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duties or charges of whatever kind or denomination, levied in the name or to the profit of the Government, the local authorities, or of any private establishments whatsoever.

And, reciprocally, the vessels of the United States of America, arriving either laden or in ballast in the ports of the Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, from whatever place they may come, shall be treated, on their entrance, during their stay, and at their departure upon the same footing as national vessels coming from the same place, with respect to the duties of tonnage, light-house, pilotage, and port charges, as well as to the perquisites of public officers, and all other duties or charges, of whatever kind or denomination, levied in the name or to the profit of the Government, the local authorities, or of any private establishments whatsoever.

ARTICLE III.

All that may be lawfully imported into the United States of America in vessels of the said States may also be thereinto imported in Swedish and Norwegian vessels, and in those of the island of St. Bartholomew, from whatever place they may come, without paying other or higher duties or charges, of whatever kind or denomination, levied in the name or to the profit of the Government, the local authorities, or of any private establishments whatsoever, than if imported in national vessels.

And, reciprocally, all that may be lawfully imported into the Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway in Swedish and Norwegian vessels, or in those of the island of St. Bartholomew, may also be thereinto imported in vessels of the United States of America, from whatever place they may come, without paying other or higher duties or charges, of whatever kind or denomination, levied in the name or to the profit of the Government, the local authorities, or of any private establishments whatsoever, than if imported in national vessels.

ARTICLE IV.

All that may be lawfully exported from the United States of America in vessels of the said States may be also exported therefrom in Swedish and Norwegian vessels, or in those of the island of St. Bartholomew, without paying other or higher duties or charges, of whatever kind or denomination, levied in the name or to the profit of the Government, the local authorities, or of any private establishments whatsoever, than if exported in national vessels.

And, reciprocally, all that may be lawfully exported from the Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway in Swedish and Norwegian vessels, or in those of the island of St. Bartholomew, may also be exported therefrom in vessels of the United States of America, without paying other or higher duties or charges, of whatever kind or denomination, levied in the name or to the profit of the Government, the local authorities, or of any private establishments whatsoever, than if exported in national vessels.

ARTICLE V.

The stipulations contained in the three preceding articles are to their full extent applicable to the vessels of the United States of America proceeding, either laden or not laden, to the colony of St. Bartholomew, in the West Indies, whether from the ports of the Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, or from any other place whatsoever, or proceeding from the said colony, either laden or not laden, whether bound for Sweden or Norway or for any other place whatsoever.

ARTICLE VI.

It is expressly understood that the foregoing second, third, and fourth articles are not applicable to the coastwise navigation from one port of the United States of America to another port of the said States, nor to the navigation from one port of the Kingdoms of Sweden or of Norway to another, nor to that between the two latter countries; which navigation each of the two high contracting parties reserves to itself.

ARTICLE VIII.

The two high contracting parties engage not to impose upon the navigation between their respective territories, in the vessels of either, any tonnage or other duties, of any kind or denomination, which shall be higher or other than those

which shall be imposed on every other navigation except that which they have reserved to themselves, respectively, by the sixth article of the present treaty. Done at Stockholm the fourth of July, in the year of Grace one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.

J. J. APPLETON.

G. COUNT DE WETTERSTEDT.

VENEZUELA.

[Treaty concluded August 27, 1860; ratifications exchanged at Caracas August 9, 1861; proclaimed September 25, 1861.]

ARTICLE VI.

The high contracting parties hereby agree that whatever kind of produce, manufactures, or merchandise, of any foreign country, can be from time to time lawfully imported into the United States, in their own vessels, may also be imported in the vessels of Venezuela, and no higher or other duties upon the tonnage or cargo of the vessels shall be levied or collected, whether the importation be made in a vessel under the flag of the United States or a vessel under the flag of Venezuela. And, reciprocally, whatever kind of produce, manufactures, or merchandise, of any foreign country, can be from time to time lawfully imported into Venezuela, in her own vessels, may also be imported in vessels of the United States, and no higher or other duties upon the tonnage or cargo of the vessel shall be levied or collected, whether the importation be made in a vessel under the flag of Venezuela or under the flag of the United States.

Whatever can be lawfully exported or reexported by one party, in its own vessels, to any foreign country, may in like manner be exported or reexported in the vessels of the other; and the same duties, bounties, and drawbacks shall be collected and allowed, whether such exportation or reexportation be made in vessels of the one or the other. Nor shall higher or other charges of any kind be imposed in the ports of one party on vessels of the other than are or shall be payable in the same orts by national vessels.

