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also to hire and occupy houses and warehouses for the purposes of 

 their commerce; and, generally, the merchants and traders of each 

 nation, respectively, shall enjoy the most complete protection and 

 security for their commerce, but subject always to the laws and 

 statutes of the two countries, respectively." 



And in article 3, the provision regarding outlying dominions of 

 the British Empire (reading from the last paragraph) : 



" The vessels of the United States may also touch for refreshment, 

 but not for commerce, in the course of their voyage to or from the 

 British territories in India, or to or from the dominions of the Em- 

 peror of China, at the Cape of Good Hope, the Island of St. Helena, 

 or such other places as may be in the possession of Great Britain, 

 in the African or Indian Seas; it being well understood that, in all 

 that regards this article, the citizens of the United States shall be 

 subject in all respects to the laws and regulations of the British 

 Government from time to time established." 



I will hand to the Court and to counsel on the other side a paper 



containing printed copies of the articles containing the trade grants 



in a long series of treaties made between Great Britain and other 



countries, and between the United States and other countries prior 



to or in the approximate neighbourhood of the year 1818 ; and 



1226 in all of them are express reservations of the right of the 



country in which trade and travel privileges are to be enjoyed 



by the citizens of the other nation to the exercise of that country's 



full right of regulation and the requirement of subjection to its 



laws." 



The United States treaties, which are taken from the volume of 

 treaties and conventions that is available in every library, are with the 

 Netherlands in 1782, with Prussia in 1785, with Prussia in 1799, with 

 Great Britain in 1815, with Sweden and Norway in 1816, with Co- 

 lombia in 1824, with Central America in 1825, with Denmark in 1826, 

 with Sweden and Norway in 1827, with the Hanseatic republics in 

 1827, with Brazil in 1828, with Prussia in 1828, with Austria-Hun- 

 gary in 1829, with Greece in 1837, with Sardinia in 1838, with Por- 

 tugal in 1840, with Hanover in 1840, with the Argentine Confedera- 

 tion in 1853, with the two Sicilies in 1855, and with Great Britain in 

 1794 the treaty I have already referred to. 



The treaties of Great Britain with other countries which contain 

 similar express reservations : Treaty with Portugal, 1642 ; with Por- 

 tugal, 1654: with Sweden, 1654; with Denmark, 1660; with Sweden, 

 1661 ; with Spain, 1669 ; with Denmark, 1670 ; with France, 1786 ; with 

 Portugal, 1810; with the Netherlands, 1815; with France, 1815; with 

 the two Sicilies, 1816; with the Netherlands, 1824; with Buenos Ayres, 

 1825; with Colombia, 1825; with Sweden, 1826; with Mexico, 1826; 

 with Austria, 1829 ; with Frankfort, 1832 ; with Austria, 1838. 



Appendix (H), infra, p. 1396. 

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