any foreign nation, that no discriminating duties of tonnage or impost are imposed or levied in the ports of the said nation upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of The United States, or upon the produce, manufactures, or merchandize imported in the same from The United States, or from any foreign country, the President is thereby authorized to issue his proclamation declaring that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and impost within The United States are, and shall be, suspended and discontinued, so far as respects the vessels of the said foreign nation, and the produce, manufactures, or merchandize imported into The United States in the same from the said foreign nation, or from any other foreign country; the said suspension to take effect from the time of such notification being given to the President of The United States, and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of The United States, and their cargoes, as aforesaid, shall be continued, and no longer : And whereas satisfactory evidence has lately been received from the Government of His Holiness the Pope, through an official communication addressed by Cardinal Antonelli, his Secretary of State, to the Minister Resident of The United States at Rome, under date of the 7th day of December, 1857, that no discriminating duties of tonnage or impost are imposed or levied in the ports of the Pontifical States upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of The United States, or upon the produce, manufactures, or merchandize imported in the same from The United States, or from any foreign country: Now, therefore, I, James Buchanan, President of the United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and impost within The United States are, and shall be, suspended and discontinued, so far as respects the vessels of the subjects of His Holiness the Pope, and the produce, manufactures, or merchandize imported into the United States in the same from the Pontifical States, or from any other foreign country; the said suspension to take effect from the 7th day of December, 1857, above mentioned, and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of The United States and their cargoes as aforesaid shall be continued, and no longer. Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, the 25th day of February, in the year of our Lord, 1858, and of the independence of The United States the 82nd. By the President: LEWIS CASS, Secretary of State. JAMES BUCHANAN. AGREEMENT between Great Britain and Uruguay, for the Settlement of the Claims of British Subjects.- Monte Video, June 23, 1857. (Translation.) His Excellency Don Joaquin Requena, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Mr. Edward Thornton and Mr. Martin Maillefer, Chargés d'Affaires of England and France, having met in the Foreign Office, for the purpose of conferring a second time upon the means of establishing the Mixed Commission to settle the claims of English and French subjects, on account of losses suffered during the war; the above-mentioned gentlemen agreed to adopt, as they did adopt, the following bases: I. The claims of English and French subjects on account of losses suffered during the war, to which the law, sanctioned on the 14th of July, 1853, refers, shall be definitively settled, with respect to their justification and amount, by a Mixed Commission, having the character of arbitrator. II. This Commission shall be composed of 4 persons, two on the part of the Government of the Republic, whom they shall name, and two on the part of the claimants, named by the Governments of England and France, or by their agents duly authorized. The Judge of Finance of the Republic shall preside over the said Commission, but without a deliberative vote. III. The presentation of the claims shall be made before the Mixed Commission, and the proceedings for their justification shall be executed by the Judge of Finance, in the presence of the arbiters. IV. The legal documents being concluded, they shall be submitted to the sentence of the Mixed Commission, who shall decide without appeal. V. The decision shall be given by a majority of votes, and in case the votes be equally divided, a fifth person shall decide, who shall be drawn by lot from a list of 8 persons, 4 Oriental citizens, and 4 Englishmen and Frenchmen, named beforehand, in the same way as the arbitrators. VI. The claims shall be presented in the term of 90 days for persons residing in the territory of the Republic, and of 180 days for those who may be abroad, counting from the day on which the Mixed Commission shall publicly announce their installation. This term ended, no claim shall be admitted, the right of claiming being annulled. VII. The amount of the indemnities which the Mixed Commission shall have admitted as proved, shall be acknowledged by the Government of the Republic as national debt, the extinction of which shall be settled by a special Convention. In witness whereof the above-mentioned gentlemen have agreed to conclude the present Act, in three identical copies, which they signed and sealed accordingly in Monte Video the 23rd day of June, 1857. (L.S.) JOAQUIN REQUENA. BRITISH NOTIFICATION of the Raising of the British and French Blockade of the Port and River of Canton.—London, April 6, 1858.