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territories, in order to attend to their affairs; and they shall enjoy, 

 to that effect, the same security and protection as natives of the 

 country wherein they reside, on condition of their submitting to the 

 laws and ordinances there preventing, and particularly to the regula- 

 tions in force concerning commerce" 



Hanover, 1840 (p. 446). 



Article L "There shall be between the territories of the high 

 contracting parties a reciprocal liberty of commerce and navigation. 



"The inhabitants of their respective States shall mutually have 

 liberty to enter, with or without their ships and cargoes, the ports, 

 places, waters, and rivers of the territories of each party wherever 

 foreign commerce is permitted. 



" They shall be permitted to sojourn and reside in all parts what- 

 soever of said territories, in order to attend to their affairs, and also 

 to hire and occupy houses and warehouses for the purpose of their 

 commerce, provided they submit to the laws, as well general as special, 

 relative to the right of residing and trading. 



"Whilst they conform to the laws and regulations in force, they 

 shall be at liberty to manage themselves their own business, in all 

 the territories subject to the jurisdiction of each party, in respect 

 to the consignment and sale of their goods, by wholesale or retail, as 

 with respect to the loading, unloading, and sending off their ships, 

 or to employ such agents and brokers as they may deem proper, they 

 being, in all these cases, to be treated as the citizens or subjects 

 1399 of the country in whi-ch they reside, it being nevertheless under- 

 stood that they shall remain subject to the said laws and regu- 

 lations also in respect to sales by wholesale or retail. 

 ' "They shall have free access to the tribunals of justice in their 

 litigious affairs on the same terms which are granted by the law and 

 usage of the country to native citizens or subjects, for which purpose 

 they may employ in defense of their rights such advocates, attorneys, 

 and other agents as they may judge proper." 



Argentine Confederation, 1853. (p. 26). 



Article II (still in force). "There shall be between all the terri- 

 tories of the United States and all the territories of the Argentine 

 Confederation a reciprocal freedom of commerce. The citizens of 

 the two countries, respectively shall have liberty freely and securely 

 to come with their ships and cargoes to all places, ports, and rivers 

 in the territories of either, to which other foreigners, or the ships or 

 cargoes of any other foreign nation or State, are, or may be, per- 

 mitted to come; to enter into the same, and to remain and reside in 

 any part thereof, respectively; to hire and occupy houses and ware- 

 houses, for the purposes of their residence and commerce; to trade 

 in all kinds of produce, manufactures, and merchandise of lawful 

 commerce, and generally to enjoy, in all their business, the most 

 complete protection and security, subject to the general laws and 

 usages of the two countries respectively. In like manner, the re- 

 spective ships of war, and post-office or passenger packets of the two 

 countries, shall have liberty, freely and securely, to come to all har- 

 bors, rivers, and places to which other foreign ships of war and 



