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ties may except from the residence of Consuls such particular places as they judge fit to be excepted.

The archives and papers of the consulates of the respective Governments shall be respected inviolably, and under no pretext whatever shall any magistrate, or any of the local authorities, seize, or in any way interfere with them.

Privileges, &c,. of
Agents

and Consuls.

The Diplomatic Agents and Consuls of the Argentine Confederation shall enjoy, in the territories of the United States, whatever privileges, exemptions, and immunities are, or shall be, Diplomatic granted to agents of the same rank, belonging to the most favored nation; and, in like manner, the Diplomatic Agents and Consuls of the United States, in the territories of the Argentine Confederation, shall enjoy, according to the strictest reciprocity, whatever privileges, exemptions, and immunities are, or may be, granted in the Argentine Confederation to the Diplomatic Agents and Consuls of the most favored nation.

ARTICLE XII.

Treatment of citi zens of the other party in time of war.

For the better security of commerce between the United States and the Argentine Confederation, it is agreed that if, at any time, any interruption of friendly commercial intercourse, or any rupture, should unfortunately take place between the two contracting parties, the citizens of either of them, residing in the territories of the other, shall have the privilege of remaining and continuing their trade or occupation therein, without any manner of interruption, so long as they behave peaceably and commit no offense against the laws; and their effects and property, whether intrusted to individuals or to the State, shall not be liable to seizure or sequestration, or to any other demands than those which may be made upon the like effects or property belonging to the native inhabitants of the State in which such citizens may reside.

ARTICLE XIII.

Protection of citizens of one nation. in territory of the other.

Religious privileges.

1 The citizens of the United States; and the citizens of the Argentine Confederation, respectively, residing in any of the territories of the other party, shall enjoy, in their houses, persons, and properties, the full protection of the Government. They shall not be disturbed, molested, nor annoyed in any manner, on account of their religious belief, nor in the proper exercise of their peculiar worship, either within their own houses or in their own churches or chapels, which they shall be at liberty to build and maintain, in convenient situations, to be approved of by the local Government, interfering in no way with, but respecting the religion and ustoms of the country in which they reside. Liberty shall also be Tanted to the citizens of either of the contracting parties to bury those ho may die in the territories of the other, in burial places of their own, hich, in the same manner, may be freely established and maintained.

ARTICLE XIV.

Ratifications.

The present treaty shall be ratified on the part of the Government
the United States within fifteen months from the date,
d within three days by His Excellency the Provisional
ector of the Argentine Confederation, who will also present it to the
t Legislative Congress of the Confederation, for their approval.

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The ratifications shall be exchanged at the seat of Government of the Argentine Confederation within the term of eighteen months.

In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have sigued this treaty, and affixed thereto their seals.

Done at San José, on the twenty-seventh day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

[SEAL.]

SEAL.

SEAL.

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ROBERT C. SCHENCK.

JNO. S. PENDLETON.

SALVADOR MA. DEL CARRIL.
JOSÉ B. GOROSTIAGA.

AUSTRIA.

AUSTRIA, 1829.*

TREATY OF COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA, CONCLUDED AUGUST 27, 1829; RATIFICATIONS EXCHANGED FEBRUARY 10, 1831; PROCLAIMED THE SAME DAY.

Preamble.

The United States of America and His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, equally animated with the desire of maintaining the relations of good understanding which have hitherto so happily subsisted between their respective States, of extending, also, and consolidating the commercial intercourse between them, and convinced that this object cannot better be accomplished than by adopting the system of an entire freedom of navigation and a perfect reciprocity, based upon principles of equity equally beneficial to both countries, have, in consequence, agreed to enter into negotiations for the conclusion of a treaty of commerce and navigation, for which purpose the President of the United States has conferred full powers on Martin Van Buren, their Secretary of State; and His Majesty the Emperor of Austria has conferred like powers on Lewis, Baron de Lederer, his said Majesty's Consul for the port of New York, and the said Plenipotentiaries having exchanged their said full powers, found in good and due form, have concluded and signed the following articles:

ARTICLE I.

Freedom of cum

merce.

There shall be between the territories of the high contracting parties a reciprocal liberty of commerce and navigation. The inhabitants of their respective States shall mutually have liberty to enter the ports, places, and rivers of the territories of each party, wherever foreign commerce is permitted. They shall be at liberty to sojourn and reside in all parts whatsoever of said territories, in order to attend to their commercial affairs; and they shall enjoy, to that effect, the same security, protection, and privileges as natives of the country wherein they reside, on condition of their submitting to the laws and ordinances there prevailing.

