Delaware State journal and statesman., 1865-02-21

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Sessions Of any article the produce and manu-
facture of the United States of America, from
whatever place arriving; and that the duties Il
be imposed on every article the produce or man
ufacture Of the United States Of America i'm
ported into the empire and POSSESSIONS Of hi.
Imperial Majesty the Sultan, shall in no cast
exceed one fixed rate Of eight per cent. al Ualo-
rem or specific duty, fixed by common con
sent, equivalent thereto. Such rate shall bC
calculated upon the value Of such articles at the
wharf, and shall be payable at the time Of theil
being landed, if brought by sea- or at the iirs
custom house they may reach, if brought by
land
If these articles, after having paid the import
duty Of eight per cent, are sold either at the
place of their arrival or in the interior of the
country, neither the buyer nor the seller shall
be charged with asy further duty in respect TO
them; aud IL such articles should not be sold for
consumption in the Ottoman Empire, but should
be re-exported within the space Of six months,
/ the same shall be considered as merchandise in
transit by land, and be treated 0s is stated here
matter in Article XII, Of this treaty. the admin
| istratiOn Of the customs being bound TO restore
at the time of their re-exportatiou, to the mer :
chant, who shall be required to furnish proof
! that the goods in question have paid the import
duty of eight per cent, the difference between
that duty and the duty levied on goods in tran
sit by land, as set forth in the article above
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a ARTICLE VI.
It is understood that any article the produce
or manufacture Of u foreign country intended
for importation into the United Principalties of
Moldo- WallachiA, OF into the Prnoipality Of
Strvia, which shall pass through any other part
of tho Ottoman Empirei will not be liable to the
payment Of customs duty until it reaches those
Frncipalites; and on the other hand, that any
article Of foreign produce or manufacture pass
ing through those prinoipalities but destined for
some other part of the Ottoman Empire, will not
ba Liable to the payment of customs duty until
such article reaches the first custom house under
the direct administration of the sublime Porte.
The came course shall be followed with re-
speot to any article, the produce or Manufacture
Of those municipalities, as we'll as with respect
to amy article the produce or manufacture Of
any other portion of the Ottoman Empire, in
tended for exportatiOn Such articles will be
liable 10 the payment Of customs duties, the
former to the custom house Of the aforesaid
principAlites, aud the latter to the Ottoman
custom house; the object being that neither inis
port nor export duties shall in any case be pay
able more than once.
ARTICLE VII.
The subjects and citizens Of the contracting |
parties shall enjoy, in the dominionB AMI pos
sessions of the other equality Of treatment with
native subjects OF citizens in regard to wares
housing, and also in regard to bountes, facili- |
ties and drawbacks.
ARTICLE VIII.
All articles which are or may be legally i'm
portable into the United States Of America, in |
vessels Of the United States, may likewise bo
imported in Ottoman vessels without being liable |
TO any other or higher duties or charges, of
whatever denomination, than If such articles |
were imported in vessels Of the United States;
and, reciprocally, all articles which are OF may
be legally importable into the dominions and
possessions Of his Imperial Majesty the Sultan,
in Ottoman vessels, may likewise be imported in
vessels Of the United States without being liable |
&c any other or higher duties or charges Of |
whatever denomination, than If such articles
were imported in Ottoman vessels. Such recip-
rooal equality Of treatment shall take effect |
without distinction, whether such articles come |
directly from the place Of origin or from any |
other country. In the same manner there shall
be perfect equality Of treatment in regard to
expectation, 50 that the same export duties shall
be paid, and the same bounties and drawbacks
allowed in the dominions and possessions Of
either Of the contracting parties on the exporta-
ton Of any article which is, or may be legally
exporlable therefrom, whether suoh exporta-
tions shall take place in Ottoman or In vessels
of the United States, and whatever may be the
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the contracting parties or Of any third power.
ARTICLE TX.
No duties Of tonnage, harbor, piloiage, light
house, quarantine or other similar or correapou-
ding duties Of whatever nature or under what
ever denomination, levied in the name or for
the profit of Government, public funotionaries
private individuals, corporations or establish
ments Of any kind, shall be imposed in the ports
Of the dominions and possessions Of either coun-
try upon the vessels Of the other country 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 recip-
rocGlly to the respective vessels, from whatever
port or place they may arrive and whatever may
be their place of destination.
ARTICLE x.
All vessels which, according to the laws of the
United States, ore to be deemed vessels Of the
United States, and all vessels which, according
10 Ottoman laws, are to be deemed Ottoman
vessels, shall, for the purposes Of this treaty,
be deemed vessels Of the United States aud Ot'
ioman vessels respectively,
ARTICLE XII.
No charge whatsoever shall be made upon
goods of the United States, being the produce or
manufacture of the United States of America,
Wlelnef III Neb5el5 Ol tn6 Nulltu okattb UT OtuNf
vessels nor upon any goods the produce or
manufacture Of any other foreign country, car
ried in vessels Of the United States, when the
same shall pass through the Straits Of the Dur
lanellee, or Of the D0sphorus, whether such
goods shall pass through those straits in the
vessels that brought them, or shall have been
to other vessels; Or whether, alter
having been sold for expectation, they shall, for
q certain limited time, be landed in order to be
L. tho continuance n
heir voyage. In the latter case, the goods in
question shall be deposited at Constantinople,
Ia the magazines Of the custom house, called
transit magazines; aud in any other places
where there is no entrepot they shall be placed
under tho charge of the administration Of the
customs.
ARTICLE XII.
Tho Sublime Porte desiring TO grant by means
Of gradual concessions, oil facilities in its power
10 transit by land, it is stipulated and agreed
that the duty Of three per cent levied up to this
lime on articles imported into tho Ottoman EN-
Dire, in their passage through the Ottoman EN-
pire to other countries, shall be reduced to two
Der cent, payable as the duty Of three per esat
has been paid hitherto, on arriving In the Otto
man domfnions; and at the end Of eight years,
10 DO reckoned from the day of the exchange OF
the ratfoatious OF tho present treaty, to fixed
md definite tax of one per cent, which shall be
evied, as is to be the case with respect TO Otto
man produce exported, to defray the expense Of
-egisliAtion.
The sublime. Porte, at the same time, declares
that it reserves to itself tue right to establish by
4 special enactment, the measures to be adopted
for the prevention of fraud. - -----
ARTICLE XIII.
Citizens OF the United stntes OF America, or
their agents, trading 10 goods the produce or