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 TREATY WITII SAN SALVADOR, JAN. 2, 1850. 891 T It E A T I E S. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Jan. 2, 1860. A PRCCLAMATION. WHEREAS a general Treaty of Amity, Navigation, and Commerce, between the United States of North America and the Republic of San Salvador was concluded and signed at the city of Leon, on the second day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty, which treaty is in the words following, to wit: A General Treaty of Amity, Navigation, and Commerce between the United Slatesof North America and the Republic of San Salvador. The United States of North America and the Republic of San Salvador, desiring to make lasting and firm the friendship and good under- Preamble. standing which happily exists between both nations, have resolved to Hx, in a manner clear, distinct, and positive, the rules which shall in future be religiously observed between each other, by means of a Treaty or General Convention of Peace and Friendship, Commerce and Navigation. For this desirable object the President of the United States of N€g,,m,_w,,_ America has conferred full powers upon E. G. Squier, a citizen of the said States, and their Charge d’Affaires to Guatemala; and the President of the Republic of San Salvador has conferred similar and equal powers upon Senor Licenciado Don Augustin Morales, who, after having exchanged their said full powers in due form, have agreed to the following articles : ARTICLE 1. There shall be a perfect, firm, and inviolable peace and Peacemid sincere friendship between the United States of America and the Re- m°”d5h‘P· public of San Salvador, in all the extent of their possessions and territories, and between their citizens respectively, without distinction of persons or places. ARTICLE 2. The United States of America and the Republic of San *· Most favored Salvador, desiring to live in peace and harmony with all the nations of ¤?·Pi°¤" PF°· the earth, by means of a policy frank and equally friendly with all, vm0n' engage mutually not to grant any particular favor to other nations in respect of commerce and navigation which shall not immediately become common to the other party, who shall enjoy the same freely if the concession was freely made, or on allowing the same compensation if the concession was conditional. ARTICLE 3. The two high contracting parties, being likewise desirous Right to ¤‘¤·d0 of placing the commerce and navigation of their respective countries on  Old pm?"' the liberal basis of perfect equality and reciprocity, mutually agree that the citizens of each may frequent all the coasts and countries of the other, and reside therein, and shall have the power to purchase and hold lands, and all kinds of real estate, and to engage in all kinds of trade, manufactures, and mining, upon the same terms with the native citizen, and shall enjoy all the privileges and concessions in these matters which are or may be made to the citizens of any country, and shall enjoy all the rights, privileges, and exemptions, in navigation, commerce, and manufactures, which native citizens do or shall enjoy, submitting themselves to the laws, decrees, or usages there established, to which native