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of America all the privileges and advantages with respect
to commerce or Otherwise, which are which may
hereafter be granted therein TO the citizens or subjects
the most favored nation.
ART1cLs g. Citizens of The United States shall be permit
ted topurchase, rent occupy or in any other legal way
TO ACQUIRE ali kinds Of property within The doninons
his Hghness the Sutan Borneo; and his Hghness
cages that such citizens of the United States OF America
shall, as far as lies in his power within his Gomnious,
enjoy full and complete protection and security tr them
selves and for any property which they may acquire in
future which they may have acquired already Lelo
the date of the present Convention.
o. ARTICLE A. No article whatever shall be prohibited from
being imported into exported from the territories OF his
-Highness The Sultan of Borneo; but the trade lie ween
the United States of Amerca and the dominion OF his
Hghness the Sultan of b shall be pelfc ly ree and
shall be subec ouy the custom dut es wh ch may here
after be in force in regard to such irade.
ARTICLE s. No duty exceeding dOlar per reg cred
ton shall be levied American vessels entering The por
of his Highn The Sultan Of Borneo and his fixed
of one dollar per to be levied all American Is
shall be in lieu of all other charges or duties Whatsoever
His Hghness moreover engages that American trade and
Amer goods shall be exempt from any internal du les,
and also from any injurious regulations which may here
after from whatever cause, be adopted in The doinons Of
the Sultan of Bomeo.
ARTICLE 8. HIS Highness the Sultan of Borneo agrees
that duty whatever shall be LEVIED the iaon
from His Highness domin of any article the grown,
produce manufacture Of those dImnions
ARTICLE Z. Hs HighreSs The Sultan of Borneo engages
to permit the shofwar Of The United States of America
freely to enter the ports rivers and creeks situate within
his domnions and 10 allow such ships TO provide them
selves, at fair and moderate price, with such supplies
stores and provisions they may from time to time stand
in need of.
ARfcLE If any vessel under the American flag should
be wrecked the of The dominons OF his ghness
the Sultan of Borneo his Hghness engages give all the
assistance in his power for and TO deliver over
from such vessels His Highness further engages
tend to the officers and and to all other persons
board of such wrecked vessel ul protection, both
their persons and as 10 their property.
ARTICLE 9. His Highness The Sultan of Bornec agrees
that in adj where citizen of the United States shall
be accused OF anv crime committed in any of his ghness
domnon the person so accused shall be exclusively tried
and adjudged by the American Consul, other officer
duly appointed for that purpose and in all cases where
disputes or # rences arise between American cili-
or between American citizens and The subjects of his
Highness or between American citizens and the citizens
subjects of any other foreign Power in The donnos of
the Sultan of Boneo, the American Consul, other du
appointed officer, shall have power hear and decide The
same, without any interference mOcstaon hndance
the part OF any authority of Boneo either before dur
ing, or after the litigation.
This treaty shall he ratified and the ratifcaons thereof
shall be exchanged al Brun time prior the fourth
fffy-four.
Done at the city of Brun on this twenty.hird dav Of
june, Ammo Domini thousand eight hundred and fifty,
and on the thirteenth day of the month Saaban of The
year of the Hegra one thousand two bundled and sixty
six JOSEPH BALESTIER, H. s)
OMAR ALI SAIFEDDIN H. ST.
And whereas the said Convention has been duly ratified
on both parts and the respective notifications of the
We're exchanged at the city of Brun the eleventh day
of july thousand eight hundred and fittyhree by
Captain WILLIAM McCLuNEY of the United States Navy
and PANGERAN ENDAR MACoTAH, Prime Minister of his
Hghness the Sultan of Borneo the part Of their
pectve Governments:
Now, therefore, be it known that l. FRANKLIN PIERCE
President of the United States of Americi have caused
the said Convention to be made public the end that the
and every clause and article thereof be observ
ed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and
the citizens thereof
In witness whereof have hereunto set my hand and
caused the seal of the United States 10 be affixed
Done at the city of Washington, this twelfth day of
July, in the year of our Lord thousand eight
H. hundred and fifty -four, and of the indel endence
of the United States the seventy-ninth
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
By the President:
W. l.. MARCY, Secretary of State.