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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH OCTOBER, 1886.

TREASURY TO THE CUSTOMS.

TREASURY CHAMBERS,

11th August, 1886.

GENTLEMEN,

I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to transmit to you herewith a copy of a letter from the Foreign Office, stating that the 15th instant has been fixed as the date on which the Commercial Convention of the 26th of April last, between Great Britain and Spain, shall come into operation in the United Kingdom and in the Peninsula.

I am desired at the same time to call your attention to the provisions of section 1 of the Customs Amendment Act, 1886 (49 & 50 Vic., cap. 41), and I am to state that my Lords fix the 15th instant as the day on which the duties of Customs now payable on wine shall cease, and in lieu thereof shall be charged and paid the duties specified in the said section.

I am to request that you will forthwith take such steps as may be necessary to give effect to this decision.

The Commissioners of Customs.

Copy.

Inc.

in Madrid, No. 122.

Commercial.

I am, &c.,

(Sd.)

R. E. WELBY.

!

FOREIGN OFFICE TO COLONIAL OFFICE.

FOREIGN OFFICE,

SIR,

19th August, 1886.

I am directed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to transmit to you, to be laid before Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, the accompanying copy of a Royal Decree as marked in the margin, respecting the dates of the coming into force in Spain and in the Spanish Colonies of the Commercial Convention between Great Britain and Spain.

I am,

&c.,

(Sd.)

JAMES FERGUSSON.

The Under-Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

Translation.

MINISTRY OF STATE-TRADE DEPARTMENT.

In virtue of the rights retained by the Governments of Spain and Great Britain to fix the date when the Convention with Great Britain-published in the Gazette of the 6th instant-is to be put into force, the two Governments have ageed that the reduced tariffs are to be applied in the Custom Houses of the Peninsula and adjoining islands, and in the United Kingdom, on the 15th of the present month of August.

In the Colonies its application will commence on the 15th of October next. The Trade Department publishes this agreement for general information.