Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-02-26

Of either Of the contracting parties or of any thir
Article TX. No duties Of tonnage, harbor, plotage
lighthouse, quarantne,or other similar correspond
nomination. levied in the name OF for the profit Of gov
ernment public unctonares, private Individuals
porations, establishments Of any kind shall be i'm
posed in the ports of the donions and possessions
either country upon the vessels of the other country
which shall not equally, and under the same condi
tons, be imposed in the like cases national vessels il
Such equality Of treatment shall apply reciprocally
to the respective vessels, from whatever port place
they may arrive and whatever may be their place o.
Article K All vessels, which, according to the laws
OF the United State to be deemed vessels of the
toman laws, to be deemed Ottoman vessels shall
for the purpose Of this treaty, be deemed vessels
OF the United States and Ottoman vessels, respect
lively. a 3t11
Article XII. No charge whatsoever shall be made
upon goods of the United States, being the produce
in vessels Of the United States other vessels,
upon any goods the produce manufacture of any for
egn country carried in vessels Of the United States
when the same shall pass through the Straits OF the
pardanees, or of the Bosphorus, whether such goods
shall pass through those straits in the vessels that
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taton they shall for certain limited time, be landed
IN order to be placed in other vessels for the continue
ance OF their voyage In the latter the goods in
question shall be deposited at Consantnople, in the
magazines OF the custom-house, called transit maya
and in any other places where there is no ENTIRE
ministrati0n of the customs.
Article XII. The Sublime Porte, desiring to grant,
by means of gradual concessions, all facilities in its
power to transmit by land, it is stipulated and agreed
that the duty three per cent levied up to this time
on articles imported into the Ottoman empire in their
through the Ottoman empire to other countries
shall be reduced to two per cent payable the duty
Of three per cent has been paid hitherto on arriving
in the Ottoman deminions and at the end of eight
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the notifications OF the present treaty. fixed and
Definite tax Of one per cent? which shall be Levied as
70 be the case with respect to Ottoman produce export
ed. to defray the expense of registration.
Tue sublime Porte at the same time declares that it
actment the measures to be adopted for the preven
ton of fraud.
Article XIII. Citizens of the United States Of Amer
the taxes and enjoy the same rights privileges,
the produce OF manufacture Of their own country.
Article XIV. An exception to the stipuatIons laid
down in the Win Article shall be made in regard to to-
bacco IN shape whatsoever and also in regard to
salt, which two articles shall to be included
among those which the citizens of the United States of
America are permitted to import into the Ottoman do
minions.
Citizens of the United States howeveror their agents.
buying or selling tobacco OF salt for consumption in the
Ottoman empire, shall be subject to the regula-
tons and shall pay the duties the most favored
Ottoman subjects trading in the two articles aforesaid
Of the two articles above mentioned, duty whatsoev
er shall in future be levied those articles when
ported from the Ottoman empire by citizens of the Un
ted States
Citizens of the United States SHALL nevertheless, be
bound to declare the quantity of tobacco and salt thus
exported to the proper authorities who
shall las heretofore, have the right to watch the
export of these articles without thereby being
titled to levy any tax thereon on any pretence what
Article XIV. 1t is understood between the two con-
tracing parties that the Sublime Porte reserves to it
ton against the importation into the Ottoman empire
Of gunpowder, cannon arms of war, military stores,
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 not
been specifically prohibited shall, being imported
into the Ottoman empire, be subject to the local regu
atons, unless the legation of the United States of
America shall think fit to apply for special license
which will in that case granted provided valid
objection thereto be alleged. Gunpowder, in par
lcular when allowed to be imported will be liable to
the following stlpulatlonS
l. 1t shall not be sold by citizens of the United
States in quantities exceeding the quantities prescribed
by the local regulations.
