ARTICLE XXVI. In case of the death of a citizen or subject of one of the parties within the territories or dominion of the other, the competent local authorities shall give notice of the fact to the Consuls or Consular Agents of the Nation to which the deceased belongs, to the end that information may be at once transmitted to the parties interested. ARTICLE XXVII. The Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls or Consular Agents of the respective High Contracting Parties shall have, under the laws of their country and the instructions and regulations of their own Government so far as compatible with local laws, the right of representing the absent, unknown or minor heirs, next of kin or legal representatives of the citizens or subjects of their country, who shall die within their consular jurisdiction; as well as those of their countrymen dying at sea whose property is brought within their consular district; and of appearing either personally or by delegate in their behalf in all proceedings relating to the settlement of their estate until such heirs or legal representatives shall themselves appear. Until such appearance the said consular officers shall be permitted, so far as compatible with local laws, to perform all the duties prescribed by the laws of their country and the instructions and regulations of their own Government for the safe-guarding of the property and the settlement of the estate of their deceased countrymen. In every case the effects and property of such deceased citizens or subjects shall be retained within the consular district for twelve calendar months by said Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls or Consular Agents or by the legal representatives or heirs of the deceased during which time the creditors, if any, of the deceased shall have the right to present their claims and demands against the said effects and property, and all questions arising out of such claims or demands shall be decided by the local judicial authorities in accordance with the laws of the country to which said officers are commissioned. ARTICLE XXVIII. The Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls and Consular Agents, as likewise the Consular Chancellors, Secretaries or Clerks of the High Contracting Parties shall reciprocally enjoy in both countries all the rights, immunities and privileges which are or may hereafter be granted to the officers of the same grade of the most favored Nation. ARTICLE XXIX. All treaties, agreements, conventions and contracts between the United States and Spain prior to the Treaty of Paris shall be expressly abrogated and annulled, with the exception of the treaty signed the seventeenth of February 1834 between the two countries, for the settlement of claims between the United States of America and the Government of His Catholic Majesty, which is continued in force by the present Convention. ARTICLE XXX. The present Treaty of Friendship and General Relations shall remain in full force and vigor for the term of ten years from the day of the exchange of ratifications. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if neither Party notifies to the other its intention of reforming any of, or all, the articles of this Treaty, or of terminating it twelve months before the expiration of the ten years stipulated above, the said Treaty shall continue binding on both Parties beyond the said ten years, until twelve months from the time that one of the Parties notifies its intention of proceeding to its reform or of terminating it. ARTICLE XXXI The present Convention shall be ratified and the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged at the City of Madrid as soon as possible. In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms. Done in duplicate at Madrid this third day of July in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two. [SEAL.] [SEAL.] BELLAMY STORER EL DUQUE DE ALMODÓVAR DEL RIO. 1902. AGREEMENT BY INTERCHANGE OF NOTES WITH SPAIN AS TO RESTORATION OF INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT AGREEMENT. No. 296. Concluded November 26, 1902. MADRID, January 29, 1902. EXCELLENCY:-I have the honor to lay before you fully, the views of my Government regarding what it deems advisable and necessary in restoring to effect and operation the Arrangement for Reciprocal Privileges of Copyright between the United States and the Spanish Dominions, which led to the Proclamation on this subject of the President of the United States, of July 10, 1895. I am instructed to bring before Your Excellency and the Government of His Majesty, which you so worthily represent, the information that although for a period of time prior to the Treaty of Paris, reciprocal registration of Copyrights between the two countries was suspended, yet the Proclamation of the President has not been revoked or modified in any particular. I am further instructed to lay before your attention the fact that, under the authority and with the advice and consent of the Attorney General of the United States, registration of titles of works of citizens of Spain has been resumed at Washington since April 11, 1899, before the competent authority to that end, namely, the Librarian of Congress. From this