The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-12-01

NV Of these articles (which have moi
been so specifically prohibited, snail, On oetnE
;nonorted into the Ottoman empire, DC suoJect te
the local regulations unless the ssgatsn Of OIL thS
ITnited States of America shall THINK MT 10 apply
for special license which NH ~ sat
Be ALLEGED Gunpowder, in particular, when al
lowed 70 be imported will be liable to the follow
II snail not be sold by citizens of the United
States in quantities exceeding the quantities pre-
scribed by the local regulations.
q When a cargo or large quantity OF gunpoW,
der arrives in an Ottoman port, on board vessel
of the United States, such vessel shall De ancnor,
ed at particular spot, TO be designated by tne
local authorities, to depots, or lifting places ues-
ignated by the government to which the parties
interested shall have access under due reSuia-
tions.a -
CIV weapons rs also small quantities OF gunpow,
der for sporting, reserved tor private use, snn
not be subject to the stipulatlons OF the pres
Article XVI The firmans required for mer-
chant vessels OF the United States OIL america, Oh
passing through the Dardaneiles ana .he bospio
rms shall always be delivered in such manner as
to occasion to such vessels the least possloie ue
lay. ,,,,,, ,,,o ,.,;,s of merchant YES
seIs of the United States, laden with goods des
tined for the Ottoman empire, shall be opllgea,
Immediately on their arrival at the port Oh their
destination, to deposit in the custom house OF
said port true copy of their manifest
Article XVIII. Contraband goods will be liable
to confiscation by the Ottoman treasury but a
report or process verbal OF the alleged act OF
contraband, must, SO soon the said goods are
seized by thk authorities, be drawn up and com
municat, d to the consular authority OF the citi-
zen or subject to whom the goods said to be con-
traband shall belong; and no goods can De con-
fiscated as contraband unless the fraud WIFE re-
gard to them shall be duly and legally proved
Article XIX. All merchandise, the produce or
manufacture of the Ottoman domlnlons ana pos
sessions, imported into the United States OF
America shall be treated in the same manner as
the like merchandise, the produce and manulac-
ture of the most favored nation.
All rights privileges, or m,nunlties, which arc
now or may hereafter be granted to, or suffered
to he enjoyed by the subjects, vessels, commerce,
or navigation of any foreign power IN the Inted
States of America, shall be equally granted 10,
and exercised and enjoyed by the subjects, yes
sells, commerce and navigation OF the Suollme
Porte. ..e,
shall be substituted for the commercial conven-
ton of the 10th OF August, 1855, 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
continue in force for IS twenty years from
the day of the exchange OF the publications.; ana
each of the two contracting parties being. now
ever, at libesty to give to the other at Inc emu oi
IA Tfourteen years, (that time being liked, as the
provisions Of this treaty will then have come INTO
full force) notice for its revision, or for its deter
mination at the expiration OF year from the
date of that notice, and SO again at the END OIL u
ltwenty-oneI years.
The present treaty shall receive its execution i'll
all and every OF the provinces of the Ottoman
empire til 1t is to say in all the possessions oil
His Imperial Majesty the Sultan, situated III hu-
rope or in Asia, it Egypt, and in the other parts
OF Africa belonging to the Sublime Porte, in
Servia, and in the united principalties OF Moida-
via and Wallacha.
Article XXI. 1t is always understood that the
government of the United States of America does
not pretend, by any article in the present treaty,
to stipulate for more than the plain and fair CON
struction of the terms employed, norto preclude
in any manner the Ottoman gov ernment from the
exercise of its rights OF internal administration
where the exercise OF these rights does not evil
IDENTIFY infringe upon the privileges accorded by
ancient treaties by the present treaty to citizens
of the United States or their merchandise.
Article XIII. The high contracting parties
have agreed to appoint, jointly, commissioners
for the settlement of tariff of custom-housc
duties, to be levied in conformity with the stipu-
lations of the present treaty, as well upon mer-
chandise OF every description, being the produce
manufacture of the United States of America
imported into the Ottoman empire, as upon
articles of every description the produce or manu-
1ucture of the Ottoman empire and its possessions
which citizens OF the United States or their agents
free to purchase in any part of the Ottoman
empire for expectation TO the United States or to
any other country. The new tariff, to be so con-
cluded, shall remain in force during seven years,
dating from the date of the exchange of the rati-
fcations.
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