* Foreign Office, April 6, 1858. Ir is hereby notified, that the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have received a despatch from Rear-Admiral Sir M. Seymour, K.C.B., commanding Her Majesty's naval forces at Canton, dated from on board Her Majesty's ship Calcutta, at Hong Kong, 14th February, 1858, in which he states that the blockade of the port and river of Canton was raised by the Allied Forces of Her Majesty and of His Majesty the Emperor of the French, on the 10th February, 1858. BRITISH NOTIFICATION of the French and Spanish Blockade of the Bay and River of Touranne, and of the Port of Cham-Callao, in Cochin China.-London, December 14, 1858.† Foreign Office, December 14, 1858. Ir is hereby notified, that the Right Honourable the Earl Cowley, Her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, has received from his Excellency Count Walewski, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the French, an official communication, dated Paris, December 8th, 1858, transmitting two copies of an official notification of the blockade, by the naval forces of France and * "London Gazette" of April 6, 1858. "London Gazette" of December 21, 1858. Spain, of the bay and river of Touranne, and of the port of ChamCallao, which was inserted in the journal called the "Moniteur," of the same date, and requesting Lord Cowley to transmit the said notification to Her Majesty's Government. The official notification of this blockade inserted in the "Moniteur," and transmitted by Count Walewski to Earl Cowley, is as follows: NOTIFICATION relative to the Blockade of the Bay and the River of Touranne, as well as the Port of Cham-Callao. (Translation.) Department of Marine, Paris, December 7, 1858. It is notified by these presents that his Excellency the Minister of Marine has been informed by Vice-Admiral Rigault de Genouilly Commanding-in-Chief the French and Spanish forces in Cochin China, that, on the 1st day of September, 1858, and commencing from that day, there has been established by the naval forces placed under his command, an effective blockade of the bay and of the river of Touranne, as well as of the port of Cham-Callao. It is further notified by these presents, that all the measures authorized by the law of nations and the respective Treaties existing with the different neutral Powers, will be adopted and enforced with respect to all vessels which shall attempt to violate the said blockade. Naval Division in the Chinese Seas, Bay of Touranne, September 1, 1858. I, THE Undersigned, Commanding-in-Chief the French and Spanish forces, charged with obtaining from the Emperor of Cochin China the redress for grievances which is due to the Governments of France and Spain, and in virtue of the powers which belong to me as Commanding-in-Chief, declare: Commencing from the 1st of September, 1858, the Bay and river of Touranne and the port of Cham-Callao are held in a state of effective blockade by the naval and military forces placed under my command. Proceedings will be taken against every vessel which shall attempt to violate the blockade, in conformity with international law, and with the Treaties in force with neutral powers. C. RIGAULT DE GENOUILLY. BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL, containing Rules for the Execution of the Convention of August 2, 1839,* and Laws for the Regulation of the Fisheries in the Seas between the British Islands and France.-London, April 6, 1858.† At the Court at Windsor, the 6th day of April, 1858. THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL. WHEREAS by an Act passed in the session of Parliament, held in the 6th and 7th years of Her Majesty's reign, chapter 79,‡ intituled "An Act to carry into effect a Convention between Her Majesty and the King of the French concerning the Fisheries in the Seas between the British Islands and France," it is enacted by section 4, that it shall be lawful for the Lords of the Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council appointed for Trade and Foreign Plantations, from time to time, as may become necessary, to make and ordain such rules and bye-laws as to them shall seem expedient for the more effectual performance of the said Convention, and of the Articles set forth in the schedule annexed to the said Act, and from time to time to annul or alter the same, and substitute others instead thereof: Provided always, that all such rules and bye-laws shall be approved by Her Majesty, with the advice of her Privy Council. And whereas by certain of the said Articles it is provided (Articles VI, VII, and IX) that all British fishing-boats shall be distinguished by certain letters and numbers as therein specified, and (Article VIII) that such letters and numbers shall be placed on each bow of the boat, and shall also be painted on each side of the mainsail of the boat in black oil colour on white sails, and in white oil colour on tanned or black sails; and by Article XV it is forbidden to efface, cover, or conceal, in any manner whatsoever, the letters and numbers placed on the boats and their sails. And whereas by section 6 of the said Act, with the view not to interfere further than is necessary for giving full effect to the said Convention and Articles with the provisions of an Act passed in the 5th year of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to regulate the Irish Fisheries," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Lords of the said Committee, by a rule or rules to be made by them from time to time, and approved of by Her * Vol. XXVII. Page 983. + Supplement to the "London Gazette" of April 9, 1858. |