or in any merchant vessel, who may insult, trouble, or wound the persons, or injure the property of the people of Chosen, shall be arrested and punished only by the Consul or other public functionary of the United States, thereto authorized, according to the laws of the United States. When controversies arise in the Kingdom of Chosen between citizens: of the United States and subjects of His Majesty, which need to be eramined and decided by the public officers of the two nations, it is agreed! between the two Governments of the United States and Chosen, that' such cases shall be tried by the proper official of the nationality of the defendant, according to the laws of that nation. The properly author: ized official of the plaintiff's nationality shall be freely permitted to attend the trial, and shall be treated with the courtesy due to his posi tion. He shall be granted all proper facilities for watching the proceedings in the interests of justice. If he so desires, he shall have the right to present, to examine, and to cross-examine witnesses. If he is dissatisfied with the proceedings, he shall be permitted to protest against them in detail.

It is however mutually agreed and understood between the high contracting powers, that whenever the King of Chosen shall have so far modified and reformed the statutes and judicial procedure of his Kingdom that, in the judgment of the United States, they conform to the laws and course of justice in the United States, the right of ex-territorial jurisdiction over United States citizens in Chosen shall be abandoned, and thereafter United States citizens, when within the limits of the Kingdom of Chosen, shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the native authorities.

The officers and people of either nation residing in the other shall have the right to employ natives for all kinds of lawful work.

Should, however, subjects of Chosen, guilty of violation of the laws of the Kingdom, or against whom any action has been brought, conceal themselves in the residences or warehouses of United States citizens, or on board United States merchant vessels, the consular authorities of the United States, on being notified of the fact by the local authorities, will either permit the latter to dispatch constables to make the arrests, or the persons will be arrested by the consular authorities and handed over to the local constables.

Officials or citizens of the United States shall not harbor such persons.

LIBERIA.

Treaty concluded October 21, 1862 (Commerce and Navigation).

Each contracting party may appoint Consuls for the protection of trade reside in the dominions of the other; but no such Consul shall enter on the exercise of his functions until he shall have been approved and mitted, in the usual form, by the Government of the country to which is sent.

Treaty concluded May 13, 1881 (Friendship and Commerce).

(See TREATY VOLUME, title MADAGASCAR.)

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MASKAT.

reaty concluded September 21, 1833 (Amity and Commerce; applies also

If any vessel of the United States shall suffer shipwreck on any part the Sultan's dominions, the persons escaping from the wreck shall be ken care of and hospitably entertained, at the expense of the Sultan, ntil they shall find an opportunity to be returned to their country (for le Sultan can never receive any remuneration whatever for rendering 17824 C R-39

succor to the distressed); and the property saved from such wreck shal be carefully preserved and delivered to the owner, or the Consul of the United States, or to any authorized agent.

1527. ARTICLE VI.

The citizens of the United States resorting to the ports of the Sultar for the purpose of trade shall have leave to land and reside in the sa ports without paying any tax or imposition whatever for such libert other than the general duties on imports which the most favored nation shall pay.

1528. ARTICLE VII.

If any citizens of the United States, or their vessels or other property, shall be taken by pirates and brought within the dominions of the Sultan, the persons shall be set at liberty and the property restored to the owner. if he is present, or to the American Consul, or to any authorized agent.

The President of the United States may appoint Consuls to reside in the ports of the Sultan where the principal commerce shall be carried on, which Consuls shall be the exclusive judges of all disputes or suits wherein American citizens shall be engaged with each other. They shall have power to receive the property of any American citizen dying within the Kingdom, and to send the same to his heirs, first paying all his debts due to the subjects of the Sultan. The said Consuls shall not be arrested, nor shall their property be seized, nor shall any of their household be arrested, but their persons and property and their houses shall be invi late. Should any Consul, however, commit any offense against the laws of the Kingdom, complaint shall be made to the President, who will immediately displace him.

MEXICO.

Treaty concluded April 5, 1831 (Amity, Commerce, and Navigation). [This treaty was terminated November 30, 1881, by notice given by Mexico, Novem ber 30, 1880.]

1530. ARTICLE XXVIII.

In order that the Consuls and Vice-Consuls of the two contracting par ties may enjoy the rights, prerogatives, and immunities which belong to

em by their character, they shall, before entering upon the exercise of heir functions, exhibit their commission or patent in due form to the overnment to which they are accredited; and having obtained their xequatur, they shall be held and considered as such by all the authoriies, magistrates, and inhabitants of the Consular District in which they eside. It is agreed likewise to receive and admit Consuls and Vice-Conuls in all the ports and places open to foreign commerce, who shall enjoy herein all the rights, prerogatives, and immunities of the Consuls and Vice-Consuls of the most favored nation, each of the contracting parties emaining at liberty to except those ports and places in which the dmission and residence of such Consuls and Vice-Consuls may not seem xpedient.

1531. ARTICLE XXIX.

It is likewise agreed that the Consuls, Vice-Consuls, their Secretaries, Officers, and persons attached to the service of Consuls, they not being itizens of the country in which the Consul resides, shall be exempt from all compulsory public service, and also from all kinds of taxes, imposts, and contributions levied specially on them, except those which they hall be obliged to pay on account of commerce or their property, to which the citizens and inhabitants, native and foreign, of the country n which they reside are subject; being in everything besides subject to the laws of their respective States. The archives and papers of the Conulates shall be respected inviolably, and under no pretext whatever hall any magistrate seize, or in any way interfere with them.

1582. ARTICLE XXX.

The said Consuls shall have power to require the assistance of the uthorities of the country for the arrest, detention, and custody of deserters from the public and private vessels of their country; and for that purpose they shall address themselves to the courts, judges, and officers competent, and shall demand the said deserters in writing, proving, by an exhibition of the register of the vessel, or ship's roll, or other public documents, that the man or men demanded were part of said crews; and on this demand so proved (saving always where the contrary is proved), the delivery shall not be refused. Such deserters, when arrested, shall be placed at the disposal of the said Consuls, and may be put in the public prisons at the request and expense of those who reclaim them, to be sent to the vessels to which they belonged, or to others of the same nation. But if they be not sent back within two months, to be counted from the day of their arrest, they shall be set at liberty, and shall not be again arrested for the same cause.

1533. ARTICLE XXXI.

For the purpose of more effectually protecting their commerce and navigation, the two contracting parties do hereby agree, as soon hereafter as circumstances will permit, to form a Consular Convention. which shall declare specially the powers and immunities of the Consuls and Vice-Consuls of the respective parties.

Treaty concluded September 16, 1836 (Peace and Friendship).

If any of the citizens of the United States, or any persons under their ' protection, shall have any dispute with each other, the Consul shall decide between the parties; and whenever the Consul shall require any aid or assistance from our Government to enforce his decisions, it shall be immediately granted to him.

1535. ARTICLE XXI.

If a citizen of the United States should kill or wound a Moor, or, on the contrary, if a Moor shall kill or wound a citizen of the United States, the law of the country shall take place, and equal justice shall be rendered, the Consul assisting at the trial; and if any delinquent shall make his escape, the Consul shall not be answerable for him in any manner whatever.

1536. ARTICLE XXII.

If an American citizen shall die in our country, and no will shall appear, the Consul shall take possession of his effects; and if there shall be no Consul, the effects shall be deposited in the hands of some person worthy of trust, until the party shall appear who has a right to demand them; but if the heir to the person deceased be present, the property shall be delivered to him without interruption; and if a will shall appear, the property shall descend agreeably to that will, as soon as the Consul shall declare the validity thereof.