338 CONVENTION WITH CENTRAL AMERICA. 1825. 2dly. If any one or more of the citizens of either party shall infringe any of the articles of this Treaty, such citizen shall be held personallv responsible for the same, and the harmony and good correspondence between the two nations shall not be interrupted thereby; each party engaging in no way to protect the offender, or sanction such violation. 3dly. If (which, indeed, cannot be expected,) unfortunately, any of the articles contained in the present Treaty shall be violated or infringed in any other way whatever, it is expressly stipulated, that neither of the contracting parties will order or authorize any acts of reprisal, nor declare war against the other, on complaints of injuries or damages, until the said party considering itself offended, shall first have presented to the other a statement of such injuries or damages, verified by competent proof, and demanded justice and satisfaction, and the same shall have been either refused or unreasonably delayed. 4th1y. Nothing in this Treaty contained shall, however, be construed or operate contrary to former and existing Public Treaties with other Treaty to be Sovereigns or States. ¤PPt¥,<;V°,<}·‘!·°- The present Treaty of Peace, Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, =g,,,_%wfm' shall be approved and ratified by the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by the Government of the Federation of the Centre of America, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in the City of Guatemala, within eight months from the date of the signature hereof, or sooner if p tssible. In faith whereof, we, the Plenipotentiaries of the United States of America and of the Federation of the Centre of America, have signed and sealed these presents. Done in the City of Washington, on the fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, in the fiftieth year of the Independence of the United States of America, and the fifth of that of the Federation of the Centre of America, in duplicate. H. CLAY, r.. s.) ANTONIO JOSE CANAS, fr., s.)
