exchanged or paroled until such exchange can be effected, notice being previously given by each party of the number of prisoners it will send and the time when they will be delivered at those points respectively; and in case the vicissitudes of war shall change the military relations of the places designated in this article to the contending parties so as to render the same inconvenient for the delivery and exchange of prisoners, other places bearing as nearly as may be the present local relations of said places to the lines of said parties shall be by mutual agreement substituted. But nothing in this article contained shall prevent the commanders of two opposing from exchanging prisoners or releasing on parole from other points mutually agreed on by said commanders.

ART. 8. For the purpose of carrying into effect the foregoing articles of agreement each party will appoint two agents, to be called agents for the exchange of prisoners of war, whose duty it shall be communicate with each other by correspondence and otherwise, to prepare the lists of prisoners, to attend to the delivery of the prisoners at the places agreed on and to carry out promptly, effectually and in good faith all the details and provisions of the said articles of agreement.

ART. 9. And in case any misunderstanding shall arise in regard to any clause or stipulation in the foregoing articles it is mutually agreed that such misunderstanding shall not interrupt the release of prisoners on parole, as herein provided, but shall be made the subject of friendly explanations in order that the object of this agreement may neither be defeated nor postponed.

JOHN A. DIX,

Major-General.

D. H. HILL,

Major-General, C. S. Army.

HEADQUARTERS, Fort Monroe, Va., July 23, 1862.

Honorable E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War.

SIR: I have the honor to return all the papers sent to me relating to the negotiations for a general exchange of prisoners of war by Major-Generals Wool and McClellan.

I am, very respectfully, yours,
JOHN A. DIX,

Major-General.

FORT MONROE, July 23, 1862.

Honorable E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War:

There are sea-going steamers enough here to bring all the insurgent prisoners at Fort Delaware to this place.

JOHN A. DIX,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS, Fort Monroe, Va., July 23, 1862.

Honorable E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War.

SIR: The inclosed letter is* in behalf of the Rev. M. P. Whelan, a Roman Catholic priest, captured by us at Fort Pulaski. Judge Pierre-

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