New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-20


| 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
| out the payment of duties, through the ter
ritory of the United States, under such
rules. regulations and conditions for the
| protection of the revenue as the govern
ment of the United States may from time to
| time prescribe and under like rules, regu-
| latiOns and conditions, goods, wares or mer-
| chandise may be conveyed in transit, with
! out the payment of duties, from such pos
| sessions through the territory of the United
States for export from the said ports OF the
United States.
| 1t is further agreed that for the
like period, goods, wares or merchan-
| disc arriving at any of the ports of Her
| Britannia Majesty's possessions in North
| America, and destined for the United States,
NAV be entered at the proper customhOuse
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
| may from time to time prescribe; and, IN
| der like rules, regulations, aud conditions,
| goods, wares, or merchandise may be CON
| veyed in transit. without payment OF duties,
| from the United States through the sad
possessions to other places in the United
| States, or for export from ports III the SAID
| possessions.
ARTICLE xxx.
1t is agreed that, for the term of years
mentioned 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 a portion of such transpOr-
| tation is 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 in
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
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
may suspend the right of carrying granted
in favor of the subjects of Her Britannia
Majesty under this article in case the Do
minion of Canada should at any time de-
prive the citizens of the United States of
the use of the canals in the said Dominion
ON terms of equality with the inhabitants
xvii.
ARTICLE XXI.
The government of Her Britannia Ma
'esty further engages to urge upon the Par
lament of the Dominion of Canada and the
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 foated down
that river to the sea, when the same is
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
| the notifications of this treaty. it is agreed
| 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 be levied.
ARTICLE XXXII.
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 are
| 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 ar
! ticles of this treaty.
ARTICLE XXXHI.
l. 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 they may
| 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 atterward.
| ARTICLE xXXIv.
| Whereas, it was stipulated by article one
| of the treaty concluded at Washington on
| the fifteenth of June, 1916, between the
| United States and Her Britannia Majesty,
| that the line of boundary between the ter
ritories of the United States and those of
Her Britannia Majesty, from the point on
| the forty ninth parallel of north latitude up
| to which it had already been ascertained,
| should be continued westward along the
| said parallel of north latitude ito the mid
| die of the channel which separates the con-
| tinent from Vancouver's Island, and thence
| southerly through the middle of said chan
mel and of Fuca Straits, to the Pacific
| Ocean; and whereas, the commissioners ap-
pointed by the two high contracting parties
| to determine that portion of the boundary
| which runs southerly through the middle of
| the channel aforesaid, were unable to agree
upon the same; and whereas, the govern