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 SIS TREATY WITII SARDINIA. 1838. question still continued. But all vessels which after having been warned off once, shall, during the same voyage, attempt a second time to enter the same blockaded port driring the continuance of the said blockade, shall then subject themselves to be detained and condemned. ART. XIV. Articles of All articles of commerce the growth or manufacture of the United fo¤j;3¢f¤¢ al- States of America, and the products of their fisheries, with the excepfgglm Gtgnggss tion of salt, gunpowder and tobacco manufactured for use, shall be perthrough the mitted to pass in transitu from the free port of Genoa through the terri- S¤¥<li¤i¤¤ tml- tories of his Sardinian Majesty to any point of the inland frontier of °°""’ &'°‘ the said territories, and vice versa, all articles of commerce coming from any one point of the Sardinian inland frontier destined for the United States, shall be permitted to pass the territories of his Sardinian Majesty to the free port of Genoa without being liable to the payment of any duty whatever levied in the name or to the profit of the Government, the local authorities or of any private establishment whatsoever, other than such as are required to meet the expenses of the necessary precautionary measures against smuggling, which precautionary measures to be observed in regard to transit to the frontier shall be the same whether the said articles of commerce are imported by the vessels of Notice of any the one or of the other of the high contracting parties. But if peculiar j:`:“w€‘j]“'Y “’ circumstances or considerations should render the re-establishment of gtransit duties necessary on the said articles of commerce directed to any one point of the Sardinian frontier, the Sardinian Government, in reserving to itself the full right. to establish such duty, engages to notify to the Government of the United States such determination six months before A,,;,,;,,,,,,- any such transit duty shall be exacted. It is also understood that all gorterjjdgectlg in-ticles of commerce imported directly from the United States of Amecsgidcjed gg ° rica shall be taken and considered as the products of the said States, {hg producc and shall be entitled equally and in like manner, with the exceptions thereof. above mentioned in the present article, to a free transit through the territories of his Sardiniau Majesty. ART. XV. Each party to The two high contracting parties reciprocally grant to each other the g3;°i;°;f:h”· liberty of having each in the ports and other commercial places of the ,,,},;,,.-8 ,,,,,,s_ other, consuls, vice-consuls and commercial agents of their own appointment, who shall enjoy the same privileges, powers and exemptions as Otfconsnlsen- those of the most favoured nations. But if any of such consuls shall f‘°5:g ‘“ °°’“‘ exercise commerce, they shall be subjected to the same laws and usages ' to which the private individuals of their nation, or subjects or citizens of the most favored nations are subject in the same places, in respect to their commercial transactions. ART. X.VI. In case of cid- It is especially understood that whenever either of the two contract- TMS 9f°¤° P¤*· ing parties shall select for a consular agent to reside in any port or y being up-. . . . . ,,,m,,d consul, commercial place of the other party a subject or citizen of this last, by the other. such consul or agent shall continue to be regarded, notwithstanding his quality of a foreign consul, as a subject or citizen of the nation to which he belongs, and consequently shall be submitted to the laws and regulations to which natives are subjected in the place of his residence. This obligation however shall in no respect embarrass the exercise of his consular functions, or affect the inviolability of the consular archives. ART. XVII. The said consuls, vice-consuls and commercial agents are authorized to require the assistance of the local authorities for the search, arrest,