loading, to warehousing, and to the transit trade, as also in regard to bounties, facilities, etc. 210. They have the same rights as native subjects as regard the patents for inventions, trade marks, and designs, upon fulfilment of the formalities prescribed by law. 211. All vessels which according to the laws of each contracting party are to be deemed national vessels, or vessels belonging to the subjects of that State, shall also be respectively deemed national vessels, and vessels belonging to the subjects of the same. 212. If any ship of war or merchant vessel of one of the contracting parties should run aground or be wrecked, or meet with any casualty upon the coast of the other, the same aid or assistance must be rendered to it, and to the cargo, apparel, and furniture thereof, as to a national vessel; and in such a case no other expense is to be paid by the owners or their agents and representatives for the preservation of the property, or of the lives of the persons on board the ship, than would be payable in the like case of a wreck or casualty to a national vessel. 213. In case the master of a merchant vessel should be under the necessity of disposing of part of his merchandise in order to defray any salvage expenses, no impediment shall be offered by the authorities, the master being bound to conform to the existing regulations and tariffs. 214. Goods and merchandise saved from the wreck are to be exempt from all duties of customs, unless cleared for consumption. 215. If a seaman of one of the contracting parties, after serving on board a ship of the other contracting State, should remain behind in a third State, or in its Colonies, or in the Colonies of that State whose flag the ship carries, and the said seaman is in a helpless condition in consequence of shipwreck, or from other causes, then the Government of the State whose flag the ship bears shall be bound to support the said seaman until he enters into the ship's service again, or find other employment, or until he arrives in his native State or its Colonies, or dies. 216. Such assistance shall, however, be granted on condition that the seaman so situated shall avail himself of the first opportunity that offers to prove his necessitous condition and the causes thereof to the proper officials of the State whose support is to be solicited, and that the destitution is shown to be the natural consequence of the termination of his service on board the ship, otherwise the aforesaid liability to afford relief lapses. 217. The said liability is also excluded if the seaman has deserted, or has been turned out of the ship for any criminal act, or left it on account of disability for service in consequence of illness or wounding resulting from his own fault. The relief includes maintenance, clothing, medical attendance, medicine, travelling expenses; in case of death the funeral expenses are also to be paid. The following Treaties on Commerce and Navigation have been concluded since 1840 EUROPEAN STATES. Austria and Austria-Hungary. Netherlands, December 29, 1856; Persia, December 17, 1857; Great Britain, April 30, 1868, December 5, 1876; Portugal, January 13, 1872; Sweden, November 3, 1873, November 26, 1873; Roumania, June 22, 1875; Germany, December 16, 1878; Spain, July 2, 1880; France, February 18, 1883. Belgium. United States, July 12, 1858; Prussia, March 28, 1863; Netherlands, May 12, 1863; Germany, May 22, 1865; Spain, February 12, 1870, June 5, 1875; France, July 23, 1873, October 31, 1881, July 31, 1882; Portugal, February 23, 1874; Chile, June 5, 1875; Spain, May 4, 1878; Roumania, August 14, 1880; Venezuela, March 1, 1884; Servia, March 7-15, 1885. Denmark. Switzerland, May 22, 1875. France. New Grenada, May 15, 1856, January 27, 1857; Russia, June 25, 1857; Great Britain, January 23, 1860, July 23, 1873, January 22, 1874; Turkey, April 29, 1860; Belgium, April 29, 1860, July 23, 1873; Germany, August 2, 1862; Belgium, October 31, 1881, January 31, 1882; Portugal, December 19, 1881, May 6, 1882; Sweden and Norway, December 30, 1881; Switzerland, February 20, 1882; Austria, February 18, 1883. Germany. Mexico, July 10, 1855; Uruguay, June 25, 1856; Persia, June 25, 1857, June 6, 1872; Great Britain, November 11, 1857; China, September 2, 1861, May 30, 1865; Turkey, March 20, 1862; France, August 2, 1862; Belgium, March 28, 1863, May 22, 1865; Great Britain, May 30, 1865; Spain, March 30, 1868, July 2, 1883; Switzerland, May 13, 1869; Portugal, March 9, 1872; Italy, November 28, 1872; Austria, December 16, 1878; Servia, January 6, 1883; Greece, July 9, 1884; Dominican Republic, January 30, 1885; Zanzibar, December 20, 1885. Great Britain. Switzerland, December 6, 1855; Morocco, December 9, 1856; Germany, November 11, 1857, May 30, 1865; Russia, January 12, 1859; France, January 23, 1860, July 23, 1873, January 22, 1874, February 24, 1882; Austria, April 30, 1868, December 5, 1878, November 26, 1877; Siam, January 14, 1874; Portugal, December 20, 1878, March 8, 1879, May 22, 1882; Roumania, April 5, 1880: Italy, July 15, 1883; Egypt, March 3, 1884; Greece, November 10, 1886. |