Comm No 0015.02 - Testimony - Art I - XVI - General Discussion

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4 ARTICLEW. No export duty or charges shall be i uposed in the Hawai- ian Island, or iu the United States, upon ny of the articl pro • sed to be admitted into the ports of the United States or the pill ; 'of the awaiian lands free of duty under the first nd second articles of this Convention. It is agreed, on the part of His Hawaiian Majeety, that, so long as this Treaty obeli re eain in force, he will not 1,(e e or otherwise dispose of or create any lien upon any iort, harbor, or other territory iu his dominions„ or grant any special privilege or righ A: of use therein, to any other power, state or government, nor make any treaty by which any other nation shall obtain the same privileges, relative to the %:ion of any articles free of duty, hereby secured to the United States. ARTICLE V. The present Convention shall take effect as soon as it shall have b n approv,1 and prOclaimed by His jeety the in of the Hawaiian Islands, and shall hav been ratified nd duly proclaimed on the part of the Government of the United States, but net until a law tc carry it into operation shall have been p ed by the Congress of the United S tes of -America— Such -assent having -been --given, and -the r tifica- _ tions of the Convention having been exchanged provided in Article VI, the Convention shall remain in force for seven years from the date at which it may come into operation; and flirther, until the expiration of twelve months aft r either of the contracting parties shall give notice to the other of its wish to terminate the same ; each of the high contracting parties being at liberty to give such notice to the other at the end of the said term of seven years, or at any ti thereafter. _ARTICLE VI. The present Convention shall be duly ratified, aud the rati-