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 @{38 TREATY WITH BELGIUM. Marton 8, 1875. March s, ism. Treaty between the United States of America and His Majesty the King of Ratification advised by Senate Jllarch 10, 1875; Ratified by the President March 16, 1875; Rati/ied by the King of the Belgians Jnne 10, 1875; Ratilications exchanged at Brussels June 11, 1875; Proelainud June 29, 187 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. P]‘(5g),u]bl3, Whereas a Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between the United States of America and His Majesty the King of the Belgians was concluded and signed at Washington by their respective Plenipotentiaries on the eighth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-tive, the original of which treaty, being in the English and French languages, is word for word as follows: v'Contracting par- The United States of America Sa Majesté lo Roi des Belges, °’°¤· on the one part, and His Majesty d’une part, et les Etats-Unis the King of the Belgians on the d’Amérique, d’autre part, voulant other part, wishing to regulate in régler d’une maniere formelle les a formal manner their reciprocal relations réciproques de comrelations of commerce and naviga· merce et de navigation, et fortitier tion, and further to strengthen, de plus en plus, par le développethrough the development of their ment des Antéréts respectifs, les interests, respectively, the bonds liens d’amitié et de bonneintelliof friendship and good understand- gence si heureusement établis entre ing so happily established between les deux gouvernements et les deux the governments and people of the peuples; désirant, dans ce but. two countries; and desiring with arreterde commun accord un traite this view to conclude, by common stipulantdes conditions egalement agreement, a treaty establishing avantageuses au commerce et a la conditions equally advantageous to navigation des deux etats, ont at cet the commerce and navigation of cnet noinmé pour lours Plénipoboth States, have to that effect ap- tentiaires, savoir: Sa Majeste le pointed as their Pleuipotentiaries, ltoi des Belges, le Sieur Maurice namely: The President of the Deltbsse, Oommandeur de l’Ordre United States, Hamilton Fish, Sec· de Leopold, &c., &c., son Envoyé rotary of State of the United States, Extraordinaire et Ministre Plénipoand His Majesty the King of the tentiaire aux Etats-Unis, et le Pre- Belgians Maurice Delfosse, Com- sident des Etats-Unis, Hamilton mander of the Order of Leopold, Fish, Secrétaire d’Etat des Etats- &c., &c., his Envoy Extraordinary Unis; lesquels, apres s’etre commuand Minister Plenipotentiary in the niqué leurs pleins pouvoirs, trouves United States; who, after having en bonne et (l{10lO1`Ill€,Ol]l) arrete communicated to each other their et conclu les articles suivants: full powers, ascertained to be in good and proper form, have agreed to and concluded the following articles: Anrxonn I. Anrrotm I. Reciprocal tree- There shall be full and entire free- Il y aura plcinc et entiere libcrte g3g‘“‘;$,;g;b';“°"°° dom of commerce and navigation deeommerce etdenavigation entre ‘ " "’ between the inhabitants of the two les habitants des deux pays, et la
 * —*‘·—"‘_""‘ the Belgians. Commerce and navigation. (lonolnded March, 8, 1875;