Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-02-16

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! sessions Of the other, equality of treatmer
with native subjects or citizens in regard I
warehousing, and also in regard to bountie
facilities, and drawbacks. ......
| ARTICLE VII. -.
All articles which are or may be legally i'm
ported into the United States Of Amercc, j
vessels of the United States, may likewise i
imported in Ottoman vessels without bein
liable to any other or higher duties or charge,
of whatever denomination, than if such art
cles were imported in vessels Of the Unite
States and, reciprocalIy, all articles whic
are or may lie legally imported ipto the dc
mlnions and possessions ot his Imperial Majes
ty the Sultan in Ottoman vessels, may like
wise be imported in vessels of the Unite
States without being liable to any other o
higher duties or changes, of whatever denomi
nation, than if such articles were imported il
Ottoman vessels Such reciprocal equality O
treatment shall take effect without distinction
whether such articles come directly from tn,
place of origin or from any other country. III
the same manner there shall be perfect equali
ty of treatment in regard to expectation, s.
that the same export duties shall be paid, afC
the same bounties and drawbacks allowed il
the domini0ns and possessions of either of thu
contracting parties on the expectation of any
"tieiV "htSh WI may bts ICEaiiN
therefrom, whether such expectations shal
take place in Ottoman or in vessels of tn,
United States, and whatever may be the plac,
of destination, whether port of either of The
contracting parties, or of any third power.
ARTICLE TX.
No duties of tonnage, harbor, pilotage
lighthouse, quarantine, or other similar o,
corresponding duties of whatever nature, ol
.h,f, IL
name or for the profit of government, publ,
functionaries. private individuals, corpora
tions, or establishments of any kind. shall b,
imposed in the ports of the domnions ano
possessions of either country upon the YES
sells of the other country which shall not
equally, and under the same conditions, be
imposed in the like cases on national YES.
sells in general.
Such equality of treatment shall apply re-
to the respective vessels. from what
ev,- port or place they may arrive and what
ever MY be their place of destination.
..... ... ARTICLE X. .T
All vessels which. according to the laws o:
the United States. are TO he deemed vessels OF
the United States. and all vessels which, ac-
cording 10 Ottoman laws, are to be deemed
Ottoman vessels. shall, for The purpose: OF
this treaty. be deemed vessels OF the United
States and Ottoman vessels respectively
ARTICLE XI. %
No change whatsoever shall be made upon
goods of the United States, being the produce
or manufacture of the United States of Ame-
riea. whether in vessels of the United States
or other vessels. nor upon any goods the pro-
iuce or manufacture of any other foreign
country carried in vessels of the United States,
when the same shall pass through the Straits
Df the Dardanelles, or of the Bosph9rus,
whether such goods shall pass through those
straits i'm the vessels that brought them, or
shall have been transshipped to other vessels;
u whether, after having been sold for expor-
tation. they shall, for a certain limited time,
be landed, in order to be placed in other YES
sells for the continuance OF their voyage. In
he latter ease, the goods in question shall be
deposited at Constantinople, in the magazines
If the custom house. called transit magazines
md in any other places where there is no en-
repot they shall be placed under the charge
If the administration of the customs.
ARTICLE XII.
The Sublime Porte, desiring to grant, by
means Of gradual concessions all facilities in
is power to transit by land, it is stipulated
md agreed that the duty of three per cent, lev
ed up To this time on articles imported into
the Ottoman Empire, in their passage through
the Ottoman Empire to other countries. shall
be reduced to two per cent payable as the du-
ty of three per ce0t. has been paid hitherto, on
arriving in the Ottoman dOminions; and at
the end of eight years, to be reckoned from
the day Of the exchange of the ratitcations of
the present treaty, to fixed and definite tax
1f one ye- cant, which shall be levied, as is to
be the clsr with respect to Ottoman produce
exported, to defray the expensesfof registra-
ton. a--..t .s.# .. ..
ARTICLE XIII.
Citizens Of the United States of America, or
their agents trading in goods the produce or
of foreign countries. shall be sub
iect to the same taxes and enjoy the same
rights, privileges. aud iulmunities, as foreign
subjects dealing in goods the produce or man
ufacture OF their own country.
ARTICLE XIV.
An exception to the stipulations laid down
i'm the fifth article shall be made in regard
to tobacco IN any shape whatsoever, and also
in regard to salt, which two articles shall
cease TO be included among those which the
citizcus of the United States ot America are
permitted to import into the Ottoman domin-
ions.
Citizens Of the United States, however, or
tllCll t1tlllS, VI SCiiitlS tttteSb W sala
for consumption in the Ottoman Empire. shall
be subject TO the same regulations and shall
pay the same duties as the most favored Otto
man subjects trading i'm the two articles afore-
said !; and furthermore, as a compensation for
the prohibition of the two artiles above men
toned, no duty whatsoever shall in future be
levied on those articles when exported from
the Ottoman Empire by citizens of the the
United States. .T5IaH
Citizens OF the United States shall, never
theless, be bound to declare the quantity OF
tobacco and salt thus exported TO the proper
custom. house authorities, who shall, as here
tofore, have the right to watch over the ex-
port of these articles, without thereby being
entitled to levy any tax thereon on any pre-
tcncc whatsoever.
ARTICLE XIV.
1t is understood between the two contract.
ing parties that the Sublime Porte reserves to
itself the faculty and right of issuing a gener-
al prohibition against the importation into the
Ottoman Empire of gunpowder, cannon, arms
of war, or military stores, but such prohibi
ton will not come into operation until II shall
have been officially notified, and will apply
only TO the articles mentioned in the decree
enacting the prohibition Any of these art
cles which have not been SO specifically pro
bibited shall, on being imported into the ct
toman Empire. be subject TO the local regula
tions, unless the legation OF the United State'
of America shall think fit to apply for spe
cial license, which will i'm that case be grant
ed. provided, no valid objection thereto cal
he alleged Gunpowder. in particular, whef
allowed to be imported, will be liable to th'
following stipulations ..
l. 1t shall not be sold by citizens of til,
United States in quantities exceeding tn,
quantities prescribed by the local regulations
9. When a cargo or large quantity o
gunpowder arrives in an Ottoman port. oI
board vessel Of the United States, such YES
sci shall be anchored at a particular spot, Il
be designatedby the local authorities, and tn
gunpowder shall thence be conveyed, undo
the inspection Of such authorities, to depots
or fitting places designated by the govern
ment, to which the parties interested shall
have access under due regulations. Fowl
ing pieces. pistols, and ornamental or fame,
weapons, as also small quantities of gunpow
der for sporting, reserved for private use, shal
not be subject to the stipulations OF the pres
ent article.
The firmans required for merchant t-vessel
of the United States of America, ON passini
through the Dardaneles and the Bosphorus
shall always be delivered in such manner a
to occasion to such vessels the least possibl
delay. r g F q