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 TREATY WITII BORNEO. JUNE 23, 1850. 909 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. June 28, 1860. A PROCLAMATION. Wnnnnss a Convention between the United States of America and His Highness the Sultan of Borneo was concluded and signed by their respective plenipotentiaries at the city of Bruni on the twenty-third day of June one thousand eight hundred and fifty, which Convention is word for word as follows: His Highness OMAR ALI SAIrE1>DIN,ebn Marhoum Sultan, Mahomed Jamalil Alam, and Pangiran Anak Mumin, to whom belong the government of the country of Bruni and all its provinces and dependencies, for themselves and their descendants on the one part, and the United States of America on the other, have agreed to cement the friendship which has long and happily existed between them by a Convention containing the following articles: ARTICLE 1. Peace, friendship, and good understanding shall from Peace and heneeforward and forever subsist between the United States of America fl°“d$hlP d°‘ and his Highness Omar Ali Saifeddin, Sultan of Borneo, and their re- °m°d' spective successors and citizens and subjects. ARTICLE 2. The citizens of the United States of America shall have Liberty of full liberty to enter into, reside in, trade with, and pass with their mer- MAB- chandise through all parts of tl1c dominions of his Highness the Sultan of Borneo, and they shall enjoy therein all the privileges and advantages, with respect to commerce or otherwise, which are now or which may hereafter be granted to the citizens or subjects of the most favored nation ; and the subjects of his Highness the Sultan of Borneo shall, in like manner, be at liberty to enter into, reside in, trade with, and pass through with their merchandise through all parts of the United States of America as freely as the citizens and subjects of the most favored nation ; and they shall enjoy in the United States ot America all the privileges and advantages, with respect to commerce or otherwise, which are now or which may hereafter be granted therein to the citizens or subjects of the most favored nation. ARTICLE 3. Citizens of the United States shall be permitted to pur- 5.,,,,1,;;;,,,, rmchase, rent, or occupy, or in any other legal way to acquire all kinds of I>1‘0I>¢FW fwd property within the dominions of his Highness the Sultan of Borneo; and l°°"°“‘ his Highness engages that such citizens of the United States of America shall, as far as lies in his power, within his dominions, enjoy full and complete protection and security for themselves, and for any property which they may so acquire in future, or which they may have acquired already before the date of the present Convention. ARTICLE 4. No article whatever shall be prohibited from being im- No article of ported into or exported from the territories of his Highness the Sultan $)‘i€Cé°§l° P'°· of Borneo; but the trade betweenthe United States of America and the Borneo_ dominions of his Highness the Sultan of Borneo, shall be perfectly free, and shall be subject only to the custom duties which may hereafter be in force in regard to such trade. AItT1CI.E 5. No duty exceeding one dollar per registered ton shall be levied on American vessels entering the ports of his Highness the Duties 011 WS- Sultan of Borneo; and this iixed duty of one dollar per ton to be levied ;‘jg;c‘;§)‘;;lh€I on all American vessels shall be in lieu of all other charges or duties whatsoever. His Highness, moreover, engages that American trade and American goods shall be exempt from any internal duties, and also from any injurious regulations which may hereafter, from whatever causes, be adopted in the dominions of the Sultan of Borneo.