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 5g) IPUBLIU TREATIES. 2. \Vhen a cargo ora large quantity of gunpowder arrives in an Ottoman port, on board a vessel of the United States, such vessel shall, be anchored at a particular spot, to be designated by the local authorities, and the gunpowder shall thence be conveyed,_nndcr the inspection of such authorities, to depots, or fitting places designated by the txovernment, to which the parties interested shall have access under due regulations. Fowlingpieces, pistols, and ornamental or fancy weapons, as also small quantities of gunpowder for sporting, reserved for private use, shall not be subject to the stipulations of the present article. Anrrcrn XVI. 1·`irm¤¤¤· The lirmans required for merchant-vessels of the United States of America, on passing through the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, shall always be delivered in such manner as to occasion to such vessels the least possible delay. Anricnn XVII. M,mi;cm_ The captains of merchant-vessels of the United States laden with goods destined for the Ottoman Empire shall be obliged, immediately on their arrival at the port of their destination, to deposit in the custom-house of said port a true copy of their manifest. Aarrcrn XVIII. Confiscatiou o it Contraband goods will be liable to confiscation by the Ottoman ¤<>¤tr¤l¤¤¤d g<>¤d¤- treasury ; but a report or procés verbal of the alleged act of contraband must, so soon as the said goods are seized by the authorities, be drawn up and communicated to the consular authority of the citizen or subject to whom the goods said to be contraband shall belong; and no goods can be confiscated as contraband unless the fraud with regard to them shall be duly and legally proved. Anricnn XIX. O,,,,,,,,,,,, pm- All merchandise the produce or manufacture of the Ottoman dominduets in United ions and possessions, imported into the United States of America, shall S***°€¤· be treated in the same manner as the like merchandise the produce or manufacture of the most favored nation. p,, vilcge, of All rights, privileges, or immunities, which are now or may hereafter ottoman subjects be granted to, or suffered to be enjoyed by, the subjects, vessels, com- t *> h 0 Ummd mcrce, or navigation of any foreign Power in the United States of America ‘" °“‘ shall be equally granted to,`and exercised and enjoyed by, the subjects, vessels, commerce, and navigation of the Sublime Porte. Anrxcrn XX. ti:;fgg*t’;;£;l***`“· _The present treaty, when ratified, shall be substituted for the commercial convention of the 16th of August, 1838, between the Sublime Porte and Great Britain, on the footing of which the commerce of the United States of America has been heretofore placed, and shall continue in force for 28 years from the day of the exchange of the ratifications; and each of the two contracting parties being, however, at liberty to give to the other, at the end of 14 years, (that time being fixed, as the provisions of this treaty will then have come into full force,) notice for its revision, or for its determination at the expiration of a year from the date of that notice, and so again at the end of 21 years. The present treaty shall receive its execution in all and every one of the provinces of the Ottoman Empire; that is to say, in all the possessions of H1s Imperial Majesty the Sultan, situated in Europe or in Asia, in