TREATY WITH THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. FEBRUARY 25, 1862. 621 to any other country. The new les Etats-Unis d’Amérique, soit en To remaiain tariff, to be so concluded, shall re- d’autres pays. Le nouveau Tarif f°'°"°v°“Y°“"‘ main in force during seven years, a, établir de la sorte, restera en vidating from the date of the ex- gueur pendant sept ans, a. datcr du change of the ratifications. jour‘de Péchange des Ratifications. Each of the contracting parties Chaeuue des Parties Contractan- H"' “‘l."l‘;°“ shallhave the rigbtayear bcforethe tes aura Ie dmit, un an avant 1’ex- "’“yb°""" ' expiration of that term, to demand piration de ce terme, de demander the revision of the tariffl But if, la revision du Tarifi Mais si, penduring the seventh year, neither the dant la septieme année ni l’une ni one nor the other of the contract- 1’autre n’use de ce droit, le Tarif ing parties shall avail itself of continuera d’avoir force de Lois this right, the tariff then existing pour sept autres annees, a dater shall continue to have the force of du jour de l’expiration des sept anlaw for seven years more, dating nees précédentes; et il en sera. de from the day of the expiration of meme a chaque période successive the seven preceding years; and the de sept ans. same shall be the case with respect to every successive period of seven years. ARTICLE XXIII. ARTICLE XXIII. The present treaty shall be rati- Le présent Traité sera ratitié, et m'{;°:%,_¥g°“ tied and the ratitications shall be les ratifications en seront échangées a. ` exchanged at Constantinople in Constantinople dans l’espa.ce de trois three calendar months, or sooner, mois, ou plus tot si faire se peut, et if possible, and shall be carried il sera misa exécution a pa.rtir du into execution when ratified. jour de Yéchange des Ratifications. Done at Constantinople on the Fait a Constantinople le ,,,,§Q,fjf_q When contwenty-fifth day of February, eight- fevrier, mil-huit-cent—soixante-deux. °]"d°d‘ een hundred and sixty-two. AALI. [L. S.] EDWARD JOY MORRIS. L. s.] EDWARD JOY MORRIS. [L. s.] AALI. 1..s.] And whereas the said treaty has been duly ratified on both parts, and Exglymgg of the respective ratiflcations of the same were exchanged at Constantinople ¤‘¤i6¢¤*i<>¤$· on the Efth ultimo, by Edward Joy Morris, Minister Resident of the United States at the Sublime Porte, and by his highness Mehemed Emin Aali Pacha, Minister of Foreign Aflairs of his Imperial Majesty the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, on the part of their respective governments : Now, therefore, be it known that I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Presi- Pi-ociaimed by dent of the United States of America, have caused the said treatyto be 3:: 5‘;l°§:,°”*° made public, to the end that the same, and every clause, and article there- Sum of, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereofi In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be anixed. Done at the City of Washington, this second day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and [L. s.] sixty-two, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-sixth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President: F. W. SEWARD, Acting Secretary of State.
