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CONVENTION WITH GREAT BRITAIN. JUNE 3, 1870 777 Additional Oonvention between the United States and Great Britain. Slave Trade. Uoncluded, June 3, 1870; Exchanged, August 10, 1870; Proclaimed, September 16, 1870. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: June 3, 1870. A PROCIZAMATION. WHEREAS a convention between the United States of America and her preamble_ Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the suppression of the African slave trade, with instructions for the ships of the United States and British navies employed to prevent that trade, and regulations for the mixed courts of justice thereunto annexed, was concluded and signed at Washiiigton, by their re- V0, xi, 1226 spective plenipotentiaries, on the 7th day of April, 1862; and whereas D ip' i a convention additional thereto, and instructions thereunto annexed, were concluded and signed at Washington by their respective plenipotentiaries, on the 3d day of June last, the originals of which additional convention and instructions are word for word as follows:- ADDITIONAL CONVENTION TO THE CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNI'[‘ED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN OF THE SEVENTH OF APRIL, 1862, RESPECTING THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE. The United States of America and her Majesty the Queen of the Treaty ot‘186z United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, having come to the con- ts be *5‘5<>di6¢d· clusion that it is no longer necessary to maintain the three mixed courts V°1'x“' p'1225' of justice, established at Sierra Leone, at the Cape of Good Hope, and at New York, in pursuance of the treaty concluded at Washington, on the 7th day of April, 1862, for the suppression of the African slave trade, they have resolved to conclude an additional convention for the purpose of making the requisite modifications of the said treaty, and have named as their plenipotentiaries, that is to say: The President of the United States of America, Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State, and her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Edward Thornton, Esquire, Companion of the Order of the Bath, and her Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to 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 : —- ARTICLE I. Everything contained in the treaty concluded at Washing- p,,,,,;,;.,,,, of ton on the 7th of April, 1862, between the United States of America and treaty <>f1862 at her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire- gg2f;;? °°°"’° land, for the suppression of the African slave trade, and in the annexes A Vol. xii. pp. and B thereto, which relates to the establishment of three mixed courts of 12% 1231- justice at Sierra Leone, at the Cape of Good Hope, and at New York, to hear and decide all cases of capture of vessels which may be brought before them as having been engaged in the African slave trade, or as having been fitted out for the purposes thereof, as well as to the composition, jurisdiction, and mode of procedure of such courts, shall cease and determine as regards the said mixed courts, from and after the exchange of the ratifications of the present additional convention, except in so far as regards any act or proceeding done or taken in virtue thereoti before this