allow the existence in any part of their respective territories of the "Fathers of the Company of Jesus," whether organized as a society or in any other manner. X. The Republic of Salvador and the Republic of Guatemala can send to each other Diplomatic Ministers, establish Consuls, Vice-Consuls, and Consular Agents at the places where the law may permit. Once such Diplomatic or Consular Agents have been accredited and recognized by the Government near which they are to reside, or in whose territory they are to discharge their duties, they shall enjoy the immunities, privileges, and exemptions that are possessed by those of a similar class of the most favoured nation, and they shall discharge in the same way the functions confided to them. XI. If any of the Articles of this Treaty should in any manner be violated or infringed, it is expressly stipulated that neither of the two Contracting Parties shall order or authorize acts of reprisal nor declare war until all the peaceful means of obtaining satisfaction and agreement shall be exhausted. These means shall be the declaration in writing of the offences or injuries done, with proofs or sufficient evidence presented by the Government that believes itself offended, and if due satisfaction is not given, then the decision of the question shall be submitted to the arbitration of any Central American Government, or any other Government of the American continent. XII. As this Treaty contains the principal stipulations of the one which was concluded in the city of San Salvador on the 24th of January, 1872,* that Treaty is declared superseded by this present, and the two Contracting Republics declare themselves free from the last pact known under the name of "Privas-Carazo," concluded with the Government of Nicaragua. XIII. This Treaty shall be perpetual and always obligatory in respect to peace and friendship, and in all the points relative to commerce and other dispositions it shall continue in force for the term of 10 years, counted from the day the ratifications are exchanged. If, however, one year before the expiration of the said term neither of the parties has given any official notice of its intention of terminating it, it shall always continue obligatory for both parties until one year after notice of an intention to make it cease has been given. XIV. The present Treaty shall at once be ratified by Don J. Rufino Barrios, General-in-Chief of the Army of the Republic of Guatemala, and by the Provisional Government of Salvador, and the ratifications shall be exchanged within two months at San Salvador or Guatemala. XV. The Government of Honduras, having made common cause * Vol. LXIII. Page 230. with Guatemala in the war just ended, the two Contracting Governments shall invite that Government to accept the clauses of this Treaty referring to peace, friendship, and alliance which is established between the two Republics. A similar invitation shall be made to the Government of the Republic of Costa Rica. In faith whereof the undersigned Commissioners sign and seal with their respective seals, in duplicate, the present Treaty, in the city of Santa Ana, on the 8th of May, 1876. PROCLAMATION of the President of the United States, suspending the Judicial Functions of Ministers, Consuls, and other Functionaries of the United States in Egypt.-Washington, March 27, 1876. By the President of the United States of America. WHEREAS by the first section of an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the President to accept for citizens of the United States the jurisdiction of certain tribunals in the Ottoman Dominions and Egypt, established, or to be established, under the authority of the Sublime Porte and of the Government of Egypt," approved March 23, 1874, it was enacted as follows:: * "That whenever the President of the United States shall receive satisfactory information that the Ottoman Government, or that of Egypt, has organized other tribunals on a basis likely to secure to citizens of the United States, in their dominions, the same impartial justice which they now enjoy there under the judicial functions exercised by the Minister, Consuls, and other functionaries of the United States, pursuant to the Act of Congress approved the 22nd of June, 1860, entitled 'An Act to carry into effect provisions of the Treaties between the United States, China, Persia, and other countries, giving certain judicial powers to Ministers and Consuls or other functionaries of the United States in those countries, and for other purposes,' he is hereby authorized to suspend the operation of said Act as to the dominions in which such tribunals may be organized, so far as the jurisdiction of said tribunals may embrace matters now cognizable by the Minister, Consuls, or other functionaries of the United States in said dominions, and to notify the Government of the Sublime Porte, or that of Egypt, or either of them, that the United States, during such suspension, will, as afore* Page 972. + Page 603. said, accept for their citizens the jurisdiction of the tribunals aforesaid over citizens of the United States which has heretofore been exercised by the Minister, Consuls, or other functionaries of the United States;" and Whereas satisfactory information has been received by me that the Government of Egypt has organized other tribunals on a basis likely to secure to citizens of the United States in the dominions subject to such Government the impartial justice which they now enjoy there under the judicial functions exercised by the Minister, Consuls, or other functionaries of the United States, pursuant to the said Act of Congress approved June 22, 1860: Now, therefore, I, Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power and authority conferred upon me by the said Act, approved March 23, 1874, do hereby suspend during the pleasure of the President the operation of the said Act approved June 22, 1860, as to the said dominions, subject to the Government of Egypt, in which such tribunals have been organized, so far as the jurisdiction of said tribunals may embrace matters now cognizable by the Minister, Consuls, or other functionaries of the United States in said dominions, except as to cases actually commenced before the date hereof. