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 BORNEO, 1850. 79 BORNE0 BORNEO, 1850. TREAT! OF PEACE FRIENDSHIP,. THE UNITED STAIDES OF AMER1é§DAN}19%l)ISUgi)<:F11%}?E`S§§1gIrI;1§Sggixviggg BORNEO, CONCLUDED AT BRUNI JUNE 23. 1850; RATIFICATION ADVISED AND TIME Fo}: EXCHANGE OF RATIFICATIONS EXTENDED BY SENATE JUNE 23, 1852 ; EATIFIED BY PRESIDENT JANUARY 31, wss ; RATIFICATIONS EXCHANGED AT BRUNI JULY 11, 1853 ; PROCLAIMED JULY 12, 1854. His Highness Omar Ali Saiieddiu ebn Marhoum Sultan Mahomed _ C°¤*¤‘¤¤li¤8 W- Jamalel Alam and Pangiran Anak Mumin, to whom belong the govern- t‘°“‘ ment of the country of Bruni and all its provinces and dependencies, for themselves and their descendants on the one part, and the United States of America on the other, have agreed to cement the friendship which has long and happily existed between them, by a convention, containing the following articles: Anrrcnn I. Peace, friendship, and good understanding shall from henceforward !’¤¤¤¤ ¤·¤d fri¤¤d— and forever subsist between the United States of America and His “1“P· Highness Omar Ali Saifeddin, Sultan of Borneo, and their respective successors and citizens and subjects. Anrrcnn II. The citizens of the United States of America shall have full liberty Liberty ¤f nudeto enter into, reside in, trade with, and pass with their merchandise through all parts of the dominions of His Highness the Sultan of Borneo, and they shall enjoy therein all the privileges and advantages, with respect to commerce or otherwise, which are new or which may hereafter be granted to the citizens or subjects of the most favored nation; and the subjects of His Highness, the Sultan of Borneo, shall, in hke manner, be at liberty to enter into, reside in, trade with, and pass through with their merchandise through all parts of the United States of America as freely as the citizens and subjects of the most favored nation; and they shall enjoy in the United States of America all the privileges and advantages, with respect to commerce or otherwiee, which are now or which may hereafter be granted therein to the citizens or subjects of the most favored nation. Awrrcnn III. Citizens of the United States shall be permitted to purchase, rent, or Security to pei-. occupy, or in any other legal way to acquire, all kinds of property ¤°¤¤ ¤¤d P¤>P¤¤=y· within the dominions of His Highness the Sultan of Borneo; and His Highness engages that such citizens of the United States of America shall, as far as lies in his power, within his dominions, enjoy full and complete protection and security for themselves, and for any property which they may so acquire in future, or which they may have acquired already before the date of the present convention. Anrrcmn IV. No article whatever shall be prohibited from being imported into or Imports and en exported from the territories of His Highness the Sultan of Borneo; I>¤¤‘¤¤· bnt the trade between the United States of America and the dominions