HO PUBLIC TREATIES. Anrrots XXIIL Privuegesofresi- IL by any fatality, which cannot be expected, and which God forbid,
- 1**** in °°°° °f the two contracting parties should be engaged in a war with each
W"' other, they have agreed, and do agree, now for then, that there shall be allowed the term of six months to the merchants residing on the coasts and in the ports of each other, and the term of one year to those who dwell in the interior, to arrange their business and transport their effects wherever they please, giving to them the safe conduct necessary for it, which may serve as_ a sufficient protection until they arrive at the designated rt. The citizens of all other occupatiouswho may be established in the territories or dominions of the United States of America, and of the Republic of Chili, shall be respected and maintained in the full enjoyment of their personal liberty and property, unle s their particular conduct shall cause them to forfeit this protection, which, in consideration of humanity, the contracting parties engage to give them. Anzrromt XXIV. D°b*¤· *·°·» ”°* Neither the debts due from the individuals of the one nation to the °° b° °°°£°°”t°d' individuals of the other, nor shares, nor money which they may have in public funds, nor in public or private banks, shall ever, in any event of war or of national difference, be seqnestrated or confiscated. Anrxom XXV. E'"°¥°· mini" Both the contracting parties, being desirous of avoiding all inequality tm' Q"' in relation to their public communications and official intercourse, have agreed, and do agree, to grant to their Envoys, Ministers, and other Public Agents, the same favors, immunities, and exemptions which those of the most favored nation do, or shall enjoy; it being understood that whatever favors, immunities, or privileges the United States of America or the Republic of Chili may find it proper to give to the Ministers and Public Agents of any other power, shall, by the same act, be extended to those of each of the contracting parties. Amrom XXVI. _C¤¤¤¤l¤ end To make more efectual the protection which the United States of v'°°TC°°°“l°‘ America and the Republic of Chili shall afford in future to the navigation and commerce of the citizens of each other, they agree to receive and admit Consuls and Vice-Consuls in all the ports open to foreign commerce, who shall enjoy in them all the rights, prerogatives, and immunities of the Consuls and Vice-Consuls of the most favored nations; each contracting party, however, remaining at liberty to. except those ports and places in which the admission and residence of such Consuls may not seem convenient. Amrronn XXVII. Exeqnntum Inlorder that the Consuls and Vice-Consuls of the two contracting parties may enjoy the r'hts, prerogatives, and immunities which belong to them, by their public character, they shall, before entering on the exercise of their functions, exhibit their commission or patent, in due form, to the Government to which they are accredited; and, having obtained their ereqnmtur, they shall be held and considered as such, by all the authorities, magistrates, and inhabitants, in the consular district in which they reside. _ Anrrom XXVIII. Immnnities or It is likewise agreed that the Consuls, their Secretaries, officers, and °"“““'“' °m°°"- persons attached to the service of Consuls, they not being citizens of the country in which the Consul resides, shall be exempt from all public
