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duties of any kind or amount on the persons^ (for passports^,) or on pmpeHy^ 

 or on goods, wares, or merchandise of any class or kind, on their travel 

 or transit over, or for passing through her territories by means of said 

 canals, roads, &C.5 provided the said property, goods, wares, and mer- 

 chandise shall be not sold or not introduced for sale or consumption into 

 the said State, but be exported to other states or countries. 



Art. 8. The ports at the points of termination of said works shall be 

 free to both the contracting parties and their citizens, respectively, and 

 their public and private vessels of all kinds shall enter and remain therein ^ 

 and depart therefrom, and not be subjected to the payment of any port 

 charges, tonnage duties, or other impositions whatever. 



Art. 9. The persons employed in the location and construction of said 

 works, the owners thereof^ and all their agents and officers and employes 

 of every sort, shall be under the special protection of the government of 

 both the contracting parties, and they shall not be subject to an}^ kind of 

 taxation on their persons or property, nor shall they be required to pay 

 any contributions, or to perform any civil or military duty or service what- 

 ever, for either of the two governments, during their employment about 

 the said works 5 and all provisions, including wines and liquors, and all 

 merchandise imported into Nicaragua for their clothing and subsistence, 

 shall be free and exempt from all duties and taxes, direct or indirect; 

 and all such articles, property, stores, tools, implements, and machines,, 

 (fcc, &c., as may be required for surveys and explorations, and for locating 

 and constructing said works, shall be imported into the State of Nicaragua 

 free from all taxes and duties whatever thereon; and the vessel employed 

 in the importation of the said subsistence, clothing, tools, implements, 

 &c., &c., shall also be free and exempt from all port charges and tonnage 

 duties in all the ports, rivers, lakes, or harbors on the coasts or within 

 the limits of the State of Nicaragua; and entire liberty is to be enjoyed by 

 the said company to make full and complete surveys and explorations of 

 the ports, bays, seas, lakes, rivers, and territories of Nicaragua, in order 

 to the location of said works, and for the procurement of land and materials 

 necessary for the same, in which exploration and surveys Nicaragua, at 

 her own expense, may participate, if she thinks proper. 



Art. 10. The State of Nicaragua grants and cedes to the United States, 

 or to a company to be chartered as herein provided, as the case may be, 

 all the land within two leagues square belonging to said State, and which 

 may be unappropriated at the date of this treaty, at each point of the ter- 

 minations of said works, at the seas on each side, that is to say, three 

 miles square on each side of both ends of said works, to serve for the sites 

 of two free cities, which it is anticipated will hereafter be established at 

 said points: the inhabitants of which free cities shall enjoy the following 

 rights and immunities: 



ist. They shall govern themselves by means of their own municipal 

 government, to be administered by officers (legislative, executive, and 

 judicial) chosen and elected by themselves, according to their own regu- 

 lations. 



2d. They shall have the right of trial by jury in their own city courts, 

 3d. They shall have the most perfect freedom of religious belief and 



of rehgious worship, public and private. 



4th. They shall not be required to pay any tax upon their real estate 



or other property, except such as may be imposed by the municipality^ 



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