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580 PUBLIC TREATIES. ORANGE FREE STATE. ORANGE FREE STATE, 1871. Dec. 22, 1871. A CONVENTION OF FRIENDSHIP, COMMERCE, AND EXTRADITION BETWEEN ei THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE ORANGE FREE STATE, CONCLUDED AT BLOEMFONTEN DECEMBER 22, 1871; RATIFICATION ADVISED BY SENATE APRIL 24, 1812; RATIFIED BY PRESIDENT APRIL 27, 1812; RATIFIED BY VDLKERAAD OF ORANGE FREE STATE MAY 10, 1872; RATIFICATIONS EXCHANGED AT WASHINGTON AUG UST 18, 1873; PROCLAIMED AUGUST 13, 1873. General convention of friendship, commerce, and extradition between the United States of America and the Orange Free State. contracting pm- The United States of America and the Orange Free State, equally ties. animated by the desire to draw more closely the bonds of friendship which so happily exist between the two republics, as well as to augment, by all the means at their disposal, the commercial intercourse of their respective citizens, have mutually resolved to conclude a general convention of friendship, commerce, and extradition. N.,g.,mm,m_ For this purpose they have appointed as their plenipotentiaries, to wit: The President of the United States, Willard W. Edgcomb, special agent of the United States, and their consul at the Cape of Good Hope, and the President of the Orange Free State, Friedrich Kaufman Hohne, gov. secty., who, after a communication of their respective full powers, have agreed to the following articles: Anrrcrn I. ,;,,,,,;,,,.,,0,,] ,,,,,,,,1- The citizens of the United States of America and the citizens of the ity of citizens. Orange Free State shall be admitted and treated upon a footing of reciprocal equality in the two countries, where such admission and treatment shall not conflict with the constitutional or legal provisions of the contracting parties. No pecuniary or other more burdensome condition shall be imposed upon them than upon the citizens of the country where they reside, nor any condition whatever to which the latter shall not be subject. N0, to ,,,,,1,,d,, The foregoing privileges, however, shall not extend to the enjoyment political rights. of political rights. Anrrcrn t II. Exemption from The citizens of one of the two countries residing or established in the miiiww ¤<>¤‘¤¢<>· other shall be free from personal military service; but they shall be liable to the pecuniary or other contributions which may be required, by way of compensation, from citizens of the country where they reside, who are exempt from the said service. . Imposts. No higher impost, under whatever name, shall be exacted from the citizens of one of the two countries residing or established in the other than shall be levied upon citizens of the country in which they reside, _ nor any contribution whatever to which the latter shall not be liable. ~ Ag*$°¤¤° ¤ i 1 ¤ In case of war, or of the seizure or occupation of property for public °“" ° '""‘ purposes, the citizens of one of the two countries residing or established in the other shall be placed upon an equal footing with the citizens of the country in which they reside with respect to indemnities for damages they may have sustained.