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 GENERAL CONVENTION OF FRIENDSHIP, COMMERCE, AND NAVIGATION, April 26, ms. Between the United States of America and his Majesty the R ti. . m·¤1ji;6<f Aus Kong q"DenmarZc (a) Proclamation gg gggfgggggnt Tnn United States of America and his Majesty the King of Denmark, stares, 0m_;4, being desirous to make firm and permanent the peace and friendship 18%- which happily prevail between the two nations, and to extend the com- P°“°°’ &°‘ mercial relations which subsist between their respective territories and People, have agreed to fix, in a manner clear and positive, the rules which shall in future be observed between the one and the other party, by means of a General Convention of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation, With that object, the President of the United States of America has conferred full powers on Henry Clay, their Secretary of State, and his Majesty the King of Denmark has conferred like powers on Peter Pedersen, his Privy Counsellor of Legation, and Minister resident near the said States, Knight of the Dannebrog, who, after having exchanged their said full powers, found to be in due and proper form, have agreed to the following articles: ARTICLE 1. Cqmmgygg The contracting parties, desiring to live in peace and harmony with mi ¤¤vis¤¤i¤¤· all the other nations of the earth, by means of a policy frank and equally friendly with all, engage, mutually, not to grant any particular favour to other nations, in respect of commerce and navigation, which shall not immediately become common to the other party, who shall enjoy the same freely, if the concession were freely made, or on allowing the same compensation, if the concession were conditional. ARTICLE 2. Navigation, The contracting parties being likewise desirous of placing the Com- ¤qa¤1i¤v,¤¤<1 merce and Navigation of their respective countries on the liberal basis "°`Pr°°“y' of perfect equality and reciprocity, mutually agree that the citizens and subjects of each may frequent all the coasts and countries of the other, (with the exception hereafter provided for in the sixth article,) and reside and trade there in all kinds of produce, manufactures, and merchandize; and they shall enjoy all the rights, privileges, and exemptions, in navigation and commerce, which native citizens or subjects do, or shall enjoy, submitting themselves to the laws, decrees, and usages, there established, to which native citizens or subjects are subjected. But it is understood that this article does not include the coasting trade of either country, the regulation of which is reserved by the parties, respectively, according to their own separate laws. ARTICLE 3. Produce and They, likewise, agree that whatever kind of produce, manufacture, or “‘°““&*°l“*’°°· merchandize, of any foreign country, can be, from time to time, lawfully imported into the United States, in vessels belonging wholly to the citi· (a) The treaties and conventions between the United States and Denmark have been: General Conventionof Friendship, Commerce and Navigation, between the United States of America and his Majesty the King of Denmark, April 26, 1826. Convention between the United States of America and his Majesty the King of Denmark, March 28_ 1830. Post, 402. (340)