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 400 TREATY WITH AUSTRIA. 1829. Parties placed, ture of the dominions of Austria; and no higher or other duties shall $2 t:,?,g;°%,$£,_ article the produce or manufacture of the United States, than are, or ed nation. shall be payable on the like article, being the produce or manufacture of 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 dominions of Austria, to or from the ports of the United States, or to or from the ports of the dominions of Austria, which shall not equally extend to all other nations. .D¤*i°¤·l>°¤¤- Arvrrcnn VI. All kind of merchandize and articles of commerce, z22H2XL1E2W` either the produce of the soil or of the industry of the United States of psi-te. America, or of any other country, which may be lawfully exported, or re-exported from the ports of the said United States, in national vessels, may also be exported, or re-exported therefrom in Austrian vessels, without paying other, or higher duties or charges of whatever kind or denomination, levied in the name or to the profit of the Government, the local authorities, or of any private establishments whatsoever, than if the same merchandise or produce had been exported or re-exported, in vessels of the United States of America. An exact reciprocity shall be observed in the ports of the dominions of Austria, so that all kinds of merchandise and articles of commerce either the produce of the soil or of the industry of the said dominions of Austria, or of any other country, which may be lawfully exported or re-exported, from Austrian ports, in national vessels, may also be exported or re-exported therefrom, in vessels of the United States of America, without paying other or higher duties or charges, of whatever kind or denomination, levied in the name or to the profit of the Government, the local authorities, or of any private establishments whatsoever, than if the same merchandise or produce had been exported, or re-exported, in Austrian vessels. And the same bounties and drawbacks shall be allowed, whether such exportation or re·exportation be made in vessels of the one party, or of the other. Ccmmiw M_ -ARTIGI.E VII. It is expressly understood and agreed that the coastyigmjqn, wise navigation of both the contractin parties, is altogether excepted from the operation of this treaty, and og every article thereof v,,,,,,,], ,,,· ,1,,, Arvrrcm VIII. No priority or preference shall be given, directly, or purriasto be indirectly, by either of the contracting parties, nor by any Company, •¤¤¤llY I¤'°¤‘¤d· Corporation or Agent, acting on their behalf or under their authority, in the purchase of any article of commerce, lawfully imported, on account ofi 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 meaning of the contracting parties that no distinction or difference whatever shall be made in this respect. Future favors. Anwrcau IX. If either party shall hereafter grant to any other nation any particular favor in navigation or commerce, it shall immediately become common to the other party, freely, where it is freely granted to such other nation, or on yielding the same compensation, when the grant is conditional. Consuls, sw, Aarronn X. The two contracting parties hereby reciprocally grant to each other, the liberty of having, each in the ports of the other, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, Agents and Commissaries of their own appointment, who shall enjoy the same privileges and powers as those of the most favoured nations. _But if any such Consuls shall exercise c0m· merce, they shall be subjected to the same laws and usages to which
 * 8 *0 d*%*i€¤· ¤¤ be imposed on the importation into the dominions of Austria, of any