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The High Contracting Parties have agreed to appoint, jointly, Commissioners for the settlement of a tariff of Customhouse 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 "British dominions and possessions imported into the Sultan's dominions and possessions, as upon articles of every description the produce or manufacture of the dominions and possessions of the Sultan, which British subjects or their agents are free to purchase in any part of the Ottoman dominions and possessions for exportation to Great Britain or to any other country. The new tariff to be so concluded shall remain in force during seven years, dating from the Ist October, 1861. 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 more years, 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 XXII.) Moafc-faTOurcd-Mtion Treatment. Subjects and Ships, Commerce and Navigation : Hights, Privileges, Immunities. —All rights, privileges, and immunities which have been conferred on the subjects or ships of Great Britain by the existing capitulations and treaties are confirmed now aud for ever, with the exception of those clauses of the said capitulations which it is the object of the present treaty to modify; and it is, moreover, expressly stipulated that all rights, privileges, or immunities which the Sublime Porte now grants or may hereafter grant to, or suffer to be enjoyed by, the subjects, ships, commerce, or navigation of any other foreign Power, shall be equally granted to, and exercised and enjoyed by, the subjects, ships, commerce, and navigation of Great Britain. (Article I.) Internal Trade. —lf any article of Turkish produce or manufacture be purchased by British merchants or their agents, for the purpose of selling the same for internal consumption in Turkey, the said British merchants or their agents shall pay, at the purchase and sale of such articles, and in any manner of trade therein, the same duties that are paid in similar circumstances by the most favoured class of Ottoman subjects, or of foreigners engaged in the internal trade of Turkey. (Article III.) Export Unties. —No other or higher duties or charges shall be imposed in the dominions and possessions of either of the Contracting Parties, on the exportation of any article to the dominions and possessions of the other, than such as are or may be payable on the exportation of the like article to any other foreign country. (Article IV.) Prohibitions : Exports. —Nor shall any prohibition be imposed on the exportation of any article from the dominions and possessions of either of the two Contracting Parties to the dominions and possessions of the other, which shall not equally extend to the exportation of the like article to any other country. (Article IV.) Import Duties: Produce and Manufactures* —No other or higher duties shall be imposed on the importation into the dominions and possessions of Her Britannic Majestjr of any article the produce or manufacture of the dominions and possessions of His Imperial Majesty the Sultan, from whatever place arriving, whether by sea or by land, and no other or higher duties shall be imposed on the importation into the dominions and possessions of His Imperial Majesty of any article the produce or manufacture of Her Britannic Majesty's dominions and possessions, from whatever place arriving, than are or may be payable on the like article the produce or manufacture of any other foreign country. (Article V.) Prohibitions : Imports.— -Nor shall any prohibition be maintained or imposed on the importation of any article the produce or manufacture of the dominions and possessions of either of the Contracting Parties into the dominions and possessions of the other, which shall not equally extend to the importation of the like articles being the produce or manufacture of any other country. (Article V.) Duties and Charges on Imports. —All articles which are- or may be legally importable into the dominions and possessions of Her Britannic Majesty in British vessels may likewise be imported in Ottoman vessels, without being liable to any other or higher duties or charges, of whatever denomination, than if such articles were imported in British vessels ; and, reciprocally, all articles which are or may be legally importable into the dominions and possessions of His Imperial Majesty the Sultan in Ottoman vessels may likewise be imported in British vessels, without being liable to any other or higher duties or charges, of whatever denomination, than if such articles were imported in Ottoman vessels. Such reciprocal quality of treatment shall take effect without distinction, whether such articles come directly from the place of origin or from any other country. (Article VIII.) Duties and Charges on ISxports, Bounties and Drawbacks. —In the same manner there shall be perfect equality of treatment in regard to exportation, so that the same export.duties shall be paid, and the same bounties and drawbacks allowed, in the dominions and possessions of either of the Contracting Parties, on the exportation of any article which is or may be legally exportable therefrom, whether such exportation shall take place in Ottoman or in British vessels, and whatever may be the place of destination, whether a port of either of the Contracting Parties or of any third Power. (Article VIII.) Subjects and Agents: Produce and Manufactures, Taxes, Higlds, Privileges, and Immunities. —Her Britannic Majesty's subjects, or their agents, trading in goods the produce or manufacture of foreign countries, shall be subject to the same taxes and enjoy the same rights, privileges, and immunities as foreign subjects dealing in goods the produce or manufacture of their own country. (Article XIII.) Produce and Manufactures. —All merchandise the produce or manufacture of the Ottoman dominions and possessions, imported into the dominions and possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, shall be treated in the same manner as the like merchandise the produce or manufacture of the most favoured nation. (Article XIX.) Subjects, Ships, Commerce, and Navigation : Bights, Privileges, and Immunities. —All rights, privileges, or immunities which are now or may hereafter be granted to, or suffered to be enjoyed by, the subjects,