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 SWISS CON FEDERATION, 1850. 749 I merce; to have establish ments; to possess warehouses; to consign their products and their merchandise, and to sell them by wholesale or retail, either by themselves or by such brokers or other agents as they may think proper; they shall have free access to the tribunals, and shall be at liberty to prosecute and defend their rights before courts of justice in the same manner as native citizens, either by themselves or by such advocates, attorneys. or other agents as they may think proper to select. No pecuniary or other.more burdensome condition shall be imposed upon their residence or establishment, or upon the enjoyment of the ·abovementioned rights, than- shall be imposed upon citizens of the country where they reside, nor any condition whatever to which the latter shall not be subject. The foregoing privileges, however, shall not extend to the exercise of Restrictions. political rights, nor to a participation in the property of communities, corporations, or institutions of which the citizens of one party, established in the other, shall not have become members or co·proprietors. Arvrronn Il. The citizens of one of the two countries, residing or established in the E¤¤mpti<>¤ fr<>¤¤ other, shall be free from personal military service; but they shall be 2‘l‘“"Y “°""°°· liable to the pecuniary or material contributions which may be required, °' by way of compensation, from citizens of the country where they reside, who are exempt from the said service. No higher impost, under whatever name, shall be exacted from the Internal taxes. citizens of one of the two countries, residing or established in the other, than shall be levied upon citizens of the country in which they reside, nor any contribution whatsoever to which the latter shall not be liable. In case of war, or of expropriation for purposes of public utility, the Indcmnities for citizens of one of the two countries, residing or established in the other, d*“““S°°· shall be placed upon an equal footing with the citizens of the country in which they reside in respect to indcmnities for damages they may have sustained. ARTICLE III. The citizens of one of the two republics, residing or established in the Return or elw other, who shall desire to return to their country, or who shall be sent ¤°¤ ¤ **0 °¤"S*¤°l thither by a judicial decision, by an act of police, or in oonformity with °°“°°"y° the laws and regulations on morals and mendicity, shall be received at all times and under all circumstances, they, their wives, and their legitimate issue, in tlie country to which they belong, and in which they shall have preserved their rights in conformity with the laws thereof. Ancrroui IV. In order to establish their character as citizens of the United States P¤»¤¤p¤rt¤· of America, or as citizens of Switzerland, persons belonging to the two contracting countries shall be bearers of passports, or of other papers in due form, certifying their nationality, as well as that of the members of their family, furnished or authenticated by a diplomatic or consular agent of their nation, residing in the one of the two countries which they wish to inhabit. Anrrouz V. The citizens of each one of the contracting parties shall have power Di¤r<>¤¤l {wd i¤· to dispose of their personal property within the jurisdiction of the other, ;f;$“;:§p:rt;‘_°" by sale, testament, donation, or in any other manner; and their heirs, whether by testament or ab intestate, or their successors, being citizens 0f the other party, shall succeed to the said property, or inherit it, and they may take possession thereof, either by themselves or by others acting for them ; they may dispose of the same as they may think proper, paying no other charges than those to which the inhabitants of