128

ARTICLE II

THE CHINA MAIL.

native trading classes of Japan in their or diuary transactions with each other.

CLASS IIL-(PROHIBITEN, ) Opium. CLASS IV.-(SUBJECT TỤ AÐ VALOREM:)

Numerous articles as: Arms, Watches Jewellry, Wines and Spiritous Liquors anil other wenumerated goods.

(No. 1117-JULY 12, 1866

The Advocate General.They could gira

a security for Rs. 50,000. It is very dif

little room for censure, If it be true that subject to revision on the first day of July seantry, as well as all the open Ports of Ja and Clocks, Cutlery, Gold and Silver Lace, compelial to stop payment. lose tho make an order appointing provisional liqui

1872.

And they further declare that all Daimios or persons in the employ of Daimios are free to visit on the same conditions any foreigu pan, and to trade there with foreigners as they please, without the interference of any Japanese officer, provided always they submit to the existing Police regulations

NOTE.

chiat

therefore,

security,

Agra, Lahore, and Kurraches; that a Te- legrais had been received on the morning of the 14th (instant) by the Manager i cult to get a larger security immediately, Calcutta from the Head Office in London and if some one is not appointed, there will Follows The Directors have been be great losses incurred. Will the Court Bank. 6th Juue, 8 P.M.

dators, to be discharged, if they do, the Bank was not opened for business at what the Court deoms sufficient give the usual hour yesterday morning, the 14th within the week? The difficulty, so far as instant, a bad remained closed ever money to be

might the liquidators power current account (22) lakhs, on fixed deposits only to give receipts countersigned by the due at various dates (42) lakhs, on mort Bank of Bengal, granting no anthority to gages of the block and crop of various draw against it without the order of the Indigo concerns in Bangal and Tiroot, Court. Or I will ask the Court to huit which concerns are carried on by advances the power of the liquidatora to bringing and Ct. from the Bank, (70) lakhs the realization defending actions and receiving monies due, 04 of which at present would be impossible as without giving power to deliver up secar- 2nual of the loans are not due, and ather- ties.

wise could only be realised at enoriaona Pheur, J.-In that case I don't think any security would be necessary, it heing un-

kong, Sydney, Melbourne, Paris and Edin- burgh. We fear that years must elapse be The Tariff attached to this convention for the assets can be gathered together. being incorporated from the date of ita alg- So far as the Calcutta and Bombay Manage-nature in the Treaties concluded between meat of recent years is concerned there is Japan and the aborenamed four powers, is the Calcutta Branch

is under large advances on Indigo

we hope that arrange concerns,

Two years however, after the signing of ments may be made to curry them on for a the present convention, any of the contract

tay on this time, o

onting parties, on giving six months' notice to Ro as to secure the Bank's the others may claim a readjustment of this and to the payment of the established yeation of Yado, a duty will be charged on since; that there are now at call and on be got over hived is concerned, year's crop But we fear that failure will injuriously affect those who are duties on Tea and Silk on the busie of five

Estates intimately connected with Ludigo

per cent on the average value of these and dependent on the Agra Bank for assis-

which will be caused articles, during the three years last preced The distress

wing. On the demand also of any of the by the suspension of this Bank can hardly contracting partius, the duty on tiaiber may bo over-estimated. It will take many years be changed from an ad valorem to a specific to wipe out the misery which this sad fai-

rate six months after the signature of this lure must entail. Perhaps, sonic re-assure convention. iug news may come from England, but at present there can be no doubt that we are standing in the shadow of a great misfor- tune.

tance.

Agained

THE SAME.

ARTICLE UI.

The Permit fee hitherto levied under the VIth Regulation attached to the above- namul Treaties, is haureby abolished. Pet mits for the landing or shipment of cargo will be required as formerly, but will here- after be issued free of charge.

ÁRTJULY IV.

:.

duties.

