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clIcs aud the Eosphorus, shall always be
delivered in such manner as to occasion to
such vessels the least possible delay.
ARTICLE XVII. The captains of mer-
chant vessels Of the United States laden
with goods destined for the Ottoman En-
pire shall be obliged, Immediately on their
arrival at the port Of their destination, to
deposit in the custom-hOuse of said port
true copy Of their manifest.
ARTICLE XVIII. Ccntraband goods will
be liable to coDfiscation by the Ottoman
treasury; but report or process verbal, Of
the alleged act Of contraband, must, so soon
as the said goods arc seized by the authori.
ties, be drawn up and communicated to the
consular authority Of the citizen or subject
to whom the goods said to be contraband
shall belong; and no goods can be confis-
Gated as contraband unless the fraud with
regard to them shall be duly and legally
proved.
ARTICLE NIX. All merchandise, the
produce or manufacture of the Ottoman
dominions and possessions, imported into
the United States Of America, shall be
treated in tho same manner as the like mer.
chandise, the produce or manufacture Of
the most favored nation.
All rights, privileges, or immunities,
which are now or may hereafter be granted
to, Or suffered to be enjoyed by the sub
jects, vessels, commerce, or navigation of
any foreign power in the United States of
America shall be equally granted to, and
exercised and enjoyed by the subjects, ves-
sells, commerce, and navigation Of the Sub.
lime Porto.
ARTICLE XX. The present treaty, when
ratigcd, shall be substituted for the CON-
mercial convention Of the 18th Of August,
1913, 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 con.
, tinuc in force for twenty-eight years from
the day of the exchange Of the ratifica.
5 tions and each of the two contracting
parties being, however, at liberty to give to
+ the other, at the end of fourteen years
(that time being fixed, as the provisions OF
B., this treaty will then have come into full
I force,) notice for its revision, or for its de-
termination at the expiration Of year
q from the date Of that notice, and So again
G ut the end Of twcnty-One years.
The present treaty shall receive its exec,
c ton in all and every one of the provinces
! Of the Ottoman Empire; that is to say, il
{ all the possessions Of his Imperial Majesty
the Sultan, situated in Europe or in Asia
). in Egypt, and in the other parts of Africa
!. belonging to the Sublime Porte, in Servia
4 and in the united Principalities Of Molda
I via and Walachia.
5 ARTICLE XXI. 1t is always understood
that the government Of the Tinted State,
!. Of America docs not pretend, by any article
i. in the present treaty to stipulate for mor'
than the plain and fair construction Of the
!. terms employed, nor to preclude in any
/ manner the Ottoman government from thu
4 exercise Of its rights Of internal admins
|. tration where the exercise of these right.
/ does not evidently infringe upon the privi
leges accorded by ancient treaties or by the
q present treaty to citizens of the Unitcc
q States or their merchandise.
ARTICLE XXI. The high contracting
parties have agreed to appoint, jointly
I commissioners for the settlement Of a tariff
. Of custom-house duties, to be levied in con
n iormity with the stipulations Of the present
treaty, as well upon merchandise OF every
4 description, being the.produce or manufac
. ture Of the United States Of America, i'm
!. ported into the Ottoman Empire, as upor
g articles Of every description the produce ol
manufacture Of the Ottoman Empire and
o its possessions, which citizens Of the Unitet
: States or their agents are free to purchase
in any part of the Ottoman Empire for ex
portation to tho United States or to any
!, other country. The new tariff, to be 81
= concluded, shall remain in force during
! seven years, dating from the date OF thu
!, !, exchange of the Publications.
: Each Of the contracting parties shal
! : have the right, year before the expiration
Of that term, to demand the revision Of thu
tariff. But il, during the seventh year
!, neither the one nor the other Of the con
= tncting parties shall avail itself Of thil
right, the tariff then existing shall continue
!. = to have the force Of law for seven year
y more, dating from the day Of the expira
! tion Of the seven preceding years and th'
: same shall be the case with respect to every
successive period Of seven years.
: ARTICLE XIII. The present treaty
The present treaty shall be ratified anC
: tho ratification shall be exchanged at Con
stantinople IN three calendar months, OF
. sooner, if possible, and shall be carried into
J execution when ratified.
i Done ut ConstantinOplc on the twenty
!. fifth day Of February, eighteen hundred
!, and sixty-two
y EDWARD JOY MORRIS. T.. s.
AALI. L. s..
And whereas the said treaty has beer
duly rutifed on both parts, and the respec
tive ratifcations Of the same were exchang
u cd at Constantinople on the fifth ultimo, BY
Edward Joy Morris, Minister Resident O.
! the United States at the Sublime Porte
!. and by his highness Mehemcd Emin Aal
u Pacha, Minister Of Foreign Affairs Of lii
Imperial Majesty the Sultan of the Otto
man Empire, on the part Of their respective
governments:
= Now, therefore, be it known that
, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President Of the
;, United States Of .Amorica, have caused thu
: said treaty to be made public, to the enc
y that the same, and every clause, and article
}, thereof, may be observed and. fulfilled will
= good faith by the United States and the
oitiyans ther,of t.aa {