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TREATY OF COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION
Such Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, and Consular Agents, having re- ceived exequaturs or other sufficient authorisations from the Government of the country to which they are appoint 1, shall have the right to exercise their functions, and to enjoy the privileges, exemptions, and immunities which are or may be granted to the Consular officers of the most-favoured nation. The Government issuing ex- equaturs or other authorisations has the right in its discretion to cancel the same on explaining the reasons for which it is thought proper to do so.
Art. 5.-In case of the death of a subject of one of the High Contracting Parties in the territories of the other, without leaving at the place of his decease any person entitled by the laws of his country to take charge of and administer the estate, the competent Consular officer of the State to which the deceased belonged shall, upon fulfilment of the necessary formalities, be empowered to take custody of and administer the estate in the manner and under the limitations prescribed by the law of the country in which the property of the deceased is situated.
The foregoing provision shall also apply in case of a subject of one of the High Contracting Parties dying outside the territories of the other, but possessing property therein, without leaving any person there entitled to take charge of and administer the estate.
It is understood that in all that concerns the administration of the estates of deceased persons, any right, privilege, favour, or immunity which either of the High Contracting Parties has actually granted, or may hereafter grant, to the Consular officers of any other foreign State shall be extended immediately and unconditionally to the Consular officers of the other High Contracting Party.
Art. 6.--There shall be between the territories of the two High Contracting Parties reciprocal freedom of commerce and navigation. The subjects of each of the High Contracting Parties shall have liberty freely to come with their ships and cargoes to all places, ports, and rivers in the territories of the other, which are or may be opened to foreign commerce, and, conforming themselves to the laws of the country to which they thus come, shall enjoy the same rights, privileges, liberties favours, immunities, and exemptions in matters of commerce and navigation as are or may be enjoyed by native subjects.
Art. 7.—Articles, the produce or manufacture of the territories of one High Contracting Party, upon importation into the territories of the other, from whatever place arriving, shall enjoy the lowest rates of Customs duty applicable to similar art cles of any other foreign origin
No prohibition or restriction shall be maintained or imposed on the importation of any article, the produce or manufacture of the territories of either of the High Contracting Parties, into the territories of the other, from whatever place arriving, which shall not equally extend to the importation of the like articles, being the pro- duce or manufacture of any other foreign country. This provision is not applicable to the sanitary or other prohibitions occasioned by the necessity of securing the safety of
persons, or of cattle, or of plants useful to agriculture.
Art. 8.-The articles, the produce or manufacture of the United Kingdom, enu. merated in Part I. of the Schedule annexed to this Treaty, shall not, on importation into Japan, be subjected to higher Customs duties than those specified in the Schedule.
The articles, the produce or manufacture of Japan, enumerated in Part II. of the Schedule annexed to this Treaty, shall be free of duty on importation into the United Kingdom.
Provided that if at any time after the expiration of one year from the date this Treaty takes effect either of the High Contracting Parties desires to make a modi- fication in the Schedule it may notify its desire to the other High Contracting Party, and thereupon negotiations for the purpose shall be entered into forthwith. If the negotiations are not brought to a satisfactory conclusion within six months from the date of notification the High Contracting Party which give the notification may, within one month, give six months' notice to abrogate the present Article, and on the expiration of such notice the present Article shall cease to have effect, without
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