The true Democrat., 1855-09-25


 Fish of all kinds.
 Products of fish, and of all other creatures living in the water
 Poultry, eggs.
 Hides, furs, skins, or tails, undressed.
 Stone or marble, in its crude or unwrought state.
 Slate
 Butter, cheese, tallow.
 Lard, horns, manures.
 Ores of metals, of all kinds.
 Coal.
 Pitch, tar, turpentine, ashes.
 Timber and lumber of all kinds, round, hew ed, and sawed, unmanufactured in whole or ill part.
 Firewood.
 Plants shrubs, and trees.
 Pelts, wool.
 Fish oil.
 Rice, broomcorn, and bark.
 Gypsum, ground or unground.
 Hewn, or wrought, or unwrought burr or grindstones.
 Dyestnffl
 Flax, hemp, and tow, unmanufactured.
 Unmanufactured tobacco.
 Rags.*
 ARTICLE 4. It agreed that the citizens and inhabitants 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 here after be, exacted of her Majesty's said subjects; 1t being understood, however, that the British government retains the right of suspending this privilege on giving due notice thereof to the government of the United States.
 It is further agreed that if at any time the British government should exercise the said reserved right, the government of the United States shall have the right of suspending, if it think lit, the operation of article 3 of the pre- sent treaty, in so far as the province of Canada IS affected thereby for so long as the suspension of the free navigation of the River St. Law renee or the canals may continue.
 It is further agreed that British subjects shall have the right freely to navigate Lake Mchi- gan with their vessels, boats, and crafrs, so long as the privilege of navigating the River St.. Lawrence, secured to American citizens by the above clause of the present article, shall con- tinue; and the government of the United States further engages to urge upon the State govern ments to secure to the subjects of her Britannia Majesty the use of the several State canals, on terms of equality with the inhabitants 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 Ame : rican territory in the State of Maine watered by the River St. John and its tributaries, and foated down the river to the sea, when the same is shipped to the United States from the provice of New Brunswick
 ARTICLE D. The present treaty shall take effect as soon as the laws required to carry it into operation shall have beeL passed by the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and by the Provincial Parliaments of those of the Bri- tish North American colonies which are affected by this treaty on the one hand, and by the Con- gress of the United States on the other Such assent having been given, the treaty shall re- man In force for ten years from the date at which It may come into operation, and further, until the expiration 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 to the other at the end of the said term of ten years, or at any time afterwards
 It is clearly understood, however, that this stipulation Is not intended to affect the leserva- ton made by article of the present treaty, with regard to the right of temporarily suspend ing the operation of articles 3 and thereof ARTICLE 6. And it is hereby further agreed, that the provisions and stipulations of the fore going articles shall extend to the island of New foundland, so far as they are applicable to that colony. But if the Imperial Parliament, the Provincial Parliament of Newfoundland, or the Congress of the United States, shall not en- brace in their laws, enacted for carrying this treaty into effect, 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 of the legislative bodies afore- said, shall not in any way impair the remaining articles of this treaty.
 ARTICLE z. The present treaty shall be duly ratified, and the mutual exchange of ratifica- tions shall take place in Washington, within six months from the date hereof, or earlier if pos sible.
 In faith whereof we, the respective plenipo- tentlarleS have signed this treaty and have hereunto affixed our seals.
 Done in duplicate, at Washington, the 5th day of June, Anno Domini 1854
 w. L. MARCY, It. s.1
 ELGIN AND KINCARDINE. L. S.
 And whereas the said treaty has been duly ratified on both parts, and the respective rati- hcations of the same were exchanged in this city on the 9th instant, by William L. Marcy, Secretary of State of the United States, and John F. Crampton, Esqre, her Britannia Ma jestys envoy extraordinary and minister pleni potentiary to this government on the part of their respective governments:
 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 observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.
 In testimony whereof, have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
 Done at the city of Washington, this
 1lth day of September, in the year IL. s.] of our Lord, 1854, 'and of the inde-
 pendence of the United States of
 America the seventy ninth.
 FRANKLIN PIERCE.
 BY THE PRESIDENT:
 w. L. MARCY, Secretary of State
 See act of ls54 oh. 2s9, and of 1855 ch. IA, carrying out the provision of this treaty.