THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH SEPTEMBER, 1883. 759%
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 311.
The following Circular despatch, accompanying a copy of a Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Her Majesty and the King of Italy, signed on the 15th of June, is published for general information.
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By Command,
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
for the Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th September, 1883.
DOWNING STREET, 21st July, 1883.
SIR,-I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the Colony under your Government, a copy of a Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Her Majesty and the King of Italy, signed on the 15th of June.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
The Officer Administering the Government of
HONGKONG.
DERBY.
Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Her Majesty and the King of Italy. Signed at Rome, June 15, 1883.
[Ratifications exchanged at Rome, June 30, 1883.]
HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, and His Majesty the King of Italy, being desirous to extend and facilitate the relations of commerce between their respective subjects and dominions, have determined to conclude a new Treaty with this object, and they have appointed their respective Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India. his Excellency the Right Honourable Sir AUGUSTUS BERKELEY PAGET, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, a Member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and her Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the King of Italy;
And His Majesty the King of Italy, his Excellency Signor PASQUALE STANISLAO MANCINI, Grand . Cross and Grand Cordon of the Order of SS. Maurice and Lazarus and of the Crown of Italy, Knight of the Order of Civil Merit of Savoy, &c; &c., Minister of State, Deputy of the National Parliament, and His Minister Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs;
Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles:
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ARTICLE I.
There shall be between the dominions and possessions of the two High Contracting Parties reciprocal freedom of commerce and navigation. The subjects.of each of the two Parties shall have liberty freely to come, with their ships and cargoes, to all places, ports, and rivers in the dominions and possessions of the other to which native subjects generally are or may be permitted to come, and shall enjoy, respectively, the same rights, privileges, liberties, favours, immunities, and exemptions in matters of commerce and navigation which are or may be enjoyed by native subjects, without having to pay any tax or inpost greater than those paid by the same, and they shall be subject to the laws and regulations in force.
ARTICLE II.
No other or higher duties shall be imposed on the importation into the dominions and possessions of Her Britannic Majesty of any article the produce or manufacture of the dominions and possessions of His Majesty the King of Italy, from whatever place arriving, and no other or higher duties shall be imposed on the importation into the dominions and possessions of His Majesty the King of Italy of any article the produce or manufacture of Her Britannic Majesty's dominions and possessions, from whatever place arriving, than on articles produced or manufactured in any other foreign country; nor shall any prohibition be maintained or imposed on the importation of any article the produce or
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