The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897 Volume 2 Page: 902
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lTreaty Between Texas
delay, carry or send this detained vessel, with her master, crew,
passengers. cargo, and the slaves found on board, to one of the ports
or places hereinafter specified, in order that proceedings may be instituted
in regard to them, conformably to the laws of the country
under whose flag the vessel is sailing; and he shall deliver the same
to the competent authorities or to the persons who shall have been
specially appointed for that purpose, by the Government within
whose territory such port or place shall be.
Fourth]y.-No person whatever shall be taken out of the detained
vessel; nor shall any part of her cargo, nor any of the slaves found
on board,be removed from her uintil after such vessel shall have been
delivered over to the authorities of her own nation-excepting in
the cases otherwise provided for in the treaty to wlich thlee instructions
form an annex, or in the present instructions: or unless
the removal of the whole, or of part, of the crew, or of the slaves
found on board, shall be deemed necessary, either for the preservation
of their lives, or from any other consideration of humanity, or
for the safety of the persons who shall be charged with the navigation
of the vessel after her detention. In any such case, the commander
of the cruizer, or the officer appointed to bring in the detained
vessel, shall make a declaration of such removal, in which
he shall specify the reasons for the same; and, except as otherwise
provided for with respect to slaves in the said treaty, or in these
instructions, the master, sailors, passengers, or slaves so removed,
shall be carried to the same port or place as the vessel and her
cargo; and they shall be received in the same manner as the vessel,
agreeably to the regulations hereinafter set forth.
Fifthly: -All Texian vessels which shall be detained by the
cruizers of Great Britain in consequence of being engaged in the
African Slave Trade, shall be carried and delivered up to the Texian
jurisdiction at Galveston. But any slaves found on board of
Texian vessels detained on the coast of Brazil, or on the coast of
Africa, whether by a British or by a Texian cruiser, under the
treaty to which these instructions form an annex, shall at once be
carried or sent by the commander of the capturing cruizer, to one
of the British settlements on the coast of Africa. And any slaves
found on board of Texian vessels detained in the West Indies,
whether by a British or Texian cruizer, under the treaty to which
these instructions form an annex, shall, together with the vessels
so detained, be carried and delivered up to the Texian authorities
at Galveston to be disposed of, after adjudication, according to the
provisions of the said treaty.(902)
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897 Volume 2, book, 1898; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth6726/m1/906/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .