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 488 CONVENTION WITH PERUeBOLIVlA. ’]836. Full powers of the north Peruvian State; who, alter having exhibited to each other ¤¤l¤¤¤8°d- their respective full powers, found to be in due and proper form, and exchanged certified copies thereof, have agreed to the following articles, to wit: ARTICLE I. Firm and invi. There shall be a perfect, firm and inviolable peace, and sincere °l¤l>l° P¤¤¤¢· friendship, between the United States of America and the Peru-Bolivian Confederation, in all the extent of their respective territories and possessions, and between their people and citizens, respectively, without distinction of persons or places. ARTICLE II. Favors granted The United States of America and the Peru-Bolivian Confederation, '° °*h°¤’ ¤¤•i°¤¤ desiring to live in peace and harmony, as well with each other as with
 * i,;:,jL,:°::f°m° all the nations of the earth, by means of a policy frank, and equally

friendly with all, engage, mutually, not to concede any particular favor to other nations, in respect of commerce and navigation, which shall not immediately become common to the other party to this treaty; who shall enjoy the same freely, if the concession was freely made, or on allowing the same compensation, if the concession was conditional. ARTICLE III. (:55,,.,, ,,].,,.,,3 The two high contracting parties, being likewise desirous of placing ¤p gw fwliqg the commerce and navigation of their respective countries on the liberal
 * 0;,,3 ';‘;§;n“' basis of perfect equality with the most favored Inatton, mutually agree

with "ga;4 ri-, that the citizens of each may frequent with their vessels, all the coasts commerce and and countries of the other, and may reside and trade there in all kinds “‘“"g°“°“‘ of produce, manufactures, and merchandize, not prohibited to all; and shall pay no other or higher duties, charges or fees, whatsoever, either on their vessels or cargoes, than the citizens or subjects of the most favored [nation] are, or shall be, obliged to pay on their vessels and car ces; and they shall enjoy, respectively, all the rights, privileges, andg exemptions, in navigation and commerce, which the citizens or subjects of the most favored nation do or shall enjoy; they submitting themselves to the laws, decrees, and usages there established, to which such citizens or subjects are, of right, subjected. co,,,;,,; md, But it is understood that the stipulations contained in this article do excepaed. not include the coasting trade of either of the two countries; the regulation of this trade being reserved by the parties, respectively, according to their own separate laws. ARTICLE IV. Mm;,,,,,,, It is likewise agreed, that it shall be wholly free for all merchants, and others free. commanders of ships, and other citizens of both countries, to manage, ' jurisdiction of the other, as well with respect to the consignment and sale of their goods and mcrchandize, as to the purchase of their returns, (g;,;",,,,,;,,,;, unloading, loading, and sending off of their vessels. The citizens of ther liable to neither of the contracting parties shall be liable to any embargo, nor to gg °“‘b“’g°· be detained with their vessels, cargoes, merchandize, or etfects, for any ' military expedition, nor for any public or private purpose whatever, without being allowed theretbr a sufficient indemnification. Neither shall they be called upon for any forced loan, or occasional contribu— tions; nor be subject to military service on land or sea. ARTICLE V. p,,,,,,,,;,,,, ,,, Whenever the citizens`of either of the contracting parties shall be citrzensofeither forced to seek refuge, shelter, or reliefj in the rivers, bays, ports, and Pm? “°°l*"’9 domiuions of the other, with their vessels, whether of war, (public or
 * °W':"Q,’:1';¥;e;l;°" themselves, their own business in all the ports and places subject to the