892 TREATY WITH SAN SALVADOR, JAN. 2, 1850. citizens are subjected. But it is understood that this article does not gmaugbms include the coasting trade of either country, the regulation of which is Mmsd- reserved by the parties respectively, according to their own separate laws. ARTICLE 4. They likewise agree that whatever kind of produce, No distinction manufacture, or merchandise of any foreign country can be from time to ¤; °° ¤=*§;°¤¤mJ’ time lawfully imported into the United States in their own vessels, may ° v°”° ‘ be also imported in vessels of the Republic of San Salvador; and that no higher or other duties upon the tonnage of the vessel and her cargo shall be levied and collected, whether the importation be made in vessels of the one country or of the other; and in like manner that, whatever kind of produce, manufactures, or merchandise of any foreign country can be from time to time lawfully imported into the Republic of San Salvador in its own vessels, may be also imported in vessels of the United States; and that no higher or other duties upon the tonnage of the vessel and her cargo shall be levied or collected, whether the importation be made in vessels of the one country or the other. And they further agree, that whatever may be lawfully exported or reexported from one country in its own vessels to any foreign country may in like manner be exported or reexported in the vessels of the other country; and the same bounties, duties, and drawbacks shall be allowed and collected, whether such exportation or reexportation be made in vessels of the United States or of the Republic of San Salvador. ARTICLE 5. No higher or other duties shall be imposed on the imno discrimi- portation into the United States of any articles the produce or manu-
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,;;;,6, ,,,,u,,t,y_ shall be imposed on the importation into the Republic of San Salvador of any articles the produce or manufactures of the United States, than are or shall be payable on the like articles being the produce or manufactures of any foreign country; nor shall any higher or other duties or charges be imposed in either of the two countries on the exportation of any articles to the United States or to the Republic of San Salvador, respectively, than such as are payable on the exportation of the like articles to any other foreign country; nor shall any prohibition be imposed on the exportation or importation of any articles the produce or manufactures of the United States or of the Republic of San Salvador, to or from the territories of the United States, or to or from the territories of of the Republic of San Salvador, which shall not equally extend to all other nations. Amrxonn 6. In order to prevent the possibility of any misunderstand- Articles 4 and ing, it is hereby declared that the stipulations contained in the three pre- §*gl_°Pg:{•,;':’“*" ceding articles are to their full extent applicable to the vessels of the vZ,,,Y,,,;],y,·0m_ United States and their cargoes arriving in the ports of San Salvador, and reciprocally to the vessels of the said Republic of San Salvador and their cargoes arriving in the ports of the United States, whether they proceed from the ports of the country to which they respectively belong or from the ports of any other foreign country; and, in t_N¤ dl:<=!l¤¤;i¤¤·· either case, no discriminating duty shall be imposed or collected in the ,f§Q‘y°§,· °f,€,?gf,?“' ports of either country on said vessels or their cargoes, whether the same shall be of native or foreign produce or manufacture. ARTICLE 7. It is likewise agreed, that it shall be wholly free for all merchants, commanders of ships, and other citizens of both countries, to w}§<>W trgdetié manage, by themselves or agents, their own business in all the ports and °°°“ “° ° ‘ places subject to the jurisdiction of each other, as well with respect to the oonsignments and sale of their goods and merchandise, by wholesale or retail, as with respect to the loading, unloading, and sending off their ships; they being in all these cases to be treated as citizens of the country in which they reside, or at least to be placed on an ecfuality with the subjects or citizens of the most favored nation.
