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 588 PUBLIC TREATIES. Amrcm VIII. Imports and ex- All articles which are or may be legally importable into the United l’$""" i" '°°'°l° °f States of America, in vessels of the United States, may likewise he 1m- °'°h°' Party' ported in Ottoman vessels without heiug_l1ahle to any other or higher duties or charges, of whatever denomination, than _1f such articles were imported in vessels of the United States; and, reciprocally, all articles which are or may be legally importable into the dominlons and possessions of Hi Imperial Majesty the Sultan in Ottoman vessels, may likewise be imported in vessels of the United States without being liable to any other or higher duties or charges, of whatever denomination, than if uch articles were imported in Ottoman vessels. _Such reciprocal equality of treatment shall take effect without distiuction, whether such articles come directly from the place of origin or from any other country. In the same manner there shall be perfect equality of treatment in regard to exportation, so that the same export duties shall be paid, and the same bounties and drawbacks allowed, in the dominions and possessions of either of the contracting parties, on the exportation of any article which is, or may be, legally exportable therefrom, whether such exportations shall take place in Ottoman or in vessels of the United States, and whatever may be the place of destination, whether a port of either of the contracting parties, or of any third Power. Anrronn IX. Tonnage duties. No duties of tonnage, harbour, pilotage, light-house, quarantine, or other similar or corresponding duties of whatever nature, or under whatever denomination, levied in the name or for the profit of Government, public functionaries, private individuals, corporations, or establishments of any kind, shall be imposed in the ports of the dominions and possessions of either country upon the vessels of the other country, which shall not equally, and under the same conditions, be imposed, in the like cases, on national vessels in generaL Such equality of treatment shall apply reciprocally to the respective vessels, from whatever port or place they may arrive, and whatever may be their place of destination. Anrrcml X. Nationality of All vessels which, according to the laws of the United States, are to "°“°°l°- be deemed vessels of the United States, and all vessels which, according to Ottoman laws, are to be deemed Ottoman vessels, shall, for the purposes of this treaty, be d_eemed vessels of the United States and Ottoman vessels respectively. Am·1cLm XI. thFr§;ul>1¤¤¤¤l€¤1 0i' No charge whatsoever shall be made upon goods of the United States, mf, B°sP,‘::“‘:s_ “ being the produce or manufacture of the United States of America, whether in vessels of the United States or other vessels, nor upon any goods the produce or manufacture of any other foreign country carried in vessels of the United States, when the same shall pass through the Straits of the Dardanelles, or of the Bosphorus, whether such goods shall pass through those straits in the vessels that brought them, or shall havebeen tran shipped to other vessels; or whether, after having been sold for exportation, they shall, for a certain limited time, be landed, in order to be placed in other vessels for the continuance of their voyage. In the latter case, the goods in question shall be deposited at Constantinople, in the magazines of the custom—house, culled transit magazines; and &, in any other places where there is no entrepot, they shall be placed under the charge of the administration of the customs.