ARTICLE X. All Japanese subjects may ship goods to ar from any open Fort in Japan or to aud from the Ports of any Foreign Power either vessels owned by Japanese or in the vessels of any nation having a Treaty with Japan. Furthermore, ou being provided with Pasts through the proper Depart ment of the Government in the manner specified in the Proclamation of the Jap

zbini nete Government dated the twenty day of May, 1900, all Japanese subjects may travel to any foreign country for pur poses of study ur trade. They may also accept employinent in any capacity on board the vessels of any nation having a Treaty with Japan

ARTICLE XI.

According to the VIII article of the Con- the sale of foreign vessels to Japanese of three boos par ton for Steamers, and one boo per ton for Sailing vessels

EXPORT TARIFF.

Boos. per 100 catties 0

Coal, Cotton (raw) Coir, Hemp, Iron (Japanese)

Singlass, Oil (Fish) (Seeu) Bags, Seaweed (unent)

(our) Seed (Rape

Szamum,

Si

Raw and thrown, Tama or Dupioni, Noshi or skein, Floss, Cocnone, pierend,

upiercou, Waste Copoons,

the Bank's lien upon the safe custody of the responsible for all the Parts open to Foreign trade, with Silk and

It will be seen from the High Court re- ports which we publish this morning, that the Advocate General bas obtained an or der from Mr. Justice Phear that the Cal- cutta Branch of the Agra and Masterman's Bank be wound up by the Court, and that the present Acting Manager, My. Cochrane, has been appointed as provisional liquida tor, furnishing security to the amount of Rs. 50,000. This

his will enable parties, who have securities with the Bank, to reicase the same after

paying the them. The

Boney received by the liquida- tor is to be paid into an account which will be opened with the Bank of Bengal, but which the liquidator will have no power to draw, The

Generalment proposed the advocate by

by sanctioned the Court, was necessary in oriler free the numerous securities the Bunk holds agalust certain advances, and will be so far a relief to the parties conserved.

There are no means of

extent of the disastansing yet

wch am failure great

must give rise. shall doubtless hear soon enough of the heavy losses which have fallen apon shareholders and depositors in the Biofussil, but the

bitter tidin

tidings will be those which each succeeding mail from Evrope will carry here, We shall hear of veterania of both the Ser vices having lost the hard-earned savings of years-years spent under the heat, the weariness and all the drawbacks of an Iu- dian climate, in order that at length there might be enough in the Agra Bank to secure a competence

full

most

this

to this

The Government of Japan will provide

such lights, bouys or beacous as may be necessary to render secure the navigation of the approaches to the said Ports.

ARTICLE XH

On the first day of July text at the Port of Kanagawa (Yokohama) and on and from

Japanese in the employ of foreigners may the first day of October next at the Ports of ootain Government passports to go abroad Nagasaki and Hakodadi, the Japanese Go. on application to the Govenor of any opeu verament will be prepared to

Port. warehouse imported goods on the application of the importer or owner, withont payment of duty. The Japanes

will be

goods, so long as they remain in their charge, and will adopt all the

e precautions necessary to render them iusurable against fire. When the owner or importer wishes to remove the goods

goods from

The Cudersigned being of opinion that it house is must pay the duties fired the warehouse

is mucessary that this Convention should by the Tariff, but if he should wish to re be submitted to their respective Glover- export them, he may do so without payments, for masification, before it comes into ment of duty. Storage charges

will J11 either case be paid on delivery of the guns, operation, it will accordingly take effæst out.

and freni first day of

one thousand of July,

saus The amount of these charges, together with eight hundred and

y six. the regulations necessary for the manage

Even of the Contracting Parties having ment of the said Warehouses will be us the approval of his Government to the Cou- tablished by the comuton consent of the vention shall make known the same to the contracting parties.

others and the communication in writing of this approval shall take the place of a formal exchange of

ARTICLE V.

All articles of Japanese production may be conveyed from any place in Japan to the Ports open to foreign trade free of any tax or tranzit duty other than the usual toils levied equally on all traffic for the maintenance of roads or navigation.

ARTICLE VI.

of Ratiucations.

