employed, nor to preclude in any manner the Ottoman Government from the exercise of its rights of internal administration where the exercise of these rights does not evidently infringe upon the privileges accorded by ancient treaties, or by the present treaty, to citizens of the United States or their merchandise.

ARTICLE XXII.

The high contracting parties have agreed to appoint, jointly, commissioners for the settlement of a tariff of custom-house duties, to be levied in conformity with the stipulations of the present treaty, as well upon merchandise of every description being the produce or manufacture of the United States of America imported into the Ottoman Empire, as upon articles of every description the produce or manufacture of the Ottoman Empire and its possessions, which citizens of the United States or their agents are free to purchase in any part of the Ottoman Empire for exportation to the United States or to any other country. The new tariff, to be so concluded, shall remain in force during seven years, dating from the date of the exchange of the ratifications.

Each of the contracting parties shall have the right, a year before the expiration of that term, to demand the revision of the tariff. But if, during the seventh year, neither the one nor the other of the contracting parties shall avail itself of this right, the tariff then existing shall continue to have the force of law for seven years more, dating from the day of the expiration of the seven preceding years; and the same shall be the case with respect to every successive period of seven years.

ARTICLE XXIII.

The present treaty shall be ratified and the ratfiications shall be exchanged at Constantinople in three calendar months, or sooner if possible, and shall be carried into execution when ratified.

Done at Constantinople on the twenty-fifth day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.

[SEAL.]

[SEAL.]

[Translation.]

EDWARD JOY MORRIS.
AALI.

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Tariff of Duties on Articles imported into the Ottoman Empire from the United

States.

PREAMBLE.

Merchandize, the produce of the soil and industry of the United States of America imported into the Ottoman Empire-except those which are prohibited by citizens of the United States, as well also, as the merchandize, the produce of the soil and industry of the Ottoman Empire purchased by citizens of the United States or their Agents, in any part of the Empire for exportation, to the United States, or elsewhere, have heretofore, been required to pay Custom House Duties, established in a Tariff based upon the prices at the time.

As however, the Tariff made in the month of January 1847 has, now some time since, expired, its revision delayed by varied causes, is rendered necessary by the stipulations of the new Treaty, and the Commissioners of the Government of the United States, have, in conjunction with those of the Sublime Porte now drawn up the following Tariff: