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 546 PUBLIC TREATIES. States shall abolish the said discriminating duties, it is understood that the same shall be in like manner abolished in relation to the commerce of the other country. Aarrcmc VI. D u r a ti o n ¤ f The present convention shall be considered as additional to the above- with the unmodified articles of that treaty, be in force for the term of two years, commencing six weeks after the exchange of the ratifications; and further, until the end of twelve months after either of the contracting parties shall have given to the other notice of its intention to terminate the same, each of the contracting parties reserving to itself the right of giving such notice to the other, after the expiration of the said term of two years. And it is hereby mutually agreed that, in case of such notice, this convention, and all the provisions thereof, as well as the said treaty of 19th January, 1839, and the provisions thereof, shall, at the end of the said twelve months, altogether cease and determine. ARTICLE VII. g,,¤g,m;0,,,_ The present convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington within six months of its date, or sooner if possible. g;g,mm,,_ In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms. DMB_ Done in duplicate at the city of Washington, this twenty-sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. DAN’L WEBSTER. SEAL. ‘ FS. TESTA. {SEAL. NETHERLANDS, 1855. _;,,,,,,,,,.,,;; ,8_;5_ CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND HIS MAJ- .; ESTY THE KING OF THE NETHERLANDS RESPECTING CONSULS OF THE UNITED STATES IN DUTCH COLONIES, CONCLUDED AT THE HAGUE JANUARY 2*2, 1855; RATIFICATION ADVISED BY SENATE MARCH 3,18.55; RATIFIED BY PRESIDENT MARCH 5, 1855; RATIFICATIONS EXCHANGED - AT WASHINGTON MAY 25, 1855; PROCLAIMED MAY 26, 1855. _Co¤tmcting par- His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, wishing to strengthen the tw'- bonds of friendship subsisting between the United States of America and the Kingdom'of the Netherlands, and to give the amplest possible development to the commercial intercourse so happily established between the two nations, has, for the accomplishment of that purpose, and in order to satisfy a desire repeatedly expressed by the Govern ment of the United States, consented to receive Consuls from said States in the principal ports of the Dutch colonies, with the reservation, however, of making this concession the subject of a special convention, which shall determine, in a clear and precise manner, the rights, duties, and privileges of said Consuls in the colonies above mentioned. Negotintors. Accordingly, the President of the UnitedStates has named August Belmont, a citizen of the United States, and their Minister Resident near His Majesty the King of the Netherlands; His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, the Sieur Floris Adriaan Van Hall, Grand Cross of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, His Majest-y’s Minister of State and for Foreign Affairs, and the Sieur Charles Ferdinand Pahud, Grand Cross of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, His Majesty’s Minister for the Colonies; _ Who, after communicating to each other their full powers, found m good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles:
 * '°¤*Y· mentioned treaty of the 19th of January, 1839, and shall, altogether,