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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH FEBRUARY, 1895.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 63.

The following Circular Despatch and its enclosures are published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th February, 1895.

CIRCULAR.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

DOWNING STREET,

31st December, 1894.

SIR,--I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the Colony under your Government, a copy of a Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Great Britain and Japan signed at London on the 16th July, 1894, the ratifications of which were exchanged at Tokio on the 25th of August last.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient, humble Servant,

The Officer Administering the Government of

HONGKONG.

RIPON.

TREATY OF COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION BETWEEN GREAT

BRITAIN AND JAPAN.

Signed at London, July 16, 1894.

[Ratifications exchanged at Tôkiô, August 25, 1894.]

HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, and His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, being equally desirous of maintaining the relations of good understanding which happily exist between them, by extending and increasing the intercourse between their respective States, and being convinced that this object cannot better be accomplished than by revising the Treaties hitherto existing between the two countries, have resolved to complete such a revision, based upon principles of equity and mutual benefit, and, for that purpose, have named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, the Right Honourable John, Earl of Kimberley, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, &c., &c., Her Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs;

And His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, Viscount Aoki Siuzo, Junii, first class of the Imperial Order of the Sacred Treasure, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of St. James';

Who, after having communicated to each other their Full Powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles :-- .

-ARTICLE I.

The subjects of each of the two High Contracting Parties shall have full liberty to enter, travel, or reside in any part of the dominions and possessions of the other Contracting Party, and shall enjoy full and perfect protection for their persons and property.

They shall have free and easy access to the Courts of Justice in pursuit and defence of their rights; they shall be at liberty equally with native subjects to choose and employ lawyers, advocates, and representatives to pursue and defend their rights before such Courts, and in all other matters connected with the administration of justice they shall enjoy all the rights and privileges enjoyed by native subjects.

In whatever relates to rights of residence and travel; to the possession of goods and effects of any kind; to the succession to personal estate, by will or otherwise, and the disposal of property of any sort