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522 TREATY WITH SARDINIA. 1838. ART. XX. · . The present treaty shall be approved and ratified by the President of bl;:t;‘;i,mi;°dt° the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of Within fen the Senate thereof, and by his Majesty the King of Sardinia, and the “‘°mh“• ratifications shall be exchanged in the city of Washington within ten months from the date of the signature thereof or sooner if possible. In faith whereof the plenipotentiaries of the contracting parties have signed the present treaty and thereto affixed their respective seals. Done at Genoa this 26th of November 1838. NATHANIEL NILES, (1.. s.) SOLAR. DE LA MARGUERITE, (L. s.) SEPARATE ARTICLE. U_S_aim,my Circumstances ot a peculiar nature rendering it necessary for his iq establish Sardinian Majesty to continue for a time differential duties to the disg£°*;‘;”§:;°d“' advantage of foreign flags, on grain, olive oil, and wine, imported 5;,,,:directly from the Black Sea, the ports of the Adriatic, and those of the Mediterranean, as far as Cape Trafalgar, notwithstanding the general provisions of the articles No. 2, 3, and 4 of the present treaty, it is distinctly understood and agreed by the high contracting parties, that the United States shall have full and entire liberty to establish countervailing differential duties on the same articles imported from the same places to the disadvantage of the Sardinian flag, in case the existing or any other differential duties on the said articles, shall be continued in force, to the disadvantage of the flag of the United States of America by his Sardinian Majesty, beyond a period of four years, counting from the day of the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty and separate article, but all countervailing differential duties on the said articles shall cease to be exacted from the time the United States Government shall have been informed officially of the discontinuance of differential duties on the part of his Sardinian Majesty. Ejym ohms The present separate article shall have the same force and value as article. if it were inserted word for word in the treaty signed this day and shall be ratified in the same time. In faith whereof we the undersigned, by virtue of our full powers, have signed the present separate article and thereto affixed our respective seals. Done at Genoa the 26th November 1838. N ATHANIEL NILES, L. s.) SOLAR. DE LA MARGUERITE, L. s.)