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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 20TH JANUARY, 1894.
Goods of all kinds coming from or proceeding to the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties shall be exempted in the territory of the other from all transit dues. Most-favoured-nation treatment is mutually guaranteed to each of the High Contracting Parties in all that concerns transit. It is understood that the provisions of the present Article do not apply to such special facilities and privileges as have been or may hereafter be conceded by Servia to the neighbouring States with respect to the local traffic between their conterminous frontier districts.
ARTICLE III.
It is agreed that as regards cost of transport and all other facilities, Servian goods transported over British railways and British goods transported over Servian railways shall be treated in exactly the same manner as the goods of the nation the most favoured in this respect.
ARTICLE IV.
The subjects of each of the two High Contracting Parties shall be exempted in the territory of the other from all military service and from all extraordinary requisitions which may be established on account of exceptional circumstances.
The liabilities, however, arising out of the possession of landed property, and for military loans and requisitions to which all the subjects of the State may be called upon to contribute as proprietors, or tenants, of real property, shall be excepted.
ARTICLE V.
The subjects of the two High Contracting Parties shall in the dominions of the other enjoy the same protection and be subject to the same conditions as native subjects, or subjects of the most favoured nation, in regard to the right of property in trade-marks, names of firms, and other distinctive marks showing the origin or quality of goods, as well as in patterns and designs for Lanufacture.
ARTICLE VI.
The present Treaty shall be applicable, as far as the laws permit, to all the Colonies and foreign possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, excepting to those hereinafter named, that is to say, except
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India.
The Dominion of Canada.
Newfoundland.
New South Wales.
Victoria.
South Australia.
Western Australia.
Queensland.
Tasmania.
New Zealand.
The Cape of Good Hope. Natal.
Provided always that the present Treaty shall be made applicable to any of the above-named Colonies or foreign possessions on whose behalf notice to that effect shall have been given by Her Britannic Majesty's Representative at Belgrade to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of His Majesty the King of Servia within two years from the date of the signature of the present Treaty.
ARTICLE VII.
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The present Treaty shall be ratified and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Belgrade as soon as the formalities prescribed by the Constitutional Laws of the Contracting States have been observed. It shall remain in force from the date of the exchange of the ratifications until the December, 1903. In case neither of the two High Contracting Parties should have notified twelve months before the end of the said period the intention of putting an end to it, it shall remain binding until the expiration of one year from the day on which either of the High Contracting Parties shall have denounced it.
In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty, and have thereto affixed their seals.
Done in duplicate at Belgrade the tenth day of July (the twenty-eighth day of June), one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.
(L.S.)
EDMUND D. V. FANE.
(L.S.)
AND. NIKOLITCH.