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 800 PUBLIC TREATIES. tion or re-exportation be made in vessels of the one or the other. _N or shall higher or other charges of any kind be imposed in the ports of one party on vessels of the other than are or shall be payable in the same ports by national vessels. Anrromn VI1. Coasting trade. The preceding article is not applicable to the coasting trade of the · contracting parties, which is respectively reserved by each exclusively for its own citizens. But vessels of either country shall be allowed to discharge a part of their cargo[e]s at one port, and proceed to any_other port or ports in the territories of the other to discharge the remainder, without paying higher or other port charges or tonnage dues than would be paid by national vessels in such cases, olon g as this liberty shall be conceded to any foreign vessels by the laws of both countrie. Anrronn VIII. N¤¤¤¤¤li t U 0 f For the better understanding of the preceding stipulations, it has been Vj‘“°‘“°1““ "° °' a eed that every vessel belonging exclusively to a citizen or citizens of °° °' Vgsrnezuela, and whose captain is also a citizen of the same, such vessel having also complied with all the other requisites established by law to acquire such national character, though the construction and crew are or may be foreign, shall be considered, for all the objects of this treaty, as a Venezuelan vessel. Anrronn IX. Equality of du- No higher or other duty shall be imposed on the importation into the QN ¤¤ P¤>d¤¤¤ °f United- States of any article the growth, produce, or manufacture of °‘*'h°' °°'“""'Y· Venezuela, or of her fisheries, and no higher or other duty shall be imposed on the importation into Venezuela of any article the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States or their fisheries, than are or shall be payable on the like articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of any other foreign country or its fisheries. No other or higher duties or charges shall be imposed in the United States on the exportation of any article to Venezuela, nor in Venezuela on the exportation of any article to the United States, than such as are or shall be pgyable on the exportation of the like article to any other foreign coun ry. · jlqnnlity of pm- No prohibition shall be imposed on the importation of any article the h¤\>¤¤¤°¤¤· growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States or their fisheries, or of Venezuela and her fisheries, from or to the ports of the United States or Venezuela, which shall not equally extend to every other fort lialvcrnl {rank; eign country. If, however, either party shall hereafter grant to any b‘;°‘Lm;'°L;;:;_ other nation any particular favour in navigation or commerce, it shall immediately become common to the other party, freely, where it shall be freely granted to such other nation, or for the same equivalent, when the grant shall be conditional. Anrronm X. d Iaisvriminativg _ Should one of the high contracting parties hereafter impose discrim- " °'· inating duties upon the products of any other nation, the other party shall be at liberty to determine the manner of establishing the origin of ittls ovsén products intentéed to enter the country by which the di crimma ng u es are impose . Anrronn XI. Wrccked or When any vessel of either party shall be wrecked stranded or other- ‘]°'”°¤°d '°°°°I°· wise damaged_ on the coasts or within the jurisdictidn of the other, their respective citizens shall receive, as well for themselves as for their