*93 
appendix.] WEST INDIES. 
“ other or higher tonnage duties or charges than shall be 
“ payable by British vessels in the ports of the United 
“ States ; and that the cargoes of the said American vessels 
“ shall be subject there to no other or higher duties or 
“ charges than shall be payable on the like articles if im- 
“ ported there from the said States in British vessels. 
“ And his majesty also consents, that it shall be lawful 
“ for the said American citizens to purchase, load, and carry 
“ away in their said vessels, to the United States, from the 
“ said islands and ports, all such articles, being of the 
“ growth, manufacture, or produce of the said islands, as 
“ may now by law be carried from thence to the said States 
“ in British vessels, and subject only to the same duties and 
44 charges on exportation to which British vessels and their 
“ cargoes are or shall be subject in similar circumstances. 
“ Provided always, that the said American vessels do 
44 carry and land their cargoes in the United States only ; 
44 it being expressly agreed and declared, that, during the 
“ continuance of this article, the United States will prohibit 
“ and restrain the carrying any melasses, sugar, coffee, co- 
“ coa, or cotton, in American vessels, either from his ma¬ 
jesty’s islands or from the United States, to any part of 
44 the world, except the United States, reasonable sea stores 
44 excepted. 
“ Provided also, that it shall and may be lawful, during 
“ the same period, for British vessels to import from the 
44 said islands into the United States, and to export from 
c ‘ the United States to the said islands, all articles what- 
44 ever, being of the growth, produce, or manufacture of 
“ the said islands, or of the United States respectively, 
44 which now mav by the laws of the said States be so im- 
44 ported and exported ; and that the cargoes of the said 