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this 27th day of March, in the year of our Lord 1876, and of the Independence of the United States of America the 100th. By the President: HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State. U. S. GRANT. TREATY of Friendship, Commerce, and Consular Privileges between the United States and Salvador.-Signed at San Salvador, December 6, 1870.* [Ratifications exchanged at Washington, March 11, 1874.] A General Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Consular Privileges between the United States of America and the Republic of Salvador. THE United States of America and the Republic of Salvador, desiring to make lasting and firm the friendship and good understanding which happily exist between both nations, have resolved to * Signed also in the Spanish language. fix, in a manner clear, distinct, and positive, the rules which shall in future be religiously observed between each other by means of a Treaty or General Convention of Peace and Friendship, Commerce, and Consular Privileges. For this desirable object the President of the United States of America has conferred full powers upon General Alfred T. A. Torbert, Minister Resident, and the President of the Republic of Salvador has conferred similar and equal powers upon Doctor Don Gregorio Arbizú, Minister of Foreign Relations; who, after having exchanged their said full powers in due form, have agreed to the following Articles : ART. I. There shall be a perfect, firm, and inviolable peace and sincere friendship between the United States of America and the Republic of Salvador, in all the extent of their possessions and territories, and between their citizens respectively, without distinction of persons and places. II. The United States of America and the Republic of Salvador, desiring to live in peace and harmony with all the nations of the earth, by means of a policy frank and equally friendly with all, engage mutually not to grant any particular favour to other nations in respect of commerce and navigation which shall not immediately become common to the other party, who shall enjoy the same freely if the concession was freely made, or on allowing the same compensation if the concession was conditional. III. The two High Contracting Parties, being likewise desirous of placing the commerce and navigation of their respective countries on the liberal basis of perfect equality and reciprocity, mutually agree that the citizens of each may frequent all the coasts and countries of the other, and reside therein, and shall have the power to purchase and hold lands, and all kinds of real estate, and to engage in all kinds of trade, manufactures, and mining, upon the same terms as the native citizens, and shall enjoy all the privileges and concessions in these matters which are or may be made to the citizens of any country, and shall enjoy all the rights, privileges, and exemptions in navigation, commerce, and manufactures which native citizens do or shall enjoy, submitting themselves to the laws, decrees, or usages there established to which native citizens are subjected. But it is understood that this Article does not include the coasting trade of either country, the regulation of which is reserved by the parties respectively, according to their own separate laws. IV. They likewise agree that whatever kind of produce, manufacture, or merchandize of any foreign country can be from time to time lawfully imported into the United States in their own vessels, may be also imported in vessels of the Republic of Salvador; and that no higher or other duties upon the tonnage of the vessel and her cargo shall be levied and collected, whether the importation be made in vessels of the one country or of the other; and in like manner that whatever kind of produce, manufactures, or merchandize of any foreign country can be from time to time lawfully imported into the Republic of Salvador in its own vessels, may be also imported in vessels of the United States; and that no higher or other duties upon the tonnage of the vessel and her cargo shall be levied or collected, whether the importation be made in vessels of the one country or the other. And they further agree that whatever may be lawfully exported or re-exported from one country in its own vessels to any foreign country may, in like manner, be exported or re-exported in the vessels of the other country; and the same bounties, duties, and drawbacks shall be allowed and collected, whether such exportation or re-exportation be made in vessels of the United States or of the Republic of Salvador. V. No higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into the United States of any articles the produce or manufactures of the Republic of Salvador, and no higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into the Republic of Salvador of any article the produce or manufactures of the United States, than are or shall be payable on the like articles, being the produce or manufactures of any foreign country; nor shall any higher or other duties or charges be imposed in either of the two countries on the exportation of any articles to the United States, or to the Republic of Salvador, respectively, than such as are payable on the exportation of the like articles to any other foreign country; nor shall any prohibition be imposed on the exportation or importation of any articles the produce or manufactures of the United States, or of the Republic of Salvador, to or from the territories of the United States, or to or from the territories of the Republic of Salvador, which shall not equally extend to all other nations. VI. In order to prevent the possibility of any misunderstanding, it is hereby declared that the stipulations contained in the three preceding Articles are to their full extent applicable to the vessels of the United States and their cargoes arriving in the ports of Salvador, and reciprocally to the vessels of the said Republic of Salvador and their cargoes arriving in the ports of the United States, whether they proceed from the ports of the country to which they respectively belong or from the ports of any other foreign country; and, in either case, no discriminating duty shall be imposed or collected in the ports of either country on said vessels or their cargoes, whether the same shall be of native or foreign produce or manufacture. VII. It is likewise agreed that it shall be wholly free for all merchants, commanders of ships, and other citizens of both countries, to manage, by themselves or agents, their own business in all |