establishments of any kind, shall be imposed in the ports of the dominions and possessions of either country upon the vessels of the other country, which shall not equally, and under the same conditions, be imposed, in the like cases, on national vessels in general.

Such equality of treatment shall apply reciprocally to the respective vessels, from whatever port or place they may arrive, and whatever may be their place of destination.

ARTICLE X.

All vessels which, according to the laws of the United States, are to be deemed vessels of the United States, and all vessels which, according to Ottoman laws, are to be deemed Ottoman vessels, shall, for the purposes of this treaty, be deemed vessels of the United States and Ottoman vessels respectively.

ARTICLE XI.

No charge whatsoever shall be made upon goods of the United States, being the produce or manufacture of the United States of America, whether in vessels of the United States or other vessels, nor upon any goods the produce or manufacture of any other foreign country carried in vessels of the United States, when the same shall pass through the Straits of the Dardanelles, or of the Bosphorus, whether such goods shall pass through those straits in the vessels that brought them, or shall have been transhipped to other vessels; or whether, after having been sold for exportation, they shall, for a certain limited time, be landed, in order to be placed in other vessels for the continuance of their voyage. In the latter case, the goods in question shall be deposited at Constantinople, in the magazines of the custom-house, called transit magazines; and &, in any other places where there is no entrepot, they shall be placed under the charge of the administration of the customs.

ARTICLE XII.

The Sublime Porte, desiring to grant, by means of gradual concessions, all facilities in its power to transit by land, it is stipulated and agreed that the duty of three per cent., levied up to this time on articles imported into the Ottoman Empire, in their passage through the Ottoman Empire to other countries, shall be reduced to two per cent., payable as the duty of three per cent. has been paid hitherto, on arriving in the Ottoman dominions; and at the end of eight years, to be reckoned from the day of the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty, to a fixed and definite tax of one per cent., which shall be levied, as is to be the case with respect to Ottoman produce exported, to defray the expense of registration.

The Sublime Porte, at the same time, declares that it reserves to itself the right to establish, by a special enactment, the measures to be adopted for the prevention of fraud.

ARTICLE XIII.

Citizens of the United States of America, or their agents, trading in goods the produce or manufacture of foreign countries, shall be subject to the same taxes and enjoy the same rights, privileges, and immunities, as foreign subjects dealing in goods the produce or manufacture of their own country.

ARTICLE XIV.

An exception to the stipulations laid down in the fifth article shall be made in regard to tobacco in any shape whatsoever, and also in regard to salt, which two articles shall cease to be included among those which the citizens of the United States of America are permitted to import into the Ottoman dominions.

Citizens of the United States, however, or their agents, buying or selling tobacco or salt for consumption in the Ottoman Empire, shall be subject to the same regulations and shall pay the same duties as the most favored Ottoman subjects trading in the two articles aforesaid; and furthermore, as a compensation for the prohibition of the two articles above-mentioned, no duty whatsoever shall in future be levied on those articles when exported from the Ottoman Empire by citizens of the United States.

Citizens of the United States shall, nevertheless, be bound to declare the quantity of tobacco and salt thus exported to the proper custom-house authorities, who shall, as heretofore, have the right to watch over the export of these articles, without thereby being entitled to levy any tax thereon on any pretence whatsoever.

ARTICLE XV.

It is understood between the two contracting parties that the Sublime Porte reserves to itself the faculty and right of issuing a general prohibition against the importation into the Ottoman Empire of gunpowder, canon, arms of war, or military stores, but such prohibition will not come into operation until it shall have been officially notified, and will apply only to the articles mentioned in the decree enacting the prohibition. Any of these articles which have not been so specifically prohibited shall, on being imported into the Ottoman Empire, be subject to the local regulations, unless the legation of the United States of America shall think fit to apply for a special license, which will in that case be granted, provided no valid objection thereto can be alleged. Gunpowder, in particular, when allowed to be imported, will be liable to the following stipulations:

1. It shall not be sold by citizens of the United States in quantities exceeding the quantities prescribed by the local regulations.

2. When a cargo or a large quantity of gunpowder arrives in an Ottoman port, on board a vessel of the United States, such vessel shall be anchored at a particular spot, to be designated by the local authorities, and the gunpowder shall thence be conveyed, under the inspection of such authorities, to depots, or fitting places designated by the Government, to which the parties interested shall have access under due regulations.

Fowling-pieces, pistols, and ornamental or fancy weapons, as also small quantities of gunpowder for sporting, reserved for private use, shall not be subject to the stipulations of the present article.

ARTICLE XVI.