In witness whereof the above named Plentipotentiaries have signed the present Convention, and have affixed thereto their seals,

Done at Yedo in the English, French, Dutch, and Japanese languages.this twenty- fifth day of June que thousand eight hun-

HARRY S. PARKES;

Iu conformity with those articles of the dred and sixty-sis, tence and thankfni rest in England.

treaties concluded between Japan and For-[L.S.]

many

after

in

• pymoly

In one fell swo

swoop the result of this tail of years has been carried away, and many au eigu Powers which stipulate for the eiren- ter Britanic Majesty's Linoy Ectraudin- old soldier will be left in the evening of lation of foreign coin at its corresponding ary and iniseer Plenipotentiary in Japan.

LEON ROCHES, life to fight against those

weight in native coin of the same descrip- [18.) cruel enemics disease and want. But sad as will be the tion, dollars bave hitherto been received at Ministre Plenipotentiaire de S. M. L'En

who had Case of

I hoped,

t of pereur des Francuts, at Jupan years of the Japanese Custoin house

[1.6.]

A LO. PORTMAN, oxile, to enjoy a happy independence in duties at their weight in Bona,

that a gulder

called lichobons), their native land, there will be a

is to say, at a rate Charge & Affairs a. i. of the United States, of three hundred and elevou boos per Innis

in Japan picture to comtemplate; and that is

who dred dollars. The Japanese Government (LS.] D. DE GRAEFF VAN POISBROEK,

Politick Agent en Consul General der Neder- being, however, desirous to alter this tice, and to abstain from all interference in lunden in dapun. being also anxious to meet the wants both

for foreign coin, and [LS.] but the exchange of native for

they

are solely dependent upon the property which hold in shares of the Bank. Not only will

their late incomes be swept away, but

eholders they will be liable for all of native and foreign counterce by securing as shareholders further

calls. Many a a bousehold where of sorrow never entered, has its shadow upon an adequate issue of native coin, have al

the

MIDZUNO IDZUNI NO KAMI,

IMPORTS.-CLASS I

Boos Cts.

0 25 1 25

the threshold now. It

terrible to think ready determined to enlarge the Japanese Canvas and Cotton duck, 10' yds.

Guy- by Mint so as to admit of the Japanese Gov- Cotton, Raw 100 catties, of the wide-spread

misery tilat

that inevitably rument exchanging into native coin of the Cotton, Manufactures must accrue from this disaster Great as was the ruin occasioned in India years ago same intrinsic value, less only the cost of

white, spotted or figured; drills by the failures of the graat Agency Houses coinage, at the places named for this pur. Shirtings, grey, white, and twilled

coin or the North Western and the Union Bank pose, all foraign

gold or or bullion in

and jeans white brocades; tendered to T-Cloths, cambrica, mualins, it will have been as nothing in magni- silver that may at any time bet

them tuile, we fear, to that which has

essential, however, to the execution of his

by foreigners or Japanese. It being lawue, dimities quiltings, cot- brought about by the suspension of

toners. All the above goods Agra Bank.-Ibid, June 16.

that the various Powers with whom

dyed, printed cottous, chintzes, measure,

•} {VI has concluded Treaties should first

and furnitures:*** consent to modify the stipulations in those Treaties which relate to the currency, the Japanese (overment will at once propose to those Powers the adoption of the necessary modification in the sail stipulations, and on receiving their concurrence will be pre- pared from the 1st of January 1868 to carry the above measure into effect.

THE JAPANESE CONVENTION.

The Representatives of Great Britain, France, the United States of America, and Holland, having received from their respec tive Governments identical instructions for the modification of the Tariff of Import and Export duties contained in the Trade Re- gulations suaezed to the Treaties concluded by the aforesaid Powers with the Japanese Government in 1888, which modification is provided for by the VIth of those Regu-

given

The rates to be charged as the cost of coinage shall be determined hereafter by the common consent of the contracing par- ties.

