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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST JUNE, 1889.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. -No. 258.

The following Circular Despatch and its enclosure, is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st June, 1889.

CIRCULAR (2)

FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary,

DOWNING STREET,

475

29th March, 1889.

SIR,I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the Colony under your Government, a copy of a Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation between Her Majesty and the United States of Mexico, signed at Mexico on the 27th of November, 1888, the ratifications of which were exchanged at Mexico on the 11th of February last.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient humble Servant,

KNUTSFORD.

The Officer Administering the Government of

HONGKONG.

Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation between Her Majesty and the United States of Mexico.

Signed at Mexico, November 27, 1888.

[Ratifications exchanged at Mexico, February 11, 1889.]

HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his Excellency the President of the United States of Mexico, being desirous of maintaining and strengthening friendly relations, and of promoting commercial intercourse between the dominions of Her Britannic Majesty and the territories of the Mexican Republic, have resolved to conclude a Treaty of Friendship, Com- merce, and Navigation, and have named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; Sir Spenser St. John, Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni- potentiary of Her Britannic Majesty in Mexico;

And his Excellency the President of the United States of Mexico, Señor Senador Don Emilio Velasco, ex-Minister Plenipotentiary of Mexico in France, &c., &c., &c.;

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

ARTICLE I.

There shall be perfect peace and sincere friendship between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States of Mexico. The High Contracting Parties shall use their best endeavours that this friendship and good understanding may be constantly and perpetually maintained.

ARTICLE II.

The Contracting Parties agree that, in all matters relating to commerce and navigation, any pri- vilege, favour, or immunity whatever, which either Contracting Party has actually granted, or may hereafter grant, to, the subjects or citizens of any other State, shall be extended immediately and unconditionally to the subjects or citizens of the other Contracting Party, it being their intention that the trade and navigation of each country shall be placed, in all respects, by the other on the footing of the most favoured nation.

ARTICLE III.

The produce and manufactures of the dominions and possessions of Her Britannic Majesty which are imported into the United States of Mexico, and the produce and manufactures of Mexico which are imported into the dominions and possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, whether intended for con- sumption, warehousing, re-exportation, or transit, shall be treated in the same manner as, and, in particular, shall be subjected to no higher or other duties, whether general, municipal, or local, than the produce, manufactures, and goods of any third country the most favoured in this respect. No other or higher duties shall be levied in Mexico on the exportation of any goods to the dominions and possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, or in the dominions and possessions of Her Britannic Majesty on the exportation of any goods to Mexico, than may be levied on the exportation of the like goods to any third country the most favoured in this respect.