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CONVENTION WITH CHILE. 1832. 435 and trade there, in all sorts of produce, manufactures, and merchandise, and shall pay no other or greater duties, charges or fees, whatsoever, than the most favored nation is or shall be obliged to pay, and they shall enjoy all the rights, privileges, and exemptions in commerce and navigation, which the most favored nation does or shall enjoy, submitting themselves, nevertheless, to the laws, decrees, and usages, there established, and to which are submitted the citizens and subjects of the most favored nations. But it is understood, that this article does not include the Coasting trade coasting trade of either country, the regulation of which is reserved by °X°°P‘°d· the parties, respectively, according to their own separate laws. Amicus IV. It is likewise agreed that it shall be wholly free for all Merchants merchants, commanders of ships, and other citizens of both countries, “"d °‘h°"’ *T°‘? to manage, themselves, their own business, in all ports and places sub- ject to the jurisdiction of each other, as well with respect to the consignment and sale of their goods and merchandise, by wholesale and retail, as with respect to the loading, unloading, and sending off their ships, they being in all these cases to be treated as citizens of the country in which they reside, or at least to be placed on a footing with the citizens or subjects of the most favored nation. Arvrrcuz V. The citizens of neither of the contracting parties shall Indemnilicabe liable to any embargo, nor be detained with their vessels, cargoes, Wm fm ¤¤¤l>PF· merchandise, or effects, for any military expedition, nor for any public g° °r d°t°"°°"’ or private purpose whatever, without allowing to those interested a suflicient indemnification. Aivrrctm VI. Wheiiever the citizens of either of the contracting Asyjum se, parties shall be forced to seek refuge or asylum in the rivers, bays, ports, cured. or dominions of the other, with their vessels, whether of merchant or of war, public or private, through stress of weather, pursuit of pirates, or enemies, they shall be received and treated with humanity, giving to them all favor and protection for repairing their ships, procuring provisions, and placing themselves in a situation to continue their voyage without obstacle or hindrance of any kind. ` ARTICLE VII. All the ships, merchandise and effects belonging to Vessels, &,c_ the citizens of one of the contracting parties, which may be captured ¤¤P¥¤\'¢d bY Piby pirates, whether within the limits of its jurisdiction or on the high ;‘;;:gt° b° '°’ seas, and may be carried or found in the rivers, roads, bays, ports, or ` dominions of the other, shall be delivered up to th-e owners, they proving in due and proper form their rights before the competent tribunals; it being well understood, that the claim should be made within the term of one year by the parties themselves, their attorneys, or agents of their respective Governments. Amrrcte VIII. Whcn any vessel belonging to the citizens of either pj-mectioniu of the contracting parties shall be wrecked, foundered, or suffer any case of wreck. damage on the coasts, or within the dominions of the other, there shall be given to them all assistance and protection in the same manner which is usual and customary with the vessels of the nation where the damage happens, permitting them to unload the said vessel, if necessary, of its merchandise and effects, without exacting for it any duty, impost, or contribution whatever, until they may be exported, unless they be destined for consumption in the country. Amston-: IX. The citizens of each of the contracting parties shall Personal and have power to dispose of their personal goods within the jurisdiction of Wal °s*“l°· the other, by sale, donation, testament, or otherwise, and their 'representatives, being citizens of the other party, shall succeed to their said personal goods, whether by testament or ab intcstato, and they may take possession thereof, either by themselves or others acting for them, and