244 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 
tation is made through the territory of the 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 under 
this 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 imposé 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 XXX1I_]. 
All the provisions of the Treaty from Articles 
XVIIL to XXI inclusive, and Article XXX.,—that is 
to say, the articles regarding the fisheries and recip- 
_rocal right of transit,—are to takeseffect 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. 
