New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-08

| Britannia Majestv'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. s5o as ~ tEaai ts.
1t is further agreed that, for the
like period, goods, wares or merehan-
disc arriving at any of.the ports OF Her
Britannia Majesty's possessions in North
America, and destined for the United States,
may 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, UNI
der like rules, regulations, and conditions,
goods, wares, or merchandise may be CON
veyed in transit, without payment OF. duties,
from the United States through the said
possessions to other places in the United
States, or for export from ports In the said
possessions.
ARTICLE xxx.
1t is agreed that, for the term of years
mentioned in article xxxiii 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
fn rIa will in hQ
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. .uJe
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 Majestyss
Of gag non to urge the the
ada and the Legislatures of the other
colonies not to impose any export
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 susp pend 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
iesty 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 f1oated 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 ratifeations 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 XxxH.
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
tEltS VI ILLS treaty.
ARTICLE XXXTII.
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
tieles 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 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
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 'to the mid
die of the channel which separates the con-
tinent from Vaneouver's Island, and thence
southerly, through the middle of said chan
mel and of Fuea 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