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through the said possessions; and goods, wares, and 
merchandise may be conveyed in transit without pay- 
ment of duties, from the United States through the 
said possessions to other places in the United States, 
or for export from ports in the said possessions [ Art. 
XXTX.]. 
All these rights of transit are, of course, subject to 
such regulations for the protection of the revenue as 
the respective Governments may prescribe. 
[c] Great Britain engages to urge on the Dominion 
of Canada and the Province of New Brunswick that 
no export duty or other duty shall be levied on tim- 
ber cut in that part of the American territory in the 
State of Maine watered by the River St. John and its 
tributaries, and floated down that river to the sea, 
when the same is shipped to the United States from 
the Province of New Brunswick. 
[d] Subjects of Great Britain may carry in British 
vessels, without payment of duty, goods, wares, or 
merchandise from one port or place within the terri- 
tory of the United States upon the St. Lawrence, the 
Great Lakes, and the rivers connecting the same, to 
another port or place within the territory of the 
United States, provided that a portion of such trans- 
portation is made through the Dominion of Canada 
by land carriage and in bond [ Art. XXX. ]. 
Citizens of the United States may carry in United 
States vessels goods, wares, or merchandise from one 
port or place within the British possessions in North 
America to another port or place within the said 
possessions, provided that a portion of such transpor-. 
