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ARTICLE 4.

The subjects of each of the Contracting Parties in the territories of the other shall be exempted from all compulsory military service whatever, whether in the army, navy, national guard, or militia. They shall be equally exempted from all judicial, administrative, and municipal functions whatever, other than those imposed by the laws relating to juries, as well as from all contributions, whether pecuniary or in kind, imposed as an equivalent for personal service, and finally from any military exaction or requisition. The charges connected with the possession by any title of landed property are, however, excepted, as well as compulsory billeting and other special military exactions or requisitions, to which all subjects of the country may be liable as owners or occupiers of real property.

In the above respects the subjects of each of the Contracting Parties shall not be accorded in the territories of the other less favourable treatment than that which is or may be accorded to subjects or citizens of the most- favoured nation.

ARTICLE 5.

The articles, the produce or manufacture of one of the Contracting Parties, imported into the territories of the other, from whatever place arriving, shall not be subjected to other or higher duties or charges than those paid on the like articles, the produce or manufacture of any other foreign country. Nor shall any prohibition or restriction be maintained or imposed on the importation of any article the produce or manufacture of either of the Contracting Parties into the territories of the other, from whatever place arriving, which shall not equally extend to the importation of the like articles being the produce or manufacture of any other foreign

country.

The only exceptions to this general rule shall be in the case of the sanitary or other prohibitions occasioned by the necessity of securing the safety of persons, or of cattle, or of plants useful to agriculture, and of the ineasures applicable in either of the two countries to articles enjoying a direct or indirect bounty in the other.

The merchandize, the produce or manufacture of the United Kingdom, enumerated in the Tariff annexed to this Treaty, shall not, on importation into

be subjected to higher duties than those mentioned in the said Tariff.

ARTICLE 6.

The articles, the produce or manufacture of one of the Contracting Parties, exported to the territories of the other, shall not be subjected to other or higher charges than those paid on the like articles exported to another foreign country. Nor shall any prohibition be imposed on the exportation of any article from the territories of either of the two Contracting Parties to the territories of the other which shall not equally extend to the exportation of the like article to any other foreign country.

ARTICLE 7.

Merchandize of all kinds, the produce or manufacture of one of the Contracting Parties, passing in transit through the territories of the other shall be reciprocally free from all transit duties, whether they pass direct, or whether during transit they are unloaded, warehoused, and reloaded.

ARTICLE 8.

The stipulations of the present Treaty with regard to the mutual accord of the treatment of the most-favoured nation apply unconditionally to the treatment of commercial travellers and their samples. The Chambers of Commerce in the Contracting States shall be mutually recognized as com- petent authorities for issuing any certificates that may be required for

commercial travellers.

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ARTICLE 9.

No internal duties levied for the benefit of the State, local authorities, or corporations which affect, or may affect, the production, manufacture, or consumption of any article in the territories of either of the Contracting Parties, shall for any reason be a higher or more burdensome charge on articles the produce or manufacture of the other than on similar articles of native origin.

The produce or manufacture of either of the Contracting Parties imported into the territories of the other, and intended for warehousing or transit, shall not be subjected to any internal duty.

ARTICLE 10.

Each of the Contracting Parties shall permit the importation or exporta- tion on the vessels of the other of all merchandize which may be legally imported or exported; and such vessels and their cargoes shall enjoy the same privileges, and shall not be subjected to any other or higher duties or charges than national vessels and their cargoes.

ARTICLE 11.

The provisions of this Treaty relating to the mutual concession of national treatment in matters of navigation do not apply to the coasting trade, in respect of which the subjects and vessels of the Contracting Parties shall enjoy most-favoured-nation treatment.

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vessels may, nevertheless, proceed from one port to another, either for the purpose of discharging the whole or part of their cargoes brought from abroad, or of taking on board the whole or part of their cargoes for a foreign destination.

ARTICLE 12.

In all that regards the stationing, loading and unloading of vessels in the ports, docks, roadsteads, and harbours of the territories of the Contracting Parties, no privilege shall be granted to national vessels which shall not be equally granted to vessels of the other country; the intention of the Con- tracting Parties being that, in this respect also, their vessels shall be treated on the footing of perfect equality.

ARTICLE 13.

No duties of tonnage, harbour, pilotage, lighthouse, quarantine, or other analogous duties of whatever nature, or under whatever denomination, levied in the name or for the profit of the Government, private individuals, corpora- tions, or establishments of any kind, shall be imposed in the ports of the territories of either of the Contracting Parties upon the vessels of the other country which shall not equally and under the same conditions be imposed in the like cases on national vessels in general. Such equality of treatment shall apply to the respective vessels, from whatever port or place they may arrive and whatever may be their destination.

ARTICLE 14.

Any vessel of either of the Contracting Parties which may be compelled, by stress of weather or by accident, to take shelter in a port of the other, shall be at liberty to refit therein, to procure all necessary stores, and to put to sea again, without paying any dues other than such as would be payable in a similar case by a national vessel. In case, however, the master of a merchant vessel should be under the necessity of disposing of a part of his merchandize in order to defray his expenses, he shall be bound to conform to the regulations and tariffs of the place to which he may have come.

If any vessel of one of the ('ontracting Parties should run aground or be wrecked upon the coasts of the other, such vessel, and all parts thereof,

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