...may be foreign, shall be considered, for all the objects of this Treaty, as a Venezuelan vessel. IX. "No higher or other duty shall be imposed on the importation into The United States of any article the growth, produce, or manufacture of Venezuela, or of her fisheries ; and no higher or...

...respectively, shall enjoy the most complete protection and security for their Commerce, Persons, and Property, but subject always to the Laws and Statutes of the two Countries respectively. II. No higher Tonnage, Anchorage, Light money, or other charges of any kind, shall be imposed on Vessels...

...The latter portion No. 128 of Article 1 provides as follows : ' Generally, the merchants Contd. an(j traders of each nation, respectively, shall enjoy...complete protection and security for their commerce '. Here again the word ' commerce ' should be given the broadest meaning consistent with the purposes...

...occupy houses and warehouses for the purposes of their commerce; and, generally, the merchants and traders of each nation, respectively, shall enjoy...laws and statutes of the two countries, respectively. 138. 2 Stat 426 (Mar 2, 1807). 139. 22 US 1,205(1824). 140. Id at 235 (concurring opinion). 141. 36...

...law, and allowable under the convention's provision that the freedom of commerce it guaranteed was "subject always to the laws and statutes of the two countries respectively." Aware of the new administration's sympathy with the concerns of the slaveholding states, and unwilling...