authorized to carry the flag of one of the signatory powers, or having procured the license provided for in Article XXXIX, shall entail the immediate withdrawal of the said authorization or license. All violations of the provisions of Section 2 of Chapter III shall render the person guilty thereof liable to the penalties provided by the special laws and ordinances of each of the contracting powers.
Article XLI
The signatory powers engage to deposit at the international information office the specimen forms of the following documents:
- 1. License to carry the flag;
- 2. The crew-list;
- 3. The negro passenger list.
These documents, the tenor of which may vary according to the different regulations of each country, shall necessarily contain the following particulars, drawn up in one of the European languages:
1. As regards the authorization to carry the flag:
- (a) The name, tonnage, rig, and the principal dimensions of the vessel;
- (b) The register number and the signal letter of the port of registry;
- (c) The date of obtaining the license, and the office held by the person who issued it.
2. As regards the list of the crew:
- (a) The name of the vessel, of the captain and of the fitter-out or owner;
- (b) The tonnage of the vessel;
- (c) The register number and the port of registry, its destination, as well as the particulars specified in Article XXV [XXXV].
3. As regards the list of negro passengers:
The name of the vessel which conveys them, and the particulars indicated in Article XXXVI, for the proper identification of the passengers.
The signatory powers shall take the necessary measures so that the territorial authorities or their consuls may send to the same office certified copies of all authorizations to carry their flag as soon as such authorizations shall have been granted, as well as notices of the withdrawal of any such authorization.
The provisions of the present article have reference only to papers intended for native vessels.
2. The stopping of suspected vessels.
Article XLII
When the officers in command of war-vessels of any of the signatory powers have reason to believe that a vessel whose tonnage is less than 500 tons, and which is found navigating in the above-named zone, is engaged in the slave-
