Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-07-22
OFFICIAL.

By the President of the United States Of America
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS Convention between the United States Of
America and his hghness the Sultan Of Borno
Guided and signed by their respective plenipoenares
the city of Bruni the 2Sd day Of June oe thousand
eight hundred and fifty, which convention word for
word follows
| His highness OMAR ALI SAIrspDrs, ebn Marhoum
Sultan, Mahomed Jamal Alam and Papjiran Anak MUIR
nn whom belong the government Of the country of
Bruni and all its provinces and dependencies for them
selves and their descendants the part and the
United States of America the othr have agreed to
cement the friendship which has ongand happily exist
ed between them by convention containing the follow
ing articles:
ARrIcLEI
Peace friendship and good understanding shall from
henceforward and forever subsist beween the United
States Of America and his hghness Omar Ali Saifeddn
Sultan Of Borneo and their respecte successors and
| citizens and subjects.
ARTICLE II.
The citizens Of the United States Of america shall have
full liberty to enter into, reside in tre with and pass
with their merchandise through part of the domnons
Of his hghness the Sultan of Borneo md they shall
joy therein all the privileges and advantages with
spect to commerce otherwise, which which
hereafter be granted to the citizens or subjects of
the most favored nation and the subjects Of his high
the Sultan Of Borneo SHALL in Lille manner be at
liberty to enter into reside in trade wih and pass with
their merchandise through all parts Of the United States
most favored nation; and they shall epy in the United
States of America oil the privileges and advantages with
respect to commerce or otherwise, which
which hereafter be granted therein the citizens or
subjects of the most favored nation.
ARTICLE III.
Citizens of the United States shall be permitted to pur
chase, rent occupy, in any ether legal way
quire all kinds Of property within the domnions Of his
hghness the Sultan Of Borneo and his hghnass
that such citizens Of the United States Of America shall
as far as lies in his power within his dominions enjoy
full and complete protection and security for themselves
and for any property which they may acquire in fu
ture or which they may have acquired already before
the date OF the present convention.
ARTICLE Nv.
No article whatever shall be prohibited from being inn
ported into exported from the territories Of his high
ness the Sultan Of Borneo but the trade between the
United States of America and the dominons of his high
ness the Sultan Of Borneo shall be perfectly free, and
shall be subject only to the custom duties which may
hereafter be in force in regard to such trade
ARTICLE v.
No duty exceeding dollar per registered ton shall
be levied American vessels entering tho ports Of his
hghness tho snl.Aa this fIed duty
dollar per ton to be levied all American vessels shall
be in lieu Of all other charges duties whatsoever His
hghness, moreover engages that American trade and
American goods shall be exempt from any internal duties
and also from any injurious regulations which may here
after from whatever causes be adopted in the domnions
Of the Sultan of Borneo.
ARTICLE vi.
His hghness the Sultan Borneo agrees that no duty
whatever shall be levied the expectation from his high
nesss dominons of any article the growth produce
manufacture of those dominons.
ARTICLE VII.
His hghness the Sultan Of Borneo engages to permit
the Of the United States of America freely
to enter the ports rivers and creeks situate within his
dominons and to allow such ships to provide themselves
at fair and moderate price, with such supplies stores
and provisions as they may from time to time stand in
need of.
ARTICLE VIII
If any vessel under the American flag should be wreck
ed the coast Of the dominions Of his highness the
Sultan Of Borneo his hghness engages to give all the
assistance in his power and deliver
the owners thereof all the property that be saved
from such vessels. His highness further engages
tend to the officers and crew. and to all other persons
board Of such wrecked vessels full protection both as
their persons and as to their property
ARTICLE TX
His highness the Sultan of Bsrneo agrees that in all
where citizen Of the United States shall be ac-
cused OF any crime committed in any part of his high
nesss dominons the person accused shall be excu-
sively tried and adjudged by the American consul or
other officer duly appointed for that purpose and in all
cases where disputes differences may arise between
American citizens or between American citizens and the
subjects Of his hghness or between American citizens
and the citizens subjects Of any other foreign Power
in the domnons of the Sultan Of Borneo the American
CONSUL or other duly appointed officer shall have power
to hear and decide the same without any interference
molestaton or hindrance the part any authority
Of Borneo, either before during or after the litigation
This treaty shall be ratified and the notifications there
Of shall be exchanged at Bruni any prior to the
4th day Of July in the year 1854
Done at the city Of Brun this twenty third day Of
june ammo Domin thousand eight hundred and fifty
the thirteenth day Of the month Saaban of the year
of the Hegra one thousand two hundred and sixtysx
| JOSEPH BALESTIER, II. 81
| OMAR ALI SAIFEDDIN, II. 81
And whereas the said convention has been duly ratified
both parts and the respective notifications Of the same
exchanged at the city Of Bruni on the th day OF
July, one thousand eight hundred and ffty-three by
Captain WILLIAM McCLusxr of the United States Navy
and PAsGEnAN ESDAR MAcoTAH, Prime Minister of his
hghness the Sultan Of Borneo on the part Of their
spective Governments:
Now, therefore, be it known that l. FRANKLIN PIERCE
President of the United States of America have
the said convention to be made public to the end that the
same, and every clause and article thereof may be OBJ
served and fulfilled with good faith by the United States
and the citizens thereof
In witness whereof have hereunto set nv hand and
caused the seal Of the United States to be affixed
Done at the city Of Washington, this twelfth dav O,
July, in the year Of our Lord one thousand eiehi
TsRAL hundred and 6tyfour aud Of the independence
of the United States the seventy ninth.
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
| By the President
w. L. MARCY, Secretary Of State
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