MU
DROIT.
THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
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20.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 14TH MAY, 1870.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. XVI.
His Excellency Major-General WHITFEILD, Commanding Her Majesty's Troops in China and and Lieutenant-Governor of Hongkong and its Dependencies, has been pleased to appoint in W. COOKE O'SHAUGHNESSY, of Her Majesty's 12th Regiment of Foot, to be Private Secretary the 7th instant inclusive.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th May, 1870.
37.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Copy of a Convention of Commerce between Her Majesty and the Emperor of
a. signed at Vienna on the 30th December, 1869, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th May, 1870.
CONVENTION OF COMMERCE
BETWEEN
HIER MAJESTY
AND THE
EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA.
Signed at Vienna, Dreember 30, 1800.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary,
[Ratifications exchanged at Vienna, February 23, 1870.]
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, on the one part, and His Majesty the of Austria, King of Bohemia, &e., and Apostolic King of Hungary, on the other part, have resolved to conclude the Convention in lieu of the Supplementory Convention stipulated in Article V of the Treaty of Commerce of the 16th
1865, and have named for their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:
Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable John Arthur Bazon Bloomfield of Oakhampton and Redwood, a Peer of Ireland, a Member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable peel, Kaight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary
Petiary to His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty; and
Imperial and Royal Apostolie Majesty, Frederic Ferdinand, Count Benst, His Imperial Majesty's Privy Councillor, of the Empire, and Minister of the Imperial House and of Foreign Affairs, Grand Cross of the Örders of St. and Leopold;
after having communicated to cach other their respective full powers, found to be in due and proper form, have
and concluded the following Articles --
ARTICLE 1.
The continuance of the present Convention, British produce and manufactures shall be admitted upon importation dominions of His Impérial and Royal Apostolie Majesty, at the rates of duty enumerated in the Tarif annexed of Commerce between His Imperial and Royal Apostolie Majesty and His Majesty the King of Prussia repre- sovereign States and territories united to the Prussian system of Customs and Contributions, of the 9th of March,
ARTICLE II.
huperial and Royal Apostolie Majesty further engages that on and after the 1st of January, 1870, the following British manufacture shall be ahuitted upon importation into both the dominions of His Imperial and Royal Majesty, at the rates of duty hereinafter spécified :--