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TREATY OF COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION

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If any vessel of one of the high contracting parties should run aground or be wrecked upon the coasts of the other, such vessel, and all parts thereof, and all furniture and appurtenances belonging thereunto, and all goods and merchandise saved therefrom, including any which may have been cast into the sea, or the pro- ceeds thereof, if sold, as well as all papers found on board such stranded or wrecked vessel, shall be given up to the owners or their agents when claimed by them. If there are no such owners or agents on the spot, then the same shall be delivered to the Japanese or British Consular officer in whose district the wreck or stranding may have taken place upon being claimed by him within the period fixed by the laws of the country, and such Consular officer, owners, or agents shall pay only the expenses incurred in the preservation of the property, together with the salvage or other ex- penses which would have been payable in the like case of a wreck or stranding of a national vessel.

The high contracting parties agree, moreover, that merchandise saved, shall not be subjected to the payment of any Customs duty unless cleared for internal con- sumption.

In the case either of a vessel being driven in by stress of weather, run aground, or wrecked, the respective Consular officers shall, if the owner or master or other agent of the owner is not present, or is present and requires it, be authorised to

nterpose in order to afford the necessary assistance to their fellow-countrymen.

Art. XXIV. The high contracting parties agree that in all that concerns com- merce, navigation, and industry, any favour, privilege, or immunity which either high contracting party has actually granted, or may hereafter grant, to the ships subjects, or citizens of any other foreign State shall be extended immediately and unconditionally to the ships or subjects of the other high contracting party, it being their intention that the commerce, navigation, and industry of each country shall be placed in all respects on the footing of the most favoured nation.

Art. XXV. The stipulations of this Treaty do not apply to tariff concessions granted by either of the high contracting parties to contiguous States solely to facilitate frontier traffic within a limited zone on each side of the frontier, or to the treatment accorded to the produce of the national fisheries of the high contracting parties or to special tariff favours granted by Japan in regard to fish and other aquatic products taken in the foreign waters in the vicinity of Japan.

Art. XXVI.-The stipulations of the present Treaty shall not be applicable to any of His Britannic Majesty's Dominions, Colonies, Possessions, or Protectorates beyond the Seas, unless notice of adhesion shall have been given on behalf of any such Dominion, Colony, Possession, or Protectorate by His Britannic Majesty's Repre- sentative at Tokyo before the expiration of two years from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the present Treaty.

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Art. XXVII.—The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged at Tokyo as soon as possible. It shall enter into operation on the 17th July, 1911, and remain in force until the 16th July, 1923. In case neither of the high con- tracting parties shall have given notice to the other, twelve months before the ex- piration of the said period, of its intention to terminate the Treaty, it shall continue operative until the expiration of one year from the date on which either of the high contracting parties shall have denounced it.

As regards the British Dominions, Colonies, Possessions, and Protectorates to which the present Treaty may have been made applicable in virtue of Article XXVI., however, either of the high contracting parties shall have the right to terminate it separately at any time on giving twelve months' notice to that effect.

It is understood that the stipulations of the present and of the preceding Article referring to British Dominions, Colonies, Possessions, and Protectorates apply also to the island of Cyprus.