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TREATY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND SIAM.
girdling trees in a forest without the consent of the owner of the forest obtained, or after the expiration of the agreement relating to it, shall be liable to pay such com- pensation to the owner of the forest as the British Consular Officer at Chiengmai shall adjudge.
Transfers of agreements shall be subject to the same formalities.
The charges for sealing, countersigning, and registration shall be fixed at a moderate scale, and published for general information.
Art. XII.-The Siamese Judges and Commissioners at Chiengmai appointed under Article VIII. shall, in conjunction with the local authorities, endeavour to prevent the owners of forests from executing agreements with more than one party for the same timber or forests, and to prevent any person from illegally marking or effacing the marks on timber which has been lawfully cut or marked by another person, and they shall give such facilities as are in their power to the purchasers and sellers of timber to identify their property. Should the owners of forests hinder the cutting, girdling, or removing of timber under agreements duly executed in accordance with Article XI. of this Convention, the Siamese Judges and Commissioners of Chiengmai and the local authorities shall enforce the agreement, and the owners of such forests acting as aforesaid shall be liable to pay such compensation to the persons with whom they have entered into such agreements as the Siamese Judges and Commissioners at Chiengmai shall determine, in accordance with Siamese law.
Art. XIII. Except as and to the extent specially provided, nothing in this Treaty shall be taken to affect the provisions of the Treaty of Friendship and Com- merce between Her Majesty and the Kings of Siam of the 18th April, 1855, and the Agreement supplementary thereto of the 13th May, 1856.
Art. XIV. This Treaty has been executed in English and Siamese, both versions having the same meaning; but it is hereby agreed that in the event of any question arising as to the construction thereof, the English text shall be accepted as conveying its true meaning and intention.
Art. XV.-This Treaty shall come into operation immediately after the exchange of the ratifications thereof, and shall continue in force for seven years from that date, unless either of the two Contracting Parties shall give notice of their desire that it should terminate before that date. In such case, or in the event of notice not being given before the expiration of the said period of seven years, it shall remain in force until the expiration of one year from the day on which either of the High Contracting Parties shall have given such notice. The High Contracting Parties, however, reserve to themselves the power of making, by common consent, any modifications in these Articles which experience of their working may show to be desirable.
Art. XVI.-This Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged at Bangkok as soon as possible.
In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same in duplicate, and have affixed thereto their respective scals.
Done at Bangkok, the third day of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three of the Christian Era, corresponding to the second day of the waxing moon of the tenth month of the year of the Goat, one thousand two hundred and forty-five of the Siamese Era.
(L.S.) (L.8.)
W. H. NEWMAN.
(Signatures of the Siamese Plenipotentiaries.)
ANNEX.
List of heinous crimes appended to the Treaty made between Great Britain and Siam with regard to Chiengmai, Lakon, and Lampoonchi, this 3rd day of September, 1883, in connection with the provisions of Article VI. of that Treaty with regard to the extradition of offenders:--
Murder, Culpable homicide, Dacoity, Robbery, Theft, Forgery, Counterfeiting coin or Gov- ernment stamps, Kidnapping, Rape, Mischiof by fire or by any explosive substance.