96 PUBLIC TREATIES. chandise; and they shall enjoy all the rights, privileges, and exemp. tions in navigation and commerce which native citizens do or shall enjoy, submitting themselves to the laws, decrees, and usages there established to which native citizens are subyected. But 1bn1S understood that this article does not include the coasting trade of either country, the regulation of which is reserved by the parties, respectively, according to their own separate laws. Aurrcnn IV. Im rts and ex- The likewise agree that whatever kind of produce, manufacture, or P<>¤‘¤•·P° merchbndise of any foreign country can be, from time to time, lawfully imported into the United States in their own vessels, may be also nnported in vessels of the Federation of the Centre oi America; and that Tnnnnnn dnnn no higher or other duties upon the tonnage of the vessel or 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 Central Republic, 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, or her cargo, shall be levied and collected, whether the importation be made in vessels of the one country or of the other. And they further agree that whatever may be lawfully exported or reexported from the one country in its own vessels to any foreign country may, in like mau- 1;,,.,,,;,,,,,;,,, ,,,,,1 ner, be exported or rei-Exported in the vessels of the other country. And bounties. 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 Central Republic. Aarrcur V. Equality of du- No higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into the
- E¤¤ ¢>¤ P¤>d¤¢=¤ of United States of any articles, the produce or manufactures of the Fede-
°'°"°' °°““*'$" ration of the Centre of America, and no higher or other duties shall be imposed on theimportation into the Federation of the Centre of America 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 other foreign country; nor shall any higher or other duties or charges be imposed in either of the two countries on the exportation of any ar°ticles to the United States or to the Federation of the Centre of America, 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, theproduce or manufactures of the United States or of the Federation of the Centre of America, to or from the territories of the United States or to or from the territories of the Federation of the Centre of America, which shall not equally extend to all other nations. Amucnn VI. Rigbtcfmrmag- It is likewise agreed that it shall be wholly free for all merchants, l¤8 b¤¤¤¤°¤¤· commanders of ships, and other citizens, of both countries, to manage, l2ll0lllS8l·VOS, their own business, in all the ports and places subject to the Jurisdiction of each other, as well with respect to the consignment and sale of their goods andmerohandise, by wholesale or.retail, as with respect to the loading, unload ing, and sending on' 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 a footing with the subjects or citizens of the most favored nation.
