70 PUBLIC TREATIES. Amazon or La Plata, may be also imported in vessels of the United States; and no higher or other duties upon the tonnage of the vessel and her cargo shall be levied or collected, whether the importation be made in vessels of the one country or of the other. And they agree that what may be lawfully exported or reexported from the one country in its own vessels, to any foreign country, may, in like manner, be exported or reexported in the vessels of the other country; and the same bounties, duties, and drawbacks shall be allowed and collected, whether such exportation or reexportations be made in vessels of the United States or of the Republic of Bolivia. In all these respects the vessels and their cargoes of the one country,. in the ports of the other, shall also be on an equal footing with those_ot the most favored nation. It being further understood thatthese principles shall apply whether the vessels shall have cleared directly from the ports of the nation to which they appertain, or from the ports of any other nation. V ARTICLE . what to be mn- For the better understanding of the preceding article, and taking into sidercd Bolivian consideration the actual state of the commercial marine of the Republic “°°°l°· of Bolivia, it is stipulated and agreed that all vessels belonging exclusively to a citizen or citizens of said Republic, and whose captain is also a citizen of the same, though the construction or the crew are or may be foreign, shall be considered, for all the objects of this treaty, as a Bolivian vessel. Anrrcm VI. No tmmmms. No higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into !=i¤¤ in duties vu the United States of any articles, the produce or manufactures of the ““P°"“ °’ °xP°"·“· Republic of Bolivia, and no higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into the Republic of Bolivia 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 country: nor shall any higher or other duties or charges - be imposed, in either of the two countries, on the exportation of any articles to the United States or to the Republic of Bolivia, respectively, than such as are pay- able on the exportation of the like articles to any other foreign country; nor shall any prohibitions be imposed on the exportation or importation of any articles the produce or manufactures of the United States, or of the Republic of Bolivia, to or from the territories of the United States, or to or from the territories of the Republic of Bolivia, which shall not equally extend to all other nations. Amrcrn VII. _ Privilegesofres- It is likewise agreed that it shall be wholly free for all merchants,
- d°¤*¤· commanders of ships, and other citizens of either country, to manage
themselves their own business, in all the ports and places subject to the jurisdiction of the other, as well with respect to the consignment and sale of their goods and merchandise, by wholesale or retail, as with respect to the loading, unloading, and sending od` 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 citizens or subjects of the most favored nation. Anmcrn VIII. ntgrli zélsmcs to The Republic of Bolivia, desiring to increase the intercourse betwce!1 · the Baciiic ports by means of steam navigation, engages to accord to any citizen or citizens of the United States who may establish a line of steam ve sels to navigate regularly between the different ports and bays
