THE
Bangkong
NEW SERIES.
Government
GAZETTE.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 14TH JUNE, 1856.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. I. No. 51.
The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that & NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that
“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE”
will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
Diplomatic Department.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
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His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade 'is pleased to notify, that HARRY SMITH PARKES, Esquire, has been appointed by The Right Honorable The Earl of Clarendon to act as Her Majesty's Consul at Canton, during Mr Alcock's absence.
By Order,
W. WOODGATE.
Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 11th June, 1856.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade, publishes for general information,-
TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP AND COMMERCE
BETWEEN
HER MAJESTY AND THE KINGS OF SIAM.
Signed at Bangkok, April 18, 1855.
[RATIFICATIONS EXCHANGED AT BANGKOK, 5TH APRIL, 1856.]
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and all its dependencies, and Their Majesties Phra fad Somdetch Phra Paramendr Maha Mongkut Phra Chom Klau Chau Yu Hua, the first King of Siam, and Phra Bard Somdetch Phra warendr Ramesr Mahiswarest Phra Pin Klau Chau Yu Hua, the second King of Siam, desiring to establish upon firm and lasting dations the relations of peace and friendship existing between the two countries, and to secure the best interests of their respective ects by encouraging, facilitating, and regulating their industry and trade, have resolved to conclude a Treaty of Amity and Commerce the this purpose, and have therefore named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say;
Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, Sir John Bowring, Knight, Doctor of Laws, &c., &c. :
And Their Majesties the first and second Kings of Siam, his Royal Highness Krom Hluang Wongsa Dhiraj Snidh; his Excellency Sadetch Chau Phaya Param Maha Puyurawongse; his Excellency Somdetch Chau Phaya Param Maha Bijai-neate; his Excellency Can Phaya Sri Suriwongse Samuha Phra Kralahoine; and his Excellency Chau Phaya, Acting Phra-Klang;
Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, and found them to be in good and due form, have agreed * and concluded the following Articles :-
ARTICLE I.
There shall henceforward be perpetual peace and friendship between Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and her sors, and Their Majesties the first and second Kings of Siam, and their successors. All British subjects coming to Siam shall wire from the Siamese Government full protection and assistance to enable them to reside in Siam in all security, and trade with ry facility, free from oppression or injury on the part of the Siamese; and all Siamese subjects going to an English country shall re from the British Government the same complete protection and assistance that shall be granted to British subjects by the
Lovernment of Siam.
ARTICLE II.
The interests of all British subjects coming to Siam shall be placed under the regulation and control of a Consul, who will be *pointed to reside at Bangkok: he will himself conform to and will enforce the observance, by British subjects, of all the provisions this Treaty, and such of the former Treaty negotiated by Captain Burney in 1826, as shall still remain in operation. He shall also give * to all rules or regulations that are now or may hereafter be enacted for the government of British subjects in Siam, the conduct of trade, and for the prevention of violations of the laws of Siam. Any disputes arising between British and Siamese subjects shall be ferd and determined by the Consul, in conjunction with the proper Siamese officers; and criminal offences will be punished, in the case English offenders by the Consul, according to English laws, and in the case of Siamese offenders, by their own laws, through the Siamese *orities. But the Consul shall not interfere in any matters referring solely to Siamese, neither will the Siamese authorities interfere ** gäestions which only concern the subjects of Her Britannic Majesty.