the Ionian Islands, and the subjects of the same shall be entitled to their fullest protection.

IV. All applications necessary to be made by these States to any foreign Power, shall be transmitted by the Senate to His Excellency the Lord High Commissioner of the Protecting Sovereign, who shall forward the same to the ambassador or minister of the Protecting Sovereign, resident at the Court of the said foreign Power, for the purpose of submitting them in due form to the said Power.

V. The approval of the appointments of all foreign agents, or Consuls, in the United States of the Ionian Islands, shall be by the Senate, through the medium of His Highness the President thereof, with the concurrence of His Excellency the Lord High Commissioner of the Protecting Sovereign.

VI. With a view to ensure the most perfect protection to the commerce of these islands, every vessel, navigating under the Ionian flag, shall be bound, before leaving the port of the Ionian States to which she belongs, to provide herself with a pass, signed by His Excellency the Lord High Commissioner of the Protecting Sovereign, and no vessel sailing without such pass, shall be considered as navigating according to law. But it is reserved to His Majesty, the Protecting Sovereign, to decide how far it may be necessary, that, independent of such pass, they should further be bound to supply themselves with Mediterranean passes.

SECTION V.

Of the Sanità.

I. Whereas the protecting and protected State have an equal right and interest in the great object of the preservation of the public health; it is hereby declared, the controul of the Sanità throughout the United States of the Ionian Islands, shall be vested in the hands of His Excellency the Lord High Commissioner of the Protecting Sovereign, who shall regulate, according to the rules of Sanità, the relative quarantines to be performed in all instances, giving due notice of the same; shall fix the number of officers to be employed, and name, in each island, the heads of the office of Sanità, being either British or Ionian subjects: but all other appointments made upon this head shall be subject to

quanto riguarda il numero di altri agenti del detto uffizio, ed il loro stipendio, ciò verrà preso in considerazione dall' Assemblea Legislativa, come fu già esposto riguardo alla lista civile.

II. L'uffizio della posta in ogn' isola sarà d'ora innanzi considerato come parte integrante dell' uffizio di Sanità.

SEZIONE VI.

Della Bandiera, e degli Stemmi Nazionali.

I. La Bandiera Commerciale della Nazione degli Stati Uniti delle Isole Ionie, nel modo che viene ordinato nel settimo Articolo del Trattato di Parigi, sarà l'antica bandiera di questi Stati coll' aggiunta dell' Unione Britannica da essere innestata nell' angolo superiore presso l'asta.

II. La bandiera Britannica verrà spiegata giornalmente in tutti i forti degli Stati Uniti delle Isole Ionie; ma nelle giornate di pubblica festa ed esultanza, sarà spiegata una bandiera, che verrà espressamente fatta secondo il modello degli stemmi dei detti Stati.

III. Le armi, o gli stemmi degli Stati Uniti delle Isole Ionie consisteranno d'ora innanzi nelle armi Britanniche nel centro, circondate dalle armi di ciascuna delle isole componenti i detti Stati.

IV. Lo stemma di ciascuna delle Isole sarà formato dalle armi proprie dell' Isola, e da tale emblema denotante la protezione del Sovrano Protettore, quale verrà giudicato conveniente.

SEZIONE VII.

Clausule Generali.

III. Nei casi di qualunque transazione marittima, e nella riscossione dei dazii, spetterà alle autorità competenti d'impiegare dei sudditi Britannici, o Ionii.

V. Una legge speciale stabilirà i termini, il tempo, ed il modo per la naturalizzazione dei sudditi esteri in questi Stati; ma i sudditi di Sua Maestà il Sovrano Protettore, avranno in ogni caso il diritto di naturalizzazione alla metà del tempo richiesto per quelli di qualunque altra Potenza estera; ed un suddito della Potenza protettrice, o di qualunque altre Potenza estera, può essere ad un tratto naturalizzato per mezzo di un apposito Bill, senza riguardo a verun periodo fisso di residenza in questi Stati, ciocchè verrà spiegato nella medesima legge.

the approbation of the Senate, and, as far as relates to numbers and amount of salary, to the consideration of the Legislative Assembly, as hereinbefore stated in regard to the civil list.

II. The post-office in each island shall, hereafter, be considered as an integral part of the Sanità.

SECTION VI.

Of the National Colours and Armorial Bearings.

I. The National Commercial Flag of the United States of the Ionian Islands, as directed by the seventh Article of the Treaty of Paris, shall be the original flag of these States, with the addition of the British Union, to be placed in the upper corner, next to the flag-staff.

