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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 20TH JANUARY, 1894.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 27.

The following Circular Despatch, with its enclosure, is published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th January, 1894.

G. T. M. OBRIEN, Colonial Secretary.

CIRCULAR. (2)

DOWNING STREET,

30th November, 1893.

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SIR,-I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the Colony under your Government, a copy of a Treaty of Commerce between Great Britain and Servia, signed at Belgrade on the 28th of June,

4th 1893, the ratifications of which were exchanged at Belgrade on the of October last. 10th of July,

16th I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient, humble Servant,

RIPON.

The Officer Administering the Government of

HONGKONG.

TREATY OF COMMERCE BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND SERVIA.

Signed at Belgrade,

June 28 July 10

1893.

Ratifications exchanged at Belgrade, October, 1893.

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, and His Majesty the King of Servia, being equally animated with the desire of consolidating their ties of friendship and of developing the commercial relations between the two States, have with this object determined to conclude a Treaty, and 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, Edmund Douglas Veitch Fane, Esquire, her Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the King of Servia;

And His Majesty the King of Servia, his Excellency M. André Nikolitch, his Minister for Foreign Affairs;

Who, after having communicated to each other their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles :-

ARTICLE I.

There shall be full and entire freedom of commerce and navigation between the countries of the High Contracting Parties.

The subjects, vessels, and goods, produce of the soil and industry of each of the High Contracting Parties, shall enjoy in the dominions of the other all rights, privileges, immunities, or advantages whatever which are actually enjoyed, or may hereafter be enjoyed, in the said dominions by the subjects, vessels, and goods, produce of the soil and industry of the most favoured nation.

ARTICLE II.

All articles produce of the soil or industry of Great Britain and Ireland which shall be imported into Servia, and all articles produce of the soil or industry of Servia which shall be imported into Great Britain and Ireland, whether destined for consumption, warehousing, re-exportation, or transit, shall be subjected as long as this Treaty holds good to the same treatment as and, especially, shall be liable to no higher or other duties than the produce or goods of the most favoured nation.

No higher or other duties shall be levied in Great Britain and Ireland on the exportation of goods to Servia, or in Servia on the exportation of geods to Great Britain and Ireland, than may be levied on the exportation of the like goods to the country the most favoured in this respect.

Each of the High Contracting Parties therefore undertakes that the other shall enjoy immediately and unconditionally every favour, privilege, or reduction of duties which has been already grantel, or may be granted hereafter, in the above-named respects to a third lower.