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citizen of the United States.
Citizens of the United States, shall, neyertho-
less, be bound to declare the quantity OF tobacco
and salt thus exported to the proper custom
house authorities who shall, us heretofore, have
the right to watch over the export Of these artl-
cles, without thereby being entitled to levy any
tax thereon OH any pretenee whatsoever
Article XIV. 1t is understood between the Two
contracting parties that the Sublime Porte
reserves TO itself the faculty and right of is
suing general prohibition against the importa-
tion into the Ottoman empire Of gunpoWder,
cannon, arms Of war, or military stores, but such
prohibition will not come into operation until it
shall have been officially notified, and will apply
only to the articles mentioned in the decree en-
acting the prohibition. AnyOf these articles which
have not been so specifically prohibited shall,
on being imported into the Ottoman empire be
subject to the local regulations unesss the lega-
tion Of the United States of America shall think
fit to apply for special license, which will in
that case be granted, provided no valid ohjee-
ton thereto can be alleged. Gunpowder, in
particular, when allowed to be imported will be
liable to the following sipuatons;
! II shall not be sold by citizens Of the United
States in quantities exceeding the quantities
prescribed by the local regulations.
p When a cargo or n large quantity of gun
powder arrives in an Ottoman port, on board
vessel of the United States such vessel shall be
anohred at particular spot, to be designated by
the local authorities, and the gunpowder shall
thence he convened under the inspection Of sucl
authorities, TO depots, or fitting places desg-
mated by the government to which the parties
interested shall have access under due regula-
tions.
Fowling pieces, pistols, and ornamental or
fancy weapons, as also small quantities of gun
powder for sporting, reserved for private use,
shall not be subject to the stipulations Of the
present article.
Article XVI. The irmans required for mer-
chant vessels of the United States of America, on
passing through the Dardanelles and the Bos-
phorus, shall always be delivered in such man
as to occasion to such vessels the least possi-
BILE elay.
Article XVII The captains of merchant YES
sells of the United States, laden with goods
destiued for the Ottoman empire, snail be
obliged, Immediately on their arrival ut the
port of their destination, 10 deposit in the Gus
tom house of said port true copy of their
manifest
Article XVIII. Contrabaud goods will be liable
to confscation by the Ottoman treasury; but
report, or process verbal, of the alleged act of
contraband, must, so soon as the said goods are
selzed by the authorities, be drawn up and COM
muuioated to the consular authority Of the citi-
zen or subject to whom the goods said to be con-
trahand shall belong and no goods eau he con-
tiscated 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 dominions and pos
sessions imported into the United States Of
America, shall be treated in the same manner as
the like merchandise the produce aud manufac-
ture of the most favored nation.
ALI rights, privileges, or immunities, which
are now or may hereafter be granted to, or suf-
fered to be enjoyed by the subjects vessels, com
merce or navigation of any foreign power in the
United States Of America shall be equally granted
to, and exercised and enjoyed by the subjects
vessels, commerce, and navigation of the Sublime
Porte.
Article XXX The present treaty when ratified,
shall be substituted for the commercial eonyeA-
ton of the 16th Of August, 1898, between tno
Sublime Porte and Great Britain, on the footing
OF which the commerce OF the United States OF
America has been heretofore placed, and shrll
continue in force for 2S [twenty-eight] yea
from the day of the exchange of the Publications;
and each OF the two contracting parties being,
however, at liberty to give to the other at this
end Of IA [fourteenl years (hat time being fixed,
the provisions OF this treaty will then have
come into full orce) notice for its revision, or
for its determination at the expiration of year
from the date OF that notice, aud so again at tile
end Of u Twenty one years.
The present treaty shall receive its execution
in all and every one OF the provinces Of the OF
tomhn empire that is to say, in all the posses
sions of His Imperial Majesty the Sultan, stua-'
ted in Europe or in Asia, in Egypt, and in the
aud in the other parts of Africa belonging to the
Sublime Porte, in Servia, and in the United
principnities Of MOllava and Wallacha.
Article XXI. 1t is always understood that tho
government OF the United States of America dOes
not pretend, by any article in the present treaty,
to siipulate for more than the plain aud fair con-
strucion of the terms employed, nor to preclude
in any manner the Ottoman government from the
exercise of its rights of internal administration
where the exercise of these rights does not evil
IDENTIFY infringe upon the privileges accorded by
ancient treaties or by the present treaty TO
citizens of the United States or their merehan-
disc.
Article XXI. The high contracting parties
have agreed to appoint, jointly, commissioners
for the settlement of tariff Of custom house
duties to be levied in conformity with the stipu-
lations of the present treaty, az well upon mer
chandise of every description being the produce
or manufacture of the United States OF America,
imported into the Ottoman empire, as upon arti-
cles Of every description the produce or manu-
facture of the Ottoman empire aud its possess
sions, which citizens of the United States or their
agents are free to purchase in any part Of the
Ottoman empire for expectation to the United
States or to any other country. The new tariff,
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seven years, dating from the date of the exchange
of the ralitications.
Each of the contracting parties shall have tho
right year before the expiration of that term,
to demand he revision OF the tariff But if,
during the seventh year, neither the one nor the
other OF the Contracting parties shall avail Itself
of this right tue tariff then existing shall continue
TO have the force of law tor seven years more,
danug from the day of the expiration of the seven
preceding years and the same shall be the case
with respect to every successive period Of seven
| y'ars
Artiel, XIII. The present treaty shall be
ratified anu the ratification shall be exchanged
at Constautinupie in three calendar months, or
sooner If possible and shall be carried into exc
cution when ratified.
Done ut Consta ntinope, on the twenty-hfth
day of February, 1862.
EDWARD JOY MORRIS, II. s.
AALl, It.. s.
And whereas, the said Treaty has been duly
ratified on both parts, and the respective ratiti-
cations of the same were exchanged at Constan-
tinope on the fifth ultimo, by Edward Joy
Morris, Minister Resident of the United States
Mt the Sublime Porte and by his Highness
Mehemed Emin Aali Pacha Mini ster Of Foreign
Affairs Of HIS Imperial Majesty the Sultan OF
the Ottoman Empire, on the part Of their res
peclive governments
/ Now, therefore, be it known that /, Abraham
Liucon President of the United States Of
America, have caused the said Treaty to be made
public to the end that the same, and every clause
and article thereof, may be observed and fulfilled
with good filth by the United States aud tAt
citizens thereof.
In witness whereof, have hereunto set my
han1 and caused the seal OF the United States c
be affixed.
Al. &, Of Nl,, nd