2. When cargo a large quantity of gunpowder
arrives in an Ottoman port board vessel OF the
United States, such vessel shall be anchored at par
cular spot to be designated by the local authorities
and the gunpowder shall thence be conveyed, under
the inspection of such authorities to depots or fitting
places designated by the government to which the
parties interested shall have under due regula
TONS
Fowling-pieees pistols, and ornamental or fancy
sporting reserved for private shall not be subject
to the stpulations of the present article.
vessels of the United States of America on passing
through the Dardapelles and the Bosphorus shall al
be delivered in such manner as to occasion to such
Article XVII. The captains of merchant vessels of
the United States laden with goods destined for the
Ottoman empire, shall be Obliged Immediately their
arrival at the port Of their destination, to deposit in
the of said port true copy of their man
fest
Article XVIII. Contraband goods will be liable to
confscation by the Ottoman treasury but report,
process verbal of the alleged act of conraband musso
+la said nv he he
drawn up and communicated to the consular authority
the citizen subject to whom the goods said to be
contraband shall belong and goods con DO confs-
Gated s oont1aband, unless the fraud with regard to
them shall be duly and legally proved.
Article XIX. All merchandise the produce or man
ufacture of the Ottoman domnions and possessions
imported into the United States of America, shall be
treated III the same manner Us ,ne IKE Hercnlaolse
the produce and manufacture OF the most favored ma
ton.
All rights, privileges, immunities, which now
Or may hereafter be granted to- suffered to be en-
oyed by the subjects vessels commerce, or navigation
ofany foreign power in the United States of America
shall be equally granted to- and exercised and enjoyed
Article Xxx The present treaty, when ratified, shall
be substituted for the commercial convention Of the
10th of August 1885, between the Sublime Porte and
Great Britain, the footing of which the commerce of
the United States America has been heretofore pac
ed and shall continue in force for 28 [twenty-eght]
years from the day of the exchange ohe Publications
and each Of the two contracting parties being however
eenl years, Chat time being fixed, as the provisions of
this treaty will then have come into full force) notice
for its revision, for its determination at the expra
lion of year from the date of that notice. and so
again at the end of 81 (twenty-onel years. -
and every one of the provinces of the Ottoman empire
that is to say in all the possessions of His Imperial
Majesty the Sultan, situated in Europe in ASIA in
Egypt and in the other parts of Africa belonging to
The Sublime Porte, in Ser VIA aud in the united princ
palities of Moldavia and Wallachia
Article XXI. It is always understood that the gov
eminent of the United States of America does not pre-
tend by any article in the present treaty. to stpuate
for than the plain and fair construction 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 evidently infringe upon the privileges
10 citizens of the United States their merchandise
Article XXII.-The high contracting parties have
Element of a tariff of customhouse duties to be levied
conformity with the stpulatons of the present
w. well upon merchandise of every description, being
he produce or manufacture of the United States Of
America, imported into the Ottoman empire, upon
articles of every description the produce manufac
ure of the Ottoman empire and its possessions, which
citizens of the United States their agents free to
purchase any part of the Ottoman empire for expor
aton the United States or to any other country
The new tariff to be SO concluded shall remain in
force during years. dating from the date of the
exchange of the notifications. tf4eHs
Each Of the contracting parties shall have the right,
year before the expiration of that term to demand
The revision of the tariff But it, during the seventh
parties shall avail itself of this right the tariff then ex.
stng shall continue to have the force of law for
years dating from the day OF the expiration of
the preceding years and the shall be the
with respect to every successive period of
years. ~
Article XIII. The present treaty shall be ratified
and the racatons shall be exchanged at Constantine
Dple in three calendar months, sooner if possible,
and shall be carried into execution when ratified.
Done at Constantinople on the twenty-ffth day of
February, 1862.
EDWARD JOY MORRIS, IL. ST.
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And whereas the said Treaty has been duly rati-
fed both parts and the respective notifications of
the same were exchanged at Constantnople the fifth
utimo, by Edward Joy Morris, Minister Resident Of
the United States at the Sublime Porte, and by His
Highness Mehemed Emin Aai Pacha, Minister Of
Foreign Affairs of His Imperial Majesty the Sultan Of
the Ottoman Empire, on the part Of their respective
Governments
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