352 PUBLIC TREATIES. Sigrrntnrvs- In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have aiiixed thereto their respeetiveseals. Dues, Done at Washington the third day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy. HAMILTON FISH. [SEAL.] EDWD. THORNTON. [SEAL.] · · · * VENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES
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`(;G1I·IlESL£XE TRADE, SIGNED AT WASHINGTON ON THE THIRD DAY OF Instructions thr Instructions for the ships of the United States and British naviee employed BMW °f “'*“”· to prevent the African slave trade. ARTICLE I. Right of search. The commander of any ship belonging to the United States or British navy, which Shall be furnished with these instructions, shall have a right to search and detain any United States or .British merchant vessels which shall be actually engaged, or suspected to be engaged, in the African slave trade, or to be fitted out for the purposes thereof, or to have been engaged in such trade during the voyage in which she may V9¤¤¤l¤ S¤¤l> i¤ be met with by such ship of the United States or British navy, and such f°’ -l"‘]g"‘°“”· commander shall thereupon bring or send such merchant vessel (save in the case provided for in Article V of these instructions) as soon as possible for judgment, in the manner provided by Article III of the additional convention of this date, that is to say: Ami-rienn vessels. In the case of an American vessel searched and detained as aforesaid by a British cruiser, she shall be sent to New York or Key West, whichever shall be most accessible, or be handed over to an United States cruiser, if one should be available in the neighborhood of the capture. British v¤¤¤¤l¤- In the case of a British vessel searched and detained as aforesaid by an United States cruiser, she shall be sent to the nearest or most accessible British colony, or shall be handed over to a British cruiser, if one should be available in theneighborhood of the capture. Anrronn II. 0 s n d n e the t' Whenever a ship of either of the two navies, duly authorized as afore- ¤¤=¤¤¢l¤· said, shall meet a merchant vessel liable to be searched under the provisions of the treaty of the 7th of April, 1862, and of this additional convention, the search shall be conducted with the courtesy and consideration which ought to be observed between allied and friendly nations; and the search shall, in all cases, be made by an officer holding a rank not lower than that of lieutenant in the navy, or by the officer who at the time shall be second in command of the ship by which such search is ma e. ARTICLE III. Proceedings in The commander of any ship of the two navies, duly authorized as eww nf detention- aforesaid, who may detain any merchant vessel in pursuance of the tenor of the present instructions, shall leave on board the vessel so detained the master, the mate, or boatswain, two or three at least of the crew, and all the cargo. The captor shall at the time of detention draw up in writing a declaration which shall exhibit the state in which he found the detained vessel ; such declaration sha-ll be signed by himself, and shall be given or sent in with the detained vessel to be produced as evidence in the proper court. He shall deliver to the master of the detained vessel a signed and certitied list of the papers found on
