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 HANOVER, 1846. 39] iications thereof shall be exchanged at the city of Berlin, within the space of ten months from this date, or sooner if possible. In faith whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the Signghrm above articles as well in French as in English, and have atlixed thereto the seals of their arms, declaring at the same time that the signature in the two languages shall not hereafter be cited as a precedent, nor in any manner prejudice the contracting parties. Done in quadrnplieate at the‘city of Berlin the twentieth day of May, Date. in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty, and the sixty-fourth of the Independence of the United States of America. HENRY WHEATON. 1.. s. . AUGUSTUS DE BERGER. ir,. si HANOVER, 1846. TREATY OF COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES Jung [0 ]345_ OF AMERICA AND HIS MAJESTY 'l‘HE KING OF HANOVER, CONCLUDED ———%·-— AT HANOVER JUNE 10, 1646; RATIFICATION ADVISED BY SENATE JANU- ARY 6, IBA7; RATIFIED BY PRESIDENT JANUARY H, 1847; RATIFICATIONS EXCHANGED AT HANOVER MARCH 5, 1847; PROCLAIMED APRIL 24, 1847. The United States of America and his Majesty the King of Hanover, Contracting pu'- equally animated with a desire of placing the privileges of their navi- lm- - gation on a basis of the most extended liberality, and of affording otherwise evenv encouragement and facility for increasing the commercial intercourse between their respective ¢ tates, have resolved to settle in a definitive manner the rules which shall boobserved between the one and the other, by means of a treaty of navigation and commerce; for which purpose the President of the United States has conferred fullN¤g¤ti¤·¤>r¤· powers on A. Dudley M ann, their Special Agent to His Majesty the King of Hanover; and His Majesty the King of Hanover has furnished with the like full powers the Baron George Frederick de Falcke, of his Privy Council, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphick Order; Who, after exchanging their full powers, found in good and due form, hfive concluded and signed, subject to ratification, the following artic es. Amrronm I. The high contracting parties agree that whatever kind of produce, Importutions in manufacture, or merchandise of any foreign country, can be, from time V°°z° ° °*` ° Wh °' to time, lawfully imported into the United States in their own vessels, P"" Y' may also he imported in vessels of the Kingdom of Hanover; and no higher or other duties upon the tonnage or cargo of the vessel shall be levied or collected, whether the importation be made in a vessel of the United Sta-tes or in a Hanoverian vessel. And in like manner, whatever kind of produce, manufacture, or merchandise of any foreign country, can be, from time to time, lawfully imported into the Kingdom of Hanover in its own vessels, may also be imported in vessels of the _ United States; and no higher or other duties upon the tonnage or cargo 'f¢>¤¤¤s¤ •!¤¢¤¢•· of the vessel shall be levied or collected, whether the importation be made in vessels of the one party or the other. _ Whatever may be lawfully exported or re-exported by one party in Exportations in its own vessels to any foreign country may, in like manner, be exported V¤¤¤¤l¤ of ¤ 1 thu or re-exported in the vessels of the other. And the same duties, bonu- P‘““Y· ties, and drawbacks shall be collected and allowed, whether such exportation or re-exportation be made in vessels of the one party or the Other. Nor shall higher or other charges of any kind be imposed ln the Pvrt ¢h¤1‘s¤¤· ports of the one party on vessels of the other than are or shall be payable in the same ports by national vessels. _ And further, it is agreed that no higher or other toll shall be levied Bm nsimussn or collected at Brunshausen or Stade,‘on the River Elbe, upon the ton- wik-