The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-10-31


the first custom house they may reach, if brought
by land.
II these articles, after having paid the import
duty Of eight per cent? sold either at the place
of their arrival in the interior Of the country,
neither the buyer nor the seller shall be charged
with any further duty In respect to them and il
such articles should not DO sold for consumption
IN the Ottoman Empire, but should be re-exported
within the space Of six months, the same shall be
considered merchaudise in transit by land, and
be treated is hereinafter stated in Art. MI. Of
this treaty; the administration Of the customs be-
ing bound to restore at the time Of their re-ex-
portation, to the merchant, who shall be required
TO furnish proof that the goods in question have
paid the import duty OF eight per cent, the differ
encc between that duty an the duty levied on
goods in transit by land set forth in the article
above cited.
ART. vi. 1t is understood that any article, the
produce or manufacture Of any foreign ,ountry,
intended for importation into the United Princi-
palities of Moldo Mallacha, into the principal
ity of Servia which shall pass through any other
part of the Ottoman Empire, will not be liable TO
the payment of customs duty until il reaches those
principalities; and, ON the other hand that any
article Of foreign produce or manufacture passing
through those principalites but destined for some
other part Of the Ottoman Empire, will not be
liable to the payment Of customs duty until such
article reaches the first custom house under the
direct administration Of the Sublime Porte.
The same course shall be followed with spect
to any article the produce manufacture Of those
priucipaties, well with respect to any article
the produce manufacture Of any other portion of
tnc OtIOIndn Empire, lulenueu lOr eApOTtAtlOn
such ariic will be liable TO the payment Of
toms duties-the former to the custom-house Of
the aforesaid principalities, and the latter TO the
Ottoman custom housc; the object be ng that nei-
thcr import nor export duties shall i'll any case be
payable more than once.
ART. VII. The subject and citizens of the con-
tracing parties shall enjoy, in the doninions and
possessions Of the other, equality of treatment with
regard to warehousiDg, and also in regard to boun
ties, facilities, and drawbacks.
AIT VIII. All articles which are, or may be,
legally inportabe into the United States Of Amer
lea, in vessels of the United States, may ikeM Use
be imported in Ottoman vessels, without being liza
bic 10 any other or higher duties or charges, of
whatever denomination, than if such articles were
imported in vessels Of the United States; and, re-
cprocally, all articles which may be legally
importable into the dominions and possessions of
His Imperial Majesty the Sultan in Ottoman ves-
sells, may likewise be imported in vessels Of the
United States, without being liable any other or
higher duties or charges, Of whatever denomina-
ton, than if such articles were import in Otto
man vessels. Such reciprocal equality of treat
ment shall take effect without distinction, whether
such article. come directly from the place of origin
or from any other country. In the same manner,
there shall be perfect equality Of treatment in
gard to expectation, SO that the same export du-
ties shall be paid, and the same bounties and
drawbacks allowed, in the dominions and possess
sions Of either of the contracting parties the
expectation OF any article which Is, or may be,
legally exportabe therefrom, whether such export
alton shall take place in Ottoman in vessels of
the United States, and whatever may be the place
of destination, whether port of either of the
tracting PARTIES, or of any third power.
ART IA. No duties of tonnage, barbor, pilotage,
hthouse, quarantine, or other similar or CORES
ponding duties Of whatever nature, OF under what
ever denomination, levied in the name for the
profit of government, public functioanries private
individuals, corporations, establishments Of any
kind, shall be imposed in the ports Of the domin-
ians and possessions of either country upon the
vessels of the other country which shall not
equally, and under the same conditions, be i'm
in fhp a nafIn al I'm
eral.
Such equality Of treatment shall apply recipro-
cally to the respective vessels, from whatever port
or place they may arrive, and whatever may be
their place of destination.
