2.14: THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 



tation is made tbroiigli the territory of tbe United 

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



The United States engage not to impose any export 

 duties on goods, wares, or merchandise carried imder 

 tliis article through the territory of the United 

 States; and Great 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 being understood that these respective rights of 

 transit are to be regulated by the two Governments ; 

 and that on the part of the United States the right 

 of transit will be suspended unless the Dominion of 

 Canada should establish the exemption from export 

 duties required, and unless the Dominion shall open 

 its canals on equal terms to citizens of the United 

 States, and unless the Dominion and the Province of 

 New Brunswick shall free from all duties the timber 

 cut on the St. John in the State of Maine and export- 

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



All the provisions of the Treaty from Articles 

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

 to say, the articles regarding the fisheries and reciji- 

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

 laws required to carry them into operation shall have 

 been passed by the Parliament of Great Britain, by 

 that of Canada, and by the Legislature of Prince Ed- 

 ward's Island, on the one hand, and by the Congress 

 of the United States on the other. 



Such assent having been given, such articles shall 

 remain in force for the period of ten years from the 



