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OROIT.
THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette
No. 20.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 11TH MAY, 1872.
VOL. XVIII.
No. 100.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Copy of the Convention concluded between Her Majesty and the King of the Netherlands for the settlement of their Mutual Relations in the Island of Sumatra, is published for general information.
By Command,
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 7th May, 1872.
CONVENTION between Her Majesty and the King of the Netherlands, for the Settlement
of their Mutual Relations in the Island of Sumatra.
Signed at the Hague, November 2, 1871.
[Ratifications exchanged at the Hague, February 17, 1872.]
HER Majesty the Queen of the United King- dom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, being de- sirous to consolidate more and more, in the spirit of the Treaty of the 17th of March, 1824, the friendship between the two countries, and consequently also to remove all occasion of mis- understanding in their mutual relations on the Island of Sumatra, have agreed to conclude a Convention for that purpose, and have named as their Plenipotentiarics, that is to say:-.
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom. of Great Britain and Ireland, the Honourable Edward Alfred John Harris, Vice-Admiral, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the King of the Netherlands;
And His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, Mr. Joseph Lodewijk Hendrik Alfred Baron Gericke van Herwijnen, Commander of the Order of the Netherland Lion, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Oaken Crown of Luxemburg, &c., &c., His Minister of Foreign Affairs; and Mr. Pieter Phillip van Bosse, Commander of the Order of the Netherland Lion, Knight Grand
HARE Majesteit de Koningin van het Veree- nigd Koningrijk van Groot Brittannië en Ierland, en Zijne Majesteit de Koning der Nederlanden, wenschende, in den geest van het Tractaat van 17 Maart, 1824, de vriendschappelijke verhouding tusschen de beide Landen meer en meer te be- vestigen, en daartoe ook in Hunne wederzijdsche betrekkingen op het Eiland Sumatra alle aan- leiding tot misverstand weg te nemen, zijn overeengekomen te dien einde eene Conventie te sluiten, en hebben tot Hunne gevolmagtigden benoemd, te weten:—
Hare Majesteit de Koningin van het Vereenigd Koningrijk van Groot Brittannië en Ierland, den Achtbaren Edward Alfred John Harris, Vice- Admiraal, Lid van de zeer eervolle Orde van het Bad, Buitengewoon Gezant en Gevolmagtigd Minister van Hare Britsche Majesteit bij Zijne Majesteit den Koning der Nederlanden;
En Zijne Majesteit de Koning der Neder- landen, den Heer Joseph Lodewijk Hendrik Alfred Baron Gericke van Herwijnen, Kom- mandeur der Orde van den Nederlandschen Leeuw, Ridder Grootkruis der Orde van de Eikenkroon van Luxemburg, &c., &c., Hoogst- deszelfs Minister van Buitenlandsche Zaken; en" den Heer Pieter Phillip van Bosse, Kommandeur