Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-02-16
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CITY, FLOYD COUNTY, IOWA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 49, 1865

the Ottoman Empire shall be obliged imme
{ diately on their arrival at the port of thei
destination, to deposit in the custom house o
, said port true copy of their manifest.
ARTICLE XVIII.
Contraband goods will be liable to confsca
tion 10y the Ottoman treasury; bnt report
or process rerbdi, of the alleged act ofcontraband
, must, so soon as the said goods are seized b,
!, the authorities, be drawn up and communica
ted to the consular authority of the citizen ol
subject to whom the goods said to be contra
band shall belong; and no goods can be con
fscated as contrahand unless the fraud with
regard to them snail be duly and legally
proved.
/ t.## " ARTICLE XIX. a"a. a#
All merchandise, the produce or manufac.
ture of the Ottoman dominions and posses
sons, imported into the United States o
America, shall be treated in the same manner
as the like merchandise the produce or man
ufacture 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 subjects, ves-
/ sells, commerce. or navigation of any foreign
power in the United States of America shall
be equally granted to, and exercised and en-
iioyed by the subjects, vessels, commerce, and
navigation of the Sublime Porte. ......g
ARTICLE Xxx.
! The present treaty. when ratified, shall be
substituted for the commercial convention of
the 10th of August. 1888, between the Sub
| lime Porte of Great Britain on the footing of
which the commerce of the United States of
America has been heretofore placed, and shall
continue in force for twenty eight years from
| the day of the exchange of the ratifications (:
and each of the two contracting parties being
however, at liberty togive to the other, at the
end Of fourteen years, (that time being fixed
as the provisions of this treaty will then have
come into full force.) notice for its revision, or
for its determination at the expiration Of
year from the date of that notice, and SO
again at the end of twenty-one years. s.
The present treaty shall receive its execu-
ton in all and every one of the provinces of
| the Ottoman Empire that is to say in all
the possessions of the Imperial Majesty the
Sultan, situated in Europe or in Asia. in
Egypt, and in the other parts of Africa belong
ing to the Sublime Porte, in Servia, and in
the united Principalities of Moldavia and
Wallachia.
..ttt ARTICLExNI
II is always understood that the govern
ment of tho United States of America does not
pretend, by any article in the present treaty
tp stlpulate for more than the plain and fair
constructions OF the terms employed, nor TO
| preclude in any manner the Ottoman govern
mert from the exercise of its rights of inter
ual administration where the exercise of these
rights does not evidently infringe upon the
privileges accorded by ancient treaties or by
the present treaty to citizens of the United
States or their m Srchandise. r.. ....
ARTICLE XXI.
The high contracting parties have agreed to
appoint, jointly, commissioners for the settle
ment of u tariff of custom. house duties, to be
leT;Ud in conformity with the stipuations OF
the present treaty, as well upon merchandise
of every description, being the produce or
,uanufactnre of the United States of America,
imported into the Ottoman Empire. as upon
articles OF every description the produce or
manufacture Of the Ottoman Empire and its
possessions. which citizens of the United
States or their agents are free TO purchase in
any part of the Ottoman Empire for exporta-
ton to the United States or to any, other coun-
try. The new tariff to he so concluded, shall
remain IN force during seven years, dating from
the date of the exchange of the ratificatons.
Each of the contracting parties shall have
the right, year before the expiration OF that
term, to demand the revision of the tariff
But If, dnring the seventh year, neither the
one nor the other OF the contracting parties
shall avail itself of this right, the tariff then
law for seven years more, dating from the day
OF the expiration of the seven preceding wears
and the same shall be the case with respect to
every successive period OF seven years.
ARTICLE xxuI. .- A.. ..
The present treaty shall be ratified and the
ratifcations shall be exchanged al CONSTANT
nope in three calendar months, or sooner. IL
possible, and shall be carried into execution
when ratified
Done at Constantinople on the twenty-fifth
day OF February, eighteen hundred and sixty
two.
EDWARD Jor MORRIS H. 81
......... AALI. '. ~ IL. s.
And whereas the said treaty has been duly
ratified on both parts, and the respective rati-
neatlons OF the same were exchanged at Con-
stantlnople ON the fifth ultimo, by Edward
joy Morris, Minister Resident of the United
States at the Sublime Porte. and by his high
ness Mehemed Emn Aali Pacha. Minister of
Foreign Affairs of his Imperial Majesty the
Sultan, of the Ottoman Empire, on the part of
their respective governments: .. g.
Now, therefore, be IL known that l, ABRA.
HAM LINCOLN, President of the United States
OF America, have caused the said treaty to be
made public, to the end that the same and
every clause, and article thereof, may be OBJ
served and fulfilled with good faith by the Uni
ted States and the citizens thereof.
| a-- In witness whereof, have
! rMI hereunto set my hand and
| \1SS caused the seal Of the United
=. States to be affixed. .ar
Done at the city of Washington,
this second day Of July, in
the year Of our Lord 1869, and
of the independence of the United
States the eighty-sixth.
| .r.r..rt a.. ..,-t-w A. LINCOLN
By the President. .. sra s.e ....-
w. ii. SEWARD, Sec. of State.