The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-09-28

Fish oil.
Rice, broom-corn, and bark
Gypsum, ground or ungrOund.
Hewn or wrought or unwroughs burr OF
grindstones.
Dye stuffs.
Flax, hemp, and tow, unmanufactured.
Unmanufactured tobacco.
Rags
ARTICLE ".
Il Is agreed that the citiz.ns and inhabit'
ants of the United States shall have the right
to navigate the river ST. Lawrence, and the
canals in Canada, used as the means of COM
municating between the great Lakes and the
Atlantic ocean, with their vessels, boats and
crafts, as fully and freely as the subjects OF
her Britannia Majesty, subject only to the
same tolls and other assessments as now are
or may hereafter be exacted of her Majesty s
said subjects it being understood, however,
that the British Government retains the right
of suspending this privilege, on giving due no,
tice thereof to the Government of the United
States
Il is further agreed, that if at any tims the
British Government should exercise the SAID
reserved right, tho Government of the United
States shall have the right of suspending II IL
think fit, the operation Of article three OF inc
present treaty, in 30 for as the Province OF
Canada is affected thereby, for so long as the
suspension of the free navigation Of the river
ST. Lawrence or the canals may continue.
IL is further agreed that British subjects
shall have the right freely to navigate Lake
Michigan, with the vessels, boats, and crafts,
80 long as the privilege Of navigating the river
81. Lawrence, secured to American citlzsns Dy
the above clause of the present article, shall
continue: and the Government OF the United
States further engages to urge upon the State
Governments to secure to the subjects OF her
Britannia Majesty the use Of the seyeral STATE
canals, on terms Of equality with the inEabit-
ants of the United States.
And it is further agreed that no export duty
or other duty shall be levied on lumber or tim
Der, of any kind, cut on that portion of the
American territory in the State of Maine
watered by the river st. John and its tributs-
ries, and foated down that river to the sea,
when the same is shipped to the United States
from the Province of New Brunswick.
ARTICLE
The present treaty shall take effect as soon
as the laws required to carry it into operation
shall heve been passed by the Imperial Parlia-
mcnt Of Great Britain and by the Provincial
Parliaments of those of the British North Amer
lean Colonies which are affected By this treaty,
on the one hand, and by the Congress of the
United States on the other. Such assent having
been given, the treaty shall remain In force
for ten years from tho date at which it may
come into operation, and, further, until the c1-
piration of twelve months after either of the
high contracting parties shall give notice to
the other Of its wish to terminate the same !;
each of the high contracting parties being at
liberty to give such notice 70 the other at the
end of the said term of ten years, or at any
time afterwards.
1t is clearly understood, however, that this
stipulation is not intended to affect the reser-
vaticn made by article four OF the present
treaty, with regard to the right of temporarily
suspending the operation Of articles three and
four thereof
ARTICLE VI
And it is hereby further agrsed that the
provisions and stipuletio, of the foregoing ar
ticles shall extend to the island of Newfound-
land, 60 far as they are applicable to that Col
ony. But if the Imperial Parliament the Pro-
vincial Parliament of Newfoundland, or tho
Congress Of the United States, shall not eo1-
brace in their laws, enacted for carrying this
treaty into eGecs the Colony of Newfoundland,
then this article shall be of no effect but the
omission to make provision by law to give it
effect, by either CT the Legislative bodies afore-
ing articles of this treaty.
ARTICLE VII
The present treaty shall ho duly ratified and
the mutual exchange Of notifications shall take
place in Washington within six months from
the date hereof, OF earlier if possible.
In faith whereof, we, the respective Plenipo-
tentiaries, have sigued this treaty, and have
hercunto affixed our seals.
Dono in triplicate at Washington, the fifth
day of Jane Ammo Domini ono thousand sight
hundred and ffty.four.
w. L. MARCY, L. 81
ELGIN AND KINCARDINE, j.. s
Ard whereas the said treaty has been duly
ratified on both parts, md the res pec.ivo rati-
fcations of the same were exchanged in this
city on the 9th instant. by VIM. L. Marcy Sec
rotary Of State Of the United States and John
F. Champion, Esq, her Britannia Majessys
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pienipo-
Tertiary to this Government on the pers Of
their respective Governments:
Now. therefore, be it known that |, Franklin
Pierce, President of the United States of Amer
lea, have caused the said treaty to be made
public, to tho end that the Same, and every
clause aud article thereof, may be observed
and fulfilled with good faith by the United
States and tho citizens thereof.
In testimony whereof, have hereunto set
my hand and caused the zeal of tho United
States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this eleventh
day Of September, in the year Of
[sEAL our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and ffty-four, and Of the independence
of the United States the seventy-ninth.
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
By the President:
w. L, MARCY, Secretary Of Stats.