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 A PROCLAMATION.
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Whereas, T treaty of commerce and navigation between the United States of America and the Ottoman Porte was concluded and signed at Constantino- pie by the respective Plenipotcutiaries of the two powers, or the seventh day ofMay, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight it al1d thirty and the said treaty was duly ratified, by the President, on the part of the said Chi. ted States on the second day ofFebrua- ", in the year of our Lord. one thou- sand eight hundred and thirty-onc, in pursuance ofthe advice and consent of the Senate, as signiiied by their rcsolu. ton ot the first day of that month: and whereas the ratification by the Prcsi. dent, of the said treaty in the Turkish language, and in translation thereof into the English, annexed thereto, was exchanged at Constantinople, on the fifth day of f0ctober, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, by David por- ter, the Charge d d'AtTalrcs of the United States near the Sublime Porte, and Ncdjib Etfcndi, Refs Eifend of the Porte, for the ratification ofthe Sultan: which convention, as ratified by the President, in the English version, is, word forword, as follows:

 The object of this firm instrument, and the motive of this writing well drawn UP, is, that

 No treaty or diplomatic and official convention, having, heretofore, existed, between the Sublime Porte, of pcrpetu- al duration, and the United States ol America; at this time, in consideration ofthe desire formerly expressed, and o1 repeated propositions which have late iy been renewed by that power, and ir consequence of tho wish entertained by the Sublime Porte to testify to thc Uni ted States of America, its sentiments O friendship, We, the Undersigned, Com missioners, invested with the high of fee of Chiefof the Chaneery of State of tho Sublime Porte3 existing forever having been permitted by his very No ble Imperial Majesty to negotiate ant conclude q treaty, and having thereup onconferred with our friend, the hon orable Charles Rhind, who has come t this Imperial Residence, furnished witl full powers to negotiate, settled ant concluded, the articles of q treaty, sep arately and jointly with the other tw' Commissioners, Commodore, Riddle an, David Offiey, now at Smyrna, have ar ranged, agreed upon and concluded,th th following articles

 ARTICLE

 Merchants of the Sublime Porte whether Mussulmans or Rayahs, goin and coming,in the countries. provinces and ports, of the United States of Amel