COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE AND TRANSPORTATION. 



CHAPTER VI. 



COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE AND TRANSPOR 

 TATION. 



TREATY PROVISIONS. 



SUNDRY stipulations of the Treaty which relate to 

 rights of navigation, and of transport by land or water, 

 to concessions of commercial intercourse and trans 

 it, or to the free interchange of objects of produc 

 tion, are divisible into, first, permanent provisions, 

 and, secondly, temporary provisions. 



1. Of permanent provisions we have the following: 



[a] Great Britain engages tha.t the navigation of 

 the River St. Lawrence, ascending and descending, 

 from the point where it ceases to form the boundary 

 between the two countries, shall forever remain free 

 and open for the purpose of commerce to the citizens 

 of the United States [Art. XXVI.]. 



The United States engage that the Rivers Yukon, 

 Porcupine, and Stikine, in Alaska, ascending and de 

 scending from, to, and into the sea, shall forever re 

 main free and open for the purpose of commerce to 

 the subjects of Great Britain [Art. XXVI]. 



Rights of local police and regulation are reserved 

 by each Government. 



[] The United States engage that the subjects 



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