RECIPROCITY TREATY WITH GREAT BRITAIN. JUNE 5, 1854. 1091 Schedule. Grain, flour, and breadstuffs, of all kinds. Animals of all kinds. Fresh, smoked, and salted meats. Cotton-wool, seeds, and vegetables. Undried fruits, dried fruits. Fish of all kinds. Products of fish, and of all other creatures living in the water. Poultry, eggs. Hides, furs, skins, or tails, undressed. Stone or marble, in its crude or unwrought state. Slate. Butter, cheese, tallow. Lard, horns, manures. Ores of metals, of all kinds. Coal. Pitch, tar, turpentine, ashes. Timber and lumber of all kinds, round, hewed, and sawed, unmannfacturcd in whole or in part. Firewood. Plants, shrubs, and trees. Pelts, wool. Fish oil. Rice, broomcorn, and bark. Gypsum, ground or unground. Hewn, or wrought, or unwrought burr or grindstones. Dyestuifs. Flax, hemp, and tow, unmanufactured. Unmanufaetured tobacco. Rags? Anriemz 4. It is agreed that the citizens and inhabitants of the Itights of United States shall have the right to navigate the River St. Lawrence, £;'“°Ef;‘;;;’g:h° and the canals in Canada used as the means of communicating between ,,,,};,;,.3 4;,,,,,,,;;,.,, the great lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, with their vessels, boats, and GMM5- crafts, as fully and freely as the subjects of her Britannic Majesty, subject only to the same tolls and other assessments as now are, or may hereafter he, exacted of her Majesty’s said subjects; it being understood, however, that the British government retains the right of suspending this privilege This yightmgy on giving due notice thereof to the government of the United States. be Suspended- It is further agreed, that if at any time the British government should exercise the said reserved right, the government of the United States shall have the right of suspending, if it think tit, the operation of article 3 of the present treaty, in so far as the province of Canada is affected thereby, for so long as the suspension of the free navigation of the River St. Lawrence or the canals may continue. It is further agreed that British subjects shall have the right freely to _ Rightsof Britnavigate Lake Michigan with their vessels, boats, and crafts, so long as fgk:§El:,g*"m;“ the privilege of navigating the River St. Lawrence, secured to American g ' citizens by the above clause of the present article, shall continue; and the government of the United States further engages to urge upon the State governments to secure to the subjects of her Britannic Majesty the use of the several State canals, on terms of equality with the inhabitants of the United States. And it is further agreed, that no export duty, or other duty, shall be DE¢>’0é1l£¤l§¤ levied on lumber or timber of any kind cut on that portion of the Ameri- g:,‘:,n°r,h,,°aS‘;_ can territory in the State of Maine watered by the River St. John and John.
- See act of 1854, ch. 269, and act of 1855, ch. 144, carrying out the provisions of
this treaty.
