THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH AUGUST, 1882.
ARTICLE XIV.
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The stipulations of the present Treaty shall be applicable to all the Colonies and foreign Posses- sions of Her Britannic Majesty, so far as the laws permit, excepting to those hereinafter named, that is to say, except to-
The Dominion of Canada, Newfoundland,
The Cape,
Natal,
New South Wales,
Victoria,
Queensland, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia, New Zealand.
Provided always, that the stipulations of 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 the Court of Montenegro to the Montenegrin Minister for Foreign Affairs, within one year from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the present Treaty.
ARTICLE XV.
The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged at Cettinjé, as soon as possible after its signature. It shall come into force immediately after the exchange of ratifications, and shall remain in force for ten years from that date. In case neither of the two Contracting Parties shall have given notice, twelve months before the expiration of the said period of ten years, of their intention of terminating the present Treaty, it shall remain in force until the expiration of one year from the day on which either of the Contracting Parties shall have given such notice.
In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed it, and affixed to it the seal of their office.
Done at Cettinjé, the twenty-first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two.
(L.S.)
W. KIRBY GREEN.
(L.S.)
V. S. RADONICH.
Protocol of the 21st January, 1882.
The Undersigned, Plenipotentiaries of Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and His Highness the Prince of Montenegro, having met in conference, have taken into consideration the following subject:-
They have directed their attention to the fact that, although, by Article III of the Treaty signed this day between Her Britannic Majesty and the Prince of Montenegro, all British produce or manu- factured goods shall be imported into Montenegro free of all duties or charges, with the exception only of such dues as shall be levied for custom-house porterage, public weighing, and for the maintenance and improvement of quays and custom-house buildings, yet that British goods and manufactures are actually subjected to a tax of four per cent., through the levying of the existing interior duty to this amount on all sales of foreign goods. They have consequently resolved to declare that, whenever the Montenegrin Government puts in force its reserved right, contained in paragraph 3 of Article III of the Treaty, of levying an import duty not exceeding eight per cent. ad valorem on British produce and manufactures, the above-mentioned interior tax of four per cent. on sales effected in the Princi- pality shall at once cease to be leviable.
They further declare that the said existing interior tax on sales of foreign goods and manufactures shall not be raised above four per cent., and that any reduction in this tax granted to the goods and manufactures of any third Power shall at once and unconditionally be extended to British produce or manufactures.
The other provisions of Article III remain in force, as they have been agreed upon in the Treaty. This Protocol shall be regarded and acted upon as forming part of the Treaty in question, and shall be ratified with it at one and the same time.
In witness whereof, the Undersigned have drawn up the present Protocol, to which they have affixed the seals of their office.
Done at Cettinjé, the twenty-first day of the month of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two.
(L.S.)
W. KIRBY GREEN.
(L.S.)
V. S. RADONICH.