ARTICLE VIL

lations

And the Japanese Government having

the said Representatives, during In order to put a stop to certain abuses their visit to Osaka in November 1885, and inconveniences complained of the written engagement to proceed immediately open Ports, relative to the transaction of to the Revision of the Tariff in question, business at the Custom-house, the landing on the general basis of a duty of five per and shipping of cargoes and the hiring of cent on the raine

value of all articles Imported Lents, coolies, servants, &c., the contracting parties have agreed that the Governor at or Exported-

And the Government of Japan being de- each open port shall at once enter in

the fo

Consuls foreign sirous of affording a fresh proof of their egociations with wish to promote trade and to cement the a view to the establishment, by matual of such regulations as shall effec friendly relations which exist between their consent, country aud for igu mutions.

tually put au oud to these abuses and in-

¦

with!

His Excellency Midzano Idzumi no Ka-conveniences and afford all possible facility s of trade mi,

a member of the Gorojia and a Mi-and security both to the nister

of

Foreign Affairs has been furnished and to the transactions of

It is hereby stipulate that in order to by the Government of Japan, with the up- cessary powers to conchide with the Re- protect merchandize from exposure to presentatives of the above na four weather, these regulations shall fuclude the

each covering in at

of one or more Powers, that is to

port to say --- Of Great Britain.

of the landing places used by foreigners for Sir Harry S. Parkes, Knight Commander ding or shipping cargo.

of the Most Honourable Order of the Her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Everordinary and Minister Fleup |

tentiary in Japan.

Of France.

nour, Minister Plenipotentiary of His Ma jesty the Ruperor of the French in Japan. OF United States of America..

A. L. C. Pothian, Esquire, Charge d'Affaires ad interim. And of Hollandi.

ARTICLE VIII,

of

A notexceeding 44 in. wide 10 yds,

В

40

12

3;

46

77

*

:

exceeding 16 Taffacheluss not axocoding 31 in.

exceeding 31 inches, and not exceeding 43 inches. Fustians--as Cotton Velvets, Velveteens-Satins, Satinets and Cotton damasks, not exceed- ing 40 inches Ginghans, not exceeding 31 inches

43 Handkerchiefs, per dozen

100 cattles

14

อ.

0

0:10

0 11

0 178

* ಸ

0 20

D

31

Cotton Yarn, plain and dyed per

Flints

نا

Silk Wiruis Egga, sheet TEA!

100 catties

Quality known as Baricha when exported from Naga- saki ouly, 100 eatties,. Tobacco

Wax, Vegetables,

3)

or prepared,

Bees',

- Cocom

0

CLASS II-(DUTY FREE GOODS.)

60

25

crifice.

On these facts the Judge was asked ter derstood that the monies are to be paid to grant an order to wind up the Company by the account of the official liquidator's ac

a the Court, in far as regarded the Cal-count at the Bank of Bengal,

30

"The

suppose

05 outta Brauch only, that alone being in the you will soon find au official liquidator.

jurisdiction of the High Court of Calcutta The Adeccate General-Yes, we ask for leaving the

Company to apply, if it had not provisional liquidators only for a few

days 60 already

to the Courts at Madras, until further news is received from England. apore, and Agra for 40 Bombay,

a similar

Advocate

cate General proceeded, however, 99 order in regard to the Branches in their to ask for the following order, on the ground respectivo jurisdictions. The fact of the that so many people would be put to the 00 Bank having been closed, and the Company greatest

inconvenience if

they could 50 not being able to pay its debts, brought it

3, Section 213 of the Act. Phear, J. said, if the order were granted, it might turn out that the Company The carrying on its business London. affidavit contained aufficient to satisfy the Conrt, coming from the source it did, but

00

00

00

00

25

23

10

he would like to consider what power the 50 Court had in the case.

50

50

50

obtain their securities to raise money there

He asked that power be extended to

од.

the Manager (Mr Cochrane) to pay out se lances being paid, two Directors (Messrs. enritica to the holders of them on their ha

Goodenough and Hamilton Robinsop) giv. ing security to the amount of Rs. 50,000,

the Bank has

Jiey

up any on which

bring

Phear, I think I may safely make that order. Then Mr Cochrane will be the provisonal liquidator, with power to and defend suits, to receive monies, and to hand over securities to their holders on the Bank's lion being discharged. All monies to be paid into the Bank of Bengal, to the official liquadator's account; but no power Menars Goodenough and Hamilton Robinson to be bound as securities for Mr Cochrane to the amount of Ks. 50,000,

Gold and Silver coined, Gold Silver and principal place of business was somewhere is given to draw against them.

