A Treaty of Amity And of Commerce Between the United States of America And His
A Treaty of Amity And of Commerce Between the United States of America And His
United States. Continental Congress
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ARTICLE [ ^8 ] ARTICLE XXIV. And to prevent the deftrucflion of pri-. Jfoners of war, by fending them into dif~ tant and inclement countries, or by crouds ing them into clofe and noxious places, the two contrading parties folemnly pledge themfelves to each other, and to the v/orld, that they will not adopt any fuch pradiice j that neither will fend the prifoners whom they may take from the other into the Eaft-Indies, or any ether parts of Afia or Africa, but that they fliall be placed in fome p...art of their dominion? jn Europe or i\merica, in wholefome fitu- ations ; that they fiiall not be confined in dungeons, prifon-fliips, nor prifons, nor be put into irons, nor bound, nor other- - wife retrained in the ufe of their limbs ; that the officers (hall be enlarged on their paroles within convenient diftridrs, and have comfortable quarters, and the com- mon men be difpofed in cantonments, open and extenfive enough for air and exercifej, [ 2? ] exerclfe, and lodged in barracks as roomy and good as are provided by the party in whofe power they are for their own troops; that the officers fhall alfo be daily furnifh- ed, by the party in whofe power they are, with as many rations, and of the fame ar- ticles and quality, as are allowed by them, either in kind or by commutation, to officers of equal rank in their own army -, and all others fhall be daily furniflied by them with fuch ration as they allow to a common foldier in their own fervice 3 the value whereof fhall be paid by the other party on fl mutual adjuflment of accounts for the fubfiflence of prifoners at the clofe of the war; and the faid accounts fhall not be mingled with, or fet off againffc any others, nor the balances due on them be withheld as a fatisfad:ion or reprifal for any other article, or for any other caufe, real or pretended, whatever; that each party fhall be allowed to keep a commifTary of prifoners of their own ap- pointment, with every feparate canton- ment of prifoners in poffeffion of the other, which [ 30 ] which commlflary fhall fee the prifoners as often as he pleafes, fhall be allowed to receive and diftribute whatever conaforts may be fent to them by their friends, and fliall be free to make his reports in open letters to thofe who employ him -, but if any officer fliall break his parole, or any other prifoner fhall efcape from the limits of his cantonment, after they fhall have been defignated to him, fuch individual ofHcer, or other prifoner, fliall forfeit fo much of the benefit of this article as pro- vides for his enlargement on parole or can- tonment.
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