Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-10-03
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Article Kill Citizens of the United States of America
or their agents. trading in goods the produce or manu-
tacture OF foreign countries shall be subject to the same
taxes and enjoy rights, privileges, and immu
mites foreign subjects dealing in goods the produce
Article XIV. An exception to the stipulations laid
down in the fifth article shall be made IN Tegaru 10 TO
salt which iva articles shall to be included among
are permitted to import into the ottoman dominons.
Citizens of the United States however or their AGENTS
Ottoman Empire, shall be subject to me same Iegna
shall pay T ne sai in the two articles Aforesaid
and Furthermore, compensation Tor the prohlDton
of the two articles above mentioned no duty whatsoever
shall in future levied those articles when exported
from the Ottoman empire by citizens of the United
Citizens of the United States shall nevertheless, be
bound declare the quantity of tobacco and salt thus
exported the proper custom house authorities. who
SHALL heretofore, have the right to watch the
port of these articles without thereby being entitled
lew any tax thereon any pretence whatsoever
Article Ky. 1t is understood between the contract
ing parties that the Sublime Porte itself
faculty and right issuing general prohibition against
the importation into the Ottoman empire of gunpowder
cannon, arms of military stores such prOh
Dltlon VIII not come into operation until it shall have
been officially notified and will apply only TO the articles
mentioned in the decree enactng the prohibition ANY
of these articles which have specifically pro-
pire be subject the local regulations unless the ega
ton of the United States of America shall think fit to
granted, provided no valid objection thereto be al
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l. 1t shall not be sold by citizens of the United States
IN QUANTITIES exceeding inc quantities prescribed by the
2. when cargo or large quantity of gunpowder ar
States such vessel Shall be anchored at a particular
spot to be designated by the local authorities and the
gunpowder shall thence be conveyed under the inspect
ion OF such uthorities to depcs fitting places desg
mated by the government to which the parties interest
cd shall have access under due regulations.
Fowling-pieces, pistols, and ornamental or fancy
weapons also small quantities of gunpowderfor sport
ing reserved for private shall not be subject the
stpulRtons of the present article.
seis Of the United States of America passing through
the Dardanees and the Bosphorus shall always be de
vered in such manner TO occasonto such vessels the
Article XVII. The ca7tains of merchant vessels of
the United States laden with goods destined for the OF
toman empire, shall be obliged, Immediately their
rival at the port Of their destination, to deposit in the
custom house of said port copy their manifest
Article XVIII COntraband goods will be liable
verbal the alleged act of contraband must
soon as the said goods seized by the authorities be
drawn up and communicated to the consular authority
OF the citizen or subject to whom the goods sad 10 be
contraband shall beong and goods be confiscat-
ed as conraband unless the fraud With regard them
shall be duly and legally proved.
Article NIX All merchandise, the produce or manu-
facture of the Ottoman domnions and possessions
ported uo the United States OF America shall be
ed in the manner the like merchandise the pro
duce and manufacture of the most favored nation.
All rights, privileges, immunites, which
NAV hereafter be granted to- or suffered to be enjoyed
by the subjects vessels commerce. 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 Sub
Article Xxx The present treaty, when ratified, shall
be substituted for the commercial convention the 18th
of August, 1888 between the Sublime Porte and Great
Britain, on the footing of which the commerce of the
United States of America has been heretofore placed
and shall continue in force for % (wentyegh0 years
from the day of the exchange of the racatiOns ard
liberty to give to the othef at the end Of II (ourteen
years thlt time being fixed, as Ihe provisions OF this
treaty will then have come into full orce notice its
revision, or for its determination at the expiration
year from the ate of that notice. and again the end
of 81 Gwenty-2ne) years.
The present treaty shall receive its execution in all
and every one of the provinces of the Ottoman empire;
that in all the possessions If his imperial mai
esty the Sultan situated in Europe in Asia iii Egypt
and in other parts of Africa belonging to the Sublime
Porte in Serva and in the united principaties Of Mol
Article XXI 1t always understood that the govern
ment of the United States of America does not pretend
more than the plain ami fair construction of the terms
employed, nor to preclude in any manner the Ottoman
mnisraon where the exercise of these rights does not
evidently infringe upon the privileges according to
United states or their merchandise. 1t
agreed to appoint jointly, commissioners for the settle
ment of tariff OF custom house duties to be levied in
conformity with the stpuntions Of the present retty
well upon merchandise every description being the
produce or manufacture of the United States of Amer
of every description the produce manufacture of the
Ottoman empire and its possessions which citizens of the
Unitd States their agents free purchase any
part the Ottoman empire for expectation 10 the Uni
be so concluded, shall remain in force during seven
years dating from the date of the exchange of the ra
cations.
Each of the contracting parties shall have the right
year before the expracn of that term, demand the
revision of the tariff But it, during the seventh year.
neither the one nor the other of the contracting parties
shall avail itself of this right, the tariff then existing
shall continue to have the force of law for seven years
MORE dating from the day Of the expiration Of the
preceding years; and the shall be the with
respect to every succeeding period of seven years.
Article NNll The present treaty shall be ratified and
the ratification shall be exchanged at Constantinope in
three calendar months sooner if possible and shall
be carried into execution when ratified.
Done at COnstantinople, the twenty-flfth dav of
February 1862 EDWARD JOY MORRIS, IL. 81
AALl, IL. S.
And whereas the said treaty has been duly ratified on
both parts, and the respective ratcatons of the
were eSchansed at Constantinope, on the nth umo
by Edward JOY Norris minister resident of the United
States at the sublime Porte and by his hghness Niche
med Emin Aal Pacha minister Of foreign affairs of his
imperial majesty the Sultan OF the Ottoman empire
the part of their respective governments:
Now, therefore, be it known that l. Abraham Lincoln,
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 be OBJ
served and fulfilled with good faith by the United States
ard the citizens thereof
In witness whereof, have hereunto set my hand ami
caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
IL 81 Done at the City of Washington, this second
day of July in the of our Lord Thousand eight
hundred and sixty two and of the independence of the
United States the eighty-sixth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the president:
f. W. SEWARD, Acting Secretary of State.
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