Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-11-27

tries. shall not on account of their commerce
or industry pay any other or higher duties, taxes,
or imposts, than those which shall be levied on ci
;izens or subjects Of the country in which they T
may be and the privileges, immunities, and other
favors, with regard to commerce or industry, en-
loved Ly the citizens subjects of one of the two
states, shall be common to those of the other.
ARTICLE Belgian vessels, whether coming
from Belgian or foreign port, shall not paw,
either on entering or leaving the ports of the Uni
ted States, whatever may be their destination, any
other or higher duties OF tonnage pilotage anchor
age, buoys, lighthouses, clearance, brokerage, or
generally other charges whatsoever, than are re-
quired from vessels of the United States in similar
cases. This provision extends, not only to duties
levied for the benefit of the state but also to those
levied Tor the benefit of provinces cities countries
districts townships, corporations, or any other d
vision or Jurisdiction whatever may be its desig-
nation.
ARTICLE III. Reciprocally, vessels of the Uni
ted States. whether coming from a port of said |
states. or from foreign port, shall not pay, either
on entering or leaving the ports of Belgium, what
ever may be their destination any other or higher
duties of tonnage, pilotage, anchorage, buoys, |
lighthouses, clearance, brokerage, or generally |
other charges whatever. than required from |
Belgian vessels in similar cases. This provision
extends not only to duties levied for the benefit of
the state but also to those levied for the benefit
Of Provinces Cities countries. districts, townships,
corporations, or any other division jurisdiction,
whatever may be IFS designation.
ARTICLE ". The restitution by Belgium of the
duty levied by the Government of the Netherlands
the navigation of the Scheldt, in virtue of the
third paragraph of the ninth article of the treaty of
April nineteenth eighteen hundred and thirty nine
is guaranteed to the vessels of the United States
ARTICLE v. Steam vessels of the United States
and of Belgium, engaged in regular navigation be-
tween the United States and Belgium, shall be
exempt in both countries from the payment of du-
ties OF tonnage, anchorage buoys and lighthouses.
ARTICLE. vi. AS regards the coasting trade
between the ports of either country, the vessels of
the two nations shall be treated on both sides on
the same footing with the vessels of the most ia
| vored nations
ARTICLE VII. Articles of every description,
whether proceeding from the soil, industry, or
warehouses of Belgium, directly imported there
from, into the ports of the United States, in Bel
gian vessels, shall pay other higher duties of
import than if they were imported under the flag
of said ates.
And, reciprocally, articles of every description
directly imported into Belgium from the U. States
under the flag of the said States, shall pay no 9TH
er or higher duties than if they were imported un.
der the Belgian flag.
1t is we'll understood:
lat. That the goods shall have been really put
on board in the ports from which they are declared
ed respectively to come.
| 2. That putting-in al intermediate port,
produced by uncomfortable circumstances duly
proved does not occasion the forfeiture of the adj
vantage allowed to direct importation.
ARTICLE VIII. Articles of every description
imported into the United States from other coun-
tries than Belgium, under the Belgian flag, shall
pay no other or higher duties whatsoever than if
they had been imported under the flag of the most
favored foreign nation, other than the flag of the
country from which the importation is made. And,
reciprocally, articles of every description imported
under the flag of the United Ststes into Belgium,
from other countries than the United States, shall
pay no other or higher duties whatsoever. than if
they had been imported under the flag of the for
eign nation most favored other than that of the
country from which the importation is made.
ARTICLE TX. Articles of every description ex-
ported by Belgian vessels, or by those of the Uni
f ted States of America, from the ports of either
country to any country whatsoever. shall be sab.
jected to other duties o: formalilies than such
as are required for expectation under the flag OF
the country where the sh pment is made
ARTICLE K. All premiums drawbacks, or 9th.
er faVors OF like nature, which may be allowed in
the states ofGther of the contracting parties upon
goods imported exported in national vessels
shall be likewise, and in the same manner allow
ed upon goods imported directly from one of the
two countries, by its vessels into the other,
ported from one of the two countries, by the yes
sells of the other, to any destination whatsoever.
ARTICLE II. The preceding article is, however
not to apply to the Importation of salt and of The
produce of the national fisheries each of the two
parties reservng to itself the faculty Of granting
special priv eyes for the importation of those arti
C es under its own flag.
ARTICLE XII. The high cont tracing parties q
gree to consider and to treat as Belgian vessels
and vessels ofthe United States, ali those which
being provided Ivy the competent authority with
passport, sea letter, any other sufficient docu
ment, shall be recognized conformably with exist
ing laws national vessels in the country t.
which they respectively belong.
ARTICLE XIII. Belgian vessels and those of tn
5 United States may, conformably with the laws o
the two countries. retain board, in the ports o
both, such parts of their cargoes may be desti
7 ned for foreign country; and such parts shaI
not be subjected, either while they remain OF
board, or upon re-exportation, to any charge
whatsoever, other than those for the prevention o
smuggling
ARTICLE XIV. During the period allowed b.
the laws of the two countries respectively for tn
warehousing of goods, no duties, other than thos
of watch and storage, shall be levied upon article
brought from either country into the other, Will
awaiting transit. xportation, entry for con
sumption. Such goods shall in no case be suhiec
o to higher warehouse charges, to other formal
ties, than if they had been imported under the fla
, of the country.
- ARTICLE Nv. In all that relates TO duties O
customs and navigation, the two high contractin
parties promise, reciprocaly, not to grant any ia
vor, privilege, or immunity, to any other stats
which shall not instantly become common to tn
citizens and subjects of both parties respectively
gEaiuitously, if the concession or favor to sue
other state is gratutous, and on allowing the sam
compensation or its equivalent, if the concesslo
is conditional.
Neither of the contracting parties shall lay upo
[. goods proceeding from the soil or the industry
The other party, which may be imported into il
ports, any other or higher duties of importation
re-exportation than are laid upon the importatio
:: and re-exportaton of similar goods coming frol
any other foreign country.
e. ARTICLE XVI. In cases of shipwreck, damage
D. at sea, forced puttingin, eaah party shalt aor
d to the vessels of the other, whether helanging
D. the state or to individuals the same assist an
= protection, and the immunities, which Woul
ID have teen granted to its own vessels in simils
J. cases.
ARTICLE XVII. 1t is moreover agreed betwee
e the two Contracting parties that the consuls an
y vice-cUnsuls of the United States in the ports
| RoIoiuu, ond rocinrocaIty' tho nao~uls aud vic