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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14тя AUGUST, 1886. 759
ARTICLE XIV.
For the better security of commerce between the subjects of Her Britannic Majesty and the itizens of the Republic of Paraguay, it is agreed that if at any time any interruption of friendly atercourse, or any rupture, should unfortunately take place between the two Contracting Parties, the ubjects or citizens of either of the said Contracting Parties who may be established in the dominions or territories of the other, in the exercise of any trade or special employment, shall have the privilege ofy remaining and continuing such trade or employment therein, without any manner of interruption, n full enjoyment of their libey and property, so long as they behave peacefully and commit no offence against the laws; and tIr goods, property, and effects, of whatever description they may be, whether in their own custody or intrusted to individuals or to the State, shall not be liable to seizure or sequestration, or to any other charges or demands than those which may be made upon the like goods, property, and effects belonging to native subjects or citizens. Should they, however, prefer to eave the country, they shall be allowed to make arrangements for the safe keeping of their goods, property, and effects, or to dispose of them, and to liquidate their accounts; and a safe-conduct shall be given them to embark at the ports which they shall themselves select.
ARTICLE XV.
The stipulations of the present Treaty shall be applicable to all the Colonies and foreign posses- sions of Her Britannic Majesty, so far as the laws permit, excepting to those hereinafter named, that
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The Dominion of Canada.
Newfoundland.
New South Wales.
Victoria.
South Australia.
Western Australia.
Tasmania.
Queensland.
New Zealand. The Cape. Natal.
Provided always that the stipulations of the present Treaty shall be made applicable to any of he above-named Colonies or foreign possessions on whose behalf notice to that effect shall have been riven by Her Britannic Majesty's Representative in Paraguay to the Paraguayan Minister for Foreign Affairs within two years from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the present Treaty.
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ARTICLE XVI.
The present Treaty shall continue in force during ten years, counted from the day of the exchange of the ratifications; and in case neither of the two Contracting Parties shall have given notice twelve nonths before the expiration of the said period of ten years of their intention of terminating the present Treaty, it shall remain in force until the expiration of one year from the day on which either of the Contracting Parties shall have given such notice.
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ARTICLE XVII.
The present Treaty shall be ratified by Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and by his Excellency the President of the Republic of Paraguay, and the ratifications shall be exchanged it Assumption or at Buenos Ayres as soon as possible.
In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same and have affixed thereto he seals of their arms.
Done at Assumption on the sixteenth day of October, in the year of Our Lord one thousand ight hundred and eighty-four.
Protocol.
(L.S.)
EDMUND MONSON.
(L.S.)
JOSÉ S. DECOUD.
I proceeding to the signature this day of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation between Her Britannic Majesty and the Republic of Paraguay, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries of bee High Contracting Parties declare that the stipulations of Article III of the said Treaty shall not be understood to confer upon the subjects of Her Britannic Majesty the exceptional privileges of free rade reserved by Article XIII of the Treaty of the 7th June, 1883, between the Republic of Paraguay ind the Emperor of Brazil in favour of the Province of Matto-Grosso. The undersigned Pleni- potentiaries further declare that the stipulations of Articles II and IV of the Treaty now concluded hall be understood to open the free navigation of the Rivers Paraguay and Paraná, including the coasting-trade, to British vessels, but that the said stipulations shall not be understood to confer upon
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