The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-08-22
ARTICLE III.

No duties of tonnage, harbor, lighthouses, pilot
age, quarantine, or other similar duties of whatever
nature, or under whatever denomination, shall be
imposed IN either country upon the vessels of the
other, in respect of voyages between the United
States of America and the Kingdom of the Two ST.
Giles, if laden in respect of any voyage if in bal
last, which shall not be equally imposed in the like
cases on national vessels.
ARTICLE Nv.
1t is hereby declared that the stipuations Of the
present treaty not to be understood as applying
to the navigation and carrying trade between one
port and another situated in the States ofether
tracing party such navigation and trade being re-
served exclusively to national vessels. Vessels of
either country shall, however, be permitted TO load
unload the whole part of their cargoes at one
ports in the States of either of the high
tracing parties and then to proceed to complete the
said loading or unloading at any other port or ports
in the same States.
ARTICLEy
Neither of the two governments, nor any corpora
ton or agent acting in behalf or under the authority
Of either government, SHALL in the purchase of any
article which, being the growth, produce, or manu-
facture Of the one country shall be imported into
the other, give, directly indirectly, any priority
or preference on account of, in reference to, the
national character of the vessel in which such arti
Gle shall have been imported-t being the true in
tent and meaning of the high contracting parties that
no distinction or difference whatever shall be made
in this respect
ARTICLE VI.
The high contracting parties engage, in regard to
the personal privileges that the citizens of the United
States of America shall enjoy in the dominions OF
his Majesty the king Of the kingdom of the Two
Scilies, and the subjects of his said Majesty in the
United States of America, that they shall have free
and undoubted right to travel and reside in the
States Of the two high contracting parties, subject
to the same precautions of police which are prac-
favored nation.
They shall be entitled to occupy dwellings and
warehouses, and to dispose of their personal prop
ery of every kind and description, by sale, gift ex-
change, will, in any other way whatever, without
the smallest hindefance obstacle; and their heirs
or representatives. being subjects or citizens of the
other high contracting party, shall succeed to then
personal goods whether by testament ab intesato
and may take possession thereof, either by them
selves or by others acting for them, and dispose Of
the at will, paying to the profit of the respec
tive governments such dues only as the inhabitants
of the country wherein the said goods are shall be
subject to pay in like cases. And in case of the alb
Of the heir and representative, such care shal
be taken of the said goods as would be taken of thu
goods of native Of the same country in like case
until the lawful owner may take measures for re
ceiving them. And if question should aris
among several claimants as TO which OF them salt
goods belong the same shall be decided finally by
the laws and judges of the land wherein the sale
goods are.
They shall not be obliged to pay, under any pre-
tence whatever, any taxes or impostions other o
greater than those which are paid, may hereafte
be paid by the subjects or citizens of the most ia
vored nations in the respective States of the hgl
contracting parties.
They shall be exempt from all military service
whether by land or by sea- from forced loans, ant
from every extraordinary contribution not genera
and by law established. Their dwellings, ware
houses, and all premises appertaining thereto, des
tined for purposes of commerce or residence, shal
be respected No arbitrary search of, or visit to
their houses, and no arbitrary examination or in
apectou whatever of the books, papers, or accounts
of their trade shall be made, but such measures
shall be executed only in conformity with the lega
sentence of competent trihuna and each ofthe two
high contracting parties engages that the citizens o
subjects of the other, residing in their respective
States, shall enjoy their property and personal Sc
curity in as full and ample manner as their own citi
zens subjects, or the subjects or citizens Of thu
most favored nation.
ARTICLE VII.
| The citizens and the subjects Of each Of the tw'
high contracting parties shall be free IN the States
the other to manage their own affairs themselves, o
to commit those affairs to the management of AM
persons whom they may appoint as their broker
factor OF agent; nor shall the citizens and subjects
the two high contracting parties be restrained il
their choice of persons to act in such capacities, no
shall they be called upon to pay any salary or remu
neration to any person whom they shall not choos
TO employ.