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 964TREATY—SERBlA—O0MMERCIAL. Ocronmz 2-14, 1881. privusgss, sx- In like manner in all that relates to local taxes, customs, formalities, emptionsiinmuni- brokerage, patterns or samples introduced by commercial travellers, ties and all other matters connected with trade, citizens of the United States in Serbia and Serbian subjects in the United States shall enjoy the treatment of the most favored nation, and all the rights, privileges, exemptions and immunities of any kind enjoyed with respect to commerce and industry by the citizens or subjects of the high contracting parties, or which are or may be hereafter conceded to the subjects of any third power, shall be extended to the citizens or subjects of the other. Anrrcrn II. Holdingreal and In all that concerns the right of acquiring, possessing or disposing of P¤r¤¤¤¤·l P¤‘¤P¤1’W· every kind of property, real or personal, citizens of the United States in Serbia and Serbian subjects in the United States, shall enjoy the rights . which the respective laws grant or shall grant in each of these states to · the subjects of the most favored nation. Biglits to prop- Within these limits, and under the same conditions as the subjects of ¤1‘¤¥ y 1>¤¤=!¤¤·}¤, the most favored nation, they shall be at liberty to acquire and dispose °"°· ?g’£"'°’ *° *1** of such property, whether by purchase, sale, donation, exchange, mar- P°°° riage contract, testament, inheritance, or in any other manner whatever, without being subject to any taxes, imposts or cb arges whatever, other or higher than those which are or shall be levied on natives or on the subjects of the most favored state. _ They shall likewise be at liberty to export freely the proceeds of the sale of their property, and their goods in general, without being subjected to pay any other or higher duties than those payable under similt; bynatives or by the subjects of the most favored s Anrrcru ·HI. ·  Mr- Merchants, manufacturers, andtrades people in general of one of the ‘ · m two contracting countries travelling in the other, or sending thither their clerks and agents, whether with or without samples, in the exclusive intern? of the commelpce or industry that they carry on, and for the purpose 0 making pure ases or sa es, or receiving commissions shall be treated with regard to their licenses, as the merchants, mandfacturers and trades people of the most favored nation. L:w;•_ regarding _ It is understood, however, that the preceding stipulations do not affect £:':,n;';§m::h rn any way the laws and regulations in force in each of the two countries in f,,,.,,,,_ applicable to all foreigners as respects peddling and hawking. Trading. _ The citizens and subjects of the Contracting Parties shall be reciprocally treated as the natives of the country, or as the subjects of the most favored nation, when they shall go from one country to the other to visit . fairs uand mlaorgets Tor the purpose of exereisingtheir commerce and selling cir p nets. P¤¤¤v<>r¤¤- No obstacle shall be placed in the way of the tree movements of travellers, and the administrative formalities relative to travelling passports shall be restricted to the strict necessities of the public service on passing the frontiers. . .. Anrrcnn IV. Ex°¤Ptionfmm Citizens of the United States in Serbia and Serbian sub' in he ‘ whether in the army by land or by sea; whether in the national guard _ or mnhtia; from billeting; from all contributions, whether pecuniary or m kind, destined as a compensation for personal service; from all forced Forced 1¤•¤•; loans, and from all military exactions or requisitions. The liabilities, •*¤°P*i¤¤» however, arising out of the possession of real property, and for military · loans and requisitions to which all the natives might be called upon to contribute as proprietors of real property or as farmers, shall be ex-
 * ,*3} 'md °°* '°" United States shall be reciprocally exempted from all persoiieaffsservijce,