The Advocate General said he should pro- 75 bably have materials to-morrow to show that the Company had applied in London 75 to be wound up voluntarily.

Phear J., referring to the 21th Section of the Act, said-Did it not apply to au Unregistered Company whose head office or

in this country I

The Adcute General submitted that the words "principal place of business" did not go so

so far as that, but merely meant the

of business in British India. sight

ght be some inconvenicued if the Company at home had taken advantage of the English Act. for, the orders of the Court of Chaucery would apply to the

Copper unduined of Japaness production, to be sold only by the Japanese Govern ment at public auction.

CLASS III.--(PROHIBITED Gobos.) Rice Paddy, Wheat and Barley flour made from the above. Saltpetre.

CLASS IV.GOODS SUBJECT TO AN AD- VALORES DUTY OF 5 TO BE CALCULATED

ON THEIR MARKET VALUE.

Bainboo ware, Copper utensils of all kinds, Charcoal, Ginseng, and unenume rated drugs, horns. (deer) young.or soft, Mats and Matting. Silk dresses, Munu. factures or Embroideries, Timber and other

auenumerated articles.

RULES.

Rule 1-Uuemmerated Imports if men. tioned in the Export List shall not pay duty under that list, but shall be passed advalo- rem, and the same rule shall apply to any unenumerated exports that may be named in the Import list,

Rale 2-Foreigners, resident in Japan, and the crews or passengers of foreign ships, shall be allowed to purchase such supplies of the Gain or Flour named in the list of Exports, as they may require for their own consumption, but the usual shipping permit must

be obtained from the Custom House, Flour before any of the aforesaid grain or can be shipped to a foreign vessel,

Rule 3.The Catty mentioned in this Tarif' is

thin equal to

to one pound and English avoininpois weight. The yard is the English measure of three fest, the Eng lish foot being the eighth of an inch larger than the Japanese Kani shaku. The boo is a silver coin weighing not less than 134 grains Troy weight and containing not less than nine parts pure silver and not more than one part of alloy.

HIGH COURT.

ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION, JUNE 15, 1868.

(Before the Hon'ble Mr Justice Phear.) IN THE MATTER OF THE INDIAN COM-

PAVILS" ACT, 1966" AND OF THE ARRA AND MASTERMAN'S BANK, LIMITED, The Advocale Generul mayed for an order that the Agra Court. The case whe and Blasterman's Bauk be Woun up by the

5.00

0 12 0 35 3. 50

ju

20

0 75

Class, Window, box of 100 sq. ft Rhinoceros Horns 1087 catties Ivory Elephants teeth all qualities 35.00 Linon all qualities, 10 yds.. batting floor, roll of 40 yds.

METALS. opper and Brass in slabs, sheets

ני

Tin Plates, box not exceeding 90

catties Quicksilver, 100 catties

SU

Part

principal plach

Branch here.

acts in harmony with this we must endea- Phear, J.-No doubt so far as that Court

your to carry out its orders. Detaily for the purposes of winding up, the Act seethed to consider the branch as a separate Com Is this motion sandle on notice to

pany.

THE PINE PLAINS OF LONG ISLAND. (From the Spectator, May 12.)

Fire Island Inlet, April 20, 1866.

probably as uninteresting a spot as could The place at which I date iny letter is be found in the labitable part of the earth. As lonely too, and apparently as reinote from all the modern inconveniences of di vilization York, on the south side of Long

And yet I am hrit three

from

inentioned which, se I have

said, no notic had.ches away from New York

creditor

any of the creditors ! ·

The Advocate General boen given The

great object of this ap- plication was to prevent auy

with regard to his own claims to the prejudics of others. taking steps

Thear, J. Is this not an application to wind up voluntarily? What does the Act say us to that

Jame

houra

eastward. The railway which bisects the narrow island lengthwise passes within five miles of this place, at which there is a

but sation entled Thop distance who Thompson is

or was I cannot tell. This railway, after leaving a large village The Autocate General referred to the 4th called Jamaica, which is only ten mile part of the Act, Section 145, shewing that from the western of New York end of the there was a substantial difference between island, enters upon the Great Pine Plains. an application to be wound up by the As is usual in such cases, the has the Court, which was the present application, plural form, but the thing is single, and a voluntary wind also singular. It is our vast plait sixty and an application for u ing-up.