ARTICLE VII.

The preceding article is not applicable to the coasting trade of the contracting parties, which is respectively reserved by each exclusively for its own citizens. But vessels of either country shall be allowed to discharge a part of their cargo (e)s at one port, and proceed to any other port or ports in the territories of the other to discharge the remainder, without paying higher or other port charges or tonnage dues than would be paid by national vessels in such cases, so long as this liberty shall be conceded to any foreign vessels by the laws of both countries.

ARTICLE VIII.

For the better understanding of the preceding stipulation, it has been agreed that every vessel belonging exclusively to a citizen or citizens of Venezuela, and whose captain is also a citizen of the same, such vessel having also complied with all the other requisites established by law to acquire such national character, though the construction and crew_are or may be foreign, shall be considered, for all the objects of this treaty, as a Venezuelan vessel.

ARTICLE IX.

No higher or other duty shall be imposed on the importation into the United States of any article the growth, product, or manufacture of Venezuela, or of her fisheries, and no higher or other duty shall be imposed on the importation into Venezuela of any article the growth, product, or manufacture of the United States, or their fisheries, than are or shall be payable on the like articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of any other foreign country or its fisheries. No other or higher duties or charges shall be imposed in the United States on the exportation of any article to Venezuela, nor in Venezuela on the exportation of any article to the United States, than such as are or shall be payable on the exportation of the like article to any other foreign country.

No prohibition shall be imposed on the importation of any article the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States, or their fisheries, or of Venezuela and her fisheries, from or to the ports of the United States or Venezuela, which

shall not equally extend to every other foreign country. If, however, either party shall hereafter grant to any other nation any particular favor in navigation or commerce, it shall immediately become common to the other party, freely, where it shall be freely granted to such other nation, or for the same equivalent when the grant shall be conditional.

ARTICLE X.

Should one of the high contracting parties hereafter impose discriminating duties upon the products of any other nation, the other party shall be at liberty to determine the manner of establishing the origin of its own products intended to enter the country by which the discriminating duties are imposed.

Done at the city of Caracas this twenty-seventh day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

E. A. TURPIN.
PEDRO DE LAS CASAS.

PERU.

[Treaty concluded August 31, 1887; ratifications exchanged at Lima October 1, 1888; proclaimed November 7, 1888.]

ARTICLE III.

No higher or other duties or charges on account of tonnage, light-houses, or harbor dues, pilotage. quarantine, salvage in case of damage or shipwreck, or any other local charges, shall be imposed in any ports of Peru on vessels of the United States than those payable in the same ports by Peruvian vessels, nor in any of the ports of the United States on Peruvian vessels than shall be payable in the same ports by vessels of the United States.

ARTICLE IV.

All kinds of merchandise and articles of commerce which may be lawfully imported into the ports and territories of either of the high contracting parties in national vesse`s may also be so imported in vessels of the other party without paying other or higher duties or charges of any kind or denomination whatever than if the same merchandise and articles of commerce were imported in national vessels; nor shall any distinction be made in the manner of making payments of the said duties or charges.

It is expressly understood that the stipulations in this and the preceding article are to their full extent applicable to the vessels and their cargoes belonging to either of the high contracting parties arriving in the ports and territories of the other, whether the said vessels have cleared directly from the ports of the country to which they appertain or from the ports of any other nation.

ARTICLE V.

No higher or other duties or charges shall be imposed or levied upon the importation into the ports and territories of either of the high contracting parties of any article the produce, growth, or manufacture of the other party than are, or shall be, payable on the 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 shall not equally extend to all other nations. Done at the city of Lima this the thirty-first day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven.

CHAS. W. BUCK.
CARLOS M. ELIAS.

SPAIN.

[Memorandum of agreement between the Government of the United States and the Government of Spain for the reciprocal and complete suspension of all discriminating duties of tonnage or imposts in the United States and in the islands of Cuba, Porto Rico, and all other countries belonging to the Crown of Spain upon vessels of the respective countries and their cargoes.]

1. It is positively agreed that from this date an absolute equalization of tonnage dues and imposts shall at once be applied to the productions of or articles proceeding from the United States or any other foreign country, when carried in vessels

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belonging to citizens of the United States and under the American flag, to the islands of Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines, and also to all other countries belonging to the Crown of Spain, and that no higher or other tonnage dues or imposts shall be levied upon said vessels and the goods carried in them, as aforesaid, than are paid by Spanish vessels and their cargoes under similar circumstances.

