2314 NORTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES ARBITRATION. 



territories; they can there hire and occupy houses and warehouses 

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

 each of the two nations shall enjoy in the other the most complete 

 security and protection for the transaction of their business, being 

 bound alone to conform to the laws and statutes of the two countries^ 

 respectively" 



Colombia, 1824 (p. 169). 



Article III. " The citizens of the United States may frequent all 

 the coasts and countries of the Republic of Colombia, and reside and 

 trade there, in all sorts of produce, manufactures, and merchandise, 

 and shall pay no other or greater duty, charges, or fees whatsoever, 

 than the most favored nation is or shall be obliged to pay ; and they 

 shall enjoy all the rights, privileges, and exemptions in navigation 

 and commerce which the most favored nation does or shall enjoy, 

 submitting themselves, nevertheless, to the laws, decrees, and usages 

 there established, and to which are submitted the subjects and citizens 

 of the most favored nations. 



" In like manner the citizens of the Republic of Colombia may 

 frequent all the costs and countries of the United States, and reside 

 and trade there, in all sorts of produce, manufacture, and merchan- 

 dize, and shall pay no other or greater duties, charges, or fees what- 

 soever than the most favored nation is or shall be obliged to pay; 

 and they shall enjoy all the rights, privileges, and exemptions in 

 navigation and commerce, which the most favored nation does or 

 shall enjoy, submitting themselves, nevertheless, to the lotos, decrees, 

 and usages there established, and to which are submitted the subjects 

 and citizens of the most favored nations" 



Central America, 1885 (pp. 108-109). 



Article III. "The two high contracting parties, being likewise 

 desirous of placing the commerce and navigation of their respective 

 countries on the liberal basis of perfect equality and reciprocity, 

 mutually agree that the citizens of each may frequent all the coasts 

 and countries of the other, and reside and trade there, in all kinds 

 of produce, manufactures and merchandise ; and they shall enjoy all 

 the rights, privileges, and exemptions in navigation and commerce 

 which native citizens do or shall enjoy, submitting themselves to the 

 laws, decrees, and usages there established to which native citizens 

 are subjected. But it is understood that this article does not include 

 the coasting trade of either country, the regulation of which is re- 

 served by the parties, respectively, according to their own separate 

 laws." 



Denmark, 1826 (p. 206). 



Article II. "The contracting parties being likewise desirous of 

 placing the commerce and navigation of their respective countries 

 on the liberal basis of perfect equality and reciprocity, mutually 

 agree that the citizens and subjecte of each may frequent all the coasts 

 and countries of the other, (with the exception hereafter provided 

 for in the sixth article,) and reside and trade there in all kinds of 

 produce, manufactures, and merchandise; and they shall enjoy all 

 the rights, privileges, and exemptions, in navigation and commerce, 



