The true Democrat., 1855-10-16
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
 A PROCLAMATION

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 STATES OF AMERICA.
 A PROCLAMATION.
 WHEREAS a Treaty. between the United States of America and the Argentine Confedera ton, was concluded and signed by their respec tive Plenipotentiaries at San Jose de Flores, or the 10th day of July, 1853; which treaty, be- ing in English and Spanish languages, is, word for word, as follows:-
 Treaty for the Free Navigation of the Rivers
 Parana and Uruguay, between the United
 States and the Argentine Confederation
 The President of the United States and his Ex. cellencv the Provisional Director of the Argen. tine Confederation, being desirous of strength. ening 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 concert all the measures requisite for facilitating and developing commercial relations, have resolved to determine by treaty the conditions of the free navigation of the Rivers Parana and Uru- guary, and thus to remove the obstacles which have hitherto impeded this navigation. | With this object they have named as their plenipotentiaries, that is to say-the President of the United States, Robert c. Schenck, En- vov Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentia- " of the United States to Brazil, and John s. Pendleton, Charge d'Affaires of the United States to the Argentine Confederation; and his Exceliencv the Provisional Director of the Ar genuine Confederation, Doctor Don Salvador Maria del Carril and Doctor Don Jose Benia- min Gorostiaga; who, after having communi. catei to each other their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the fol- lowing artices:-
 | ARTICLE l.
 The Argentine Confederation, in the exercise of her sovereignssrights, comedies the free navi- gation of the Rivers Parana and Uruguay, wherever they may belong to her, to the mer- chant vessels of all nations, subject only to the conditions which this treaty establishes, and to the regulations sanctioned, or which may here after be sanctioned, by the national authority of the Confederation.
 ARTICLE II.
 Consequently, the said vessels shall be ad- mitted to remain, load, and unload in the places and ports of the Argentine Confederation which are open for that purpose.
 ARTICLE III.
 The Government of the Argentine Confede- ration, being desirious to provide every facility for interior navigation, agrees to maintain bea- cons and marks pointing out the channels.
 ARTICLE ".
 A uniform system shall be established by the competent authorities of the Confederation, for the collection of the custom house duties, har- Dor, lights, police, and plotage 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 posi- ton, embarrass and impede the free navigation of the continents of the River Plate, agree to use their influence to prevent the possession of the said island from being retained or held by any State of the River Plate, or its continents which shall not have given it's adhesion to the principle of their free navigation. 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 Pa rama and Uruguay shall remain free to the mer- chant flag of all nations, excepting 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 the Government of Bolivia, Paraguay, and the Oriental State of Uruguay, to become parties to the present trea- ty, in case they should be disposed to apply its principles to the parts of the Rivers Parana, Paraguay, and Uruguay, over which they may respectively possess f1uvial rights.
 ARTICLE VIII.
 The principal objects for which the Rivers Parana and Uruguay are declared free to the commerce of the world, being to extend the mercantile relations of the countries which bor- der them, and to promote immigration, it is hot rl,o1l be granted to the flag or trade of any other na- tion 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 Excellency the Provisional Di- rector of the Argentine Confederation, who shall present it to the first Legislative Congress of the Confederation, for their approbaton.
 The ratifcations shall be exchanged at the seat of Government of the Argentine Confede- ration, within the term of eighteen months.
 In witness whereof the respective plcnipo- tentiaries have signed this treaty, and affixed thereto their seals.
 Done at San Jose de Flores, on the tenth day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thou sand eight hundred and fifty three.
 ROBT. c. SCHENCK, seal JNO. s. PENDLETON, seal
 SALVADOR MA. DEL CARRIL, seal
 JOSE B. GOROSTIAGA, seal
 And, whereas the said treaty has been duly ratified on both parts, and the respective ratif, cations of the same were exchanged in the city of Parana, on the twentieth day of December last.
 Now, therefore be it known that I, FRANK LIN PIERCE, President of the United States of America, have caused the said treaty to be made public, to the end that the same, and every clause and article thereof, may be ob- served and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.
 In testimony whereof, l have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
 Done at the city of Washington, this
 9th day of April, in the year of IT, S. our Lord 1855, and of the indepen-
 dence of the United States the seven-
 ty-ninth.