ISBN: 9781130716382

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RareBooksClub.com. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 122 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.3in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: . . . a particular signal, to be used exclusively by those cruisers which shall be invested with the right of search. Art. V. --The cruisers of the high contracting parties authorized to exercise the right of search and detention in execution of the present treaty shall conform themselves strictly to the instructions annexed to the said treaty, under letter B, in all that relates to the formalities of the search and of the detention, as well as to the measures to be taken, in order that the vessels suspected of having been employed in the traffic may be delivered over to the competent tribunals. The high contracting parties reserve to themselves the right of making in these in structions, by common consent, such alterations as circumstances may render necessary. The cruisers of the high contracting parties shall mutually afford to each other assistance in all cases where it may be useful that they should act in concert. Art. VI. --Whenever a merchant-vessel, sailing under the flag of one of the high contracting parties, shall have been detained by a cruiser of the other, duly authorized to that effect, conformably to the provisions of the present treaty, such merchant-vessel, as well as the master, the crew, the cargo, and the slaves-who maybe on board, shall be brought into such place as the high contracting parties shall have respectfully designated for that purpose, and they shall be delivered over to the authorities appointed with that view by the government within whose possessions such place is situated, in order that proceedings may be had with respect to them before the competent tribunals in the manner hereafter specified. When the commander of the cruiser shall not think fit to undertake himself the bringing in and the delivery up of the detained vessel, . . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub.com<