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 TREATY WITH THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. Duc. 20, 1849. 977 TREATY WITH THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, D"- “°· 18*9- DEC. 20, 1849. gggggggaicgg, 110 ll l1 Hg. Wmmnas a treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation, between 24*1383% ,-0 the United States of America and his Majesty the King of the Hawaiian mad;  I éf Islands, was concluded and signed at Washingt<>n, on the twentieth 185* day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred P'“”‘M°· pmt forty-nine, the original of which treaty is, word for word, as o ows:—— The United States of America and his Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands, equally animated with the desire of maintaining the relations of good understanding which have hitherto so happily subsisted between their respective states, and consolidating the commercial intercourse between them, have agreed to enter into negotiations for the conclusion of a treatyof friendship, commerce, and navigation, for which purpose they have appointed plenipotentiaries, that is to say: The President of the United States of America, John M. Clayton, Secretary of State of the United States; and his Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands, James Jackson J arves, accredited as his special commissioner to the government of the United States; who, after h_aving exchanged their full powers, found in good and due form, have concluded and signed the following articles :— Anrrcmt I. There shall be perpetual peace and amity between the United States 1T¢¤¤¤ ¤¤d and the King of the Hawaiian Islands, his heirs and his successors. "“"Y' Arvrtctn II. There shall be reciprocal liberty of commerce and navigation be- Reciprocal tween the United States of America and the Hawaiian Islands. No g;‘5‘;°“‘ °f duty of customs, or other impost, shall be charged upon any goods, the ' produce or manufacture of one country, upon importation from such country into the other, other or higher than the duty or impost charged upon goods of the same kind, the produce or manufacture ol] or imported from, any other country; and the United States of America ‘;iM°§}·f:!°f*d€£ and his Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands do hereby engage, gzujn ° lp that the subjects or citizens of any other state shall not enjoy any favor, privilege, or immunity, whatever, in matters of commerce and navigation, which shall not also, at the same time, be extended to the subjects or citizens of the other contracting party, gratuitously, if the concession in favor of that other state shall have been gratuitous, and in return for a compensation, as nearly as possible of proportionate value and effect, to be adjusted by mutual agreement, if the concession shall have been conditional. _ A.n·r·rcr.n III. All articles, the produce or manufacture of either country, which $¤¤¤¢ ¤¤l>.i¢°* can legally be imported into either country from the other, in ships of that other country, and thence coming, shall, when so imported, be subject to the same duties, and enjoy the same privileges, whether imported in ships of the one country, or in ships of the other; and in like manner, all goods which can legally be exported or re-exported it