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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH OCTOBER, 1886. 937
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 410.
The following Circular Despatch and its enclosures in connection with Government Notification No. 309 of the 14th August last, and the Conventions between France and Spain and between Germany and Spain therein referred to, are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th October, 1886.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
CIRCULAR.
DOWNING STREET,
20th August, 1886.
SIR,With reference to Lord GRANVILLE'S Circular Despatch of the 10th June last, I have the honour to transmit to you, for information and publication in the Colony under your Government, a copy of a further Parliamentary Paper having reference to the Commercial Convention between the Governments of Great Britain and Spain.
I have also the honour to enclose a copy of the Customs Amendment Act, 1886, and a copy of a a letter from the Treasury to the Commissioners of Customs, from which it will be seen that the Con- vention of the 26th April last came into operation in the United Kingdom on the 15th August, and the alteration in the duties on wine on the same date.
I further enclose a copy of a letter from the Foreign Office, enclosing a copy of a Royal Decree of the Spanish Government, fixing the 15th of August as the date for the Convention to come into force in Spain, and the 15th of October for it to come into force in the Spanish Colonies.
I have the honour to be,
The Officer Administering the Government of
HONGKONG.
Sir,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
EDWARD STANHOPE.
Extract from a Despatch from Sir Clare Ford, inclosing Copies and Translations of the Treaties referred to in the Commercial Convention between the Governments of Great Britain and Spain, signed at Madrid on the 26th April, 1886; with a Table of the Spanish Conventional and Unconventional Tariff.
(Extract.)
No. 1.
Sir Clare Ford to the Earl of Rosebery.—(Received May 17.)
Madrid, May 14, 1886.
I HAVE the honour to transmit herewith to your Lordship a copy of the Treaty between Spain. and France, signed February 6, 1882; together with a copy of that signed July 12, 1883, between Spain and Germany.
(Translation from the Spanish.).
Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Spain and France, signed in Spanish and French at
Paris, February 6, 1882.
His Majesty the King of Spain and the President of the French Republic, equally actuated by the desire of drawing closer the bonds of friendship by which the two countries are united, and wishing to improve and extend the relations of commerce and navigation between the two States, have determined to conclude a Treaty for this purpose, and have appointed their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:
His Majesty the King of Spain, Don Manuel Falcó d'Adda, Duke de Fernan-Nuñez, de Montellano and Del Arco, Count de Cervellon, Marquis de Almonacid, Grandee of Spain of the first class, Knight of the illustrious Order of the Golden Fleece, Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III, Knight of Calatrava, Senator of the Kingdom, his Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the French Republic; and Don Salvador de Albacete y Albert, ex-Minister for the Colonies, Member of the Cortes, Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, Commander of the Order of Charles III, Commander of the Legion of Honour, and His Majesty's Chamberlain in function ;