THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH SEPTEMBER, 1883.
ARTICLE XXI.
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The present Treaty shall be ratified by the two Contracting Parties, and the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged at Rome as soon as possible.
In faith whereof the Plenipotentiaries of the Contracting Parties have signed the present Treaty in duplicate, in the English and Italian languages, and thereto affixed their respective seals.
Done at Rome, this fifteenth day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three.
(L.S.) A. B. PAGET.
(L.S.)
P. S. MANCINI.
Protocol.
AT the moment of proceeding this day to the signature of the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Great Britain and Italy, the Plenipotentiaries of the two High Contracting Parties have declared as follow:
Any controversies which may arise respecting the interpretation or the execution of the present Treaty, or the consequences of any violation thereof, shall be submitted, when the means of settling them directly by amicable agreement are exhausted, to the decision of Commissions of Arbitration, and that the result of such arbitration shall be binding upon both Governments.
The members of such Commissions shall be selected by the two Governments by common consent, failing which each of the Parties shall nominate an Arbitrator, or an equal number of Arbitrators, and the Arbitrators thus appointed shall select an Umpire.
The procedure of the arbitration shall in each case be determined by the Contracting Parties, failing which the Commission of Arbitration shall be itself entitled to determine it beforehand.
The undersigned Plenipotentiaries have agreed that this Protocol shall be submitted to the two High Contracting Parties at the same time as the Treaty, and that when the Treaty is ratified, the agreements contained in the Protocol shall also equally be considered as approved, without the ne- cessity of a further formal ratification.
În faith whereof, the two Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Protocol, and thereto affixed their respective seals.
Done at Rome, this fifteenth day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three.
(L.S.) A. B. PAGET. (L.S.)
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 312.
The following Hydrographic Notices are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th September, 1883.
Government of China.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
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CHINA SEA.
AMOY DISTRICT.
Quemoy Spit Buoy.
MANCINI.
J. H. STEWART-LOCKHART,
for the Colonial Secretary.
Notice is hereby given that a red conical buoy, six feet in diameter, surmounted by a black spherical cage, has been placed on the southern edge of the shoal patch shown on the latest issue of Admiralty Chart No. 1,767 (July 1882) to be forming off the end of the Quemoy Spit.
Vessels should not pass between this buoy and the island of Quemoy.
IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS,
By Order of the Inspector General of Customs,
COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,
SHANGHAI, 1st September, 1883.
A. M. BISBEE,
Coast Inspector,