Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1847-01-27
IOWA CITY, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 81, 1s47.

duty levied by the Government of the Neither
lands on 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.
ART. 5. Steam vessels of the United States
and of Belgium, engaged in regular navigation
between the United States and Belgium, shall be
exempt in both countries from the payment OF
duties Of tonnage, anchorage, buoys, and light
houses.
ART s. 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 favor
ed nations.
ART. I Articles of every description, wheth-
er proceeding from the soil, industry, ware
into the ports of the United States, in Belgian
vessels, shall pay no other or higher duties of
import thar if they were imported under the flag
of said States.
And, reciprocally, articles of every descrip-
ton directly imported into Belgium from the
United States, under the flag of said States, shall
pay no other or higher duties than if they were
imported under the Belgian flag.
1t is well understood:
1st That the goods shall have been really put
on board in the ports from which they are de-
clared respectively to come.
I'd. That putting-in at an intermediate port,
produced by uncomfortable circumstances, duly
proved, does not occasion the forfeiture of the
advantage allowed to direct importation.
ART. 8. Articles of every description, i'm
ported into the United States from other coun-
tiles 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 States,
shall pay no other or higher duties whatsoever,
than If they had been imported under the flag
of the foreign nation most favored, other than
that of the country from which the importation
is made.
ART. 9. Articles of every description, ex-
ported by Belgian vessels, or by those of the
United States of America. from the ports Of ell
ther country to any country whatsoever, shall be
subjected to no other duties or formaiities than
such as are required for expectation under the
flag of the country where the shipment is made.
ART. 10. All premiums, drawbacks, or ether
favors of like nature, which may be allowed in
the states of either of the contracting parties,
upon goods imported or exported in national
vessels, shall be likewise, and in the same man
ner, allowed upon goods imported directly from
one OF the two coun,rys, by its vessels into the
other, or exported from one of the two coun-
tries by the vessels Of the other to any deStina-
ton whatever.
ART. H.. 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 reserving to itself the faculty OF
granting special privileges for the importation
of those articles under its own flag.
ART. IL. The high contracting parties agree
to consider and to treatas Belgian vessels, and
as vessels of the United States, all those which,
being provided by the competent authority with
passport, sea letter, or any ether sufficient
document, shall be recognised cenformably with
existing laws as national vessels In the country
to which they respectively belong.
ART. Is. Belgian vessels and those of the
United States may, conformably with the laws
of the two countries, retain on board in the
port. of both, such parts of their cargoes as may
be destined for foreign country; and such
| parts shall not be subjected, either while they
remain on board, or upon re-exportation, to any
charges Whatsoever, other than those for the
| prevention Of smuggling.
ART. IA. During the period allowed by the
| laws OF the two countries respectively for the
Warehousng Of goods, no duties, other than
those OF watch and storage, shall be levied upon
articles brought from either country into the
other, while awaiting transmit, re-cx portation,
or entry tor consumption. Such goods shall in
no case be subject to higher warehouse charges
| or to other formalities, than if they had been
| imported under the flag of the country.
ART. 10. In all that relates TO duties Of Gus
toms and navigation. the two high contracting
parties promise, recIprocally, not 10 grant any
favor, privilege, or Immunity, to any other state
which shall not instantly become common to the
citizens and subjects of both parties respective
ly; grat,litously, if the concession or favor to
such other state is gratuitous, and on allowing
the same compensation its equivalent if the
concession is conditional.
Neither of the contracting parties shall lay
upon goods proceeding from the soil or the in
dustry of the other party, which may be import
ed INTO ITS ports, any other or higher duties of
importation or rc-exportation than are laid upon
the importation and re-exportation of similar
goods coming from any other foreign country.
Arr. 10. In cases of shipwreck, damages at
sea, or forced pnttingin, each party shall afford
to the vessels of the other, whether belonging to
the state or to individuals, the same assistance
and protection, and the same mmuni.ics, which
would have been granted to its own vessels in
similar cases.
ART. II. II is moreover agreed between the
two contracting parties, that the consuls and
vice consuls Of the United States in the
ports of Belgium, and, reciprocaly, the consuls
and ylce-consuls of Belgium in the ports of the
United States, shall continue to enjoy all the
privileges, protection, and assistance, usually
granted to them, and which may be necessary for
the proper discharge of their functions The
said consuIs and vice-consu!s may cause to be
arrested and sent back either to their vessels or
to their country, such seamen as may have de-
serted from the vessels of their nation TO this
end, they shall apply in writing to the compc-
tent local Authorities, and they shall prove by
exhibition of the vessels crew list, or other
document, or, if she shall have departed,
by copy of said documents, duly certified by
them, that the seamen whom they claim formed
part of the said crew. Upon such demand,
thus supported, the delivery of the describes
shall not be refused. They shall moreover re-
celve all aid and assistance in searching for,
Selling, and arresting such deserters, who shall,
upon the requisition and at the expense of the
consul or vice consul, be confined and kept in
the prisons of the country until he shall have
found an opportunity for sending them home.
II, however, such an opportunity should not
occur within three months after the arrest, the
deserters shall be set at liberty, and shall not
again be arrested for the same cause. 1t is,
however. understood, that seamen of the coun-
try in which the desertion shall occur are ex-
cepted from these provisions, unless they be
naturalized citizens or subjects of the other
country.
ART. IS. Articles Of all kinds, the transit of
which is allowed in Belgium, coming from or
going to the United States, shall be exempt from
all transit duty i'll Belgium, when the Transport
tation through the Belgian territory, is effected
on the railroads of the State
ART. 10. The present treaty shall be in force