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ernment and any other Power or State whatever, to export from 

 the said territories, without the special permission of the British 

 Government there, any military stores, or naval stores, or rice. The 

 citizens of the United States shall pay for their vessels, when ad- 

 mitted into the said ports, no other or higher tonnage than shall be 

 payable on British vessels when admitted into the ports of the United 

 States; and they shall pay no higher or other duties or charges on 

 the importation or exportation of the cargoes of the said vessels than 

 shall be payable on the same articles when imported or exported in 

 British vessels. But it is expressly agreed, that the vessels of the 

 United States shall not carry any of the articles exported by them 

 from the said British territories to any port or place, except to some 

 port or place in America, where the same shall be unladen, and such 

 regulations shall be adopted by both parties as shall, from time to 

 time, be found necessary to enforce the due and faithful observance 

 of this stipulation. 



It is also understood, that the permission granted by this article is 

 not to extend to allow the vessels of the United States to carry on any 

 part of the coasting trade of the said British territories ; but the ves- 

 sels going with their original cargoes, or part thereof, from one port 

 of discharge to another, are not to be considered as carrying on the 

 coasting trade; neither is this article to be construed to allow the 

 citizens of the said States to settle or reside within the said terri- 

 tories, or to go into the interior parts thereof, without the permis- 

 sion of the British Government established there; and if any trans- 

 gressions should be attempted against the regulations of the British 

 Government in this respect, the observance of the same shall and 

 may be enforced against the citizens of America, in the same manner 

 as against British subjects or others transgressing the same rule. 

 And the citizens of the United States, whenever they arrive in any 

 port or harbor in the said territories, or if they should be permitted 

 in manner aforesaid to go to any other place therein, shall always be 

 subject to the laws, government, and jurisdiction of whatever nature, 

 established in such harbor, port, or place, according as the same may 

 be. The citizens of the United States may also touch for refreshment 

 at the island of St. Helena, but subject in all respects to such regula- 

 tions as the British Government may, from time to time, establish 

 there. 



ART. 4. There shall be between all the dominions of His Majesty in 

 Europe, and the territories of the United States, a reciprocal and 

 perfect liberty of commerce and navigation. The people and inhabit- 

 ants of the two countries respectively shall have liberty, freely and 

 securely, and without hindrance and molestation, to come with their 

 ships and cargoes to the lands, countries, cities, ports, places, and 

 rivers, within "the dominions and territories aforesaid, to enter into 

 the same, to resort there, and to remain and reside there, without 

 any limitation of time ; also to hire and possess houses and warehouses 

 for the purposes of commerce; and generally, the merchants and 

 traders on each side shall enjoy the most complete protection and 

 security for their commerce, but subject always, as to what respects 

 this article, to the laws and statutes of the two countries respectively. 



ART. 5. It is agreed that no other or higher duties shall be paid 

 by the ships or merchandise of the one party in the ports ot the 



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