It is agreed that for the term of years mentioned in Article XXXIII of
this treaty subjects of Her Britannic Majesty may carry in British
vessels, without payment of duty, goods, wares, or merchandise from
one port or place within the territory of the United States upon the
St. Lawrence, the Great Lakes, and the rivers connecting the same, to
another port or place within the territory of the United States as
aforesaid: _Provided_, That a portion of such transportation is
made through the Dominion of Canada by land carriage and in bond,
under such rules and regulations as may be agreed upon between the
Government of Her Britannic Majesty and the Government of the United
States.
Citizens of the United States may for the like period carry in United
States vessels, without payment of duty, goods, wares, or merchandise
from one port or place within the possessions of Her Britannic Majesty
in North America to another port or place within the said possessions:
_Provided_, That a portion of such transportation is made through
the territory of the United States by land carriage and in bond, under
such rules and regulations as may be agreed upon between the
Government of the United States and the Government of Her Britannic
Majesty.
The Government of the United States further engages not to impose
any export duties on goods, wares, or merchandise carried under this
article through the territory of the United States; and Her Majesty's
Government engages to urge the parliament of the Dominion of Canada
and the legislatures of the other colonies not to impose any export
duties on goods, wares, or merchandise carried under this article; and
the Government of the United States may, in case such export duties
are imposed by the Dominion of Canada, suspend during the period that
such duties are imposed the right of carrying granted under this
article in favor of the subjects of Her Britannic Majesty.
The Government of the United States may suspend the right of carrying
granted in favor of the subjects of Her Britannic Majesty under this
article in case the Dominion of Canada should at any time deprive the
citizens of the United States of the use of the canals in the said
Dominion on terms of equality with the inhabitants of the Dominion,
as provided in Article XXVII.