Phear, J.-Have you

u any evidence of the tiles long and about seven wide, any ne

nure of which -is the exact counterpart constitution of the Company

Jook from the windows, any other. As you.. The Advocate General-There are the of the car on either sile, before, Articles of Association and the Special Act you sev as far as the eye can reach a dead so flat that it seems to have been teed,

of 1865.

of

DA

Lebind,

Pheur, J.-You inay take an order as res and this is thickly covered with gards the Calcutta Besuch. My view is growth of scrub-oak sly about as high as a mau's knes, anong which are sparsely that the Agra and Masterinan's Bank is a "Partnership, Association, or Company, scattered dwarf pines from six to ten feet not & Railway Company, &," and not re-high. No houses appear near the railway, got X of 1866, and as such is carrying inte by the railway cutting that the soil is

the gistered within

of Sention 213 except at the stopping places, which are at meaning of

intervals of from three to six miles. You of this on business within the jurisdiction of t see Court. Clause 1 of that Section seems to get and gravelly, and as it is very light in colour as as in substance, the coustitute an Unregistered Company ng on business within any part carry narrow roats, which stretch away in right

of ot

10

India a separate Company in that part of lines through what would be the under

if the India where it has

there, were any trees above a principal place of

brush,

black board. business.

1 must, therefore, treat the look like chalk (marks apon

of a prospect which is aa Calcutta Branch of Agra and Masterman's You soon get weary of as a separate Company for this purpose, monotonous as a desert or the sea in a dead There is no doubt as to its having ceased calm, and turn to book; for

Your to

your twenty or thirty fellow you see only the backs of the heads of those who sit before you, as those who sit behind you only see the back of yours. You get

station, and

to

carry business, and that it is unable

its debts. Application Granted.

pay its

as to tlie.

An objection was made by the Registrar

of

The

the petita of the Affidavit in support out to stretch your legs at

the

Passengers,

newness

it, you find in real life an example of

you

that

peculiar, as the Company was not registered Culcutta but in England under the Eng-

find a small cluster of little square, formless lish Companies Act, 1863. Still the Indian Companies Act X. of 1866 contem

petition referred expressly to the houses, neat and cheerless, comfortable contemplates Telegram,

and the Aidavit merely doubtless inside, but most forbidding in the Sec.

of such Company In

With- their bare and sharp-edged state generally that the petition was true the for the winding rules are laid down to the best of the deponent's snowledgeath! / out. If you step upon the track and bak

of Unregistered Com belief.

It was objected that the Affidavit along it, panies, and it is clear that the Unregistered should refer specially to the Telegrams, &e. to vanishing point in perspective, but Compabies contemplated by the Act are Mr Justice Phear said the objection was perfectly straight Companies not registered under this

the two lines of rails,

apart. The of

stret stretch directly out only four feet:

efore you, converging inappreciably until they become one to your eye upon the horizon. It was my first sight of the Fine Plains, and I must say that never, was my eye so wearied with ny. What a desert way be I do not but even a

Act.

Act are "any Putner valid, and directed the exhibits to be ex- pressly referred to in the Affidavit which ship, Association, or Coupany, except Pres avortingly done: Railway Companies incorporated by Act of Parliament

of Act of the

of Juda in Council, covernor General

of more

than seven members, and not registored ander this Act, and hereinafter included under the term Buregistered Company, may be wound up under this Aut, du

IN THE MATTER OF THE INDIAN COMPANIES

ACT AND THE AGRA AND MASTERMAN'S BANK, LIMITED.