view, it follows that, in the opinion of my Government, nothing is needed to restore fully and completely the effect, and again reciprocally to put into operation the Arrangement regarding Reciprocal Copyright Registration as it existed from July 10, 1895, down to April 21, 1898, between the two countries, other than an exchange of notes, and a Declaration on the part of His Majesty's Government, similar to that of July 6, 1895. If this view is in accord with that of Your Excellency, I shall be authorized on the part of my Government to carry the same into effect, in the manner above indicated. I take this occasion to renew to Your Excellency the assurance of my highest consideration. His Excellency, The MINISTER OF STATE BELLAMY STORER. [Translation.] MADRID, November 18, 1902. MINISTRY OF STATE. No. 57. EXCELLENCY. MY DEAR SIR:-I received in due course Your Excellency's courteous Note of the 29th. January last, in which you express to me the desire to your Government to re-establish the Agreement between Spain and the United States, signed at Washington the 6th. and 15th. of July 1895, which granted reciprocal privileges of Copyright, and which led to the Proclamation of the President of the said Republic of the 10th. of the same month and year, extending to Spain the dispositions of Section XIII of the Act of Congress of the 3rd. March 1891, relating to this subject. I have noted at the same time, from the contents of the said Note, that although for a period of time prior to the Treaty of Paris, reciprocal registration of Copyrights between the two countries was suspended, the said Proclamation of the President of the Republic has not been revoked or modified; and furthermore, with the consent of the Attorney General, registration before the competent authority at Washington has been resumed since the 11th. April 1899. In view of these statements, I have the honor to bring to the knowledge of Your Excellency that His Majesty the King, my August Sovereign, has graciously decreed that the said Agreement between Spain and the United States, signed at Washington the 6th. and 15th. of July 1895, granting reciprocal privileges of Copyright, be re-established and put into renewed operation, so soon as Your Excellency, in acknowledging receipt of the present Note, declares in the name of your Government, that your Government is reciprocally in agreement with its contents. I take this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurances of my highest consideration. THE DUKE OF ALMODÓVAR DEL RIO. His Excellency, BELLAMY STORER, No. 367. MADRID, November 26, 1902. EXCELLENCY:-I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency's esteemed Note of the 18th. November 1902, by which I am informed that His Majesty the King has ordered that the Agreement between Spain and the United States, signed at Washington the 6th. and 15th. of July 1895, granting reciprocal privileges of Copyright, be re-established and put into renewed operation, so soon as I am authorized to declare that the Government of the United States is in accord with this intention. It is my profound pleasure, in the name of the Government of the United States, to assure Your Excellency that the contents of Your Excellency's Note above referred to, taken in connection with and referring to as it does to my previous Note of the 29th. January 1902, on this subject, in the view of the Government of the United States, restores completely and puts again into full reciprocal force the Agreement of Washington herein before described. I take this occasion to renew to Your Excellency the assurances of my highest consideration. His Excellency, The MINISTER OF STATE. BELLAMY STORER. NOTE: The Proclamation, in reference to copyrights, referred to in the foregoing correspondence, is dated July 10, 1895 (U. S. Stats., Vol. 29, page 871). SWEDEN AND NORWAY. (SEE NORWAY.) 1783. SWEDEN. TREATY OF AMITY AND COMMERCE." Concluded April 3, 1783; ratified by the Continental Congress July 29, 1783; proclaimed by Congress September 25, 1783. (Treaties and Conventions, 1889, p. 1042.) (This treaty terminated by its own limitations in 1796; the articles revived by the Treaty of 1816, p. 753, and by Article XVII of the Treaty of 1827, p. 754, are printed below.) ARTICLES. I. (Peace and friendship.) IV. (Privileges to United States citi- V. Religious freedom. VI. Effects of deceased persons. VIII. Extent of freedom of commerce. X. Goods not contraband. XI. Ships' papers in case of war. XII. Navigation in time of war. XIII. Detention of contraband goods, etc. SEPARATE ARTICLES. IV. Right to trade. I. Defense of ships in Sweden. V. Freedom of vessels from search. [Translation.] The King of Sweden, of the Goths and Vandals &c &c &c and the thirteen United States of North America, to wit, New Hampshire Massachusetts bay, Rhode island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey Pennsylvania, the counties of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, desiring to establish, in a stable and permanent manner, the rules which ought to be observed relative to the correspondence and commerce which the two parties have judged necessary to establish a Federal case: Weiberg v. The St. Oloff., 2 Pet. Adm., 428. |