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 NICARAG UA, 1867. 567 in which trade national vessels only of the country where the trade is carried on are permitted to engage. Anrrcm: III. It being the intention of the two high contracting parties to bind F=>*’¤¥‘¤ ¤¤‘¤¤¢·¤<i theunselves by the two preceding articles to treat each other on the *° °“'°' "““°““ footing of the most iavored nations, it is hereby agreed between them t°b°°°m°°°mm°°' that any favor, privilege, or immunity whatever, in matters of commerce and navigation, which either contracting party has actually granted, or may grant hereafter, to the subjects or citizens of any other State, shall be extended to the subjects or citizens of the other contracting party; gratuntously, if the concession in favor of that other nation shall have been gratuitous, or in return for a compensation, as nearly as possible of a proportionate value and eifeet, to be adjusted by mutual agreement, if the concession shall have been conditional. Amvrcm IV. No higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into Equality bt duthe territories of the United States of any article being the growth, *i$=¤_ ¢>¤ 9*0*1**0*-9 produce, or manniactme of the Republic of Nicaragua, and no higher or °' °‘°h"' °°““"Y· other duties shall be imposed on the importation into the territories of the Republic of Nicaragua of any article being the growth, produce, or manutacture of the United States, than are or shall be payable upon the like articles being the growth, produce, or manufacture of any other foreign country; nor shall any other or higher duties or charges be imposed in the Territories of either of the high contracting parties on the exportation_ of any articles to the Territories of the other than such as are or may be payable on the exportation of the like articles to any other _ ioreign country; nor shall any prohibition be imposed upon the importa- h.Fq!"*h*Y °f P"°‘ tion or exportation of any articles the growth, produce, or manufacture’m°"‘ of the territories of the United States or the Republic of Nicaragua to or from the said territories of the United States, or to or from the Bepublic of Nicaragua, which shall not equally extend to all other nations. Amuomt V. No higher or other duties or payments on account of tonnage, of light mmm duties, or harbor dues, or pilotage, of salvage in case of either damage or ship- &¤· wreck, or on account of any local charges, shall be imposed in any of the ports of Nicaragua on vessels of the United States than those pay- able by Nicaraguan vessels, nor in any of the ports of the United States on Nicaraguan vessels than shall be payable in the same ports on vessels of the United States. Aaerronm VI. The same duties shall be paid on the importation into the territories Impprts and sxof the Republic of Nicaragua of any articles being the growth, produce,  *¤m§;‘”'°*“ °*` or manufacture of the territories of the United States, whether such °‘ °rp y' importation shall be made in Nicaraguan vessels or in the vessels of the United States; and the same duties shall be paid on the importation into the territories of the United States of any article being the growth, produce, or manufacture of the Republic of Nicaragua, whether such importation shall be nnadein Nicaraguan or United States vessels. The same duties shall be paid, and the same bounties and drawbacks allowed, on the exportation to the Republic of Nicaragua, oi' any article, bein g the growth, produce, or manufacture of the territories of the United States, whether such exportation shall be made in Nicaraguan or United States vessels; and the same duticssbull be paid, and the same bounties and drawbacks allowed, on the exportation of any articles, being the growth,