ARTICLE II. The respective subjects of the two high contracting parties shall be perfectly and in all respects assimilated on their establishment and settlement, whether for a longer or shorter time in the States and Colonies of the other party on the term its granted to the subjects of the most favored nation in all which concerns the permission of sojourning, the exercise of legal professions, impost, taxes, in a word, all the conditions relative to sojourn and establishment.
ARTICLE III.
The products and manufactured articles of every sort, coming from the Hawaiian
Islands, imported directly or indirectly, and all merchandise without distinction
of origin imported from the Hawaiian Islands or their colonies, shall be
admitted on the payment of , customs import duties equal arid not greater
and on the same conditions as those to which ale subjected the produce
and manufactured articles of the most favored foreign nation, in the Netherlands
and their colonies in matters of commerce and customs.
And reciprocally
the produce and manufactured articles of every sort proceeding from the
Kingdom of the Netherlands or from its colonies, imported directly
or indirectly, and all goods without distinction of origin, imported from
the Netherlands into the Hawaiian Islands, shall be admitted on the payment
of customs and import duty equal but not greater and under the same conditions
as are imposed on the products and manufactured articles of the most favored
foreign nation in the Hawaiian Islands, and their colonies, as regards
commerce and customs.
Exception is
allowed from this rule where special favors have been or may hereafter
be granted in the Netherlands Colonies of the East Indies, to the Asiatic
nations of the Eastern Archipelago, for the importation of the products
of their soil and their industry amid for their exportations.
ARTICLE IV. No duties of tonnage, harbor, light-houses, pilotage, quarantine or other similar duties of whatever nature or under whatever denomination, shall be imposed in either country upon the vessels of the other, which shall not be equally imposed in the like cases on national vessels And in general as concerns the importation of all goods and articles of whatever description, the Netherland flag in the Hawaiian Islands, and the Hawaiian flag in the Netherlands and their colonies, will be assimilated to the flag of the most favored foreign nation.
ARTICLE V. Any advantage which in future either of the high contracting parties shall grant to another state as regards the establishments or exercise of industry, commerce, custom duties or navigation, shall be granted in the same way and at the same time to the other contracting party.
ARTICLE VI.
The present treaty shall be in vigor for ten years, to date from the day
of the exchange of the ratifications.
In case that
neither the one nor the other shall have notified twelve months before
the expiration of the said period of ten years the intention of terminating
its conditions, the treaty shall continue in force for another year, to
reckon from the day on which the other contracting party shall have given
notice, and so on from year to year.
The ratification
shall take place by His Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands and His
Majesty the King of the Netherlands, — and the ratification shall be exchanged
at the Hague or elsewhere, within the space of eighteen months, or earlier
if may be.
In witness of which the above named Plenipotentiaries have signed and affixed hereto their respective seals
Done at the Hague, this sixteenth day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.