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 586 PUBLIC TREATIES. ARTICLE II. Purchase or The citizens of the United States of America, or their agents, shall be goods. permitted to purchase, at all places in the Ottoman Empire and 1ts.pos— sessions, (whether for the purposes of internal trade or of exportation,) all articles, without any exception whatsoever, the produce or manufacture of the said Empire and possessions; and the Sublime Porte having, in virtue of the second article of theconvention of commerce of the 16th of August, 1838, with Great Britain, formally engaged to abolish all monopolies of agricultural produce, or of every other article _ "T‘¤¤¤¤i*¤" ¤l>°l· whatsoever, as well as all ·‘ permits ” (tezkcreha) from the local Gover- ‘“l"’d· nors, either for the purchase of any article or for its removal from one place to another when purchased, any attempt to compel the citizens of the United States of America to receive such “ perm1ts" from the local Governors shall be considered as an infraction of this treaty,and the Sublime Porte shall immediately punish with severity any Viziers or other officers vho shall have been guilty of such misconduct, and shall render full justice to citizens of the United States of America for all losses or injuries which they may duly prove themselves to have suffered thereby. Anrronn III. Internal antics, If any articles of Ottoman produce or manufacture be purchased by citizens of the United States of America, or their agents, for t£e purpose of selling the same for internal consumption in Turkey, the said citizens, or their agents, shall pay at the purchase and sale of such articles, and in any manner of trade therein, the same duties that are paid in similar circumstances by the most favored class of Ottoman subjects, or of foreigners in the internal trade of the Ottoman Empire. Anrxomiz IV. _1=:qno1ity of du- No other or higher duties or charges shall be imposed in the domin- such as are or may be payable on the exportation of the like article to Equality of pro- any other foreign country; nor shall any prohibition be imposed on the l!il>i¤i<>¤¤· exportation of any article from the dominions and possessions of either of the two contracting Powers to the dominions and possessions of the other, which shall not equally extend to the exportation of the like article to any other country. Limitation of No charge or duty whatsoever will be demanded on any article of export duty in Ot- Ottoman produce or manufacture purchased by citizens of the United °°““‘“ d""““"’““· States of America, or their agents, either at the place where such article is purchased, or in its transit from that place to the place whence it is exported, at which it will be subject to an export duty not exceeding eight per cent., calculated on the value at the place of shipment, and payable on exportation; and all articles which shall once have paid this duty shall not again be liable to the same duty, however they may have changed hands within any part of the Ottoman Empire- A,,,,,,,,, md uc. It is furthermore agreed that the duty of eight per cent. above mention. .tioned will be annually reduced by one per cent., until it shall be in this manner finally reduced to a fixed duty of one per cent. ad valorem, destined to cover the general expenses of administration and control. Anricrn V. ucqnnlity or on- No other or higher duties shall be imposed on the importation into ms <>¤ uur¤r¢¤· the United States of America of any article the produce or manufacture [S¤<>Ar¢¤<=l¤XIV-] of the dominions and possessions of His Imperial Majesty the Sultan, from whatever place arriying, whether by sca or by land ; and no other or higher duties shall be imposed on the importation into the dominions
 * °° °¤ °‘P°'°“· ions and possessions of either of the contracting parties, on the exportation of any article to the dominions and possessions of the other, than