Additional Act, 1900.......... Final Protocol Exchange of Official Documents, Scientific and Literary Publications........ 1945 1958 1959 1962 General Act for the Repression of the African Slave Trade.... 1964 Adhesion of the United States to the Convention of 1899 for the Regulation of Law and Customs of War on Land...... 2042 Convention with Central and South American States Concerning Literary and ALGIERS. 1795." A TREATY OF PEACE AND AMITY CONCLUDED THIS PRESENT DAY Concluded September 5, 1795; ratification advised by Senate March From the date of the present treaty there shall subsist a firm and sincere peace and amity between the President and citizens of the United States of North America and Hassan Bashaw, Dey of Algiers, his Divan and subjects; the vessels and subjects of both nations reciprocally treating each other with civility, honor and respect. All vessels belonging to the citizens of the United States of North @ This treaty was superseded by the treaty of 1815. Algiers having become a province of France in 1830, the treaties with that country became obsolete. ing that all goods disembarked and not sold here shall be permitted to be re-embarked without paying any duty whatever, either for disembarking or embarking. All naval and military stores, such as gunpowder, lead, iron, plank, sulphur, timber for building, tar, pitch, rosin, turpentine, and any other goods denominated naval and military stores, shall be permitted to be sold in this Regency without paying any duties whatever at the custom-house of this Regency. ARTICLE III. The vessels of both nations shall pass each other without any impediment or molestation; and all goods, moneys or passengers, of whatsoever nation, that may be on board of the vessels belonging to either party shall be considered as inviolable, and shall be allowed to pass unmolested. ARTICLE IV. All ships of war belonging to this Regency, on meeting with merchant-vessels belonging to citizens of the United States, shall be allowed to visit them with two persons only beside the rowers; these two only permitted to go on board said vessel without obtaining express leave from the commander of said vessel, who shall compare the passport, and immediately permit said vessel to proceed on her voyage unmolested. All ships of war belonging to the United States of North America, on meeting with an Algerine cruiser, and shall have seen her passport and certificate from the Consul of the United States of North America, resident in this Regency, shall be permitted to proceed on her cruise unmolested; no passport to be issued to any ships but such as are absolutely the property of citizens of the United States, and eighteen months shall be the term allowed for furnishing the ships of the United States with passports. ARTICLE V. No commander of any cruiser belonging to this Regency shall be allowed to take any person, of whatever nation or denomination, out of any vessel belonging to the United States of North America, in order to examine them, or under pretence of making them confess anything desired; neither shall they inflict any corporal punishment, or any way else molest them. ARTICLE VI. If any vessel belonging to the United States of North America shall be stranded on the coast of this Regency, they shall receive every possible assistance from the subjects of this Regency. All goods saved from the wreck shall be permitted to be re-embarked on board of any other vessel without paying any duties at the custom-house. ARTICLE VII. The Algerines are not, on any pretence whatever, to give or sell any vessel of war to any nation at war with the United States of North America, or any vessel capable of cruising to the detriment of the commerce of the United States. ARTICLE VIII. Any citizen of the United States of North America, having bought any prize condemned by the Algerines, shall not be again captured by the cruisers of the Regency then at sea, although they have not a passport; a certificate from the Consul Resident being deemed sufficient until such time they can procure such passport. ARTICLE IX. If any of the Barbary States at war with the United States of North America shall capture any American vessel and bring her into any of the ports of this Regency, they shall not be permitted to sell her, but shall depart the port on procuring the requisite supplies of provision. ARTICLE X. Any vessel belonging to the United States of North America, when at war with any other nation, shall be permitted to send their prizes into the ports of the Regency, have leave to dispose of them without paying any duties on sale thereof. All vessels wanting provisions or refreshments shall be permitted to buy them at market price. ARTICLE XI. All ships of war belonging to the United States of North America, on anchoring in the ports of the Regency, shall receive the usual presents of provisions and refreshments gratis. Should any of the slaves of this Regency make their escape on board said vessels, they shall be immediately returned. No excuse shall be made that they have hid themselves amongst the people and cannot be found, or any other equivocation. ARTICLE XII. No citizen of the United States of North America shall be obliged to redeem any slave against his will, even should he be his brother; neither shall the owner of a slave be forced to sell him against his will, but all such agreements must be made by consent of parties. Should any American citizen be taken on board an enemy ship by the cruisers of this Regency, having a regular passport specifying they are citizens of the United States, they shall be immediately set at liberty. On the contrary, they having no passport, they and their property shall be considered lawful prize, as this Regency know their friends by their passports. ARTICLE XIII. Should any of the citizens of the United States of North America die within the limits of this Regency, the Dey and his subjects shall not interfere with the property of the deceased; but it shall be under the immediate direction of the Consul, unless otherwise disposed of· by will. Should there be no Consul, the effects shall be deposited in the hands of some person worthy of trust until the party shall |