Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-03-30

the restoration of the custom houses at sucl
ports shall be entirely exempt from duties ant
charges of any kind; the Government; of tht
United States hereby engaging and pledging it
faith to establish, and yigilantly to enforce, al
possible guards for securing the revenue ofMex
leo, bv preventing the importation, under GOV
er Of this stipulation, ofany articles other thar
such, both in kind and quality, as shall really
be wanted for the use and consumption of the
forces of the United States during the timt
they may remain in Mexico. To this end, i
shall be the duty of all officers and agents Of
the United States to denounce to the Mexican
authorities of the respective ports any attempts
at fraudulent abuse of this stipulation which
they may know of or may have reason to sus-
pect, and to give to such authorities all the aid
IN their power with regard thereto; and every
such attempt, when duly proved and establish
ed by sentence of competent tribunal. shall
be punished by the confiscation of the proper
ty SO attempted to be fraudulently introduced
! ARTICLE XXX.
With respect to all merchandise, effects and
property whatsoever imported into ports Of
Mexico whilst in the occupation of the forces
of the United States, whether by citizens OF
either republic, or by citizens or by subjects Of
any neutral nation, the following rules shall be
/ observed:
! l. All such merchandise, effects and proper
ty, if purported previously to the restoration
ofthe custom-houses to the Mexican authori-
ties, as stipulated for in the third articles OF
this treaty, shall be exempt from confscation
although the ilnportatisg of the same be pro-
hbited by the Mexican tariff.
2. The same perfect exemption shall be en-
ijoyed by all such merchandise, effects and
property, imported subsequently, to the restor-
alton of the custom-houses, and previously to
the sixty days fixed in the following article for
the coming into force of the Mexican tariff,
at such ports respectively; the same merchan-
die, effects, and property, being however, at
the time of their importation, subject to the
payment OF duties, as provided for in the said
following article.
4 8. All merchandise, effects and property
described in the two rules foregoing, shall, du
ring their continuance at the place of impor-
tation, or upon their leaving such place for the
interior, be exempt from all duty, tax, or i'm
post of every kind, under whatsoever title o.
denomination. Nor shall they be there subiec
ted to any charge whatsoever upon the salt
: thereof.
4. All merchandise, effects and property
described in the first and second rules, which
shall have been removed to any place in tn,
J interior whilst such place was in the occupa
= ton of the forces of the U. States, shall, du
ring their continuance therein, be exempt iron
all tax upon the sale or consumption thereof
and from every kind of impost orcontribution
under whatever title or denomination.
5. But if any merchandise, effects or proper
ty, described in the first and second rules, shall
S be removed to any place not occupied at tn
e time by the forces of the United States; the
4 shall upor their int raduction into cuch pIace
: or upon their sale or consumption there, be sub
S ject to the same duties which, under the Mexica
f laws, they would be required to pay in sue
4 cases If they had been imported In time Q
n peace, through the maritime custom-houses
n and had there paid the duties conformably wit
: the Mexican tariff.
fl 6. The owners of all merchandise, effects c
property described in the first and second rule
and existing in any port of Mexico shallhave tn
e right to reship the same, exempt from all tax
n impost, or contribution whatever.
d With respect to all metals, or other proper
vi ty, exported from any Mexican port whilst il
the occupation of the forces of the Unite
i States, and previously to the restoration of tn
g custom-ho house at such port, no person shall b
i required by the Mexican authorities, whethe
d general or State, to pay any tax; duty or com
: bination upon any such expectation, or III an
manner to account for the same to be said au
thrities.
- ARTICLE Xxx.
e Through consideration for the interests c
commerce generally, it is agreed that if les
= than sixty days should elapse between the dat
;, of the signature of this treaty and the restora
. ton of the custom-houses, conformably wit
\ the stipulation in the third article, in sue
n case all merchandise, effects and property
i whatsoever arriving al the Mexican ports afte
. the restoration of the said custom-houses, an
i previously to the expiration of sixty days afte
~ the day of the signature of this treaty, shall
a admitted to entry; and no other duties shall b
levied thereon than the duties established
. the tariff found in force at such custom house
at the time of the restoration of the same
: And to all such merchandise, effects, and prop
i erty, the rule established by the proceeding al
q ticle shall apply.
:, ARTICLE XXI.
If, unhappily, any disagreement should here
: after arise between the governments Of the tw
: republics, whether with respect to any othe
r particular concerning the political or CONNER
cial relations of the two nations, the said gov
n ernments, in the name of those nations, d
J., promise to each other that they will endeavo
4 in the most sincere and earnest manner,
i settle the differences SO arising, and to preserv
e the state of peace and friendship in which tn
e countries are now placing themselves; using
e for this end, mutual representation and pacifi
II negotiations. And if, by these means, the
n should not be enabled to come to an agreement
e a resort shall not, on this account, be had t
h reprisals, or hostility of any kind, by the on
l. republic against the other, until the govern
e ment of that which deems itself aggGeved shall
II have muturely considered, in the spirit of peac
d and good neighborship, whether it would no
J. Ibe better that such difference should be set
If tied by the arbitration of commissioners ap
;, pointed on each side, or by that of friendI
/ nation. And should such course be proposes
n by eitheE party, it shall be acceded to by tn
other, unless deemed by it altogether, incompat
lible with the nature of the difference. or tn
= circumstances of the case.
;, ARTICLE xxi.
= If (Which is not to be expected, and W hic
: Godforbid) war should unhappily break GU
between the two republics, they do now, wit
view to such calamity ,solemnly pledge them
l. selves to each other and to the world, to oh
e serve the following rules, absolutely, wher
e the nature of the subject permits, and as close
!, ly as possible in all cases where such absolut
q observance shall be impossible.
Il The merchants of either republic then re