538 TREATY WITH ECUADOR. 1839. or effects for any military expedition, nor for any public or private purpose whatever, without allowing to those interested a sufficient indemniiication. ARTICLE IX. ",,,,,,,, mung Whenever the citizens of either of the contracting parties shall be reltngen-omsti-ess forced to seek refuge or asylum, m the rivers, bays, ports or dominff ‘,f§“‘l;;‘,ggf:d> ions of the other, with their vessels, whether merchant or of war, pub- &c_ Plic or private, through stress of weather, phursuitpof pirates, or eflxemrei, they shall be received and treated with umamty, giving to them al 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 X. All the ships merchandise, and the effects belonging to the citizens Captures by ’ . . . . ,,,,.,,,€s to be ,.,,_ of one of the contracting parties, which may be captured by pirates, stored. whether within the limits of its jurisdiction or on the high seas, and may be carried or found in the rivers, roads, bays, ports or_domin10ns of the other, shall be delivered up to the 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. ARTICLE XI. A,,,,,,,,,,,c,,,,,,, When any vessels belonging to the citizens of either of the contractgiven in cases of ing parties shall be wrecked, foundered, or shall suffer any damage on ""°°k“» "‘°· 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, unless they be destined for consumption. ARTICLE XII. .· . The citizens of each of the contracting parties shall have power to (citizens of _ . . . either parity may dispose of their personal goods within the jurisdiction of the other, by ‘l;“j;';;‘;,° 2*:,;; sale, donation, testament or otherwise, and their representatives, being 9,.,,,,,,, the $,,.,5- citizens of the other party, shall succeed to their said personal goods, diptivn ¤f the whether by testament or ab intestate, and they may take possession °t l"' thereof, either by themselves or by others acting for them, and dispose of the same at their will, paying such duties only as the inhabitants of the country wherein the said goods are shall be subject to pay in 1,, cm 0,- m,, like cases. And if in the case of real estate, the said heirs would be estate, alienheirs prevented from entering into the possession of the inheritance on ac- '·2;’:°$° :,*;;::88 count of their character of aliens, there shall be granted to them the gy,;,,,,,- ,0 m _ term of three ears, to dis rose of the same as the ma think ro er r P y _ Y I _ Y Y P P , and to withdraw the rocecds without molestation nor an other p J y charges than those which are imposed by the laws of the country. ARTICLE XIII. Protection to Both the contracting parties promise and engage, formally, to give l:§°“’ ““dP"°P' their special protection to the persons and property of the citizens of ` each other, of all occupations, who may be in the territories subject to the jurisdiction of the one or the other, transient or dwelling therein, leaving open and free to them the tribunals of justice, for their judicial recourse, on the same terms which are usual and customary with the natives or citizens of the country in which they may be; for which they may employ, in defence of their rights, such advocates, solicitors, no·
