States of the Grand Duchy is reserved, in so far as it is required by he constitution.

The ratifications shall be exchanged at Berlin within one year of he present date.

In faith whereof the Plenipotentiaries have signed and sealed this

convention.

Darmstadt. the 1. of August 1868.
GEO. BANCROFT.

[SEAL.]

[SEAL.]

FRIEDRICH FREIHERR VON LINDELOF. SEAL

HONDURAS.
1864.

TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP, COMMERCE, AND NAVIGATION.

Concluded July 4, 1864; ratification advised by the Senate February 20, 1865; ratified by the President March 9, 1865; ratifications exchanged May 5, 1865; proclaimed May 30, 1865.

Commercial intercourse having been for some time established between the United States and the Republic of Honduras, it seems good for the security as well as the encouragement of such commercial intercourse, and for the maintenance of good understanding between the United States and the said Republic, that the relations now subsisting between them should be regularly acknowledged and confirmed by the signature of a treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation. For this purpose they have named their respective Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:

The President of the United States, Thomas H. Clay, Minister Resident of the United States to the Republic of Honduras; and His Excellency the President of the Republic of Honduras, Señor Licenciado Don Manuel Colindres, Minister of Foreign Relations of that Republic;

Who, after having communicated to each other their full powers, found to be in due and proper form, have agreed upon and concluded the following articles:

ARTICLE I.

There shall be perpetual amity between the United States and their citizens on the one part, and the Government of the Republic of Honduras and its citizens on the other.

ARTICLE II.

There shall be, between all the Territories of the United States and the Territories of the Republic of Honduras, a reciprocal freedom of commerce. The subjects and citizens of the two countries, respec

tively, shall have liberty, freely and securely, to come with their ships and cargoes to all places, ports, and rivers in the Territories aforesaid, to which other foreigners are or may be permitted to come; to enter into the same, and to remain and reside in any part thereof, respectively; also to hire and occupy houses and warehouses for the purposes of their commerce; and, generally, the merchants and traders of each nation, respectively, shall enjoy the most complete protection and security for their commerce; subject, always, to the laws and statutes of the two countries respectively.

In like manner the respective ships of war and post-office packets of the two countries shall have liberty, freely and securely, to come to all harbors, rivers, and places to which other foreign ships of war and packets are or may be permitted to come, to enter into the same, to anchor and to remain there and refit; subject, always, to the laws and statutes of the two countries respectively.

By the right of entering the places, ports, and rivers mentioned in this article, the privilege of carrying on the coasting trade is not understood; in which trade national vessels only of the country where the trade is carried on are permitted to engage.

ARTICLE III.

It being the intention of the two high contracting parties to bind themselves by the preceding articles, to treat each other on the footing of the most favored nation, it is hereby agreed between them that any favor, privilege, or immunity whatever, in matters of commerce and navigation, which either contracting party has actually granted, or may hereafter grant, to the subjects or citizens of any other State, shall be extended to the subjects or citizens of the other high contracting party gratuitously, if the concession in favor of that other nation shall have been gratuitous; or in return for a compensation as nearly as possible of proportionate value and effect, to be adjusted by mutual agreement, if the concession shall have been conditional.

ARTICLE IV.

No higher nor other duties shall be imposed on the importation into the territories of the United States of any articles being of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the Republic of Honduras, and no higher nor other duties shall be imposed upon the importation into the territories of the Republic of Honduras of any articles being the growth, produce, or manufacture of the territories of the United States, than are or shall be payable on the like articles being the growth, produce, or manufacture of any other foreign country; nor shall any other or higher duties or charges be imposed in the terricories of either of the high contracting parties on the exportation of any articles to the territories of the other, than such as are or may be payable on the exportation of the like articles to any other foreign country; nor shall any prohibition be imposed upon the exportation or importation of any articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of the territories of the United States, or of the Republic of HonHuras, to or from the said territories of the United States, or to or From the Republic of Honduras, which shall not extend equally to All other nations.

ARTICLE V.

No higher nor other duties or payments on account of tonnage, of light or harbor dues, of pilotage, of salvage, in case either of damage or shipwreck, or on account of any other local charges, shall be imposed in any of the ports of the Republic of Honduras, on vessels of the United States, than those payable in the same ports by vessels of Honduras; nor in any of the ports of the United States, on vessels of Honduras, than shall be payable in the same ports on vessels of the United States.

