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 Articles of amity and commerce.—Ships of war and post-office packets.—Importation duties.—Tonnage and pilotage.—Regulations for vessels and prizes.—Passports.—Personal liberty.—Property and estates.—Unlading of goods.—Resident consuls.—Safe-conduct.—Religion.—Former convention.—Abolition of the slave-trade.—Additional articles for the benefit of Mexican commerce.

alluding to the Mexican commerce, it may be well to furnish a copy of the amicable treaty between Great Britain and the Republic, drawn up and signed in the year 1826; especially as the principal points of the arrangements specified have undergone no material changes since that period, and the existence of the commercial treaty is better known than its guarantees.

There shall be perpetual amity between the dominions and subjects of his Majesty the