COLOMBIA, 1824. 155 ports, shall also be provided with certificates containing the several particularsof the cargo, and the place whence the ship sailed, so that it may be known whether any tcrbidden or contraband goods be on board the same; which certificates shall be made out by the officers of the place whence the ship sailed in the accustomed form; without which requisites said vessel may be detained to be adjudged by the competent tribunal, and may be declared legal prize, unless the said defect shall be satisfied or_supplied by testimony entirely equivalent. Amicus XX. It is further agreed, that the stipulations above expressed relative to V¤¤¤<*1¤ ¤¤¢l¤r the visiting and examination of vessels, shall apply only to those which °°“"°Y· sail without convoy; and when said vessels shall be under convoy, the verbal declaration of the commander of the convoy, on his word of honor, that the vessels under his protection belong to the nation whose flag he carries, and, when they are bound to an enemy’s port, that they have no contraband goods on board, shall be sufficient. Anrrcms XXI. It is further agreed, that in all cases the established courts for prize Prize·courts and causes, in the country to which the prizes may be conducted, shall alone d°°'°°°· take cognizance of them. And whenever such tribunal of either party shall pronounce judgment against any vessel or goods, or property claimed by the citizens of the other party, the sentence or decree shall mention the reasons or motive on which the same hall have been ibunded, and an authenticated copy of the sentence or decree, and of all the proceedings in the case, shall, if demanded, be delivered to the commander or agent of said vessel, without any delay, he paying the legal fees for the same. Anrrcms XXII. Whenever one of the contracting parties shall be engaged in war with L ¤ t t ¤ r ¤ 0 f another State, no citizen of the other contracting party shall accept a "‘°"l“°· commission, or letter of marque, for the purpose of assisting or co-operating hostilely with the said enemy against the said party so at war, under the pain of being treated a a pirate. ARTICLE XXIII. If by any fatality, which cannot be expected, and which God forbid, Agreement in the two contracting parties should be engaged in a war with each other, °¤¤° °f lm'- they have agreed, and do agree, now for then, that there shall be allowed the term of six months to the merchants residing on the coast and in the ports of each other, and the term of one year to those who dwell in the interior, to arrange their business and transport their elfects wherever they please, giving to them the safe conduct necessary for it, which may serve as a sufficient protection until they arrive at the designated port. The citizens of all other occupations who may be established in the territories or dominions of the United States, and of the Republic of Colombia, shall be respected and maintained in the full enjoyment of their personal liberty and property, unless their particular conduct shall cause them to forfeit this protection, which, in consideration of humanity, the contracting parties engage to give them. Anrroms XXIV. Neither the debts due from individuals of the one nation to the indi- Debts in tims of viduals of the other, nor shares, nor moneys, which they may have in "‘“· public funds, nor in public or private banks, shall ever, in any event of war or of national difference, be sequestered or coniiscatcd.
