No. 42.
Mr. Fish to
Mr. Jones.
Department
of State,
Washington
,
June 17,
1874.
No. 176.]
Sir: I transmit herewith, authenticated under the
seal of this Department, a copy of the joint resolution of the Congress of
the United States, approved on this date, in regard to the termination of
the treaty concluded between the United States and the King of the Belgians
on the 17th of July, 1858. The President directs me, in compliance with the
seventeenth article of that instrument, and with the requirement of the
aforesaid resolution, to instruct you to communicate to His Majesty’s
government a certified copy of the inclosed papers, and formally to notify
His Majesty’s government, immediately on the receipt of this, that as it is
considered to be no longer for the interest of the United States to continue
the said treaty in force, it will terminate and be of no further effect at
the expiration of twelve months from the date upon which the notice shall be
given.
I am, &c.,
[Inclosure.]
joint resolution providing for
the termination of the treaty between the United States and His Majesty
the King of the Belgians, concluded at Washington, July seventeenth,
eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.
Whereas it is provided by the seventeenth article of the treaty between
the United States of America on the one part, and His Majesty the King
of the Belgians on the other part, concluded at Washington on the
seventeenth day of July, anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-eight,
that “the present treaty shall be in force during ten years from the
date of the exchange of the ratifications, and until the expiration of
twelve months after either of the high contracting parties shall have
announced to the other its intention to terminate the operation thereof,
each party reserving to itself the right of making such declaration to
the other at the end of the ten years above mentioned, and it is agreed
that, after the expiration of the twelve months’ prolongation accorded
on both sides, this treaty and all its stipulations shall cease to be in
force;” and
Whereas it is no longer tor the interest of the United States to continue
the said treaty in force: Therefore,
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled, That notice
be given of the termination of said treaty according to the provisions
of the said seventeenth article thereof for such termination, and the
President of the United States is hereby authorized to communicate such
notice to the government of the kingdom of Belgium.
