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 GUATEMALA, 1849. 379 article does not include the coasting trade of either country the regulation of which is reserved to the parties respectively, accordihv to their own separate laws. ° Anxious IV. They likewise agree that whatever kind of produce, manufacture, or Importation into merchandise of any foreign country can be from time to time lawfully U¤*°°d S°==“¤ i" imported into the United States in their own vessels, may be also im- V°Sf°°l° °f Gm"'"` ported in vessels of the Republic of Guatemala ; and that no higher or m€i·:§,m,a., (1mi0s_ other duties upon the tonnage of the vessel or her cargo shall be levied ° · and collected, whether the importation be made in vessels of the one country or of the other; and, in like manner, that whatever kind of Importatiouinto produce, manufacture, or merchandise, of any foreign country can be G'"*°°m**lP* l" Y"- from time to time lawfully imported into the Republic of Guatemala in gags °t U""’°d its own vessels, may be also imported in_vessels of the United States, ` and that no higher or other duties upon the tonnage of the vessel or her q-Gunnar, aut;,,,,, cargo shall be levied and collected, whether the importation be made in D vessels of the one country or of the other. And they further agree that Ex,,.,,.t,,_ whatever may be lawfully exported or reexported from the one country in its own vessels to any foreign country, may be in like manner exported or re-exported in vessels of the-other country. And the same B0,,,,,, cs W d bounties, duties, and drawbacks shall be allowed and collected, whether ,{mwi,acks_ ` such exportation or re-exportation be mane in vessels of the United States or of the Republic of Guatemala. ARTICLE V. No higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into the 1.;,,,,,,uty of du- United States of any articles the produce or manufactures of the Re- ties on produce public of Guatemala, and no higher or other duties shall be imposed on °f °i**¤*°* °°“¤*'Y· the importation into the Republic of Guatemala of any articles the produce or manufactures of the United States, than are or shall be payable in like articles being the produce or manufactures of any other foreign country; nor shall any higher or other duties or charges be imposed in either of the two countries on the exportation of any articles to the United States or to the Republic of Guatemala, respectively, than such as are payable on the exportation of the like articles to any other foreign country; nor shall any prohibition be imposed on the exportation Eq,mmy.0f pm. or importation of any articles the produce or manufactures of the United hibitions. States or of the Republic of Guatemala, to or from the territories of the · United States, or to or from the territories of the Republic of Guatemala, which shall not equally extend to all other nations. Ancrrorn VI. It is likewise agreed that it shall be wholly free for all merchants, Privileges of rescommauders of ships, and other citizens of both countries to manage id<>¤*»¤· themselves their own business in all the ports and places subject to the jurisdiction of each other, as well with respect to the consignment and sale of their goods and merchandise, by wholesale or retail, as with respect to the loading, unloading, and sending off their ships; they being in all these cases to be treated as citizens of the country in which they reside, or at least to he placed on a footing with the subjects or citizens of the most favoured nation. Anrrcma VII. The citizens of neither of the contracting parties shall be liable to t E*Pl¤=¤·*S<> °¤’ d<> any embargo, nor be detained with their vessels, cargoes, merchandise, °“ ‘°“* or effects, for any military expedition, not for any public or private purpose whatever, without nllowiu g to those interested a sunicient indemnilication.