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2. This war is not against the people of Salvador, whose sacred rights the Government of Honduras has given proofs of respecting, and will respect, helping its forces to reconquer its liberties.

3. Relations with that Republic shall be closed during the state of war.

4. Let this Decree be communicated to the Governments of Central America and the Supreme Legislative Power.

Given at Gracias, the 1st of April, 1876.

MARCELINO MEJIA, General Minister.

JOSÉ MARIA MEDINA.

DEFINITIVE TREATY of Peace and Friendship between Guatemala and Salvador.-Signed at Santa Ana, May 8, 1876.

[Ratifications exchanged at San Salvador, August 18, 1876.] (Translation.)

DR. DON RAFAEL ZALDIVAR, Provisional President of the Republic of Salvador, and General Don J. Rufino Barrios, Generalin-Chief of the Army and President of the Republic of Guatemala:

Wishing to carry into effect what was agreed upon in the eighth condition of the Treaty of Peace signed at the town of Chalchuapa, on the 25th of April of the present year, by Commissioners appointed by the same General Barrios and the Government of Salvador` presided over by the ex-Chief of the State Don Andres Valle, who disappeared in consequence of the above-named Convention, and wishing to re-establish the bonds of friendship and fraternity which in a frank and loyal manner should unite the Governments and people of Salvador and Guatemala, working for the true happiness of those two countries, under the shade of a lasting peace, and re-estab lishing public morality by means of reciprocal consideration and loyalty, have determined to conclude a definitive Treaty to secure the precious blessing of peace, and to this effect they have named:

The Provisional President of Salvador, Don Cruz Ulloa, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; and General Barrios as his Special Commissioner, Don Marco Aurelio Soto; who, having exchanged their respective full powers, and finding them in due form, have agreed upon the following Articles :

ART. I. There shall be loyal and sincere peace and friendship between the Republics of Salvador and Guatemala, to obtain which the respective Governments engage to assimilate their respective policy, to act in accord in the affairs of general interest to Central America, and to use their efforts that the same uniformity and bar

mony may exist between the Governments of the other Republics of Central America.

II. The Governments of Salvador and Guatemala shall maintain between the two countries a constant union and fraternity, and they shall act together in perfect accord, in order to promote their moral, intellectual, commercial, and agricultural progress.

III. The Governments of Salvador and Guatemala resolve that there shall be between them a complete alliance, offensive and defensive, in case of external war, whether with one or more of the Republics of Central America or with some foreign nation.

IV. Inasmuch as it is the emigrants from one or the other Republics who principally give rise to the misunderstandings and wars between the two Governments, they engage to deliver to each other the criminal emigrants who may have fled on account of ordinary offences, and who may be claimed in order to be judged by the ordinary tribunals; and they engage that those (emigrants) who live on the frontier line and in the frontier Departments shall be concentrated by the Government of Salvador in the interior Departments of that Republic, and by the Government of Guatemala likewise in the interior, both Governments taking care that the concentration shall be maintained and made effective.

V. To facilitate commerce and avoid smuggling, which is injurious to the two Republics, both Governments engage to assimilate the import maritime duties and taxes on commerce, fixing for all as a base 50 per cent. upon the original value of the goods, calculated upon identical valuations, and not to make any reduction without previous agreement between the two Contracting Parties; but each party may raise the duties when it may seem convenient to it to do so, without its being on this account obligatory on the other. It is also agreed that the native manufactures and products that are imported for sale from one of the two Contracting Republics into the other shall be free of duty.

VI. The Salvadoreans resident in Guatemala, and the Guatemalans resident in Salvador, who have obtained scientific or literary degrees in any of the universities of the one or the other Republics, shall be at liberty to exercise freely their profession without other formality than the authenticity of the degrees, the identification of the person, and the licence of the authority or corporation that grants it. In like manner the studies of private individuals outside of the public establishments shall be valid in each country respectively for obtaining literary degrees in the universities, provided such studies have been made in private colleges approved by the Government or with professors who are inscribed as members of those establishments authorized by the law to give instruction, and provided that all be proved by legal documents.

with Guatemala in the war just ended, the two Contracting Governments shall invite that Government to accept the clauses of this Treaty referring to peace, friendship, and alliance which is established between the two Republics. A similar invitation shall be made to the Government of the Republic of Costa Rica.

In faith whereof the undersigned Commissioners sign and seal with their respective seals, in duplicate, the present Treaty, in the city of Santa Ana, on the 8th of May, 1876.

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PROCLAMATION of the President of the United States, suspending the Judicial Functions of Ministers, Consuls, and other Functionaries of the United States in Egypt.-Washington, March 27, 1876.

