Squatter sovereign., 1855-09-18
BY AUTHORITY.
By the President Of the United States Of
.anerica
A PROCLAMATION.

A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS Treaty. between the United States
OF America and the Argentine Confederation,
was concluded and signed by their respective
plenipotentiaries, at San Jose de Flores, on the
tenth day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty
three which treaty, being in the English and
Spanish languages, is, word for word, as fol-
lOWs:-
Treaty for the Free Navigation Of the Rivers
Parana and Uruguay, between the United
States and Argentine Confederation.
The President of the United States and his
ExceIlency the Provisional Director of the
Argentine Confederation, being desirous of
strengthening the bonds of friendship which SO
happily subsist between their respective States
and countries, and convinced that the surest
means of arriving at this result is to take in
cert all the measures requisite for facilitating
and developing commercial relations, have re-
solved to determine by treaty the conditions of
the free navigation of the rivers Parana and
Uruguay, and thus to remove the obstacles
| which have hitherto impeded this navigation.
With this object they have named their
plenipotentiaries, that is to say-the President
of the United States, Robert &. Schenck, envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of
the United States to Brazil, and John S. Pen
dleton, charge d'affaires of the United States
| to the Argentine Confederation; and his Ex-
cellency the Provisional Director OF the Ar
gentine Republic, Doctor Don Salvador Maria
del Carril, and Doctor Don Jose Benjamin Cor
| each other their full powers, found in good and
| due form, have agreed upon the following arti-
| cles:-
ARTICLE I. The Argentine Confederation,
in the exercise of her sovereign right, comedies
| the free navigation of the rivers Parana and
Uruguay, wherever they may belong to her, to
the merchant vessels of all nations subject only
to the conditions which this treaty establishes,
| and to the regulations sanctioned, or which
may hereafter be sanctioned, by the national
o,,th 4rifr "a Fodo
| ARTICLE II. Consequently, the said vessels
shall be admitted to remain, load, and unload In
| the places and ports OF the Confederation which
| the open for that purpose.
ARTICLE III. The Government Of the Argen-
| tine Confederation, being desirous to provide
every facility for interior navigation, agrees to
maintain beacons and marks pointing out the
| channels.
ARTICLE ". A uniform system shall be es-
| tablished by the competent authorities OF the
Confederation, for the collection OF the custom
house duties, harbor, lights, police, and pilot
age dues, along the whole course of the waters
which belong to the Confederation.
ARTICLE v. The high contracting parties,
considering that the island of Martin Garcia
may, from its position, embarrass and impede
| the navigation OF the continents of the river
Plate, agree to their influence to prevent the
| possession OF the said isandIfrom being retain
| ed or held by any State of the river Plate, or
its continents which shall not have given its
III.
ARTICLE VI. If it should happen (Which
God forbid) that war should break out between
any of the States, Republics, or Provinces of
the river Plate or its continents the navigation
of the rivers Parana and Uruguay shall remain
free to the merchant flag of all nations, excep-
ting in what may relate to munitions Of war,
| such as arms Of all kinds, gunpowder, lead, and
cannon balls.
ARTICLE VII. Power is expressly reserved
to his Majesty the Emperor OF Brazil, and tie
VAR .e ola Da md fhan n-S
entail State of Uruguay, to become parties to
| the present treaty, in case they should be dis
posed to apply its principles to the parts OF the
rivers PaTana, Paraguay, and Uruguay. over
Wnieh tney may respectively possess huvial
ARTICLE VII. The principal objects for
which the rivers Parana and Uruguay are de-
clared free to the commerce of the world, be-
ing to extend the mercantile relations of the
countries which border them, and to promote
immigration, it is hereby agreed that no favor
or Immunity shall be granted to the flag or trade
of any other nation which shall not equally
extend to those of the United States.
ARTICLE TX. The present treaty shall be-
ratified on the part of the Government Of the
United States within fifteen months from its
date, and within two days by his Excealency
the Provisional Director of the Argentine Con-
federation, who shall present it 70 the first leg
isiative Congress OF the CONFEDERATION, for their
APPRECIATION
The ratifcations shall be exchanged at the
seat OF Government of the Argentine Confed-
GRAFTON, within the term OF eighteen ucntRs.