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04.^ TIIK TUKATY Or WASHINGTON. 



tat Ion is made tlirougli tlic tcMTitory of tlic Uuited 

 States by land carriage and in Iwnd [Art. XXX.]. 



The United States engage not to impose any export 

 dnties on goods, wares, or mercliandise carried under 

 this article through the territory of the United 

 States; and (ireat Britain engages to urge the Do- 

 minion of Canada and the other British Colonies not 

 to impose any export duty on goods, -wares, or mer- 

 chandise carried under this article. 



It heing v.nderstood that these respective rights of 

 transit are to he regidated hy the two Governments; 

 and tliat on the part of the United States the right 

 of transit will he sus])ended unless the Dominion of 

 Canada should establish the ('xomj>tion from export 

 duties required, and uidess the Dominion shall open 

 its canals on (Mpial terms to citizens of the United 

 States, and ludess the Dominion and the Province of 

 X\'W Brunswick shall free from all duties the tindjcr 

 cut on the St. John in the State of Maine and exi)ort- 

 ed to the United States [Arts. XXX. and XXXI.]. 



All the ])rovisions of the Ti'eaty from Articles 

 XVIII. to XXI. inclusive, and Article XXX.,— that is 

 to say, the articles regarding the fisheries and j'cclp- 

 rocal right of transit, — are to take oifect so soon as the 

 laws reijulred to cany them into operation shall have 

 been ]>assed by th(^ Parliament of (Jreat Pirltaln, by 

 that of Canada, and by the Legislature of Pj'ince Kd- 

 ward's Island, on the one liand, and ]»y the Congress 

 of the United States on the other. 



Such assent having been given, such articles shall 

 remain in force Ibr the period of ten years from the 



