1218 TREATY WITH THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. FEBRUARY 25, 1862 of the exchange of the ratifications; and each of the two contracting parties being, however, at liberty to give to the other, at the end of 14 [fourteen] years, (that time being fixed, as the provisions of this treaty will then have come into full force,) notice for its revision, or for its determination at the expiration of a year from the date of that notice, and so again at the end of 21 [twenty-one] years. The present treaty shall receive its execution in all and every one of ·the provinces of the Ottoman empire; that is to say, in all the possessions of His Imperial Majesty the Sultan, situated in Europe or in Asia, in Egypt, and in the other parts of Africa belonging to the Sublime Porte, in Servia, and in the united principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. Coustmcgonof ARTICLE XXI. It is always understood that the government of
- hi¤¤€¤'¤.Y· the United States of America does not pretend, by any article in the
present treaty, to stipulate for more than the plain and fair construction of the terms employed, nor to preclude in any manner the Ottoman government from the exercise of its rights of internal administration where the exercise of these rights does not evidently infringe upon the privileges accorded by ancient treaties or by the present treaty to citizens of the United States or their merchandise. Commissioners ARTICLE XXII. The high contracting parties have agreed to appoint,
- 0 ¤¤tt}•= ¤¤i¤` jointly, commissioners for the settlement of a tariff of custom-house duties,
°f d“°°°’ to be levied in conformity with the stipulations of the present treaty, as well upon merchandise of every description, being the produce or manufacture of the United States of America, imported into the Ottoman empire, as upon articles of every description the produce or manufacture of the Ottoman empire and its possessions, which citizens of the United States or their agents are free to purchase in any part of the Ottoman empire for exportation to the United States or to any other country. The new tariii§ to be so concluded, shall remain in force during seven years, dating from the date of the exchange of the ratitications. Each of the contracting parties shall have the right, a year before the expiration of that term, to demand the revision of the tariiii But if, during the seventh year, neither the one nor the other of the contracting parties shall avail itself of this right the tariff then existing shall continue to have the force of law for seven years more, dating from the day of the expiration of the seven preceding years; and the same shall be the case with respect to every successive period of seven years. When to be ARTICLE XXIII. The present treaty shall be ratified and the ratifimm°d· cations shall be exchanged at Constantinople in three calendar months, or sooner, if possible, and shall be carried into execution when ratified. Done at Constantinople, on the twenty-fifth day of February, 1862. EDWARD JOY MORRIS, [L. s. AALI, [L. sgi Exchange ¤f And whereas the said Treaty has been duly ratified on both parts, and '°m°°°°'”' the respective ratitications of the same were exchanged at Constantinople, on the fifth ultimo, by Edward Joy Morris, Minister Resident of the United States at the Sublime Porte, and by his Highness Mehemed Emin Aali Pacha, Minister of Foreign Affairs of His Imperial Majesty the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, on the part of their respective Governments: mommauou, Now, therefore, be it known that I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States of America, have caused the said Treaty to be made public, to the end that the same, and every clause and article thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereotl In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be attixed.
