New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-02

which have been or may ff0m time % hms
be specially designated by the President Of
the United States and destined for Her
Britannia Majesty's possessions in North
America may be entered at the proper
customhouse and conveyed in transit, with
ont the payment of duties, through the ter
r;tory oil the United States, under such
rnles regulations and conditions for the
nroseetfoY of the revenue as TIE govern
meuts of the United States may from time TO
time prescribe; and under like rules, regu-
lations and conditions, goods, wares OF mer-
chandise MAY &c conveyed In tr''hsls, WIZ
out the payment of duties, from suIr pos,
sessions through the territory on tne Rl !s,
States for export from the SAID pofes Va tic
United States.
Re ia further agreed that, for the
like period, goods, wares or mercnan-
disc arriving at any of the ports OF her
Britannia Majesty's possessions In Nortn
America, and destined for the United States
NAV be entered at the propercustomhouse
and conveyed in transit without the pay
ment of duties, through the said possessions,
under such rules and regulations, and con-
ditions for the protection of the revenue as
the governments of the said possessions
NAV from time to time prescribe; and, I'M
der like rules, regulations, and condiuons,
goods, wares, or merchandise may De con-
yeyed in transit, without payment OF duties;
from the United States through tae sald
possessions 10 other places in the United
States, or for export from ports Ii the SAID
possessions.
ARTICLE XXX.
Itsis agreed that, for the term OF years
me- bned in article xxxiu of this treaty,
SUBJECTS of Her Britannia Majesty may
carry in British vessels, without payment of
duty, goods. wares, or merchandise from
one port or place within the territory OF the
United States upon the st. Lawrence, the
Great Lakes, and the rivers connecting the
same, to another port or place within the
territory of the United States as aforesaid;
provided, that portion of such transpOr-
ration ia made through the Dominion of
Canada by land carriage and In bond, I'M
der such rules and regulations as may be
agreed upon between the government of
Her Britannia Majesty and the government
of the United States.
Citizens of the United States may for the
like period carry in United States vessels,
without payment OF duty, goods, wares, or
merchandise from one port or place within
the possessions of Her Britannia Majesty II
North America to another port or place
within the said possessions; provided, that
a portion of such transportation IS made
through the territory of the United States
by land carriage and In bond, under such
rules and regulations as may be agreed
upon between the government of the United
States and the government OF Her Britain
mic Majesty.
The government of the United States
further engages not to impose any export
duties on goods, wares, or merchandise car
ried under this article through the territory
of the United States; and Her Majesty's
government engages to urge the
Parliament of the Dominion OF Can
ada and the legislatures OF the other
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duties on good, wares, or merchandise
carried under this article; and the
government of the United States may,
in case such export duties are
imposed by the Dominion of Canada, sus-
pend, during the period that such duties
are imposed, the right of carrying granted
under this article in favor of the subjects of
Her Britannia Majesty.
The government of the United States
NAV suspend the right of carrying granted
in favor of the subjects of Her Britannic
Majesty under this article, in case the Do
mnion of Canada should at any time de-
prize the citizens of the United States of
the use of the canals in the said Dominion
on terms of equality with the inhabitants
of the Dominion, as provided in article
xvii.
ARTICLE XXI
The government of Her Britannia Ma
iesty further engages to urge upon the Par
lament of the Dominion of Canada and the
Legislature of New Brunswick, that no ex
port duty, or other duty, shall be levied on
lumber or timber of any kind cut on that
portion of the American territory in the
State of Maine watered by the river St.
John and its tributaries, and fioated down
that river to the sea, when the same ID
shipped to the United States from
the Province of New Brunswick. And, In
case any such export or other duty con-
tinues to be levied after the expiration of
one year from the date of the exchange of
that the government of the United States
may suspend the right of carrying herein
before granted under article Xxx of this
treaty for such period as such export or
other duty may believed.
ARTICLE xxxu.
1t is further agreed that the provisions
and stipulations of articles xviii to XIV of
this treaty, inclusive, shall extend to the
colony of Newfoundland, so far as they ara
applicable. But if the Imperial Parlia-
ment, the Legislature of Newfoundland, or
the Congress of the United States, shall
not embrace the colony of NEWFOUNDLAND in
their laws enacted for carrying the forego-
ing articles into effect, then this article
shall be of no effect; but the omission to
make provision by law to give it effect, by
either of the legislative bodies aforesaid,
shall not in any way impair any other az
ticles of this treaty.
ARTICLE xxxfII.
The foregoing articles xviii to XIV, in
elusive and article Xxx of this treaty, shall
take effect as soon as the laws required to
carry them into operation shall have been
passed By the Imperial Parliament of Great
Britain, by the Parliament of Canada and
by the Legislature of Prince Edwards
Island on the one hand, and by the Con-
gross of the United States on the other
Such assent having been given, the said ar
ticles shall remain III force for the period of
ten years from the date at which thew NAV
come into operation; and further until the
expiration OF two years after either of the
high contracting parties shall have given
notice to the other of its wish to terminate
the same; each of the high contracting par
ties being at liberty to give such notice to
the other at the end of the said period of
ten years or at any time afterward
ARTICLE xxxIv.
Whereas, it was stipulated by article one
OF the treaty concluded at Washington on
the fifteenth of June, 1876, between the
United States and Her Britannia Majesty.
that the line of boundary between the ter
rltories of the United States and those of
her Britannia Majesty, from the point on
the torty-n ninth parallel of north latitude up
10 which 1t had already been ascertained.
should be continued westward along the
SAID parallel of north latitude "to the mid
ole OF the channel which separates the con-
tnent from Vancouver's Island, and thence
southerly, through the middle of said chan.
nel and OF Fuca Straits, to the Paciic