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TREATY BETWEEN JAPAN AND SIAM
Art. X. In all that concerns the entering, clearing, stationing, loading and unloading of vessels in the ports, basins, docks, roadsteads, harbours, or rivers of the dominions and possessions of the two countries no privilege shall be granted by one country to national vessels or vessels of any third Power, which shall not be equally grauted in similar cases to vessels of the other country.
Art. XI.—Any ship of war or merchant vessel of either of the High Contracting Parties which may be compelled by stress of weather, or by reason of any other dis- tress, to take sheiter in a port of the other, shall be at liberty to refit therein, to pro- cure all necessary supplies, and to put to sea again, without paying any duties other, than such as would be payable by national vessels. In case, however, the master of a merchant vessel should be under the necessity of disposing of a part of his cargo- in order to defray the expenses, he shall be bound to conform to the regulations and tariffs of the place to which he may come.
If any ship of war or merchant vessel of one of the Contracting Parties should run aground or be wrecked upon the coasts of the other, such ship or vessel, and all parts thereof, and all furnitures an appurtenances belonging thereunto, and all goods and merchandise savel therefrom, including those which may have been cast into the sea, or the proceeds thereof, if sold, as well as all papers found on board such stranded or wrecked ship or vessel, shall be given up to the owners, master or their agents, when claimed by them. If such owners, master or agents are not on the spot, the same shall be delivered to the respective Consuls-General, Consuls Vice-Consuls or Consular Agents upon being claimed by them within the period fixed by the laws of the country, and such consular officers, owners, master or agents shall pay only the expenses incurred in the preservation of the property, together with the salvage or other expenses which would have been payable in the case of a wreck of a national vessel.
The goods and merchandise saved from the wreck shall be exempt from all the duties of the customs unless cleared for consumption, in which case they shall pay the ordinary duties.
In the case of a ship or vessel belonging to the subjects of either of the Con- tracting Parties being driven in by stress of weather, ruu aground or wrecked in the dominions and possessions of the other, the respective Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls and Consular Agents shall, if the owner or master or other agent of the owner is not present, or is present but requires it, be authorized to interpose in order to afford the necessary assistance to the subjects of the respective States.
Art. XII. The vessels of war of each of the High Contracting Parties may enter, remain and make repairs in those ports and places of the other, to which the vessels of war of the most favoured nation are accorded access; they shall there submit to the same regulations and enjoy the same honours, advantage, privileges and exemptions as are now or may hereafter be conceded to vessels of war of the most favoured nation.
Art. XIII. The High Contracting Parties agree that in all that concerns com- merce, industry and navigation, any privilege, favour, or immunity which either Contracting Party has actually granted, or may hereafter grant, to the Government, subjects, citizens, ships or inerchandise of any other State shall be extended immedi- ately, and unconditionally to the Government, subjects, ships or merchandise of the other Contracting Party; it being their intention that the trade, industry and naviga- tion of each country shall be placed, in all respects, by the other on the footing of the most favoured nation.
Art. XIV. The present Treaty shall come into force immediately after the exchange of ratifications, and shall remain in force for ten years, and thereafter until the expiration of a year from the day on which one or the other of the Contracting Parties shall have repudiated it.
Art. XV.-The present Treaty is signed in duplicate iu the Japanese, Siamese and English languages, and in case there should be found any discrepancy betweer the Japanese and Siamese texts, such discrepancy shall be decided in conformity with the English text.
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