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506 TREATY WITH GREECE. 1837. ARTICLE XIV. Agsigtgmggw In case any vessel of one of the high contracting parties shall have ¤hlPW¤'¤<=k¤d been stranded or shipwrcckod, or shall have sufercd any other damage "“°’l°* &°‘ on the coasts of the dominions of the other, cvcry aid and nssistnnog shall be given to the persons shipwrcckcd, or in danger, and passports shall be granted to them to return to their country. The shipwreckcd vessels and merchandise, or their proceeds, if the same shall have been sold, shall be restorod to their owners, or to those entitled thereto, if claimed within :1 year and :1 day, upon paying such costs of salvage as would be paid by national vessels, in tho same circumstances, and the snlvngc companies shall not compel tho nccoptunco of their services, except in the same cases, and after tho same delays as shall be granted to the captains and crews of national vessels. Moreover, the respective Governments will tukc care that these companies do not commit any voxatious or arbitrary acts. ARTICLE XV. Quarantine_ It is agreed, that vessels arriving directly from the United States of America, at u port within the dominions of his Majesty the King of Greece, or from the Kingdom of Greece, at an port of the United States of America, and provided with a bill of health, granted by an officer having competent power to that effect, at the port whence such vessels shall have sailed, setting forth that no malignant or contagcous diseases prevailed in that port, shall be subjected to no other quarantine than such as may be necessary for the visit of the health officer of the port whore such vessels shall have arrived, uftcr which said vessels shall be allowed immediately to cntor and unload their cargoes; provided, always, that there shall be on board no pcrson who, during the voyage, shall have been attacked with any malignant or contagious diseases; that such vessels shall not during their passage have communicated with any vessel liable itself to undergo at quarantine, and that the country whence they czuno, shall not at that time be so {hr infected or suspected, that before their arrival, am ordinance had been issued, in consequence of which, all vessels coming from that country should be considered as suspected, and consequently subject to quarantine. ARTICLE XVI. Mmhnmyea- Considering the rcmotencss of the respective countries of the two {mls °*°°mP¤"F high contracting parties, and the uncertainty resulting therefrom with ocntcrnbloc 1- ~ - . . ’ MM pom Sm respcct to the various events which may taken place; xt is agreed, that a merchant vessel belonging to either of them, which may be bound to a port supposed at the time of its departure to be blockaded, shall not, however, be captured or condemned, for having attempted a first time to enter said port, unless it can be proved that said vessel could and ought to have learned during its voyage, that the blockade of the place in question still continued. But all vcssols which after having been warned off once shall during the same voyage attempt u second time to enter the same blockudcd port, during the continuance of said blockade, shall then subject themselves to be detained and condemned. ARTICLE XVII. D,,m;,m 0;-,1,8 The present treaty shall continue in fbrcc for ton yours, counting from frenzy. the clay of the exchange of tho ratificaitions, and ifQ before the expiration of the first nine years, neither of the high contracting purtics shall have announced by un official notification to the other its intention to