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 324 CONVENTION WITH CENTRAL AMERICA. 1825. ARTICLE 4th. Further agree. They likewise agree, that whatever kind of produce, manufacture or rnemwiih re- merchandize, of any foreign country, can be, from time to time, law. $:2 ‘°&f;‘_°0l,%'°’ fully imported into the United States, in their own vessels, may be also eaelilother, imported in vessels of the Federation of the Centre of America; and that no higher or other duties, upon the tonnage of the vessel, or her cargo, shall be levied and collected, whether the importation be made in vessels of the one country, or of the other. And in like manner, that whatever kind of produce, manufactures, orrmerchandize, of any foreign country, can be, from time to time, lawfully imported into the Central Republic, in its own vessels, may be also imported in vessels of the United States, and that no higher or other duties, upon the tonnage of the vessel, or her cargo, shall be levied and collected, whether the importation be made in vessels of the one country, or of the other. And they further agree, that whatever may be lawfully exported, or re-exported, from the one country, in its own vessels, to any foreign country, may in like manner, be exported or re-exported, in the vessels of the other country. And the same bounties, duties, and drawbacks, shall be allowed and collected, whether such exportation, or re-exportation, be made in vessels of the United States, or of the Central Republic. P ARTICLE 5th. · No hi her or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into mn of the Unitgd States of any articles, the prolduce or manufzlbtures of the Federation of the Centre of America, and no higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into the Federation of the Centre of America, of any articles, the produce or manufactures of the United States, than are or shall be, payable on the like articles, being the produce- or manufactures of any other foreign country; nor shall any higher or other duties, or charges, be imposed in either of the two countries, on the exportation of any articles to the United States, or to the Federation of the Centre of America, respectively, than such as are payable on the exportation of the like articles to any other foreign country: nor shall any prohibition be imposed on the exportation or importation of any articles, the produce or manufactures of the United States, or of the Federation of the Centre of America, to or from the Territories of the United States, or to or from the Territories of the Federation of the Centre of America, which shall not equally extend to all other Nations. ARTICLE 6th. Fm-rhcmgm. It is likewise agreed that it shall be wholly free for all merchants, ¤¤°¤¥· commanders of ships, and other citizens, of both countries, to manage, themselves, their own business, in all the ports and places subject to the jurisdiction of each other, as well with respect to the consignment and sale of their goods and merchandize, by wholesale or retail, as with respect to the loading, unloading and sending oflj their ships; they being, in all these cases, to be treated as citizens of the country in which they reside, or at least to be placed on a footing with the subjects or citizens of the most favoured nation. ARTICLE 7th. lgjilgrg vfnij- The citizens of neither of the contracting parties shall be liable to mblgko gn° ° any embargo, nor be detained with their vessels, cargoes, merchandize, mbsyge, dc, or effects, for any military expedition, nor for any public or private pur-