ARTICLE VI.

The same duties shall be paid on the importation into the territories of the Republic of Honduras of any article being of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the territories of the United States, whether such importation shall be made in vessels of Honduras or of the United States; and the same duties shall be paid on the importation into the territories of the United States of any article being the growth, produce, or manufacture of the Republic of Honduras, whether such importation shall be made in United States or in Honduras vessels.

The same dues shall be paid, and the same bounties and drawbacks allowed, on the exportation to the Republic of Honduras of any articles being the growth, produce, or manufacture of the territories of the United States, whether such exportations shall be made in vessels of Honduras or of the United States; and the same duties shall be paid, and the same bounties and drawbacks allowed, on the exportation of any articles being the growth, produce, or manufac ture of the Republic of Honduras to the territories of the United States, whether such exportation shall be made in United States or in Honduras vessels.

ARTICLE VII.

All merchants, commanders of ships, and others, citizens of the United States, shall have full liberty, in all the territories of the Republic of Honduras, to manage their own affairs themselves, or to commit them to the management of whomsoever they please, as broker, factor, agent, or interpreter; nor shall they be obliged to employ any other persons in those capacities than those employed by citizens of Honduras, nor to pay them any other salary or remuneration than such as is paid in like cases by citizens of Honduras: and absolute freedom, in all cases, shall be allowed to the buyer and seller to bargain and fix the price of any goods, wares, or mer chandise imported into or exported from the Republic of Honduras, as they shall see good, observing the laws and established customs of the country.

The same privileges shall be enjoyed in the territories of the United States by the citizens of the Republic of Honduras under the same conditions.

The citizens of the high contracting parties shall reciprocally re ceive and enjoy full and perfect protection for their persons and property, and shall have free and open access to the courts of justice in the said countries, respectively, for the prosecution and defense of

heir just rights; and they shall be at liberty to employ, in all cases, he advocates, attorneys, or agents of whatever description, whom hey may think proper, and they shall enjoy in this respect the same ights and privileges therein as native citizens.

ARTICLE VIII.

In whatever relates to the police of the ports, the lading and unladng of ships, the safety of the merchandise, goods, and effects, the uccession to personal estates by will or otherwise, and the disposal f personal property of every sort and denomination, by sale, donaon, exchange, testament, or in any other manner whatsoever, as also he administration of justice, the citizens of the two high contractng parties shall reciprocally enjoy the same privileges, liberties, and ights as native citizens, and they shall not be charged in any of hese respects with any higher imposts or duties than those which are aid or may be paid by native citizens; submitting, of course, to the ocal laws and regulations of each country respectively.

If any citizen of either of the two high contracting parties shall ie without will or testament in any of the territories of the other, he Consul-General or Consul of the nation to which the deceased elonged, or the representative of such Consul-General or Consul in is absence, shall have the right to nominate curators to take charge f the property of the deceased, so far as the laws of the country will ermit, for the benefit of the lawful heirs and creditors of the deeased, giving proper notice of such nomination to the authorities the country.

ARTICLE IX.

The citizens of the United States residing in the Republic of Honras, and the citizens of the Republic of Honduras residing in the nited States, shall be exempted from all compulsory military serve whatsoever, either by sea or by land, and from all forced loans military exactions or requisitions, and they shall not be compelled, der any pretext whatsoever, to pay other ordinary charges, requiions, or taxes greater than those that are paid by native citizens the contracting parties respectively.

ARTICLE X.

It shall be free for each of the two high contracting parties to apint Consuls for the protection of trade, to reside in any of the ritories of the other party; but before any Consul shall act as ch, he shall, in the usual form, be approved and admitted by the overnment to which he is sent; and either of the high contracting rties may except from the residence of Consuls such particular aces as they judge fit to be excepted. The Diplomatic Agents and onsuls of Honduras shall enjoy in the territories of the United ates whatever privileges, exemptions, and immunities are or shall granted to agents of the same rank belonging to the most favored tion; and in like manner the Diplomatic Agents and Consuls of e United States in the territories of Honduras shall enjoy, accordg to the strictest reciprocity, whatever privileges, exemptions, and munities are or may be granted, in the Republic of Honduras to Diplomatic Agents and Consuls of the most favored nation.