1092 RECIPROCITY TREATY WITH GREAT BRITAIN. J UNE 5, 1854. its tributaries, and floated down that river to the sea, when the same is shipped to the United States from the province of New Brunswick. Aarronr. 5. The present treaty shall take effect as soon as the laws Condition; on required to caréy it into operation shall have been passed by the Imperial
- [hi<>l¤ *§*¤¤;*>·*Y Parliament of reat Britain and by the Provincial Parliaments of those
° au t°‘ ° ° °°°’ of the British North American colonies which are affected by this treaty on the one hand, and by the Congress of the United States on the other. Such assent having been given, the treaty shall remain in force for ten years from the date at which it may come into operation, and further, _Wlien to ter- until the expiration of twelve months after either of the high contracting m*”°·°°· parties shall give notice to the other of its wish to terminate the same; each of the high contracting parties being at liberty to give such notice to the other at the end of the said term of ten years, or at any time afterwards. It is clearly understood, however, that this stipulation is not intended to affect the reservation made by article 4 of the present treaty, with regard to the right of temporarily suspending the operation of articles 3 and 4 thereof ARTICLE 6. And it is hereby further agreed, that the provisions and mg`l°g*2°—*3l1$¤°g stipulations of the foregoing articles shall extend to the island of Newm Qi, ,,13,,,; foundland, so far as they are applicable to that colony. But if the Imperial Parliament, the Provincial Parliament of Newfoundland, or the Congress of the United States, shall not embrace in their laws, enacted for carrying this treaty into effect, the colony of Newfoundland, then this article shall be of no effect; but the omission to make provision by law to give it effect, by either of the legislative bodies aforesaid, shall not in any way impair the remaining articles of this treaty. Aivrxcmt 7. The present treaty shall be duly ratified, and the mutual exchange of ratiiications shall take place in Washington, within six months from the date hereof, or earlier if possible. In faith whereof, we, the respective plenipotentiaries, have signed this treaty, and have hereunto aiiixed our seals. Done in triplicate, at Washington, the fifth day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. W. L. MABCY. [r.. s. ELGIN AND KINCARDINE. [L. s.} And whereas the said treaty has been duly ratified on both parts, and the respective ratitications of the same were exchanged in this city on the 9th instant, by William L. Marcy, Secretary of State of the United States, and John F. Crampton, Esq’re, her Britannic Maj esty’s envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to this government, on the part of their respective governments : Now, therefore, be it known, that I, FRANKLIN PIERCE, 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 fulhlled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereotl In testimony whereotl I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aiiixed. Done at the city of Washington, this eleventh day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun- [1.. s.] dred and fifty-four, and of the independence of the United States the seventy-ninth. FRANKLIN PIERCE. By the President: W. L. MABGY, Secretary of [State.
