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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH SEPTEMBER, 1886. 837
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 354.
The following Circular Despatch, accompanying a copy of a Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation between Her Majesty and the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th September, 1886.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary,
CIRCULAR (2).
DOWNING STREET,
21st July, 1886.
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 Oriental Republic of the Uruguay, signed at Monte Video on the 13th of November, 1885, the ratifications of which were exchanged at Monte Video on the 22nd of May last.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
The Officer Administering the Government of
HONGKONG.
GRANVILLE.
TREATY of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation between Her Majesty and the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay.
Signed at Monte Video, November 13, 1885.
[Ratifications exchanged, at Monte Video, May 22, 1886.]
HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his Excellency the President of the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay, being desirous of maintaining and strengthen- ing friendly relations, and of promoting commercial intercourse between the dominions of Her Britannic Majesty and the territories of the 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, Wm. Gifford Palgrave, Esq., Minister Resident in the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay;
And His Excellency the President of the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay, His Excellency Dr. Manuel Herrera y Obes, his Minister and Secretary of State for the Department of Foreing Affairs;
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.
The High Contracting Parties agree that, in all matters relating to commerce and navigation, any privilege, 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 uncon- ditionally 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 II.
The produce and manufactures of, as well as all goods coming from, the dominions and possessions ofer Britannic Majesty, which are imported into Uruguay, and the produce and manufactures of, as well as all goods coming from Uruguay, which are imported into the dominions and possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, whether intended for consumption, 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 Uruguay on the expor- tation 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 Uruguay, than may be levied on the exportation of the like goods to any third country the most favoured in this respect.
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