Compilation of Treaties in Force; Prepared Under Resolution of the Senate, of February 11, 1904 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...Association has adopted for itself and for the said Free States, as their standard, the flag of the International African Association, being a blue flag with a golden star in the center. That the said Association and the said States have resolved to levy no Custom-IIouse duties upon goods or articles of merchandise imported into their territories or brought by the route which has been constructed around the Congo cataracts; this they have done with a view of enabling commerce to penetrate into Equatorial Africa. That they guarantee to foreigners settling in their territories the right to purchase, sell or lease, lands and buildings situated therein, to establish commercial houses and to there carry on trade upon t he sole condition that they shall obey the laws. They pledge themselves, moreover, never to grant to the citizens of one nation any advantages without immediately extending the same to the citizens of all other nations, and to do all in their power to prevent the Slave-trade. In testimony whereof, Henry S. Sanford, duly empowered therefor, by the said Association, acting for itself and for the said Free States, has hereunto set his hand and affixed his seal, this twenty-second day of April. 1884, in the city of Washington. seal. H. S. Sanford. Recognition of the flag by the United States. Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State, duly cm powered therefor by the President of the United States of America, and pursuant to the advice and consent of the Senate, heretofore given, acknowledges the receipt of the foregoing notification from the Iuternational Association of the Congo, and declares that, in harmony wit h the traditional policy of the United States, which enjoins a proper regard for the commercial" interests of their citizens whil...