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 368 CONVENTION WITH THE HANSEATIC REPUBLICS. 1827. ARTICLE I1. _No higher du- No higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation, into 3;¤£hl;;g,€*{lh6 the United States, of apy article, the produce or manufacture of the eontramng p,,,._ Free Hanseatrc Republics of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburg; and no ties, than are higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation, into either Wd l>Y °*h°¤‘ of the said republics, of any article, the produce or manufacture of the l°°w°"' United States, than are, or shall be, payable on the like article, being the produce or manufacture of any other foreign country; nor shall any other, or higher duties or charges, be imposed by either party on the exportation of any articles to the United States, or to the Free Hanseatic Republics of Lubeck, Bremen, or Hamburg, respectively, than such as are, or shall be, payable on the exportation of the like articles to any other foreign country; nor shall any prohibition be imposed on the importation or exportation of any article, the produce or manufacture of the United States, or of the Free Hauseatic Republics of Lubeck, Bremen, or Hamburg, to, or from, the ports of the United States, or to, or frplm, the ports of the other party, which shall not equally extend to all ot er nations. ARTICLE III. N,, p,;,,,;;,. 0, No priority or preference shall be given, directly or indirectly, by any prsferencetobe or either of the contracting parties, nor by any company, corporation, $:2;* by °“l‘°’ or agent, acting on their behalf, or under their authority, in the pur- ` chase of any article, the growth, produce, or manufacture of their States, respectively imported into the other, on account ot, or in reference to, the character of the vessel, whether it be of the one party or of the other, in which such article was imported; it being the true intent and meaniplglpf) the cpntracping parties, that no distinction or difference whatever s a e ma 0 mt is respect. ARTICLE IV. _In considerga In consideration of the limited extent of the Territories of the Rellgg *:*;:3;  publics of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburg, and of the intimate connect;,,,,,,,,,,,,.,,,,, of tion of trade and navigation subsisting between these Republics, it is the republics of hereby stipulated and agreed, that any vessel which shall be owned ex- I·*“b°°k· &°· clusively by a citizen or citizens of any or either of them, and of which the master shall also be a citizen of any or either of them, and provided that three·fourths of the crew shall be citizens or subjects of any or either of the said Republics, or of any or either of the States of the confederation of Germany, such vessel, so owned and navigated, shall, for all the purposes of this Convention, be taken to be, and considered as, a vessc belonging to Lubeck, Bremen, or Hamburg. ARTICLE V. Any ymel Any vessel, together with her cargo, belonging to either of the Free 25E3K3g;; Hanseatic Republics of Lubeck, Bremen, or Hamburg, and coming H,,,,,,",,,, ,,,_ from either of the said ports to the United States, shall for all the purpublics. and poses of this convention, be deemed to have cleared from the Republic ¥,°'*g¤%": *l*° to which such vessel belongs; although, in fact, it may not have been ‘ "the one from which she departed; and any vessel of the United States, and her cargo, trading to the ports of Lubeck, Bremen, or Hamburg, directly, or in succession, shall, for the like purposes, be on the footing of a Hanseatic vessel, and her cargo, making the same voyage. ARTICLE VI. Furthsrngree- It is likewise agreed that it shall be wholly free for all merchants, "°°*· commanders of ships, and other citizens of both parties, to manage,