ART. Y. All vessels, which, according to the
laws of the United States to be deemed vessels
of the United States, aud all vessels which, accord
ing to Ottoman laws, are to be deemed Ottoman
vessels, shall for the purposes of this treaty, be
deemed vessels OF the United States and Ottoman
vessels, respectively.
upon goods of the United States, being the pro-
duce or manufacture Of the United States of Amer
lea, whether in vessels Of the United States,
other vessels, nor upon any goods the produce or
manufacture of any other foreign country carried
in vessels of the United States, when the shall
pass through the Straits of the Dardanellcs, or Of
the Bosphorus, whether such goods shall pass
through those straits in the vessels that brought
them, shall have been transhipped TO other
vessels; or whether, after having been sold for
portatiVn, they shall, for certain limited time,
iaDueu IN TO De pi;iCeu III Other vessels 1Ol
the continuance of their voyage. In the latter
case, the goods in question shall be deposited at
Constantinople, in the magazines of the CUSTOM
house, called transit magazines and in any other
places where there is no entrepot, they shall be
placed under the charge Of the administration OF
the customs.
ART. Mi. The Sublime Porte desiring to grant,
by means Of gradual concessions, all facilities in its
power transit by land it is stipulated and agreed
that the duty of three per cent levied up TO this
time on articles imported into the Ottoman En-
IL IL s1,a
TO other countries, shall be reduced per cent
payable the duty of three per cent. has been paid
hitherto, on arrivii z in the Ottoman dominions !;
and at the end of eight years, to be reckoned from
the day of the exchange Of the ratification of the
present treaty, to fixed and definite tax of one
per cent which shall be levied, is TO be the
case with respect to Ottoman produce exported, to
defray the expense Of registration.
The Sublime Porte, at the same time, declares
that it to itself the right to establish by
a special enactment, the measures to be adopted
for the prevention of fraud.
ART. XIII. Citizens of the United States Of
America, or their agents, trading in goods thS
produce manufacture of foreign countries, shall
be subject to the same taxes, and enjoy the same
rights privileges and immunities, foreign sub
iects dealing in goods the produce or manufacture
Of their own country
ART. XIV. An exception to the stipulations laid
down in the With Article shall he made in regard to
tobacco in any shape whatsoever, and also in re-
gard to salt, which two articles shall cease TO be
included among those which the citizens of the
lnlIe0 states OF America are permitted import
| into the Ottoman dominions.
Citizens of the United States, however, or their
agents, buying or selling tobacco salt for con-
| sumption in the Ottoman Empire, shall he subject
| to the same regulations and shall pay the came
duties the most favored Ottoman subjects trad
ing in the two articles aforesaid and furthermore,
| n compensation for the prohibition Of the two
articles above mentioned, no duty whatsoever shall
in future be levied those articles when exported
| from the Ottoman Empire by citizens Of the
| United States.
Citizens of the United States shall nevertheless
| be bound to declare the quantity Of tobacco and
salt thus exported to the proper custom house au
thoritcs, who shall, heretofore, have the right
to watch the export Of these articles without
thereby being entitled to levy any tax thereon on
| any pretenoe whatsoever.
| Art. XIV. 1t is understood between the two con-
tracing parties that the Sublime Porte reserves
itself the faculty and right Of issuing a general
| man Empire Of gunpowdcr, cannon, arms of war,
| or military stores, but such prohibition will not
come into operation until il shall have been off,
cially notified, and will apply only to the articles
| mentioned in the decree enacting the prohibition.
Any of these articles which have not been so spe-
cifcally prohibited shall, on being imported into
the Ottoman Empire, be subject to the local regu-
ations, unless the legation Of the United States OF
| America shall think fit TO apply for a special
| license, which will in that be granted, pro-
vided no valid objection thereto can be alleged.
Gunpowder, in particul when allowed to be i'm =
ported will be liable the following stipulations
| L. II shall not be sold by citizens Of the United
States in quantities exceeding the quantities pre-
scribed by the local regulations.
| 2 When cargo or 4 large quantity of gunpow-
/ der arrives in an Ottoman port, on board vessel
Of the United States such vessel shall be anchored
| authorities and the gunpowder shall thence be
conveyed under the inspection of such authorities,