THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH AUGUST, 1884.
ADDITIONAL ARTICLE.
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The stipulations of the Convention concluded under to-day's date for the protection of submarine cables shall be applicable, in conformity with Article I, to the Colonies and possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, with the exception of those hereinafter mentioned, namely:--
Canada Newfoundland. The Cape.. Natal.
New South Wales.
Victoria.
Queensland.
Tasmania..
South Australia.
Western Australia. New Zealand.
Provided always that the stipulations of the said Convention shall be applicable to any of the love-named Colonies or possessions on whose behalf notice to that effect shall have been given by Her Britannic Majesty's Representative at Paris to the French Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Each of the above-named Colonies or possessions which may have acceded to the said Convention shall be at liberty to withdraw from it in the same manner as the Powers parties to it. In the event of any of the said Colonies or possessions desiring to withdraw from the Convention, a notification to that effect shall be made by Her Britannic Majesty's Representative at Paris to the French Minister For Foreign Affairs.
(Signed)
(L.S.)
LYONS.
(L.S.)
HOHENLOHE.
(L.S.)
M. BALCARCE.
(L.S.)
LADISLAS, Comte HOYOS.
(L.S.)
BEYENS.
(L.S.)
(Signed).
LEOPOLD
LEOPOLD ORBAN.
(L.S.)
Baron D'ITAJUBA.
(L.S.)
LEON SOMZEE.
(L.S.)
MOLTKE-HVITFELDT.
(L.S.)
EMANUEL DE ALMEDA.
(L.S.)
MANUEL SILVELA.
(L.S.)
L. P. MORTON.
(L.S.)
HENRY VIGNAUD.
(L.S.).
JOSÉ G. TRIANA.
(L.S.)
JULES FERRY.
(L.S.)
A. COCHERY.
(L.S.).
CRISANTO MEDINA.
(L.S.)
MAUROCORDATO.
(L.S.)
L. L. MENABREA.
(L.S.)
ESSAD.
(L.S.)
Baron de ZUYLEN DE NYEVELT.
(L.S.)
NAZARE AGA.
(L.S.)
F. D'AZEVEDO..
(L.S.)
ODOBESCO.
(L.S.)
Prince ORLOFF.
(L.S.)
J. M. TORRÈS-CAÏCEDO.
(L.S.)
J. MARINOVITCH.
(L.S.)
G. SIBBERN.
(L.S.)
JUAN J. DIAZ.
Inclosure 2.
Procès-Verbal de Signature.-(Vendredi, le 14 Mars, 1884)
(Translation.)
3. having communicated their full powers; the Plenipotentiaries collated the texts of the which had been prepared in a number equal to that of the Contracting States, and all ts having been found in good and proper form, the Plenipotentiaries affixed thereto
and the seal of their arms.
the Convention, his Excellency Lord Lyons made the following declaration in the
rument:
dy's Government takes Article XV to mean that in time of war, a belligerent, who the Convention, will be free to act, with respect to submarine cables, as if the Convention
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