Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-09-07
EVENING STAR.
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Treaty between the United states OF |
America and the Rel upnc os feru.
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FRIENDSHIP, CouxKKcR. A, d NAVIGATION.


America ana the Req 'ubiic Of Peru
FRIENDSHIP, COMMERCE., A, ID NkvIGArIoS
Concluded September 6, 1870.
Edtifcation ddrised By s nate Mare ' Sl' ISL
RIt.fed by President april IL, 1871. co..
II sf!fsd By President Of Peru Kcy IS, is.i.
TINE for e1ehdHSe Of ratifeations extern Tea June
1913.
Raf,.fcdtions exchanged at Lima Nay 2s,. 1874.
Proclaimed July q, 1874.
The time originally fixed for the excha 'ge Q
the rstincatioDs having uuavOidsbly elal sec
was extended, by formal agreement Of IN
PARTIES, TO November 9, 1874, within which tin I
that ceremony took place, In the usual form.
BY the President Of the United States of America.
A PROCLAMATION.
whereas a treaty OF friendship, commerce,
and navigation, between the United States OF
America and the Republic Of Peru, was con-
cluded and signed by their respective Plenipo-
teptaries at Lima on the sixth day eff Septem-
Der, In the year eighteen hundred and seventy,
the original OF which treaty, being in the Eng
lsh and Spsnish languages, is, word for word,
as follows:
Treaty Of triendship, commerce. and nIriqafion
6eteceeH the United States Of America aHd the Re
public of Peru
The United States of America and the Repub-
desire to render firm and permanent the peace
ara fTieIdship which have always so happily
subsistCd between them, and to place their
commercial relations upon the most liberal basis,
have resolved TO fix clear and precise rules
which shall in future be religiously observed
between the two nations, by means of a treaty
OF fIien6shIp, commerce, and navigation. To
attain this desirsb BILE object the President of the
United States of America has conferred full
powers on Alvin P. Hovey, the accredited Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary OF
the said State to the Government of Peru; and
tue President Of Peru has conferred like full
powers upon Doctor Jose Jorge LOayza Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs; who, after exchanging
their respective full powers, found to be in good
aid true form, have agreed upon and concluded
the following articles:
ARTICLE L.
There shall be perfect and perpetual peace
and friendship between the United States of
America and the Republic of Peru, and be-
tween their respective territories, people, and
citizens, without distinction of persons or
places.
ARTICLE III.
The United States OF America and the Re-
public OF Peru mutually agree that there shall
be reciprocal liberty of commerce and naviga-
ton between their respective territories and
citizens; the citizens OF either republic NAV fire.
quent with their vessels all the coasts, ports,
and places of the other, wherever foreign COM
merce is permitted, ana reside in all parts of
the territory Of either, and occupy the dwellings
ard warehouses which they may require; and
everything belonging thereto shall be respected,
and shall not be subjs cted to any arbitrary visits
or search. The said citizens shall have full
liberty TO trade in all parts of the territories of
either, according to the rules established by the
respective regulations of commerce, in all kinds
OF goods, merchandise, manufactures, and pro-
duce not prohibited TO all, and to open retail
stores and shops under the same municipal and
police regulations native citizens; and they
shall not in this respect be liable to other or
higher taxes or imposts than those which are or
may be paid by native citizens. The citizens of
either country shall also have the unres rained
right TO travel in any part of the possessions of
the other, and shall in all cases enjoy the same
security and protection as the natives OF the
country wherein they reside, on condition OF
their submitting to the laws and ordinances
there prevailing; they shall not be called upon
for any forced loan or extraordinary contribu-
ton Tor any military expedition or for any pub
lie purpose whatever, nor shall they be liable to
any embargo, or be detained with their vessels
caTeOes, merchandise, goods, or effects, with
out being allowed therefor a full and sufficient
decentralization, which shall in all cases be
agreed upon and paid in advance.
ARTICLE Ill.
The two high contracting parties hereby bind
and engage themselves not to grant any favor,
privilege, or immunity whatever, in matters of
commerce and navigation, to other nations,
which shall not be Immediately extended also to
the citizens of the other contracting party, who
SHALL enjoy the same, gratuitOusly if the con-
cesEioE shall have been gratuitous, or On giving
a cCmpe nsation az nearly as possible OF pToporo
tomato value ard effect, TO be adjusted by mu-
tual agreement, if the concession shall have
been conditional.
ARTICLE ".
No higher or other duties or charges on &C.
count Of tonnage. lighthouses or haTbOr dues,
pilO'age, quarantine, salvage in case OF damage
or shipwTeck, or any other local charges, shall
the United States, than those payable in the
e. me ports by Peruvian vessels; nor in any of
the ports Of the United States by Peruvian YES
seis, than shall be payable in the same ports by
vessels OF the United States.
ARTICLE Y.
All kinds of merchandise and articles Of COM
neIce which may be lawfully imported into the
IOrts aud territories of either of the high con-
tracing parties in nations al vessels may also be
so imported in vessels Of the other party without
FayiIg other or higher duties or charges of apy
denomination ha
same merchandise and AZ ticles of commerce
were imported in national vessels; nor all any
dlstlrction be made in the manner of making
payment OF the eaid duties or charges. Ii is ex-
pressiy understood that the stipulations in this
and the preceding article are to their full ex.
tent applicable TO the vessels, and their cargees
belonging to either of the high contracting bar,
ties arriving in the ports and territories of the
other, whether the said vessels have cleared di-
recdy from the ports of the country to which
they appertain, or from the ports of any other
nation.
ARTICLE
No higher or other duties or charges shall be
imposed OF levied upon the importation in to the
ports and territories Of either of the high con.
tracing parties Of any article, the produce
growth, or manufacture of the other party,
than are, CT shall be, payable on like article,
being the produce, growth, or manufacture of
any other country; nor shall any prohibition be
imposed upon the importation OF any article,
the produce, growth, or manufacture of either
party, into the ports or territories of the other
which shah not equally extend to all other
tODs.
ARTICLE VII.
All kinds Of merchandise and articles of COM
merce which may be lawfully exported from
the ports and territories Of either of the high
contracting parties in national vessels, may also
be exported in vessels of the other party; and
they shall be subject to the same duties only,
ard be entitled to the same drawbacks, bonn
ties, and allowances, whether the same mer-
cEandise and articles of commerce be exported
in vessels of the one party OF in vessels Of the
other party.
ARTICLE VIII.
1t lie hereby declared that the stipulations of
the present treaty are not to be understood as
applying to the navigation and coasting trade
between one port and another, situated in the
territories of either contr acting party, the reg
UlatiOn of such navigation and trade being re-
served respectively by the parties according TO
their own separate laws. Vessels of either coun-
try shall, however, be permitted to discharge
part of their cargOes at one port open to foreign
commerce III the territories OF either of the high
contracting parties, and to proceed with the
remainder Of their cargo to any other port or
otts Of the same territories open to foreign
CT mmerce, without paying other or higher ton
nage-dues or port-chsrges in such cases than
would be paid by national vessels in like cir
cumstancss; and they shall be permitted to load
in like manner at different ports in the same
voyage outward.