Later in the day the Advocate General moved under Section 116 of the Joint Com-

level is the road,

I take, not a slege- miles of the re rolls. After wheels, with wooden

coach, but fougou, a long,

This further appeared from Section 217, pauies, Act for the appointment of provi- shallow vehicle which contemplates Unregistered Comsional liquidators to Agra and Masterman's springe, six hard sling seats, holding two panies having no power to sue or be sued Bank, Limited, firstly, because bills were each, besides the driver's, a flat top like a in a common name as included in this por-falling due overy hour, as to which the black AWD white horses, which are supported by hickory rods, Bank has to

ve.,

100 cattios Yellow metal Muutz, do. Sheath-

ing nails

3.50

13

2 50

fron nauufactured, rod, bars, naila

Figs.

0

10

Kentlidge

0 6

19

Wire Lead, Pigs

Sheets

80

1 00

O

Spelter and Zinc

00

Steel

0

60

Tu

3

00

70

6

00

0 45

1 00

។ 25

A

40

40

ཝཱ་

0 75

set forth in Section 213, Clause 3, it may paying the securites to depositors on

balances.

of their coats to those of the passengera Of these there are.

1

00

1 80

9 00

0 1 00 1 25 0 75

60

C 45

0

0

40

31

Any Japanese subject shall be free to purchase either in the open Ports of Japan or abroad, every description of sailing or Monsieur Lenu Roches, Commander of stu-vussel intended to carry either pas-Hattans the Imperial Order of the Legion of Innengers or cargo, but ships of war may only Rhubarb,

be obtained under the authorization of the Badal Wood Japanese Government.

All foreigo vessels purchased by Japanese Sapan Wood subjects shall be registered as Japanese ves. Sugar brown and black

White, sels on payment of a fixed duty of three

Candy and Loaf stomers and one bon per Tobacco 100 catties hous per ton for ge ton for sailing vessels. vessel shall be proved by the Foreign Reais Vermillion

Woollen

manufactures, broad ter of ships which shall be exhibited through

habit, medium, narrow, not the Consul of the party interested, on the

exceeding 34 inches 10 yards, demand of the Japanese Authorities, aut i

exceeding Not shall be certified by the Consul as authentic.

Exceeding $5 Spanish Stripes Cassimeres, flannels, long elis

Dutch Camlets,

English Lastings, crape lastings and wor- sted crapes, Marinos and all other woollen goods not olsa. sed under

Monsieur Dirk de Graeff van Pulshrock, Knight

it of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, Political Agent and Consul Gone- ral of His Majesty the King of the Netherlands.

The following Convention comprising Twelve Articles.

ARTICLE 1.

The contracting Parties declare in the names of their respective Sovereigns that they accept, and they hereby do formally accept as virding on the subjects of their respective Governments and the citizens of heir respective countries, the Tariff hereby satablished and annexed to the present con

vention.

ARTICLE IX,

La conformity with the Treaties concinted between Japan and the aforesaid Powers, and with the special arrangements made by the Buvoys of the Japanese Governinent in thir note to the British Government, of the ith June 1862, and in their note to the of October of French Government of 6th the same you betweeli foreigners and

all the restrictions on

on trade, and intercourse

and This Tariff is abstituted not only for the Japanese alluded to in the aforesaid notes, tart attached to the Treaties wh both pub- daded with the above named four Powers, tious to this effect, have already boon but also for the specist Conventions and fished by the Government of Japan. arrangements relative to the sanse Tariff, which have been entered into at different dates up to this time between the Govan ments of Great Britain, France, and the United States, on one side and the Japan ess Government on the other.