The firmans required for merchant-vessels of the United States of America, on passing through the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, shall always be delivered in such manner as to occasion to such vessels the least possible delay.

ARTICLE XVII.

The captains of merchant-vessels of the United States laden with goods destined for the Ottoman Empire shall be obliged, immediately on their arrival at the port of their destination, to deposit in the custom-house of said port a true copy of their manifest.

ARTICLE XVIII.

Contraband goods will be liable to confiscation by the Ottoman treasury; but a report or procès verbal of the alleged act of contraband must, so soon as the said goods are seized by the authorities, be drawn up and communicated to the consular authority of the citizen or subject to whom the goods said to be contraband shall belong; and no goods can be confiscated as contraband unless the fraud with regard to them shall be duly and legally proved.

ARTICLE XIX.

All merchandise the produce or manufacture of the Ottoman dominions and possessions, imported into the United States of America, shall be treated in the same manner as the like merchandise the produce or manufacture of the most favored nation.

All rights, privileges, or immunities, which are now or may hereafter be granted to, or suffered to be enjoyed by, the subjects, vessels, commerce, or navigation of any foreign Power in the United States of America shall be equally granted to, and exercised and enjoyed by, the subjects, vessels, commerce, and navigation of the Sublime Porte.

ARTICLE XX.

The present treaty, when ratified, shall be substituted for the commercial convention of the 16th of August, 1838, between the Sublime Porte and Great Britain, on the footing of which the commerce of the United States of America has been heretofore placed, and shall continue in force for 28 years from the day of the exchange of the ratifications; and each of the two contracting parties being, however, at liberty to give to the other, at the end of 14 years, (that time being fixed, as the provisions of this treaty will then have come into full force,) notice for its revision, or for its determination at the expiration of a year from the date of that notice, and so again at the end of 21 years.

The present treaty shall receive its execution in all and every one of the provinces of the Ottoman Empire; that is to say, in all the possessions of His Imperial Majesty the Sultan, situated in Europe or in Asia, in Egypt, and in the other parts of Africa belonging to the Sublime Porte, in Servia, and in the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia.

ARTICLE XXI.

It is always understood that the Government of the United States of America does not pretend, by any article in the present treaty, to stipulate for more than the plain and fair construction of the terms

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employed, nor to preclude in any manner the Ottoman Government from the exercise of its rights of internal administration where the exercise of these rights does not evidently infringe upon the privileges accorded by ancient treaties, or by the present treaty, to citizens of the United States or their merchandise.

ARTICLE XXII.

The high contracting parties have agreed to appoint, jointly, commissioners for the settlement of a tariff of custom-house duties, to be levied in conformity with the stipulations of the present treaty, as well upon merchandise of every description being the produce or manufacture of the United States of America imported into the Ottoman Empire, as upon articles of every description the produce or manufacture of the Ottoman Empire and its possessions, which citizens of the United States or their agents are free to purchase in any part of the Ottoman Empire for exportation to the United States or to any other country. The new tariff, to be so concluded, shall remain in force during seven years, dating from the date of the exchange of the ratifications.

Each of the contracting parties shall have the right, a year before the expiration of that term, to demand the revision of the tariff. But if, during the seventh year, neither the one nor the other of the contracting parties shall avail itself of this right, the tariff then existing shall continue to have the force of law for seven years more, dating from the day of the expiration of the seven preceding years; and the same shall be the case with respect to every successive period of seven years.

ARTICLE XXIII.

The present treaty shall be ratified and the ratfiications shall be exchanged at Constantinople in three calendar months, or sooner if possible, and shall be carried into execution when ratified.

Done at Constantinople on the twenty-fifth day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.

[SEAL.]

[SEAL.]

[Translation.]

EDWARD JOY MORRIS.
AALI.

Tariff of Duties on Articles imported into the Ottoman Empire from the United

States.

PREAMBLE.

Merchandize, the produce of the soil and industry of the United States of America imported into the Ottoman Empire-except those which are prohibited by citizens of the United States, as well also, as the merchandize, the produce of the soil and industry of the Ottoman Empire purchased by citizens of the United States or their Agents, in any part of the Empire for exportation, to the United States, or elsewhere, have heretofore, been required to pay Custom House Duties, established in a Tariff based upon the prices at the time.

As however, the Tariff made in the month of January 1847 has, now some time since, expired, its revision delayed by varied causes, is rendered necessary by the stipulations of the new Treaty, and the Commissioners of the Government of the United States, have, in conjunction with those of the Sublime Porte now drawn up the following Tariff:

Articles.

Balsam........

Ad valorem.