“Article I. The two high contracting Powers, having each separately, by its own laws, subjected their subjects and citizens, who may be convicted of carrying on the illicit traffic in slaves on the coast of Africa, to the penalties of piracy, do hereby agree to use their influence, respectively, with the other maritime and civilized nations of the world, to the end that the said African slave trade may be recognized, and declared to be, piracy, under the law of nations.” House Doc., 18 Cong, 1 sess.  VI.  No. 119.

1824, Feb. 6.  Congress (House):  Proposition to Amend Constitution.

Mr. Abbot’s resolution on persons of color:—­

“That no part of the constitution of the United States ought to be construed, or shall be construed to authorize the importation or ingress of any person of color into any one of the United States, contrary to the laws of such state.”  Read first and second time and committed to the Committee of the Whole. House Journal, 18 Cong. 1 sess. p. 208; Annals of Cong., 18 Cong. 1 sess. p. 1399.

1824, March 13.  Great Britain:  Proposed Treaty of 1824.

“The Convention:”—­

Art.  I.  “The commanders and commissioned officers of each of the two high contracting parties, duly authorized, under the regulations and instructions of their respective Governments, to cruize on the coasts of Africa, of America, and of the West Indies, for the suppression of the slave trade,” shall have the power to seize and bring into port any vessel owned by subjects of the two contracting parties, found engaging in the slave-trade.  The vessel shall be taken for trial to the country where she belongs.

Art.  II.  Provides that even if the vessel seized does not belong to a citizen or citizens of either of the two contracting parties, but is chartered by them, she may be seized in the same way as if she belonged to them.

Art.  III.  Requires that in all cases where any vessel of either party shall be boarded by any naval officer of the other party, on suspicion of being concerned in the slave-trade, the officer shall deliver to the captain of the vessel so boarded a certificate in writing, signed by the naval officer, specifying his rank, etc., and the object of his visit.  Provision is made for the delivery of ships and papers to the tribunal before which they are brought.

Art.  IV.  Limits the Right of Search, recognized by the Convention, to such investigation as shall be necessary to ascertain the fact whether the said vessel is or is not engaged in the slave-trade.  No person shall be taken out of the vessel so visited unless for reasons of health.

Art.  V. Makes it the duty of the commander of either nation, having captured a vessel of the other under the treaty, to receive unto his custody the vessel captured, and send or carry it into some port of the vessel’s own country for adjudication, in which case triplicate declarations are to be signed, etc.