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ARTICLE X.

1. This Agreement shall be considered to become actually binding between the Imperial Government and the Commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand, so soon as the Colonial Legislatures shall have passed special appropriations for the terms hereinafter mentioned, to which Acts this Agreement shall be attached as a First Schedule.

2. The Agreement shall be for a period of ten years, and only terminate if and provided notice has been given two years previously, viz., at the end of the eighth year, or at the end of any subsequent year, and then two years after such date.

ARTICLE XI.

1. The payments named in Article VIII. shall be considered as payments in advance, and shall first become due and payable six months after the Colonial Legislature shall have passed the special appropriation referred to in Article X.

2. The period of ten years referred to in Article X. is to be calculated from the date on which the Colonial Legislature passes the special appropriation referred to.

3. The payments under the existing Agreement and that Agreement itself shall terminate on the date on which the payments under the new Agreement commence.

4. The share of these payments due from each Colony shall be paid annually in London by the High Commissioner of the Commonwealth and the Agent-General of New Zealand, and, pending the appointment of the first-named officer, by such person as the Government of the Commonwealth may nominate, to such account as the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty may direct.

ARTICLE XII.

In time of peace one of the drill ships referred to in Article IV. and one other cruiser shall be stationed in the waters of New Zealand and its dependencies as their headquarters. Should however such emergency arise as may, in the opinion of the Naval Commander-in-Chief, render it necessary to remove either or both of such ships, he shall inform the Governor of the reasons for such temporary removal.

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SOUTH.-On the South from the meridian of 95° East longitude by the parallel of 10° South latitude to 130° East longitude, thence North to 2° North latitude, and along that parallel to 136 East longitude, thence North to 12° North latitude and along that parallel to the meridian of 180°.

EAST.-On the East by the meridian of 180° from 12° North latitude to the point

where the meridian reaches the shores of Asia.

LIMITS OF EAST INDIES STATION.

The East Indies Station as referred to in Article IL of the foregoing Agreement is bounded--

NORTH.-On the North by the southern shores of Asia, including the Persian Gulf, from an imaginary line drawn from Jebel Sejan on the African Coast to Cape Babel Mandeb on the Arabian Coast, to where the 10th parallel of North latitude touches the West Coast of the Malay Peninsula.

EAST. On the East by the meridian of 95° East longitude between the parallels

of 10° North and 26° South latitude.

SOUTH. On the South by the 10th parallel of North latitude between the coast of the Malay Peninsula and the 95th meridian of East longitude, and by the parallel of 26° South latitude between the 95th and 42nd meridians of East longitude. WEST.--On the West by the 42nd meridian of East longitude between the parallele of 26° and 10° South latitude, by the 43rd meridian between the parallel of 10° South and the Equator, and by the East Coast of Africa between the Equator and Jebel Sejan.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

C.O. 885

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRŽÍMIC-

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SCHEDULE TO AGREEMENT.

LIMITS OF AUSTRALIA STATION.

The Australia Station, as referred to in Article II. of the foregoing Agreement is bounded-

NORTH.On the North from the meridian of 95 degrees East, by the parallel of the tenth degree of South latitude, to 130 degrees East longitude, thence northward on that meridian to the parallel of 2 degrees North latitude, and thence on that parallel to the meridian of 136 degrees East longitude, thence North to 12 degrees north latitude, and along that parallel to 160 degrees West longitude, thence South to the Equator, thence Fast to the meridian of 149° 30′ West longitude. WEST.- -On the West by the meridian of 95 degrees East longitude.

Sop. On the South by the Antarctic Circle.

say: Raz.---On the east by the meridian of 149° 30′ West longitude.

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LIMITS OF THe China StatTION.

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