, 1864-11-07

Of treatment in regard to expectation, so
that the same export duties shall be paid,
and the same bounties and drawbacks al
lowed in the doninions and possessions Of
either of the contracting parties on the ex-
portaton of any article which is, or may
be. legally cxportabie thercirom, whe her
such expectations shall take place III Otto
man or in vessels Of the United States,
and whatever may be the place of dcstina-
ton, whether port of either of the con
tracing parties, or Of any third power.
ARTICLE IX. No duties of tonnage, har-
Dor, pilotagc, lighthouse, quarantine, or
other similar or corresponding duties Of
whatever nature, or under whatever demon
nation, levied in the name or for the profit
Of government, public functionaries, private
individuals, corporations, or establishments
of any kind, shall be imposed in the ports
of the dOminions and possessions Of either
country upon the vessels of the other coun-
try which shall not equally, and under the
same conditions, be imposed in the like cases
on national vessels in general.
Such equality OF treatment shall apply
recprocally to the respective vessels, from
whatever port or place they may arrive and
whatever may be their place Of destination.
ARTICLE y. All vessels which, according
to the laws of the United States, arc to be
deemed vessels Of the United States, aud
all vessels which, according to Ottoman
laws, are to be deemed Ottoman vessels,
shall, for the purposes of this treaty, be
deemed vessels of the United States and
Ottoman vessels respectively.
ARTICLE Nl. No charge whatever shall
be made upon goods of the United States
being the produce or manufacture Of the
United States Of America, whether in YES
sells of the United States or other vessels
nor upon any goods the produce or manu-
facturc of any other foreign country carried
in vessels Of the United States, when the
same shall pass through the Straits of thu
Dardanelles, OF of the BosphOrus, whether
such goods shall pass through those strait
in the vessels that brought them, or shal
have been transhipped to other vessels; o.
whether, after having been sold for expor
tation, they shall, for certain limited time
be landed, in order to be placed in Othe
vessels for the continuance Of their voyage
In the latter case, the goods in question
shall be deposited at Constantinople, in th'
magazines of the custom-housc, called tran
sit magazines; and in any other places whcr
there is no entrepot they shall be place.
under the charge Of the administration 0
the customs.
ARTICLE XII. The Sublime Porte, dc
string to grant, by means Of gradual con
cessions, all facilities in its power to transi
by by land, it is stipulated and agreed tha
the duty Of three per cent. levied up to thi
time on articles imported into the Ottoman
Empire, in their passage through the Otto
man Empire to other countries, shall be re
duced to two per cent, payable rs the dut.
Of three per cent. has been paid hitherto
on arriving in the Ottoman dominions; an,
at the end Of eight years, to he rcckone'
from the day Of the exchange Of the ratiii
cations of the present treaty, to fixed AM
definite tax Of one per cent, which shall b
levied, as Is 10 be the. eose with resPoos .
Ottoman produce exported, to defray th
expense Of registration.
The Sublime Porte, at the same time
declares that il reserves to itself the righ
to establish, by special enactment, th,
measures to be adopted for the prevention
Of fraud.
ARTICLE XIII. Citizens Of the Unite
States Of America, or their agents, tradin
in goods the produce or manufacture Of for
eign countries, shall be subject to the sam
taxes and enjoy the same rights, privileges
aud immunities, as foreign subjects dealin
in goods the produce or manufacture Of thei
own country.
ARTICLE XIV. An exception to the stir
ulations laid down in the fifth article shal
be made in regard to tobacco in any shap
whatsoever, and also in regard to salt, whic
two articles shall cease to beincluded anon,
those which the citizens Of the United State
Of America are permitted to import int,
the Ottoman dominions.
| Citizens Of the United States, howeye,
or their agents, buying or selling tobacco o
salt for consumption in the Ottoman I'm
pire, shall bo subject to the same regulation
and shall pay the same duties as the mos
favored Ottoman subjects trading in the tw
articles aforesaid; and Furthermore, as
compensation for the prohibition Of the tw
articles above mentioned, no duty whatsC
ever shall in future be levied on those arti
cles when exported from the Ottoman En-
lpire by citizens Of the United States.
Citizens Of the United States shall, ney
ertheless, be bound to declare the quantit
Of tobacco and salt thus exported to th
proper custom-house authorities, who shall
as heretofore, have the right to watch owe
the export of these articles, without thorcb
being entitled to levy any tax thereon Of
any pretence whatsoever.
I ARTICLE XIV. 1t is understood betwcc
the twocontracting parties that the Sublim
Porte reserves to itself the faculty and righ
Of issuing general prohibition against tn
importation into the Ottoman Empire Q
gunpowder, cannon, arms Of war, or mill
tary stores, but such prohibition will nc
come into operation until it shall have bee
officially notified, and will apply only to th
articles mentioned in the decree enactin
the prohibition. Any Of these articles whic
have not been so specifically prohibited shal
on being imported into the Ottoman Empire
be subject to the local regulations, unles
the legation Of tho United States Of Americ
shall think ct to apply for special license
which will in that case be granted, provide
no valid objection thereto can be alleged