Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-11-13

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cent. payable as the duty of three per
cent. has been paid hitherto, on arri-
wing in the Ottoman dominions and
at the end of eight years, to be reck-
oned from the day of exchange of the
present treaty, to fixed and definite
tax of one per cent, which shall he
levied, as is to be the case with re-
spect to Ottoman produce exported, to
defray the expense of registration.
The Sublime Porte, at the same
time, declares that it reserves to itself
the right to establish, by special en-
actment, the measures to be adopted
for the prevention of fraud.
ARTICLE XIII.
Citizens Of the United States of
America, or their agents, trading in
goods the produce or manufacture OF
foreign countries, shall be subject to
the same taxes, and enjoy the same
rights, privileges, and immunities, as
foreign subjects dealing in goods the
produce or manufacture of their own
country.
ARTICLE xiv.
An exception to the stipulations laid
down in the Vth Article shall be made
in regard to tobacco in any shape
whatsoever, and also in regard to salt
which two articles shall cease to be
included among those which the citi-
zens of the United States of America
are permitted to import into the Otto
man dominions.
Citizens Of the United States, how
ever or their agents, buying or sell
ing tobacco or salt for consumption in
the Ottoman empire, shall be subject
to the same regulations and shall pay
the same duties as the most favored
Ottoman subjects trading in the two
articles aforesaid and furthermore,
as compensation for the prohibita-
ton of the two articles above men,
toned, no duty whatsoever shall in
future be levied on those articles when
exported from the Ottoman empire 10y
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
authorities, who shall, as heretofore,
have the right TO watch over the ex-
portation of these articles, without
thereby being entitled to levy any tax
thereon Oh any prctence whatsoever.
ARTICLE XIV.
1t is understood between the two
contracting parties that the Sublime
Porte reserves to itsclfthe faculty and
right of issuing general prohibita-
ton against the importation into the
Ottoman empire of gunpowder, can
non, arms of war. or military stores,
but such prohibitation will not come
into operation until il shall have been
officially notified, and will apply only
to the articles mentioned in the decree
cnacting the prohibitation. Any OF
these articles which have not been SO
specifically prohibited shall, on being
imported into the Ottoman empire, be
subject to the local regulations. unless
the legation of the United States Of
America shall think fit to apply for a
special license, which will in that case
be granted, provided no valid objection
thereto can be alleged. Gunpowder,
in particular, when allowed to bc i'm
ported will be liable to the following
stipula,ions:
/. 1t shall not he sold by citizens
of the United States in quantities ex-
ceedng the quantities prescribed by
| the local regulations.
2. When a cargo or large guam
tity of gunpowdcr arrives in an Otto
man port, on board q vessel of the
United States, such vessel shall be
anchored at a particular spot. to be
designated by the local authorities,
aud the gunpowdcr shall thence be
conveyed, under the inspection of such
authorities, to depots, or fitting places
designated 10y the government. to
which the parties interested shall have
access under due regulations.
Fowling-pieces, pistols, and orna-
mental or fancy weapons, as also
small quantities of gunpowdcr for
sporting, reserved for private use,
shall not be subject to the stipulations
of the present article.
ARTICLE XVI.
The frmans required for merchant
vessels of the United States of Amer
lea, on passing through the Dardan-
Giles and the Bosphorus, shall always
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casion to such vessels the least posi-
bic delay.
ARTICLE XVII.
The captains Of merchant vessels Of
the United States, laden with goods
destined for the Ottoman empire, shall
be obliged, Immediately on their ar
rival at the port of their destination,
to deposit in the custom-housc of said
port true copy Of their manifest.
ARTICLE XVIII.
Contraband goods will be liable to
confiscation by the Ottaman treasury;
but report, or process verbal, Of the
alleged act of coutraband, must, so
soon as the said goods are seized by
the authorities, be drawn up and COM
municated to the consular authority of
the citizen or subject to whom the
goods said to be cobtraband shall be.
long and no goods can be confisca-
ted as contraband, unless the fraud
with regard to them shall be duly and
legally proved.
ARTICLE XIX.
All merchandise, the produce or
manufacture of the Ottoman domin.
ions aud possessions. imported into
tho Irnifnd SiainS Of Amnrica shall he