Kansas weekly herald., 1855-02-23
sLEAVENWoRTH,s K. r., FEBRUARY %, 1855:

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la and the President of the Republic Of San Sal
yador has conferred similar. and equal powers
upon Senor Lfcenciado Don Agustin Morales,
who after having exchanged their said full pow
ers in due form, have agreed to the following ar
ticles: 49, .s;-ss4ss
inviolable peace and sincere friendship between
the United States of America and the Republic
Of San Salvador, in all the extent of their pos
sessions and territories, and between their, citi
zensrespec pectively, without distinction OF persons
= a.d5tiele q. The United States. Of America and
the Republic OF San Salvador, desiring to live in
peace and harmony with all nations of the earth,
By means of policy frank and equally friendly
with all, engage mutually not to grant any par
ticular favor to other nations in respect OF COM
merce and avigation which shall not immedi-
ately become common to the other party. who
shall enjoy the same freely if the concession was
freely made, or on allowing the same compen-
sation if the concession was conditional.
Article 8. The two high contracting parties,
being likewise desirous of placing the commerce
and navigation of their respective countries on
the liberal basis Of perfect equality and reci-
procity. mutually agree that the citizens of each
may frequent all the coasts and countries OF the
other, and reside therein, and shall have the
power to purchase and hold lands, AID all kinds
of real estate and to engage in all kinds of trade,
manufacturers, and mining, upon the same terms
with the native citizen, and shall enjoy all the
privileges and concessions in these, matters
which are or may be made to the citizens of any
country, and shall enjoy all the rights, privileges,
and exemptions; in navigation, commerce, and
manufacturers, which native citizens do or shall
enjoy, submitting themselves to the laws, de-
crees. or usages there established, to which ma
tive citizens are subjected. But it is understood
that this article does not include the coasting
trade of either country, the regulation OF which
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to their own seperate laws.
Article 4. They likewise agree that whatever
kind of produce, manufacture, or merchandise OF
any foreign country can be from time to time
lawfully imported into the United States in their
own vessels may be also imported in vessels of the
Republic of San Salvador; and that no higher or
other duties upon the tonnage of the vessel and
her cargo shall be levied and collected, whether
the importation be made in vessels of the one
country or of the other; and in like manner that,
whatever kind of produce, manufacturers, Or
merchandise of any foreign country can be from
time to time lawfully imported into the Repub-
lie of San Salvador in its own vessels, may be
also imported in vessels of the United States;
and that no higher or other duties upon the ton
mage of the vessel and her cargo shall be levied
or colleced, whether the importation be made
in vessels of the one country or the other. And
they further agree, that whatever may be law
fully exported or reexported from one country
in its own vessels to any foreign country may in
like manner be exported or reexported in the
vessels of the other country; and the same boIn-
ties, duties, and drawbacks shall be allowed and
collected, whether such expectation or reexpor-
tation be made in vessels OF the United States or
of the Republic of San Salvador.
Article 5. No higher or other duties shall be
imposed on the Importation into tue United
States of any articles the produce or Inanufae-
lures of the Republic OF San Salvador; and no
higher other duties shall! be imposed on the
importation into the Republic Of San Salvador
of any articles the produce or manufactures OF
the United States, than or shall be payable
on the like articles being the produce mann
factures of any foreign country; shall any
higher or otherduties or charges be imposed in
either Of the two countries on the expectation
of any articles to the United States to the
Republic of San Salvador, respectively, than
such as are payable on the expectation Of the
like articles to any other foreign country; MOI
shall ahy prohibition be imposed on the eXpor-
tation importation of any articles the pro-
duce or manufactures of the United States or OF
the Republic of San Salvador, to or from the ter
ritories of the United States, or to or from the
territories Of ths Republic OF San Salvador:
which shall not equally extend to all other ma
tions.
article 6. In order to prevent the possibility
of any misunderstanding, it is hereby declared
that the stipulations contained in the three pre-
ceeding articles to their full extent applica-
BILE to the vessels Of the United States and theil
ana reciprocaly to the vessels Of the said Re-
public of San Salvador, and their cargoes arriv.
| ing in the ports of the United States, whether
they proceed from the ports of the country tc
which they respectively belong orfrom the port:
of any other foreign countryj and, In either
case, no discriminating duty shall be imposed OF
collected in the ports OF either country on sai6
vessels or their cargoes, whether the same shall
be of native or foreign produce or manufacture
article Z. 1t is likewise agreed that it shall bt
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ships, and other citizens of both countries, tt
manage, by themselves agents, their own bus
mess In all the ports and places subject 20 tht
| jurisdiction OF each other, well with respec
| to the consignments and sale of their goods ant
merchandise, by wholesale or retail, as witt
respect to the loading, unloading, and sending
off their ships; they being in all these cases to b.
treated as citizens of the country in which they
reside, or at least to be placed on an equality
with the subjects or citizens of the most faVoret
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| Article s. The citizens of neither of the con
| tracing parties shall be liable to any embargo
nor be detained with their vessels, cargoes,mer
chandise, or effects, for any military expedition
nor for any public or private purpose whatev
er, without allowing to those interested an equit
able and sufficient indemniGcation.
! article 9. Whenever the citizens of either o
| the contracting parties shall be forced to seel
refuge or asylum in the rivers, bays, ports, o
dominions of the other with their vessels, wheth
| er merchant or war, public Or private, through
stress of weather, pursuits of pirates or enemies
or want of provisions or waters they shall be re
ceived and treated with humanity giving tt
them all favor and protection for repairing thei
ships, procuring provisions, and placing them
! selves in a situation to continue their voyage
without obstacles or hfndrance, of any kind.
.Articbe 10.All the ships, merchandise, land effect
belonging to the citizens of of the contracting
parties which may be captured by pirates, wheth
er within the limits, of its jurisdiction or ont
high seas, and may be carried or found in tn
other, shall be delivered up TO the owners, the.
proving in due and proper form their RI hts, be
| fore the competent tribunals sit being well un
tderstood that the claim shall be made within tn
term Of one year by the parties themselves