pay sixty millions of franes to France, &c., 278: (2) A
stock to be created equal to sixty millions of francs, &c.; when the first pay-
ment shall be made; French government selling stock in Europe, to do it upon
the best terms for the United States, 279: (3) Value of the dollar of the United
States fixed; ratifications to be exchanged in six months, 279.
CONVENTION FOR PAYMENT OF SUMS DUE BY FRANCE TO CITIZENS OF THE UNITED
STATES: Concluded April 30, 1603; Ratification advised by Senate October 20, 1803;
Ratified by President October 21, 1803; Proclaimed October 21, 1803. (8 St. at L., 208.)
(1) Debts due from France to citizens of the United States to be paid according to
fixed regulations, 280: (2) Debts provided for by the preceding article, 280: (3)
How the said debts are to be paid, 280: (4) What debts are comprehended by
the preceding articles, 280: (5) To what cases they are particularly to apply,
280: (6) Ministers plenipotentiary of the United States to appoint commission-
ers to examine claims provisionally, 281: (7) To examine the claims, &c., and to
certify those which ought to be admitted, 281: (8) To examine those not pre-
pared for liquidation, 281: (9) The debts to be discharged at the treasury of
the United States with interest, 281: (10) Commercial agent of United States at
Paris to assist in the examination of claims, &c.; rejection of a claim to exempt
the United States from paying it, 281: (11) Decisions to be made in one year,
and no reclamations afterwards, 282: (12) Claims since 30th September, 1800,
may be pursued, and payment demanded, 282: (13) Ratifications to be exchanged
in six months, 282.
CONVENTION OF NAVIGATION AND COMMERCE: Concluded June 24, 1822; Ratification
advised by Senate January 31, 1823; Ratifications exchanged at Washington February
12, 1823; Proclaimed February 12, 1823. (8 St. at L., 278.),
(1) Articles, produce, &c., of the United States, imported in American vessels, to pay
duties as if imported in French vessels, 287: (2) Articles, produce and manu-
factures of France, imported in French vessels, to pay duties as if imported in
vessels of the United States, 287: (3) Goods for transit or exportation not to pay
a discriminating duty in either country, 287: (4) Quantities composing the ton
of merchandise of wines, brandies, silks, and dry-goods, cotton, tobacco, ashes,
rice, &c., 287: (5) Duties of tonnage, &c., not to exceed in France five francs per
ton on American vessels, 288: (6) Consuls and vice-consuls of either nation in
the other may cause the arrest of deserters, and detain them for three months,
288: (7) Convention to be in force two years from October 1, 1822; extra duties
at the end of two years to be diminished by one-fourth, and so from year to
year, &c., 288: (8) Convention to be ratified in one year, 289: Separate article,
289: Extra duties levied on either side to be refunded, 289: Separate article, ex-
tra duties, 289.
CONVENTION RELATIVE TO CLAIMS AND DUTIES ON WINES AND COTTONS: Concluded
July 4, 1831; Ratification advised by Senate January 27, 1832; Ratified by Presi-
dent February 2, 1832; Ratifications exchanged at Washington February 2, 1832 ;
Proclaimed July 13, 1832. (8 St. at L., 430.)
(1) Indemnity to American citizens, 290: (2) Payments, 290: (3) Indemnity to the
French government, 290: (4) Payments, 290: (5) Other claims by citizens of
either nation may be prosecuted in the respective countries before competent
tribunals, 291: (6) Reciprocal agreement to communicate documents, 291: (7).
Duties on French wines; reclamations under the eighth article of the treaty of
Louisiana abandoned in consideration of the stipulations as to duty on French
wines, 291 (8) Ratifications to be exchanged within eight months, 291.
CONVENTION FOR EXTRADITION OF CRIMINALS: Concluded November 9, 1843; Ratifica-
tion advised by Senate February 1, 1844; Ratified by President February 2, 1844;
Ratifications exchanged at Washington, April 12, 1844; Proclaimed April 13, 1844.
(8 St. at L., 580.)
(1) Persons accused of crimes to be given up to justice, 292: (2) Persons delivered
up must be charged with certain specified crimes, 292: (3) Surrender by whom
to be made, 292: (4) Expenses to be borne by the party making requisition, 292:
(5) Not to apply to crimes heretofore committed, or political offences, 293: (6)
This convention to continue till abrogated; ratifications to be exchanged with-
in six months, 293.
ADDITIONAL ARTICLE TO CONVENTION OF NOVEMBER 9, 1843, FOR EXTRADITION OF CRIMI-
NALS: Concluded February 24, 1845; Ratification advised by Senate March 12, 1845;
Ratified by President May 5, 1845; Ratifications exchanged at Paris June 21, 1845 ;
Proclaimed July 24, 1845. (8 St. at L., 617.)
Art. The crimes of robbery and burglary defined and included in the provision of
treaty of November 9, 1843, 293.
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