ARTICLE II.

Tonnage duties

Austrian vessels arriving, either laden or in ballast, in the ports of the United States of America, and, reciprocally, vessels of the United States arriving, either laden or in ballast, in the ports of the dominions of Austria, 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-houses, pilotage, and port charges, as well as to the fees and 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 establishment whatsoever.

* Vo'. VIII, Statutes at Large, p. 398 et seq.

ARTICLE III.

No discrimination

All kind of merchandise and articles of commerce, either the produce of the soil or the industry of the United States of America, in duties on imports. Or of any other country, which may be lawfully imported into the ports of the dominions of Austria, in Austrian vessels, may also be so imported 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 the same merchandise or produce had been imported in Austrian vessels. h And, reciprocally, all kind of merchandise and articles of commerce, either the produce of the soil or of the industry of the dominions of N Austria, or of any other country, which may be lawfully imported into the ports of the United States, in vessels of the said States, may also be so imported in Austrian vessels 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 the same merchandise or produce had been imported in vessels of the United States of America.

Preceding stipula

cable.

ARTICLE IV.

To prevent the possibility of any misunderstanding, it is hereby declared that the stipulations contained in the two preceding articles tions mutually appli- are, to their full extent, applicable to Austrian vessels and their cargoes arriving in the ports of the United States of America; and, reciprocally, to vessels of the said States and their cargoes arriving in the ports of the dominions of Austria, whether the said vessels clear directly from the ports of the country to which they respectively belong, or from the ports of any other foreign country.

ARTICLE V.

No higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into the United States of any article the produce or manufacture Most favored nation. of the dominions of Austria; and no higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into the dominions of Austria of any article the produce or manufacture of the United States, than are or shall be payable on the like article, being the produce or manufacture of any other foreign country. Nor shall any prohibition be imposed on the importation or exportation of any article the produce or manufacture of the United States, or of the dominions of Austria, to or from the ports of the United States, or to or from the ports of the dominions of Austria, which shall not equally extend to all other nations.

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ARTICLE VI.

All kinds of merchandise and articles of commerce, either the produce of the soil or of the industry of the United States of America, duties, bounties, and or of any other country, which may be lawfully exported or reëxported from the ports of the said United States in national vessels, may also be exported or reëxported therefrom in Austrian vessels, 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 establishment what

soever, than if the same merchandise or produce had been exported or reëxported in vessels of the United States of America.

An exact reciprocity shall be observed in the ports of the dominions of Austria, so that all kinds of merchandise and articles of commerce either the produce of the soil or of the industry of the said dominions of Austria, or of any other country, which may be lawfully exported or reëxported from Austrian ports in national vessels, may also be exported or reëxported 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 the same merchandise or produce had been exported or reexported in Austrian vessels.

And the same bounties and drawbacks shall be allowed, whether such exportation or reëxportation be made in vessels of the one party or of the other.

ARTICLE VII.

It is expressly understood and agreed that the coastwise navigation of both the contracting parties is altogether excepted from the operation of this treaty, and of every article thereof.

ARTICLE VIII.

Coasting trade

No priority or preference shall be given, directly or indirectly, by either of the contracting parties, nor by any company, cor- Vessels of the parporation, or agent, acting on their behalf or under their ties to be equally faauthority, in the purchase of any article of commerce, law

vored.

fully imported, on account of or in reference to the character of the vessel, whether it be of the one party or of the other, in which such article was imported, it being the true intent and meaning of the contracting parties that no distinction or difference whatever shall be made in this respect.

ARTICLE IX.

Most favored nation.

If either party shall hereafter grant to any other nation any particu lar favor in navigation or commerce, it shall immediately become common to the other party freely, where it is freely granted to such other nation, or on yielding the same compensation when the grant is conditional.

ARTICLE X.

Consuls, privilege

The two contracting parties hereby reciprocally grant to each other the liberty of having, each in the ports of the other, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, Agents, and Commissaries of their own of, &c. appointment, who shall enjoy the same privileges and powers as those of the most favored nations. But if any such Consuls shall exercise commerce, they shall be subjected to the same laws and usages to which the private individuals of their nation are subject in the same place, in respect of their commercial transactions.

ARTICLE XI.

Property of indi

The citizens or subjects of each party shall have power to dispose of their personal goods within the jurisdiction of the other, by testament, donation, or otherwise; and their representatives,

viduals of one party

in territory of the other.

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