Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12
VAN BUREN, FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1857.

! and rights, such advocates, attorneys and 9TH
| er agents, being citizens or subjects of the
other, as they may choose to select.
ARTICLE VIII.
There shall be, between the territories oi
/ the high contracting parties, reciprocal liberty
/ of commerce and navigation; and to that eff
feet the vessels of their respective States shall
mutually have liberty to enter the ports, places,
and rivers of the territories of eaah party
wherever national vessels arriving from abroad
are permitted to enter And all vessels OF
| either of the two contracting parties, arriving
in the ports of the other, shall be tseated on
their arrival, during their stay, and at their
! departure, on tie same footing as national
! vessels. as regards port charges, and all char
! ges of navigation, such as of tonnage, light
/ houses, pilotage, anchorage, Quarantine, fees
| of public functionaries, as well rs all taxes or
! impositions of whatever sort, and under what
ever denomination, received in the name, and
for the benefit of the government, or of local
authorities, OF any private institution whatso-
| ever, whether the said vessels arrive or de-
| part in ballast, ON whether they import or ex
| port merchandise.
| ARTICLE TX.
The national character of the vessels of the
respective countries shall be recognized and
admitted by each of the parties according to
| its own laws and special rules, by means of
papers granted by the competent authorities
! to the captains or masters. And no vessels
of either of the contracting parties shall be
| entitled to profit by the immunities and ad
vantages granted in the present treaty, uness
they are provided with the proper papers and
certificates, as required by the regulations ex
istng in the respective countries, to establish
their tonnage and thei nationality.
ARTICLE Y.
The vessels Of each ofthe high contracting
parties shall be allowed to introduce lnto the
ports of the other, and to export thence, and
to deposit and store there, every sort of goods
wares, and merchandise, from whatever place
the same may come, the importation land ex-
portation of which are legally permitted in
the respective States, without being held to
pay other or heavier custom house duties or
imposts, of whatever kind or name, other, or
OF higher rate, than those which would be
paid for similar goods or products if the same
were imported or exported in national vessels;
and the same privileges, drawbacks, bounties,
and allowances which may be allowed by'ei
ther of the contracting parties on any mer-
| chandise imported or exported in their own
vessels shall be allowed, also, on similar pro-
duco imported or exported in vesscls of the
other party.
ARTICLE xI.
No priority or preference shall be gwen,
directly or indirectly, by either of the con-
tracing parties, nor by any company, corpo
ration, or agent in their behalf or under their
authority, in the purchase of any article of
commerce lawfully imported on account of,
or in reference to, the character of the vessel
in which such article was imported; it being
the true intent and meaning of the contract
ing parties that no distinction or difference
shall be made in this respect.
ARTICLE XII.
The principles contained in the fore going
articles shall be applicable in all their extent,
to vessels of each of the high contracting par
ties, and to their cargoes, whether the said
vessels arrive from the ports of either of the
contracting parties, or from those of amy 9th
er foreign country, so hat, as far as fegards
dues or navigation or customs, there shall not
| be made, either in regard to direct or indirect
navigation, any distinction whatever between
the vessels of the two contracting parties.
ARTICLE XIII.
| The above stipulations shall not, however,
/ extend to fisheries, nor to the cDasting trade
| from one part to another in each country,
| whether for passengers or merchandise, and
whether by sailing vessels or steamers, such
navigation and traffic being reserved exclu
! sively to national vessels.
But, notwithstanding, the vessels of either
of the two contracting parties may load or
unload, in part, at one or more ports OF the
| territories of the other, and then proceed to
any other port or ports in said territories to
complete their loading or unloading, in the
| same manner as national vessel NIGH do.
ARTICLE XIV.
No higher or ether duty shall be imposed
on the importation, by sea or land, into the
| United States, of any article the growth pro-
| duce or manufacture of the kingdom of the
Two Siclies, or of her fisheries; and no higher
| or other duty shall be imposed on the impor-
tation, by sea or by land, into the kingdom
of the Two Scilies, of any article the growth,
| produce or manufacture Of the United States
or their fisheries, than are or shall be payable
on the like articles the growth, produce, or
manufacture of any other foreign county.
No other or higher duties and charges
shall be imposed in the United States pn the
expectation of any article to the kingdom of
the Two Sicilies on the expectation of any
article to the United States, than such as are
or shall be payable on the expectation of the
like article to any foreign country. And no
prohibition shall be imposed on the impor.a
ton or expectation Of any article the growth,
produce, or manufacture of the United States
or their fisheries, or of the kingdom of the
Two Scilies and her fisheries, from or to the
ports of the United States or of the kingdom
of the Two Siciles, which shall not cd ually
extend to every foreign country.
ARTICLE Ky.
If either of the high contracting parties
shall hereafter grant to any other nation any
particular favor, privilege, or immunity, IL
navigation or commerce, it shall Immediately
become common TO the other party, freely