Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1816-01-20

MINUS III TIC EdsC lDUleS, anu that the CItl-
zens OF said states may freely carry on
trade with the said territories, in all arti
cles OF which the Importation or exporta-
ton respectively to or from the sad terri
tories shall not be entirely prohibited
Provided only, that it shall not be lawful
Tor them, IN any time of war between the
British government and any other power
or state whatever, to export from said ter
ritories, without the special permission of
the British government there, any military
or naval stores, or rice.
The citizens of the United States shall
pay TOR their vessels, when admitted into
the SAID ports, no other or higher duty or
Charge, than shall be payable on British
vessels In the ports Of the United States.
And they shall pay no other or higher du
ties or charges on the Importation or ex-
portation of the cargoes of said vessels.
than shall be payable on the same articles.
when imported or exported In British yes-
seis.-but 1T IS expressly egg.ced, that the
vessels OF the United States Shall not carry
any OF the articles exported by them from
the said British territories, to any port or
place except to some port or place in A
merlca, where the same shall be unladen
or TO some port or place, or ports or places
In. China, or'in the India seas, whence the
SAID vessels shall proceed as aforesaid, to
some port or place in America, and there
unlade the whole of the articles exported.
In the manner above mentioned, from the
aforesaid British territories. And such
regulations shall be adopted by both par
ties as shall, from time to time, be found
| necessary to enforce The due and faithful
observance OF this stipulation. 1t is also
understood, that the permission granted
oy this article, is not to extend to allow
| the vessels of the United States to carry
on any part of the coasting trade of the
said British territories without the spec,aI
permission of the British government
there ); but the vessels going from one port
to another of the sara territories, for the
sole purposes either of discharging their
original cargoes, or part thereof, or Of com
pletlng their return cargoes. are not tn be
considered as carrying on the coasting
trade.-Neither is this article to be con-
trued t. allow the citizens OF the u. States
t0settle or reside WITHIN the said territories.
or so SO into the interior parts thereof with
out the permission Of the British govern
nent established there and if any tran
gressions should DE attempted against tie
regulations of the British government in
tnlS respect, the observance of the same
shall and may be enforced against the citi-
ZeBs OF America, in the same manner as
| against British subjects, or others, trans
crossing the same rule. And the citizens
OF the United States, whenever ,hey arrive
IN any port or harbor in the Said terrific
rles, or If they should be permitted, in
manner aforesaid, to 20 to any other place
therein, shall always be subject to the
laws, government, and jurisdiction, OF
whatsoever nature, established in such
harbor, port Or place, according as the
same may be. The vessels of the United
States may also touch for refreshments at
the Island of st. Helena or at such other
ports or places as may be in the possession
OF Great Britain in the African or Indian
seas, but subject, iii all respects, to such re-
gulatlOns as the British government may,
from time to time establish there.
ARTICLE "
The navigation of all the lakes, river, & water
communications, the middle of VIII oh is the
boundary between tue United States and ms Brl
tannlc maJesty's dominsons on the continent of
North America, shall, ut all times, be free 10 the
Citizens ofthe United States, and 10 Ills Majesty's
,ubJec.s. The SAID citizens and subjects may
I. sely carry on trade and commerce with each
other, and for that purpose pass and repass by
land or inland navigation into the respective ter
rtoreS OF The two parties, on the SAID continent:
and no higher or other tolls, or rates OF ferriage
nan what are, Or shall be payable by natives,
shall be demanded on either sde. All goods
ard merchandise, whose importation into the u
n,ted States shall not be wholly prohibited, may
freely for the purposes of the commerce above
mentioned, be carried INTO the same, in the man.
ner aforesaid, by his majestys subjects and such
goods and merchandise shall be suDle to no high
er or other duties than would he pas able by CHI.
zens OF the United States, on the import alton of
tie same IN American vessels into the Atlantic
ports OF tiIe sad United States and mike man.
ner, all goods and merchandise, whose importat,.
on iatO his uajesty'3 SAID territories in America.
shall rot be entirely prohibited, may freely, for
tie purposes OF the commerce above mentioned
ne Carried into the same, in the manner aforesaid
BY The Citizens of the Unued States and such
goods and merchandise shall be subject to no
higher, or other duties than would be PAYABLE
by his maJesty's subjects, on the Importation OF
the same from Europe, into the said te.ritorie,
All goods not prohibited, TO be exported from
the SAID territories respectively, may IN like man
ner be carried out of the same by the two par
ties. No duty Of importation, or expor avon
shall be levied by either party on pelries or furs
which may be brought, III the manner afoi eJs,d
by land or inland navigation, from the said Terri
tories OF one parry into the sad territories of the
other party.
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