Benneluccas-Constancia Treaty

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Benneluccas-Constancia Treaty

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Arkadius des Vinandy wrote:
A Treaty for the Promotion of Commerce and Amity between the Kingdom of the Benneluccas and the Imperial State of Constancia



The Imperial State of Constancia and the Kingdom of the Benneluccas, hereafter the high contracting parties, united in a common goal of international friendship and peace; recognising the merits of transnational entrepreneurship and liberalisation, hereby agree upon the following treaty:

Article 1. The high contracting parties recognise the full sovereignty and territorial integrity of the other. The parties commit themselves to resolve any differences by peaceful and non-violent means.

Article 2. If either of the high contracting parties shall be at War with any Nation whatever, the other Party shall not take a Commission from the Enemy nor fight under their Colours.

Article 3. If either of the high contracting party shall be at War with any Nation whatever and take a Prize belonging to that Nation, and there shall be found on board Subjects or Effects belonging to either of the high contracting parties, the Subjects shall be set at Liberty and the Effects returned to the Owners. And if any Goods belonging to any Nation, with whom either of the high contracting parties shall be at War, shall be loaded on Vessels belonging to the other Party, they shall pass free and unmolested without any attempt being made to take or detain them.

Article 4. The parties will establish free trade relations on the continent of Eura and in the Captive Sea, that includes the recognised jurisdictions of the high contracting parties.

Article 5. Trade ships of either of the Parties passing through the territorial waters, as defined by the Convention on the Laws of the Seas, of the other shall not be subject to border checks and other limitations on their right to trade and sail in the other's territory.

Article 6. The Treaty shall be amendable by the mutual consent of the two Parties.

Article 7. Each of the high contracting parties shall be at liberty to establish Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls or Consular Agents at the ports and places of trade of the other party, except those where it may not be convenient to recognise such officers; but this exception shall not apply to one of the high contracting parties without also applying to every other Power. Consuls-General, Consuls and other Consular officers appointed and taking office according to the provisions of this article, in one or the other of the two countries, shall be free to exercise the right accorded them by the present convention throughout the whole of the district for which they may be respectively appointed. The said functionaries shall be admitted and recognised respectively upon presenting their credentials in accordance with the rules and formalities established in their respective countries. The exequatur required for the free exercise of their official duties shall be delivered to them free of charge; and upon exhibiting such exequatur they shall be admitted at once and without interference by the authorities, Federal or State, judicial or executive, of the ports, cities and places of their residence and district, to the enjoyment of the prerogatives reciprocally granted.

Article 8. In the event of a vessel belonging to the Government, or owned by a citizen of one of the two contracting States, being wrecked or cast on shore upon the coast of the other, the local authorities shall inform the Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls or Consular Agents of the district of the occurrence, or if such Consular Agency does not exist, they shall communicate with the Consul-General, Consul, Vice-Consul or Consular Agent of the nearest district.

Article 9. The high contracting parties shall pay for and maintain a fisheries and commerce protection fleet for the purpose of protecting the shipping of the high contracting parties and other friendly third parties against depredations by pirates and hostile states.

Article 10. The Treaty shall enter into force once the Parties have ratified it in accordance with their constitutional and legal mechanisms.

Signed, 18.X.1671 at the Megálo Paláti in Astérapolis

For the Kingdom of the Benneluccas

Margaery des Vinandy
Queen of the Beneluccas

For the Imperial State of Constancia:

HiH Azardokht al-Osman
Foreign Minister

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