THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH AUGUST, 1886.
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hether general, municipal, or local, than the produce, manufactures, and goods of any third country ner he most favoured in this respect. No other or higher duties shall be levied in Paraguay on the orm exportation of any goods to the dominions and possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, or in the domi- inions and possessions of Her Britannic Majes, on the exportation of any goods to Paraguay than may be levied on the exportation of the line goods to any third country the most favoured in this
Neither of the Contracting Parties shall establish a prohibition of importation, exportation, or it against the other which shall not, under like circumstances, be applicable to any third country most favoured in this respect.
In like manner, in all that relates to local dues, customs formalities, brokerage, patterns or samples duced by commercial travellers, and all other matters connected with trade, British subjects in guay, and Paraguayan citizens in the dominions and possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, shall
most-favoured-nation treatment.
ARTICLE IV.
British ships and their cargoes shall, in Paraguay, and Paraguayan vessels and their cargoes shall, e dominions and possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, from whatever place arriving and what- ever may be the place of origin or destination of their cargoes, be treated in every respect as national ships and their cargoes.
The preceding stipulation applies to local treatment, dues, and charges in the ports, basins, docks, roadsteads, harbours, and rivers of the two countries, pilotage, and generally to all matters
nected with navigation.
Every favour or exemption in these respects, or any other privilege in matters of navigation, hich either of the Contracting Parties shall grant to a third Power shall be extended immediately and
conditionally to the other Party.
All vessels which according to British law are to be deemed British vessels, and all vessels which ccording to the law of Paraguay are to be deemed Paraguayan vessels, shall, for the purposes of this Treaty, be respectively deemed British or Paraguayan vessels.
ARTICLE V.
The subjects of citizens of each of the Contracting Parties shall have, in the dominions and pos- sessions of the other, the same rights as natives, or as subjects or citizens of the most favoured nation, in regard to patents for inventions, trade-marks, and designs, upon fulfilment of the formalities prescri- Fend
bed by law.
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ARTICLE VI.
our The subjects or citizens of each of the Contracting Parties who reside permanently or temporarily ed t in the dominions or possessions of the other shall be at full liberty to exercise civil rights, and therefore aries to acquire, possess, and dispose of every description of property, movable and immovable. They may acquire and transmit the same to others, whether by purchase, sale, donation, exchange, marriage, rabl testament, succession ab intestato, and in any other manner, under the same conditions as natives of Liste the country. Their heirs may succeed to and take possession, of it, either in person or by procurators,
in the same manner and in the same legal forms as natives of the country. und In none of these respects shall they pay upon the value of such property any other or higher ath impost, duty, or charge than is payable by natives of the country. In every case the subjects or citizens of the Contracting Parties shall be permitted to export their property, or the proceeds thereof d du if sold, freely and without being subjected on such exportation to pay any duty different from that to
which natives of the country are liable under similar circumstances.
ARTICLE VII.
The dwellings, manufactories, warehouses, and shops of subjects or citizens of each of the Con- eting Parties in the dominions and possessions of the other, and all premises appertaining thereto stined for purposes of residence or commerce, shall be respected.
It shall not be allowable to proceed to make a search of, or a domiciliary visit to, such dwellings premises, or to examine or inspect books, papers, or accounts, except under the conditions and th the forms prescribed by the laws for natives of the country.
The subjects or citizens of each of the two Contracting Parties in the dominions and possessions the other shall have free access to the Courts of Justice for the prosecution and defence of their hts, whout other conditions, restrictions, or taxes beyond those imposed on native subjects or
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shall, like them, be at liberty to employ, in all causes, their advocates, attorneys, or agents the persons admitted to the exercise of those professions according to the laws of the
ARTICLE VIII:
of each of the Contracting Parties in the dominions and possessions of the other shall billeting and from all compulsory military service whatever, whether in the army, onlard or militia. They shall likewise be exempted from all contributions, whether eguniary or a kind, imposed as a compensation for billeting and for personal service, and finally from forced loans and military exactions or requisitions of any kind.
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