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PORTUGAL, 1840. G35 same footing as national vessels comin from the same i - spect to the duties of manage, light-honge dudes, pilotagslpcogt egligrlgeg as well as to the fees and perquisites of public onicers, and all other dui ties and charges, of whatever kind or denomination, levied upon vessels of commerce, in the name or to the profit of the Government, the local authorities, or of any public or private establishment, whatsoever. Anrrcms III. No higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into Eq¤¤li¤.v of <1¤- the Kingdom and possessions of Portugal of any article the growth, *l°° °"1’*°"“°“’°f produce, or manufacture of the United States of America.; and no °"h°r °°"""·V' higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into the United States of America of any article the growth, produce, or manufacture of the Kingdom and possessions of Portugal, than such as are or shall be payable on the like article being the growth, produce, or manufacture of any other foreign country. Nor shall any prohibition be imposed on the importation or exporta- Equality or protion of any article the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United *¤iWi°¤¤- States of America, or of the Kingdom and possessionsof Portugal, to or from the ports of the said Kingdom and possessions of Portugal, or of the said States, which shall not equally extend to all other foreign nations. Nor shall any higher or other duties or charges be imposed, in either Exponations. of the two countries, on the exportation of any articles to the United States of America, or to the Kingdom of Portugal, respectively, than such as are payable on the exportation of the like articles to any other foreign country. . Provided, however, that nothing contained in this article shall be un- [soo convention derstood, or intended, to interfere with the stipulation entered into by of 1631 with the United States of America, for a special equivalent, in regard to ;:,?“"°¤ PI’· 2*** French wines, in the convention made by the said States and France, '] on the fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one; which stipulation will expire, and cease to have effect, in the month of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-two. aurora IV. The same duties shall be paid, and the same bounties, deductions, or Importations in privileges allowed, on the importation into the Kingdom and Possessions 1**-*;**** °f °*°h°*‘ of Portugal, of any article the growth, produce, or manufacture of the P“ y' United States of America, whether such importation shall be in vessels of the said States, or in Portuguese vessels; and, reciprocally, the same duties shall be paid, and the same bounties, deductions, or privileges allowed, on the importation into the United States of America, of any article the growth, produce, or manufacture of the Kingdom and possessions of Portugal, whether such importation shall be in Portuguese vessels, or in vessels of the said States. Aarronn V. It is agreed b the hi h contracting parties that, whenever there may Im rtations in be lawfully impgrted ingo all or any of the ports of the Kingdom and gmguff °*b°' possessions of Portugal, in vessels of any foreign country, articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of a country other than that_ to which the importing vessels shall belong, the same privilege shall _Immediately become common to vessels of the United States of America, with all the same rights and favors as may, in that respect, granted to the most favored nation. And, reciprocally, in consideratiouthereot, Portuguese vessels shall thereafter enjoy, in the same respect, privileges, i·i;.·;|nts, and iavors, to n correspondent extent, in the ports ol tho United States of America.