2. On the above conditions the President of the United States shall at once issue a proclamation declaring the discriminating tonnage dues and imposts in the United States are suspended and discontinued as regards Spanish vessels and produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported into the United States proceeding from Spain, from the aforesaid possessions, and from the Philippine Islands, and also from all other countries belonging to the Crown of Spain or from any foreign country.

This protocol of an agreement is offered by the Government of Spain and accepted by that of the United States as a full and satisfactory notification of the facts above recited.

3. The United States minister at Madrid will be authorized to negotiate with the minister for foreign affairs, either by an agreement or treaty, so as to place the commercial relations between the United States and Spain on a permanent footing advantageous to both countries.

In witness whereof the undersigned, in behalf of the Governments of the United States and of Spain, respectively, have hereunto set their hands and seals. Done at Washington this 21st day of September, in the year of our Lord 1887. T. F. BAYARD. E. DE MURUAGA.

GREAT BRITAIN.

[Treaty concluded November 19, 1794; ratification exchanged at London October 28, 1795; proclaimed February 29, 1796.]

ARTICLE XII.

His Majesty consents that it shall and may be lawful, during the time hereinafter limited, for the citizens of the United States to carry to any of His Majesty's islands and ports in the West Indies from the United States, in their own vessels, not being above the burthen of 70 tons, any goods or merchandise being of the growth, manufacture, or produce of the said States which it is or may be lawful to carry to the said islands or ports from the said States in British vessels; and that the said American vessels shall be subject there to no higher or other tonnage duties or charges than shall be payable by British vessels in the ports of the United States; and that the cargoes of the said American vessels shall be subject there to no other or higher duties or charges than shall be payable on the like articles if imported there from the said States in British vessels.

And His Majesty also consents that it shall be lawful for the said American citizens to purchase, load, and carry away in their said vessels to the United States, from the said islands and ports, all such articles, being of the growth, manufacture, or produce of the said islands, as may now by law be carried from thence to the said States in British vessels, and subject only to the same duties and charges on exportation to which British vessels and their cargoes are or shall be subject in similar circumstances.

Provided always, that the said American vessels do carry and land their cargoes in the United States only, it being expressly agreed and declared that, during the continuance of this article, the United States will prohibit and restrain the carrying of any molasses, sugar, coffee, cocoa, or cotton in American vessels, either from His Majesty's islands or from the United States, to any part of the world except the United States, reasonable sea stores excepted. Provided, also, that it shall and may be lawful during the same period for British vessels to import from the said islands into the United States, and to export from the United States to the said islands, all articles whatever, being of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the said islands or of the United States, respectively, which now may, by the laws of the said States, be so imported and exported. And that the cargoes of the said British vessels shall be subject to no other or higher duties or charges than shall be payable on the same articles if so imported or exported in American vessels. It is agreed that this article, and every matter and thing therein contained, shall continue to be in force during the continuance of the war in which His Majesty is now engaged; and also for two years from and after the date of the signature of the preliminary or other articles of peace by which the same may be terminated. And it is further agreed that at the expiration of the said term the two con

tracting parties will endeavor further to regulate their commerce in this respect, according to the situation which His Majesty may then find himself with respect to the West Indies, and with a view to such arrangements as may best conduce to the mutual advantage and extension of commerce. And the said parties will then also renew their discussions, and endeavor to agree, whether, in any and what cases, neutral vessels shall protect enemy's property; and in what cases provisions and other articles, not generally contraband, may become such. But in the meantime their conduct toward each other in these respects shall be regulated by the articles hereinafter inserted on those subjects.

ADDITIONAL ARTICLE.

It is further agreed between the said contracting parties that the operation of so much of the twelfth article of the said treaty as respects the trade which his said Majesty thereby consents may be carried on between the United States and his islands in the West Indies, in the manner and on the terms and conditions therein specified, shall be suspended.

GRENVILLE. JOHN JAY.

APPENDIX K.

SPECIAL LISTS OF VESSELS.

The following special lists of vessels are printed to supply detailed information concerning certain matters generally discussed in the pages of the report. They

are:

1. American merchant vessels sold to the Government.

2. Vessels documented by act of Congress.

3. Vessels directed by act of Congress to be documented. 4. Foreign steamships bought by the Navy Department. 5. Foreign steamships bought by the War Department.

6. Spanish vessels condemned as prize.

7. List of Hawaiian vessels.

8. Spanish seagoing vessels documented at Manila.

9. Steamships under foreign flags owned by Americans.

10. Registered foreign-built steamships.

11. Repaired wrecks.

12. Vessels sold to foreigners.

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