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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH AUGUST, 1886.
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GOVERNMEN
NOTIFICATION.—No. 310.
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The following Circular Despatch, accompanying a copy of a Treaty of Friendship, Commet the mc and Navigation, between Her Majesty and the Republic of Paraguay, is published for general inform export
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FREDERICK STEWART
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Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 14th August, 1886.
CIRCULAR (2).
DOWNING STREET,
2nd July, 1
SIR,-I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the Colony under your Gover a copy of a Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation, between Her Majesty and the Re of Paraguay, signed at Assumption on the 16th of October, 1884, the Ratifications of hiel exchanged at Buenos Ayres on the 10th of May last.
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TREATY of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation between Her
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HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his Excellenc the President of the Republic of Paraguay, being desirous of maintaining and strengthening the relation b of good understanding which at present subsist between them; and of promoting commercial intercourse! between the dominions of Her Britannic Majesty and the territories of the Republic, have resolved in the conclude a Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation, and have named as their Plenipotentiaries to ac that is to say:
acqui Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Honourab) testai Edmund John Monson, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Her Majesty's Ministe the c Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Paraguay;
in the And His Excellency the President of the Republic of Paraguay, his Excellency Don José Segundary Decoud, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Isabel the Catholic, his Minister Secretary of State in th impo Department of Foreign Affairs;
citize Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and du if sol form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles :-
ARTICLE I.
There shall be perfect peace and sincere friendship between the United Kingdom of Grand and Ireland and the Republic of Paraguay, and between the subjects and citizens of both without exception of persons or of places. The High Contracting Parties shall use their deavours that this friendship and good understanding may be constantly and perpetually main
ARTICLE II.
The Contracting Parties agree that, in all matters relating to commerce and navigati privilege, favour, or immunity whatever which either Contracting Party has actually granted hereafter grant to the subjects or citizens of any other State shall be extended immediately and ditionally to the subjects or citizens of the other Contracting Party; it being their intention th trade and navigation of each country shall be placed, in all respects, by the other on the footing most favoured nation.
ARTICLE III.
The produce and manufactures of, as well as all goods coming from, the dominicas and posse of Her Britannic Majesty, which are imported into Paraguay, and the produce and manufactures well as goods coming from Paraguay, which are imported into the dominions and Britannic Majesty, whether intended for consumption, warehousing, re-exportation, or transit, si treated in the same manner as, and, in particular, shall be subjected to no higher or other
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