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TREATY BETWEEN THE GERMAN STATES AND SIAM.
Art. XXII.-The Consular Officer of the Contracting German States shall see that German merchants and seamen conform themselves to the regulations annexed to the present treaty, and the Siamese authorities shall aid them herein. All fines levied for infractions of the present treaty shall belong to the Siamese Government.
Art. XXIII. The Contracting German States and their subjects shall be allowed free and equal participation in all privileges, that may have been or may hereafter be granted by the Siamese Government to the Government, subjects or citizens of any other
nation.
Art. XXIV. After the lapse of twelve years from the date of ratification of this treaty the Contracting States may propose a revision of the present treaty and of the re- gulations and tariff thereunto annexed, in order to introduce such alterations, additions and amendments as experience may prove to be desirable. Notice of such an intention must, however, be given at least a year before hand.
Art. XXV. The present treaty is executed in four fold copies in the German, the Siamese and the English languages. All these versions have one and the same meaning -and intention, but the English text shall be looked upon as the original text of the treaty, so that, if any different interpretation of the German and Siamese versions shall ever occur, the English text shall determine the sense.
The treaty shall take effect immediately, and its ratifications shall be exchanged at Bangkok within eighteen months of the present date.
In Witness thereof the plenipotentiaries named at the beginging have signed and sealed the present treaty at Bangkok, on the seventh day of the month of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, corresponding to the Siamese date of the eighth day of the third moon, in the year of the Cock, the third of the Decade, eleventh of the present reign, and one thousand two hundred and twenty-third of the Siamese civil era.
Here follows the seals and signatures of the Commissioners.
TRADE REGULATIONS.
1. The master of every ship, belonging to any of the Contracting German States, which comes to Bangkok to trade, must either before or after entering the river, as he may choose, report the arrival of his vessel at the Paknam Custom-house, and the num- ber of his crew and guns, and the name of the port from whence he comes. As soon as his vessel has anchored at Paknam, he shall deliver up all his guns and ammunition into the custody of the Custom-house Officer, and a Custom-house Officer will then be appointed to accompany the vessel to Bangkok.
2. Every merchant vessel passing Paknam, without discharging her guns and ammu- nition as directed in the foregoing regulation, will be sent back to Paknam to comply with its provisions, and will be liable to a fine not exceeding eight hundred Ticals After having given up her guns and ammunition, she will be permitted to return to Bangkok.
3. Whenever a German merchant vessel shall have cast anchor at Bangkok, the master shall, unless a holiday intervenes, proceed within four and twenty hours to the German Consulate and there deposit the ships papers, bills of lading &c., together with a true manifest of his cargo, and upon the Consular Officer reporting these particulars to the Custom-house, permission to break bulk will at once be given by the latter. Should the Custom-house delay granting such permission for more than twenty-four hours, the Consular Officer may give a permit, which shall have the same validity, as if it proceeded from the Custom-house,
For neglecting to report his arrival or for presenting a false manifest, the master will be liable to a penalty not exceeding four hundred Ticals, but he will be allowed to correct within twenty four hours after delivery of it, any mistake he may discover in his mani- fest, without incurring any penalty.
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