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high contracting parties agree not to exercise as against each any 

 other sovereign or territorial authority within the above-mentioned 

 country lying between the forty-fifth and forty-ninth parallels of 

 latitude, this agreement is not to be construed to the prejudice of any 

 claim to which either of the two high contracting parties may have 

 to any territorial authority in any part of the country lying within 

 the said limits : nor shall it be taken to affect the claim of any other 

 Power or State to any part of the said country; the only object of 

 the two high contracting parties being to prevent disputes and differ- 

 ences between themselves. 



ARTICLE C. 



It is further agreed that the subjects of His Britannic Majesty 

 shall have and enjoy the free navigation of the River Mississippi from 

 its source to the ocean, and shall at all times have free access from 

 such place as may be selected for that purpose, in His Britannic 

 Majesty's territories, to the River Mississippi, with their goods, wares, 

 and merchandise, the importation of which into the United States 

 shall not be entirely prohibited, on the payment of the same duties 

 as would be payable on the importation of the same article into the 

 Atlantic ports of the United States. 



ARTICLE D. 



British vessels shall have liberty to export, from any of the ports 

 of the United States to which any foreign vessels are permitted to 

 come, to the ports of Halifax, in His Britannic Majesty's province 

 of Nova Scotia ; to the port of St. John's, in His Britannic Majesty's 

 province of New Brunswick, and to any other port within the said 

 provinces of Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, to which vessels of any 

 other foreign nation shall be admitted, the following articles, being 

 of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States, viz: 

 scantling, planks, staves, heading-boards, shingles, hoops, horses, 

 neat cattle, sheep, hogs, poultry, or live stock of any sort, bread, 

 biscuit, flour, pease, beans, potatoes, wheat, rice oats, barley, or grain 

 of any sort, pitch, tar, turpentine, fruits, seeds, and tobacco. 



And vessels of the United States shall in like manner, have liberty 

 to import from any of the aforesaid ports of the United States into 

 any of the aforesaid ports within the said provinces of Nova Scotia 

 and New Brunswick, the above-mentioned articles, being of the 

 growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States. 



British vessels shall also have liberty to import from any of the 

 aforesaid ports within the provinces of Nova Scotia and New Bruns- 

 wick, into any of the aforesaid ports of the United States, gypsum 

 and grindstones, or any other articles, being of the growth, produce, 

 or manufacture of the said provinces, and, also, any produce or manu- 

 facture of any part of His Britannic Majesty's dominions, the impor- 

 tation of which into the United States shall not be entirely prohibited. 



And vessels of the United States shall have liberty to import 

 from the said provinces to the said United States, slates, gypsum, and 

 grindstones, or any other article, being of the growth, produce, or 

 manufacture of any part of His Britannic Majesty's dominions, the 

 importation of which into the United States from any other place 

 shall not be entirely prohibited. 



