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the said possessions : Provided, That a portion of such transportation 

 is made through the territory of the United States by land carriage 

 and in bond, under such rules and regulations as may be agreed upon 

 between the Government of the United States and the Government of 

 Her Britannic Majesty. 



The Government of the United States further engages not to im- 

 pose any export duties on goods, wares, or merchandize carried under 

 this Article through the territory of the United States; and Her 

 Majesty's Government engages to urge the Parliament of the Domin- 

 ion of Canada and the Legislatures of the other Colonies not to im- 

 pose any export duties on goods, wares, or merchandize carried under 

 this Article; and the Government of the United States may, in case 

 such export duties are imposed by the Dominion of Canada, suspend, 

 during the period that such duties are imposed, the right of carrying 

 granted under this Article in favour of the subjects of Her Britannic 

 Majesty. 



The Government of the United States may suspend the right of 

 carrying granted in favour of the subjects of Her Britannic Majesty 

 under this Article, in case the Dominion of Canada should at any 

 time deprive the citizens of the United States of the use of the canals 

 in the said Dominion on terms of equality with the inhabitants of 

 the Dominion, as provided in Article XXVII. 



ARTICLE XXXIII. 



The foregoing Articles XVIII to XXV, inclusive, and Article 

 XXX of this treaty, shall take effect as soon as the laws required to 

 carry them into operation shall have been passed by the Imperial 

 Parliament of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Canada, and by 

 the Legislature of Prince Edward's Island on the one hand, and by 

 the Congress of the United States on the other. Such assent having 

 been given, the said articles shall remain in force for the period of 

 ten years from the date at which they may come into operation ; and 

 further until the expirntion of two years after either of the high con- 

 tracting parties shall have given notice to the other of its wish to 

 terminate the same; each of the high contracting parties being at lib- 

 erty to give such notice to the other at the end of the said period of 

 ten years or at any time afterward. 



No. 27. 188*2, May 6: Extract from Convention between Her Britan- 

 nic Majesty, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, France, and the Nether- 

 lands, for regulating the Police of the North Sea Fisheries. Signed 

 at The Hague, May 6. 1882. 



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ARTICLE I. 



Les dispositions de la presente Convention, qui a pour objet de 

 regler la police cle la pec-he dans la Mer du Nord. en dehors des eanx 

 territorial es, sont applicables aux nationaux des Hautes Parties Con- 

 tractantes. 