By the President of the United States of America.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the first section of an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the President to accept for citizens of the United States the jurisdiction of certain tribunals in the Ottoman Dominions and Egypt, established, or to be established, under the authority of the Sublime Porte and of the Government of Egypt," approved March 23, 1874,* it was enacted as follows:

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"That whenever the President of the United States shall receive satisfactory information that the Ottoman Government, or that of Egypt, has organized other tribunals on a basis likely to secure to citizens of the United States, in their dominions, the same impartial justice which they now enjoy there under the judicial functions exercised by the Minister, Consuls, and other functionaries of the United States, pursuant to the Act of Congress approved the 22nd of June, 1860, entitled 'An Act to carry into effect provisions of the Treaties between the United States, China, Persia, and other countries, giving certain judicial powers to Ministers and Consuls or other functionaries of the United States in those countries, and for other purposes,' he is hereby authorized to suspend the operation of said Act as to the dominions in which such tribunals may be organized, so far as the jurisdiction of said tribunals may embrace matters now cognizable by the Minister, Consuls, or functionaries of the United States in said dominions, and to notify the Government of the Sublime Porte, or that of Egypt, or either of them, that the United States, during such suspension, will, as afore+ Page 603.

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said, accept for their citizens the jurisdiction of the tribunals aforesaid over citizens of the United States which has heretofore been exercised by the Minister, Consuls, or other functionaries of the United States;" and

Whereas satisfactory information has been received by me that the Government of Egypt has organized other tribunals on a basis likely to secure to citizens of the United States in the dominions subject to such Government the impartial justice which they now enjoy there under the judicial functions exercised by the Minister, Consuls, or other functionaries of the United States, pursuant to the said Act of Congress approved June 22, 1860:

Now, therefore, I, Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power and authority conferred upon me by the said Act, approved March 23, 1874, do hereby suspend during the pleasure of the President the operation of the said Act approved June 22, 1860, as to the said dominions, subject to the Government of Egypt, in which such tribunals have been organized, so far as the jurisdiction of said tribunals may embrace matters now cognizable by the Minister, Consuls, or other functionaries of the United States in said dominions, except as to cases actually commenced before the date hereof.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, this 27th day of March, in the year of our Lord 1876, and of the Independence of the United States of America the 100th.

By the President:

HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State.

U. S. GRANT.

TREATY of Friendship, Commerce, and Consular Privileges between the United States and Salvador.-Signed at San Salvador, December 6, 1870.*

[Ratifications exchanged at Washington, March 11, 1874.]

A General Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Consular Privileges between the United States of America and the Republic of Salvador.

THE United States of America and the Republic of Salvador, desiring to make lasting and firm the friendship and good understanding which happily exist between both nations, have resolved to

* Signed also in the Spanish language.

fix, in a manner clear, distinct, and positive, the rules which shall in future be religiously observed between each other by means of a Treaty or General Convention of Peace and Friendship, Commerce, and Consular Privileges.

For this desirable object the President of the United States of America has conferred full powers upon General Alfred T. A. Torbert, Minister Resident, and the President of the Republic of Salvador has conferred similar and equal powers upon Doctor Don Gregorio Arbizú, Minister of Foreign Relations; who, after having exchanged their said full powers in due form, have agreed to the following Articles :

ART. I. There shall be a perfect, firm, and inviolable peace and sincere friendship between the United States of America and the Republic of Salvador, in all the extent of their possessions and territories, and between their citizens respectively, without distinction of persons and places.

II. The United States of America and the Republic of Salvador, desiring to live in peace and harmony with all the nations of the earth, by means of a policy frank and equally friendly with all, engage mutually not to grant any particular favour to other nations in respect of commerce and navigation which shall not immediately become common to the other party, who shall enjoy the same freely if the concession was freely made, or on allowing the same compensation if the concession was conditional.

III. The two High Contracting Parties, being likewise desirous of placing the commerce and navigation of their respective countries on the liberal basis of perfect equality and reciprocity, mutually agree that the citizens of each may frequent all the coasts and countries of the other, and reside therein, and shall have the power to purchase and hold lands, and all kinds of real estate, and to engage in all kinds of trade, manufactures, and mining, upon the same terms as the native citizens, and shall enjoy all the privileges and concessions in these matters which are or may be made to the citizens of any country, and shall enjoy all the rights, privileges, and exemptions in navigation, commerce, and manufactures which native citizens do or shall enjoy, submitting themselves to the laws, decrees, or usages there established to which native citizens are subjected. But it is understood that this Article does not include the coasting trade of either country, the regulation of which is reserved by the parties respectively, according to their own separate laws.

IV. They likewise agree that whatever kind of produce, manufacture, or merchandize of any foreign country can be from time to time lawfully imported into the United States in their own vessels, may be also imported in vessels of the Republic of Salvador; and that no higher or other duties upon the tonnage of the vessel and

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