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 425 TREATY WITH MEXICO. 1531. In witness whereof, We, the Plenipotentiaries of the United States of America and of the United Mexican States, have signed and sealed these presents. Done in the city of Mexico, on the fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, in the fifty-fifth year of the Independence of the United States of America, and in the eleventh of that of the United Mexican States. A. BUTLER, (1.. s.) LUCAS ALAMAN, (1.. s.) RAFAEL MANGINO, (1.. s.) ADDITIONAL ARTICLE. Fifth and sixtn 'Whereas, in the present state of the Mexican shipping, it would not ¤"**3°S $*1*-*· be possible for Mexico to receive the full advantage of the reciprocity pw °d' established in the fifth and sixth articles of the treaty signed this day, it is agreed that for the term of six years, the stipulations contained in Substitute. the said articles shall be suspended; and in lieu thereof, it is hereby agreed, that, untill the expiration of the said term of six years, American vessels entering into the ports of Mexico, and all articles, the produce, growth, or manufacture of the United States of America, imported in such vessels, shall pay no other or higher duties, than are or may hereafter be payable in the said ports by the vessels and the like articles, the growth, produce, or manufacture of the most favored nation; and, reciprocally, it is agreed that Mexican vessels entering into the ports of the United States of America, and all articles, the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United Mexican States, imported in such vessels, shall pay no other or higher duties than are, or may hereafter be, pay- able in the said ports by the vessels and the like articles, the growth, produce, or manufacture of the most favored nation; and that no higher duties shall be paid, or bounties or drawbacks allowed, on the exportation of any article, the growth, produce, or manufacture of either country, in the vessels of the other, than upon the exportation of the like articles in the vessels of any other foreign country. The present additional article shall have the same force and value as as if it had been inserted, word for word, in the treaty signed this day. It shall be ratified, and the ratification exchanged at the same time. In witness whereof, We, the respective Plenipotentiaries, have signed and sealed the same. Done at Mexico, on the fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one. A. BUTLER, (1.. s.) LUCAS ALAMAN, (1.. s.) RAFAEL MANGINO, (1.. s.)