Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 18 Part 2c.djvu/434

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HONDURAS, 1864. 427 By the right of entering the places, ports, and rivers mentioned in Cmtin trade. this article, the privilege of carrying on the coasting trade is not under- g stood ;_ in which trade national vessels only of the country where the trade is carried on are permitted to engage. Anrrouz III. It being the intention- of the two high contractin arties to bind . themselves by the preceding articles, to treat each otlirpon the footing mithegodxm of the mostfavored nation, it is hereby agreed between them that any become common. favor, privilege, or immunity whatever, in matters of commerce and navigation, which either contracting party has actually granted, or may hereafter grant, to the subjects or citizens of any other State, shall be extended to the citizens or subjects of the other high contracting party gratuitously, if the concession in favor of that other nation shall have been gratuitous; or 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. Amicus IV. No higher nor other duties shall be imposed on the importation into E u al, t of the territories of the United States of any articles being of the growth, ,;,,,;,°L 0,, ,,,,,,,;,,0,, produce, or manufacture of the Republic of Honduras, and no higher of either country. nor other duties shall be imposed upon the importation into the territories of the Republic of Honduras of any articles being the growth, pro- [SM A **>i¤l¤ duce, or manufacture of the territories of the United States, than are or xm'] shall be payable on the like articles being the growth, produce, or manufacture of any other foreign country; nor shall any other or higher duties or charges be imposed in the territories of either of the high contracting parties on the exportation of any articles to the territories of the other, than such as are or may be payable on the exportation of the like articles to any other foreign country ; nor shall any prohibition be imposed upon E,,,,,,,,,,, of 1,,,, the exportation or importation of any articles the growth, produce, or mbmons. manufacture of the territories of the United States or of the Republic of Honduras, to or from the said territories of the United States, or to or from the Republic of Honduras, which shall not extend equally to all other nations. Aimcrn V. No high? nor other duties or payments on account of tonnage, of rp,,,,,,,,,;,, ,;,,c,, light or bor dues, of pilotage, of salvage, in case either of damage or aw. shipwreck, or on account of any other local charges, shall be in [soo Article any of the ports of the Republic of Honduras, on vessels of the United Km-] States, than those payable in the same ports by vessels of Honduras; nor in any of the ports of the United States, on vessels of Honduras, than shall bepayable in the same ports on vessels of the United States. A;s·r1oLn VI. The same duties shall be paid on the importation into the territories Importation, in of the Republic of Honduras of any article being of the growth, pro- ***:*1* °‘ ¤¤¤l¤¤f_ duce,-or manufacture of the territories of the United States, whether Wm; Av t ic, 6 . such importation shall be made in vessels of Honduras or of the United XH,] States; and the same duties shall be paid on the importation into the territories of the United States of any article being the growth, produce, or manufacture of the Republic of Honduras, whether such 1m- portation shall be made in United States or in Honduras vessels. The same dues shall be paid, and the same bounties and drawbacks 3,,,,,,,;,,, ,,,, ,1 allowed, on the exportation to the Republic of Honduras of any articles drawbacks. being the growth, produce, or man nfacture of the territories of the United States, whether such exportations shall be made in vessels of _ Honduras or of the United States; and the same duties shall be paid,