The new Tarif shall come into effect in

the

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portion of the Act.

give notice and present; se- and drawn by The circumstances under which an Un-condly, that there were continual applica the journey is over transfer no small part registered Company ·be wound up are tions to

Dany 1087

be done when the Company has ceased to,

two besides myself. are only The Advocate General-said that he did not They live in this part of the world, sad carry on business, when it is unable to pay ask for permanent liquidators to be appoint-after a little commonplace that among us its debts, or when the Court is of opinioned, with power to carry on business or to all, the two fall into conversation about that it is just and equitable that it should sell, but only for provisional liquidators their own affairs, and their talk is of pow be wound up. In Clause 4 of the same with power to bring and defend suits, and toes, turnips, and, caulifower I 28 Section, it ia explained when an Uuregis to give receipts for money paid and to destruck by the purity y of their English, and shall be deemed unable to liver up securities to depositors on dia- the entire absence of that sharp nasal terbe tered obta. The only limitation on charging the Bank's pay its

which is generally the mark with us at unce. winding-up is that the Company must be Phear, J.-That will be making the li-of New England origin and, to wound up by the Court, sud not volun-quidators judges of the liens.

degree, of uneducated rusticity, and which tarily or subject to the supervision of the The Advocate General Trus, but they is therefore heard so often in func houses Court. 75

will I know pretty well what their lion is, and our Bas

Eastern cities,

which are filled with if there is any doubt, for their own pro- uneducated country people who bare be tection they will not pay. All monies re- come rich. I have noticed the agreeable. ceived should be paid to the Bank of Bei-absence of this twang among the people gal to the official liquadator's account generally which,

here,

as they are a com

0 30 0 45

A not exceeding 34 in. exceeding 34 in. Woollen and cotton mixtures not

0 30 exceeding 34 exceeding 34

045

Blankets and horsecloths 10 est

0 50

.100

10. 00

ULASS II-(DUTY FREE GOODS.)

Woollen Yarn, plain and dyed

The latter, however, do not hesitate to declare that Japanese nierchants and traders of all classes are at liberty to trade directis, and without the interference of Clovernment officers, with foreign merchants, not only at All animals used for food or draught. open ports of Japan, but also in all fo- Auchors, Chain, Cables, Coal, Foreign reign comuthies ou being authorised to leave clothing not being articles named in this their country in manner provided for in tariff in and Silver, coined and neoin being subject to higher taxation by the Ja-Salt Meat, Tar Pitch, Tes-load and Tra panese Government than that levied on the velling Baggage.

certain

in

I

This application was based upon a peti- tion unour the Company's seal, and signed and verified by the focal Directors, Messrs F. A. Goodenough and T. Hamilton Ro- binson, and the Manager of the Bank in? Pheur, J.-If the liquidators are to re-munity of small farmers and fishermion, Calcutta, Mr S Cochrane. The

The petition coive mouies, they must give some security,au at a loss to account for. We drove on set forth that the Bank was formerly The Adrvcate General. The persons we through the plains over a road so nato established by Royal Charter on May 29th, proposu as liquidatras are connected with that the twigs of scrub-oak, brushed the 1807. that it was registered under 7 and 8, the Bank as Manager or Directors and

eels on both sides as we passed, and as sceneil Vict. C. 113 (English Joint Stock Banks Trustees.

were no fences to be seen, it Phear, J.Bat the cause of this applica- Act) and that under and by virtue of a

as if we were driving over a path through special Aot obtained from Parliament in tion is the failure of the subject of their some vast and desolate domain. The malu certain proportione, &o; that the large trust or charge.

road is, however, wider. We passed twe majority of Shareholders were persons r The barocile General. Ten, but no fault places where fire had left its marki, équent

in the United siding

Kingdom, its princi-is attributed to the management or direc

upon, these plains not unfrequent pal office being in London, where the Headtion here.

ly takes fire and burns uptil the flames are Fhear, Can you give any idea of the stopped by a road, the shrub being so low Board of Direction was; that the Articles of Association empowered the Company to amount likely to pass through their hands, that unless there is a very high wind the appoint Agencies and Local Boards of or the amount of securities deposited with fames will not cross even

This land is easily cultivated, aud Paris, Sydney, Melbourne and China, and principle I can appoint liquidators however in India, at Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, temporarily without their giving security.cold cayed soils, it takes kindly to enrich

very narrow

first day of July next, and in the ports of Article X of the present convention, witheated, Grain, Flour, Saltpotre, Printed Books, Management; that they had Branches at the Bank? I do not think as a writer of it needs high inaning, unlike

the port of Kanagawa (Yokohama) on the Nagasaki and Hakodadi on the first day of the following month.

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