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•and collected for the city treasury, and to be used and applied for the 

 benefit of said cities. 



5th. They shall not be required to perform any military services^ except 

 for the defence of the said cities in which they may reside. 



6th. The said cities will of course be under the qualified dominion 

 and government of the State of Nicaragua, not to be exercised in any 

 manner, however, in violation of their rights and immunities as herein 

 specified ; and said free cities shall be under the protection of the govern- 

 ment of t30th contracting parties. 



Art. 11. The State of Nicaragua agrees that the United States shall 

 have, possess^ and enjoy forever, the follovvring rights and privileges: that 

 is to say, the right and privilege to pass, convey, transport, and send 

 through all or any part of the territories of the State of Nicaragua, on 

 land or water, from ocean to ocean, by means of her ports ^ bays, rivers, 

 lakes, and roads, troops, infantry or cavalry, all kinds of arms, artillery 

 and munitions of v\^ar of all kinds, her public property of every descrip- 

 tion, public officers, civil and military, consuls, ministers, despatch 

 agents, her public mails and mail- agents, and all other employes of the 

 government of the United States of America; and the same shall, all and 

 each, be permitted to pass, be sent, and be conveyed through said State, 

 in any manner as aforesaid, in the public armed vessels of the United 

 States, and in all such other vessels or vehicles, public or private, which 

 may be in the temporary or permanent employment of the government of 

 the United States for any of the purposes aforesaid, or in any other way, 

 free from all cost, and exempt from all taxes, duties, imposts, charges or 

 exactions of any kind whatever, either on the persons, property, vehicles, 

 or vessels, aforesaid; and ail the aforesaid privileges, and the said free 

 rights of way and of transit, shall be held, used, and enjoyed by the 

 United States of America (but not by any other nation, State, or govern- 

 ment, except the State of Nicaragua) without cost or charge, and freel}^, 

 whether the same be made through the dominions and territories of 

 Nicaragua, as they now exist, or whether the said troops, munitions of 

 war, public officers, agents, employes, mails, public property, vehicles^ 

 and vessels, (fee, shall be sent, transported, or conveyed by means of 

 improved navigable rivers, canals, or turnpikes, or railroads, or any other 

 public improvements which may be hereafter made in the State of 

 Nicaragua, either by the government or citizens of the contracting par- 

 ties, or by the governments, citizens, or people of any othei kingdom or 

 country; and the citizens of the Un'ited States shall have and enjoy all 

 the rights and privileges of travel, passage, transit, and conveyance for 

 themselves and their property and vessels of all kinds, through the ter- 

 ritories and dominions of the State of Nicaragua, as they now exist, or 

 through such canals or roads, railways, or turnpikes, or other improve- 

 ments, as may be hereafter made in said State, upon terms and condi- 

 tions in every particular as favorable as those enjoyed by the citizens of 

 Nicaragua, or by the citizens of any other nation, kingdom, or country. 



Art. 12. In consideration of the premises, as set forth in the foregoing 

 eleven articles, the United States of Amxcrica doth solemnly agree and 

 undertake to protect and defend the State of Nicaragua in the posses- 

 sion and exercise of the sovereignty and dominion of all the country, 

 •coasts, ports, lakes, rivers, and territories that may be rightfully under 

 the jurisdiction and within the just and true limits and boundaries of the 



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