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by one-fourth of the said amount from year to year, so long as neither party shall have declared the intention of renouncing it as above stated.

ARTICLE VIII.

year.

The present convention shall be ratified on both sides, and the ratifications shall be exchanged within one year from the date Convention to be hereof, or sooner if possible. But the execution of the said ratified within one convention shall commence in both countries on the first of October next, and shall be effective, even in case of non-ratification, for all such vessels as may have sailed bona fide for the ports of either nation, in the confidence of its being in force.

In faith whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present convention, and have thereto affixed their seals, at the city of Washington, this 24th day of June, A. D. 1822.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. [L. S.]
G. HYDE DE NEUVILLE. [L. S.]

SEPARATE ARTICLE.

The extra duties levied on either side before the present day, by virtue

Separate article.

of the act of Congress of 15th May, 1820, and of the ordinance of 26th July of the same year, and others confirmative thereof, and which have not already been paid back, shall be refunded.

Signed and sealed as above, this 24th day of June, 1822.

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CONVENTION WITH FRANCE. CONCLUDED JULY 4, 1831; RATIFICATIONS EXCHANGED FEBRUARY 2, 1832; PROCLAIMED JULY 13, 1832.

1832, ch. 199.

The United States of America and His Majesty the King of the French, animated with an equal desire to adjust amicably, and in a manner conformable to equity, as well as to the relations of good intelligence and sincere friendship which unite the two countries, the reclamations formed by the respective Governments, have, for this purpose, named for their Plenipotentiaries, to wit:

The President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, William C. Rives, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the said United States, near His Majesty the King of the French, and His Majesty the King of the French, Count Horace Sebastiani, Lieutenant General of his Armies, his Minister Secretary of State for the Department of Foreign Affairs, &c., &c.;

Who, after having exchanged their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles:

ARTICLE I.

Indemnity to American citizens.

The French Government, in order to liberate itself completely from all the reclamations preferred against it by citizens of the United States, for unlawful seizures, captures, sequestrations, confiscations, or destructions of their vessels, cargoes or other property, engages to pay a sum of twenty-five millions of francs to the Government of the United States, who shall distribute it among those entitled, in the manner and according to the rules which it shall determine.

Paymente.

ARTICLE II.

The sum of twenty-five millions of francs, above stipulated, shall be paid at Paris, in six annual instalments, of four millions one hundred and sixty-six thousand six hundred and sixtysix francs sixty-six centimes each, into the hands of such person or persons as shall be authorized by the Government of the United States to receive it.

The first instalment shall be paid at the expiration of one year next following the exchange of the ratifications of this convention, and the others at successive intervals of a year, one after another, till the whole shall be paid.

To the amount of each of the said instalments shall be added interest at four per cent. thereupon, as upon the other instalments then remaining unpaid; the said interest to be computed from the day of the exchange of the ratifications of the present convention.

Indemnity to

ARTICLE III.

The Government of the United States, on its part, for the purpose of being liberated completely from all the reclamations preFrench Government, sented by France on behalf of its citizens, or of the Royal Treasury, (either for ancient supplies or accounts, the liquidation of which had been reserved, or for unlawful seizures, captures, detentions, arrests, or destructions of French vessels, cargoes, or other property,) engages to pay to the Government of His Majesty (which shall make distribution of the same in the manner and according to the rules to be determined by it) the sum of one million five hundred thousand francs.

Payments.

ARTICLE IV.

The sum of one million five hundred thousand francs, stipulated in the preceding article, shall be payable in six annual instalments, of two hundred and fifty thousand francs; and the payment of each of the said instalments shall be effected by a reservation of so much out of the annual sums which the French Government is bound, by the second article above, to pay to the Government of the United States.

To the amount of each of these instalments shall be added interest at four per cent. upon the instalment then paid, as well as upon those still due; which payments of interest shall be effected by means of a reservation, similar to that already indicated for the payment of the principal. The said interest shall be computed from the day of the exchange of the ratifications of the present convention.

ARTICLE V.

Other claims.

As to the reclamations of French citizens against the Government of the United States, and the reclamations of citizens of the United States against the French Government, which are of a different nature from those which it is the object of the present convention to adjust, it is understood that the citizens of the two nations may prosecute them in the respective countries before the competent judicial or administrative authorities, in complying with the laws and regulations of the country, the dispositions and benefit of which shall be applied to them, in like manner as to native citizens.

ARTICLE VI.

Reciprocal engage ment to communicate documents, &c.

The French Government and the Government of the United States reciprocally engage to communicate to each other, by the intermediary of the respective legations, the documents, titles, or other informations proper to facilitate the examination and liquidation of the reclamations comprised in the stipulations of the present convention.

ARTICLE VII.

French wines.

The wines of France, from and after the exchange of the ratifications of the present convention, shall be admitted to consumption in the States of the Union at duties which shall not exceed the following rates, by the gallon, (such as it is used at present for wines in the United States,) to wit: six cents for red wines in casks; ten cents for white wines in casks; and twenty-two cents for wines of all sorts in bottles. The proportion existing between the duties on French wines thus reduced, and the general rates of the tariff which went into operation the first of January, 1829, shall be maintained, in case the Government of the United States should think proper to diminish those general rates in a new tariff.