II. On usual days, the British colours shall be hoisted on all the forts within the United States of the Ionian Islands; but a standard shall be made, to be hoisted on days of public rejoicing and festivity, according to the model of the armorial bearings of the said States.

III. The arms, or armorial bearings of the United States of the Ionian Islands shall hereafter consist of the British arms in the centre, surrounded by the arms of each of the islands composing the said States.

IV. The armorial bearings of each of the Islands shall consist of the individual arms of the island, and such emblem, denoting the Sovereign Protection, as may be deemed advisable.

SECTION VII.

General Clauses.

III. In the instance of all maritime transactions, and the collection of the customs, it shall be competent for the proper authorities to employ either British or Ionian subjects.

V. A specific law shall settle the terms, time, and mode for the naturalization of foreign subjects in these States; but the subjects of the protecting Power shall, in all instances, be entitled to naturalization in half the time that is required for those of any foreign Power; and a subject of the protecting Power, or of any other Power, may be at once naturalized by a bill to that effect, without reference to any fixed time of residence in these States, which shall be laid down in the law itself.

BARBARY STATES.

ALGIERS.

TREATY between Great Britain and Algiers, signed at Algiers, 10th April, 1682.*

ARTICLES OF PEACE AND COMMERCE between the Most Serene and Mighty Prince Charles the Second, by the Grace of God King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Christian Faith, &c. and the Most Illustrious Lords, the Bashaw, Dey, Aga, and Governors of the famous City and Kingdom of Algiers, in Barbary: concluded by Arthur Herbert, Esquire, Admiral of His Majesty's Fleet in the Mediterranean Seas, on the Tenth day of April, old stile, 1682.

I. In the first place it is agreed and concluded, that from this day, and for ever forwards, there be a true, firm and inviolable peace between the most Serene King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Christian Faith, &c. and the most illustrious Lords, the Bashaw, Dey, Aga, and Governors of the City and Kingdom of Algiers, and between all the Dominions and subjects of either side, and that the ships or other vessels, and the subjects and people of both sides shall not henceforth do to each other any arm, offence or injury, either in word or deed, but shall treat one another with all possible respect and friendship.

II. That any of the ships, or other vessels, belonging to the said King of Great Britain, or to any of His Majesty's subjects, may safely come to the port of Algiers, or to any other port or place of that kingdom, there freely to buy and sell, paying the

* Renewed by the Treaty of 18th March, 1729.

usual customs of ten per cent. as in former times, for such goods as they sell; and the goods they sell not, they shall freely carry on board without paying any duties for the same; and that they shall freely depart from thence whensoever they please, without any stop or hindrance whatsoever. As to contraband merchandises, as powder, brimstone, iron, planks, and all sorts of timber fit for building of ships, ropes, pitch, tar, fusils, and other habiliments of war, His said Majesty's subjects shall pay no duty for the same to those of Algiers.

III. That all ships, and other vessels, as well those belonging to the said King of Great Britain, or to any of His Majesty's subjects, as those belonging to the Kingdom or people of Algiers, shall freely pass the seas, and traffic without any search, hindrance or molestation from each other; and that all persons or passengers, of what country soever, and all monies, goods, merchandises and moveables, to whatsoever people or nation belonging, being on board of any of the said ships or vessels, shall be wholly free, and shall not be stopped, taken or plundered, nor receive any harm or damage whatsoever from either party.

IV. That the Algier ships of war, or other vessels, meeting with any merchants' ships, or other vessels, of His said Majesty's subjects, not being in any of the seas appertaining to His Majesty's dominions, may send on board one single boat, with two sitters only, besides the ordinary crew of rowers, and that no more shall enter any such merchant ship or vessel, without express leave from the commander thereof, but the two sitters alone; and that upon producing a pass under the hand and seal of the Lord High Admiral of England and Ireland, or of the Lord High Admiral of Scotland, for the said kingdoms respectively, or under the hands and seals of the commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of any of the said kingdoms, that the said boat shall presently depart, and the merchant ship or vessel shall proceed freely on her voyage, and that although, for the space of fifteen months next ensuing after the conclusion of this peace, the said commander of the merchant ship or vessel produce no such pass, yet if the major part of the seamen of the said ship or vessel be subjects of the said King of Great Britain, the said boat shall immediately depart, and the said merchant ship, or vessel,