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


1t is also agreed that the measures of detail re-
ferred to in this article may be modified by the
two General Post Office Departments whenever,
by mutual consent, those Departments shall have
decided that such notifications would be Denen-
cia to the post Office service of the two countries
and Mexico proposes, so soon as her means OF IN
ternal transportation will permit, to reduce her
present rates of inland postage.
ARTICLE
The present convention shall continue in force
until it shall be abrOgated by the mutual consent
of the two contracting parties, until one OF
them shall have given twelve months previous
notice to the other of a desire to abrogate 1t.
ARTICLE XII.
This convention shall be ratified in conformity
with the Constitutions OF the two countries, and
the ratifcatons shall be exchanged at the city OF
Mexico within six months from the date hereof,
or earlier if possible.
In witness whereof, we the Plenipotentaries of
the United States of America and of the United
Mexican States, have signed and sealed these
presents.
Done in the city of Mexico on the eleventh day
of December, in the year of our Lord one thou
sand eight hundred and siXty-one, in the eighty,
sixth year of the independence of the United
States of America, and in the fortyfrst of that OF
TH6s the Gnited @dRW1S MS1lsan States 11.s1
SEB'N. LERDO DE TEJA A, l.. 81
And whereas the said convention has been duly
ratified on both parts, and the respective ratlhca,
tons of the same were exchanged in the city OF
Mexico on the twentieth ultimo:
Now, therefore, be it known that l, Abraham
Lincoln, President of the United States OF Amer
lea, nave caused the SalQ COnNCullOu W UC ihiuS
public to the end that the same, and every clause
and article thereof, may be obsetved and fulfilled
by the United States and the citizens thereof
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States to
be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this
twentieth day of June, in the year of
H.. S. our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sXty-two, and of the independence
of the United States of America the
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President:
William H. Seward Secretary of State
Trerty of Commerce and Navigation between the
United States and the Ottoman Empire. Con-
cluded at Constantinople, February 25, 1862
Publications exchanged at Constantinopie,
June 5, 1862. Proclaimed by the President of
the United States, July 2, 1862
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA:
A PROCLAMATION.
Whe. cas- treaty of commerce and navigation
between the United States of America ani the
Ottoman Empire was concluded and signed by
their respecsive plenipotentiaries at Constantine
pie on the twenty-fifth day of February last,
which treaty, in the English language is word for
word as follows:
Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between
the United States of America and the Ottoman
Empire.
empire on the other part being equally animated
by the desire of extending the commercial rela-
tions between their respective countries, have
agreed, for this purpose, to conclude treaty OF
commerce and navi cation, and have named as
their respective plenipotentiaries, that is to say:
The President of the United States OF America
Edward Joy Morris, minister resident at the Sub
lime Porte; and His Imperial Majesty the Sultan
of the Ottoman empire, his highness Mehemed
EInin Aali Pacha, minister of foreign affairs, dec
grated with the imperial orders of the Ottomanich
in Brilliants Majidich, and order OF merit of the
first GLASS; snd the grand crosses OF several foreign
other their respective full powers, found in good
and due form, have agreed upon the following
articles:
Article l. All rights, privileges, and immun-
ties which have been conferred on the citizens or
vessels of the United States of America by the
treaty already existing between the United States
of America and the Ottoman empire, are confirm
ed, now and forever, with the exception of those
clauses of the said treaty which it is the object of
the present treaty to modify; and it is, moreover,
expressly stipulated that all rights, privileges,
immunities, which the Sublime Porte now grants,
may hereafter grant to, or suffer to be enjoyed
ton of any other foreign power, shall be equally
granted to and exercised and enjoyed by the citi-
zens, vessels, commerce. and navigation OF the
United States of America.
Article II The citizens of the United States of
America, or their agents, shall be permitted to
purchase, at all places in the Ottoman empire and
its possessions, (whether for the purposes Of in
ternal trade of eXportation,) all articles, with
out any exception whatsoever, the produce or
manufacture of the said empire and possessions;
and the Sublime Porte having, in virtue of the
second article of the convention of commerce, of
the 18th of August, 1888, with Great Britain,
formally engaged to abolish all monopolies OF
agricultural produce, or of every other articles
whatsoever, well as all tpermits" tezkerehs)
from the local governors, either Tor the purchase
of any article, or for its removal from one place
to another when purchased, any attempt to COM
pei the citizens of the United States of America
to receiqe such permits from the local COVER
nors shall be consideaed as sn infraction Of this
Suhlime Porte shall Immediately
punish with severity any yiziers, or other offices,
who shall have been guilty OF such misconduct,
and shall render full justice to citizens of the
United States of America for all losses injuries
which they may duly prove themselves to have
suffered thereby
Article III. If any articles of Ottoman produce
manufacture be purchased by citizens of the
United States of America, or their agents, for the
purpose of selling the same for internal consump-
ton in Turkey, the said citizens, or their agents,
shall pay at the purchase and sale of such arti-
cles, and in any manner of trade therein, the
same duties that are paid in similar circumstances
of foreigners in the internal trade of the Ottoman
empire.
Article " No other or higher duties or char
ges shall be imposed in the dominions and pos
sessions of either of the contracting parties,
the expectation of any article to the dominions
and possessions of the other, than such as are or
may be payable on the expectation of the like ar
tcle to any other foreign country; nor shall any
prohibition be imposed on the expectation of any
article from the dominions and possessions of
either of the two contracting powers to the do
minions and possessions of the other, which shall
not equally extend to the expectation of the like
article to any other country.
No charge or duty whatsoever will be demand
ed on any article of Ottoman produce or manu-
fcture purchased by citizens of the United States
of America, or their agents, either at the place
where such article is purchased or in its transit
from that place to the place whence it is export
ed, at which it will BIT subject to an export duty
not exceeding eight per cent, calculated on the
vrlue at the place of shipment, and payable on
expectation; and all articles which shall once
have paid this duty shall not again be liable to the
same duty, however they may have changed
hands within any part of the Ottoman empire.
1t is furthermore agreed, that the duty of eight
per cent above mentioned will be annually re-
duced by one per cent. until it shall be, in this
manner, finally reduced to fixed duty of one per
cent. ad yalorem, destined to cover the general
expenses of administration and control
Article V. No other or higher duties shall be
imposed on the importation into the United States
of America of any article the produce or manu-
facture of the dominions and possessions of His
Imperial Majesty the Sultan, from whatever place
arriving, whether by or by land and no other
or higher duties shall be imposed on the importa-
tion into the dominions and possessions of His
imperial Majesty, of any article the produce or
manufacture of the United States of America,
from whatever place arriving, than are or may be
payable on the like article the produce or manu-
facture of other foreign country: nor shall