In consideration of this stipulation, which shall be binding on the United States for ten years, the French Government abandons the reclamations which it had formed in relation to the 8th article Eighth article Lonof the treaty of cession of Louisiana. It engages, more- isiana cession treaty over, to establish on the long staple cottons of the United States, which, after the exchange of the ratifications of the present convention, shall be brought directly thence to France by the vessels of the United States, or by French vessels, the same duties as on short staple cottons.

ARTICLE VIII.

The present convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington, in the space of eight months, or sooner if possible.

Exchange of rat.fi

cations.

In faith of which, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed these articles, and thereto set their seals.

Done at Paris the fourth day of the month of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.

W. C. RIVES.

L. S.

HORACE SEBASTIANI. L. S.1

FRANCE, 1843.

CONVENTION FOR THE SURRENDER OF CRIMINALS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE FRENCH. CONCLUDED NOVEMBER 9, 1843; RATIFICATIONS EXCHANGED APRIL 12, 1844; PROCLAIMED APRIL 13, 1844..

Preamble.

The United States of America and His Majesty the King of the French having judged it expedient, with a view to the better administration of justice, and to the prevention of crime within their respective territories and jurisdictions, that persons charged with the crimes hereinafter enumerated, and being fugitives from justice, should, under certain circumstances, be reciprocally delivered up, the said United States of America and His Majesty the King of the French have named as their Plenipotentiaries to conclude a convention for this purpose:

That is to say, the President of the United States of America, Abel P. Upshur, Secretary of State of the United States, and His Majesty the King of the French, the Sieur Pageot, officer of the Royal Order of the Legion of Honor, his Minister Plenipotentiary, ad interim, in the United States of America;

Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following articles:

Persons accused of

to justice, upon re

ARTICLE I.

It is agreed that the high contracting parties shall, on requisitions made in their name, through the medium of their respective crimes to be given up diplomatic agents, deliver up to justice persons who, being quisitions, &c. accused of the crimes enumerated in the next following article, committed within the jurisdiction of the requiring party, shall seek an asylum, or shall be found within the territories of the other: Provided, That this shall be done only when the fact of the commission of the crime shall be so established as that the laws of the country in which the fugitive or the person so accused shall be found would justify his or her apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime had been there committed.

Proviso.

Persons to be de

charged with certain

ARTICLE II.

Persons shall be so delivered up who shall be charged, according to the provisions of this convention, with any of the following livered up must be crimes, to wit: Murder, (comprehending the crimes desigspecified crimes. nated in the French penal code by the terms, assassination, parricide, infanticide, and poisoning,) or with an attempt to commit murder, or with rape, or with forgery, or with arson, or with embezzlement by public officers, when the same is punishable with infamous punishment.

Surrender, whom to be made.

by

ARTICLE III.

On the part of the French Government, the surrender shall be made only by authority of the Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice; and on the part of the Government of the United States, the surrender shall be made only by authority of the Executive thereof.

ARTICLE IV.

The expenses of any detention and delivery effected in virtue of the

to

be

preceding provisions shall be borne and defrayed by the • Expenses Government in whose name the requisition shall have been borne by the party made.

ARTICLE V.

making requisition.

The provisions of the present convention shall not be applied in any manner to the crimes enumerated in the second article, committed anterior to the date thereof, nor to any crime or of fence of a purely political character.

Not to apply to committed, or political offences.

crimes heretofors

ARTICLE VI.

Το continue till

This convention shall continue in force until it shall be abrogated by the contracting parties, or one of them; but it shall not be abrogated, except by mutual consent, unless the party de-. abrogated. siring to abrogate it shall give six months' previous notice of his intention to do so. It shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall Ratifications to be be exchanged within the space of six months, or earlier if exchanged within six possible.

months.

In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present convention in duplicate, and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms.

Done at Washington the ninth day of November, anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-three. A. P. UPSHUR. [L. S.] A. PAGEOT. (L. S.]

FRANCE, 1845.

ADDITIONAL ARTICLE TO THE TREATY WITH FRANCE, OF NOVEMBER 9, 1843. CONCLUDED FEBRUARY 24, 1845; RATIFICATIONS EXCHANGED JUNE 21, 1845; PROCLAIMED JULY 24, 1845.

The crimes of robfined, and included in the provisions of this treaty.

The crime of robbery, defining the same to be the felonious and forcible taking from the person of another, of goods or money to any value, by violence, or putting him in fear; and the bery and burglary de crime of burglary, defining the same to be, breaking and entering by night into a mansion-house of another, with intent to commit felony; and the corresponding crimes included under the French law in the words vol qualifié crime, not being embraced in the second article of the convention of extradition concluded between the United States of America and France, on the ninth of November, 1843, it is agreed by the present article, between the high contracting parties, that persons charged with those crimes shall be respectively delivered up, in conformity with the first article of the said convention; and the present article, when ratified by the parties, shall constitute a part of the said convention, and shall have the same force as if it had been originally inserted in the same.

In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present article, in duplicate, and have affixed thereto the seal of their

arms.

Done at Washington this twenty-fourth of February, 1845.
J. C. CALHOUN.
A. PAGEOT.

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