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 910 TREATY WITH BORNEO. JUNE 23, 1850. No duty on ARTICLE 6. His Highness the Sultan of Borneo agrees that no duty °XP°”“· whatever shall be levied on the exportation from His Highness do. minions of any article the growth, produce, or manufacture of those dominions. Ships of war ARTICLE 7. His Highness the Sultan of Borneo engages to permit
 * .l?e;{;‘;}l“3""ur_ the ships-of-war of the United States of America freely to enter the ports,

(,;,,,,5., Suppfgcg rivers, and creeks situate within his dominions, and to allow such ships to provide themselves, at a fair and moderate price, with such supplies, stores, and provisions as they may from time to time stand in need of. Wr€<>kS· ARTICLE 8. If any vessel under the American flag should be wrecked on the coast of the dominions of his Highness the Sultan of Borneo, his Highness engages to give all the assistance in his power to recover for and to deliver over to the owners thereof all the property that can be saved from such vessels. His Highness further engages to extend to the officers and crew, and to all other persons on board of such wrecked vessels, full protection, both as to their persons and as to their property. Triru of eases ARTICLE 9. His Highness the Sultan of Borneo agrees that in all cases where a citizen of the United States shall be accused of any crime www committed in any part of his Highness dominions, the person so accused shall be exclusively tried and adjudged by the American Consul, or other officer duly appointed for that purpose; and in all cases where disputes or differences may arise between American citizens, or between American citizens and the subjects of his Highness, or between American citizens and the citizens or subjects of any other foreign Power in the dominions of the Sultan of Borneo, the American Consul, or other duly appointed officer, shall have power to hear and decide the same, without any interference, molestation, or hindrance on the part of any authority of Borneo, either before, during, or after the litigation. This treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged at Bruni at any time prior to the fourth day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. Done at the city of Bruni on this twenty-third day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty, and on the thirteenth day of the month Saaban, of the year of the Hegira one thousand two hundred and sixty-six. JOSEPH BALESTIER, (L. s. OMAR ALI SAIFEDDIN, (L. sg And whereas the said Convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the respective ratifications of the same were exchanged at the city of Bruni on the eleventh day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, by Captain W1LLIA1»r J. MCCLUNEY, of the United States Navy, and PANGERAN ENDAR NIACOTAH, Prime Minister of his Highness the Sultan of Borneo, on the part of their respective Governments: Now, therefore, be it known that I, FRANKLIN PIERCE, President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same, and every clause and article thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this twelfth day of July, in the (L. S.) year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, and of theindepcndence of the United States the seventy-ninth, FRANKLIN PIERCE. BY THE PRESIDENT: W. L. MARCY, Secretary of State.