The true Democrat., 1855-05-08
WILLARD FILLMORE.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
 A.

PROCLAMATION.
 WHEREAS Convention between the United States of America and His Highness the Sultan of Borneo concluded and signed by their respective penipo- tenares at the city of Brun on the 23d day of June 1850, which Convention is word for word follows: His IIighness OMAR ALI SAIFEDDIN, ebn Marhoun Sultan, Mahomed Jamalil Alan, and Pangiran Anak Mumn to whom belong the government of the coun- try of Bruni and all its provinces and dependencies, for themselves and their descendants the part and the United States of America the other, have agreed to cement the friendship which has long and happily existed between them by a Convention con- taning the following articles:
 ARTICLE 1. Peace friendship. and good under standing shall from hcncetorward and forever subsst between the United States of America and his High ness Omar Ali Saieddin, Sultan of Borneo, and their respective successors and citizens and subjects
 ARTICLE 2. The citizens of the United States of America shall have full liberty to enter no reside in trade with, an pass with their merchandise through all parts of the dominons of his Hichncss the Sultan of Borneo. and they shall enjoy therein all the pre- veges and advantages, with respect to commerce or otherwise, which are now or which may hereafter be granted to the citizens subjects of the favored naon and the subjects of his Hghness the Sultan of Boneo shall in like manner, be at liberty to enter into resden trade with, and pass through with their merchandise through all parts of the United States of America freely the citizens and subjects of the most favored naton and they shall enjoy in the Unit ed States of America all the privileges and advanta- ges with respectto commerce or otherwise which are which may hereafter be granted therein to the citizens or subjects of the most favored nation
 ARTICLE 3. Citizens of the United States shall be permitted to purchase, rent occupy in any other legal way to acquire all kinds of property within the domnons of his Highness the Sultan of Borneo: and his Hghness engages that such citizens of the United States of America shall, far as lies in his power within his domnions, enjoy full and complete pro lection and security for themselves and for any pro- perty which they may acquire in future, or which they may have acquired already before the date of the present Convention.
 ARTICLE 4. No article whatever shall be prohibit ed from being imported into exported from the ter ritores of his ighness the Sultan of Borneo but the trade between the United States of America and the dominions of his Hghness the Sultan of Borneo shall be perfectly free and shall be subject only to the GUS tom duties which may hereafter be in force in regard to such trade.
 ARTICLE D. No duty exceeding one dollar per re- gstered ton shall be levied on American vessels enter ing the ports of his HghnesS the Sultan of Borneo: and this fixed duty of dollar per ton to be levied all American vessels shall be in lieu of all other charges or duties whatsoever His I1ighness, more over engages that American trade and American goods shall be exempt from any internal duties and also from any injurious regulations which may here after from whatever causes be adopted in the domin- ions of the Sultan of Borneo.
 ARTICLE 6. His lighness the Sultan of Borneo agrees that duty whatever shall be levied on the eXportaton from His Highness dominions of any ar tcle the growth, produce, or manufacture of those domnons
 
 engages to permit the ships of-war of the United States of America freely to enter the ports rivers and creeks situate within his dominions and to allow such ships to provide themselves, at fair and mode rate price, with such supplies, stores and provisions as they may from time to time stand in need of
 ARTICLE s. If any vessel under the American flag should be wrecked on the coast of the dominons of his Hghness the Sultan of Borneo his Highness en- gages to give all the assistance in his power to for and to deliver to the thereof all the property that can be saved from such vessels. His ighness further engages to extend to the officers and crew and all other persons on board of such wreck ed vessels full protection both to their persons and as to their property.
 ARTICLE 9. His IIighness the Sultan of Borneo agrees shat in all where citizen of the United States shall be accused of any crime committed in any part of his Hghness domnions the person so accused shall be exclusively tried and adudged by the Ame- rican Consul or other officer duly appointed for that purpose and in all eases where disputes differences may arise between American citizens, between American citizens and the subjects of his Hghnesss or between American citizens and the citizens or sub ecs of any other foreign Power in the dominons of the Sultan of Borneo the American Consul or other duly appointed officer, shall have power to hear and decide the same without any interference molestation or hndrance on the part of any authority of Borneo either before, during, or after the litigation.