The Portland daily press., 1874-06-26

wood solely or wood nailed, bound, hinged or
locked with metal materials; mangles, wash
ing machlnes, wringing- machines and drying
machines, or parts thereof; printing paper
tor newspapers; paper making machines
or parts thereof: printing type, presses
and folders, paper-cutters, ruling machines,
page-numbering machines, and stereotyplng
ard electrotyping apparatus, or parts thereof;
refrigerators or parts thereof; railroad cars,
carriages and trucks, or parts thereof; satinets
of wool and cotton; steam-engines or parts
thereof; steel, wrought or cast, and steel plates
aud rails; tin tubes and piping; tweeds, of wool
solely; water-wheel machines and apparatus,
or parts thereof
Article 3, pledges the Dominion at its ex-
pense to enlarge the Canadian canals from
Lake Erie 10 Montreal so as to admit vessels
drawing u feet of water and further that the
channel of the st. Lawrence in several places
shall be deepened for the largest vessels, the
work to be done by JAN, 1889.
Article 6 provides that the Dominion govern
ment shall construct before June 1880, a canal
to connect the St. Lawrence river with Lake
Champlan near Caughnawaga suitable for
vessels drawing II feet of water, and the Unit
ed States engage to urge upon the state of
New York to cause the existing canal from
Whitehall, on Lake Champan, to Albany, to
be enlarged, and, if necessary, extended, or an
other canal or canals to be constructed of equal
capacity with the proposed Caughnawaga Ca
nal, as hereinbefore specified, and the naviga-
ton of the Hudson River to be improved so as
to admit the passage from Lake Champlain to
the lower waters of the Hudson River OF YES
sells drawing twelve feet of water.
Article provides for the free carriage by the
vessels of either country from the ports of one
to the other, cargoes and passengers.
Article grants to citizens of the United
States the use of the Weland st. Lawrence
and other canals of tie Dominion the same as
to citizens of the Dominion. The Canadas are to
have in the American waters and canals under
the control Of the federal government,
the same as American citizens, and the
latter will use i,s infue nee with the states of
New York and Michigan for the use the Erie
and other canals on the same terms as inhabi-
tapts of the United States. And further in
case the states do not yield to the provinces the
use of the Erie, Sault Saint, Marie and other
canals on the same terms as to their own citi
zens, the proposed Caughnawaga canal shall
not be free to the United States.
Article 9 refers to free trade in ships to
Wnlcn reference mas alreaQy Deen mace In tne
PRESS and is as follews
For the term of years mentioned in Article
XIII of this treaty, vessels of all kinds built in
the United States may be purchased by inhabi-
tants of Canada as Canada vessels; audi re-
ciprocally, vessels of all kinds built in Canada
may be purchased by citizens of the United
States. and registered in the United States as
United States vessels.
Articles 10 and IL provide for joint light
house and fish propagation commissions.
Article - extends the provisions of the
treaty to Newfoundland as far as applicable.
Article Is fixes the length of the operation of
the treaty, q years and three years longer, if
at the expiration of that time either party give
notice of desire to terminate it.
Article IA provides that 'when the ratifica-
ton of this treaty shall have been exchanged,
and the laws required to carry it into operation
shall have been passed by the Imperial Parlia-
ment of Great Britain and by the Parliament
of the Dominisn of Canada on the one hand,
and by the Congress of the United States on
the other, then Articles XXI, XIII, XIV.
and XIV of the Treaty of May 8, 1871, be-
tween Great Britain and the United States,
shall become null and void"
The last article provides for the exchange of
the treaty when ratified.