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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH AUGUST, 1882.

ARTICLE VI.

The Montenegrin Government opens to the produce and manufactures of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and to the produce and manufactures of British Colonies and foreign possessions, all its ports, harbours, and all landing places, or quays on its rivers or other waters, where merchandize is permitted to be landed, and all custom-houses, free of all custom-house duties and charges, but without prejudice to the stipulations of Articles III, VIII, and XII of this present Treaty.

ARTICLE VII.

If one of the Contracting Parties shall impose an excise tax, that is to say, an inland duty, upon any article of home production or manufacture, an equivalent compensatory duty may be imposed on articles of the same description on their importation from the territories of the other Power, provided that the said equivalent duty is levied on like articles on their importation from all foreign countries.

In the event of the reduction or suppression of excise taxes-that is to say, inland duties—a corresponding reduction or suppression shall at the same time be made in the equivalent compensatory duty on manufactures of British or Montenegrin origin, as the case may be.

ARTICLE VIII.

Every favour or immunity which has been, or may hereafter be, granted by one of the Contracting Parties to the subjects or commerce of a third Power, shall be granted simultaneously and uncondion- ally to the other, except as regards such special facilities as have been, or may hereafter be, conceded on the part of Montenegro to the neighbouring States with respect to the local traffic between their conterminous frontier districts.

ARTICLE IX.

British subjects in Montenegro, and Montenegrin subjects in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, shall enjoy the same rights as natives, or as are now granted, or may hereafter be granted, to the subjects of any third Power the most favoured in this respect, in everything relating to the property in trade-marks, or trade-labels or tickets, as well as in patterns or designs for manufactures.

It is understood that any person who desires to obtain the aforesaid protection must fulfil the formalities required by the laws of the respective countries.

ARTICLE X.

Each of the Contracting Parties may appoint Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, Pro- Consuls, and Consular Agents to reside respectively in the towns and ports of the Contracting Parties where the Consular officers of these different classes of the most favoured nation have received or may receive authorization to reside. Such Consular Officers, however, shall not enter upon their functions until after they shall have been approved and admitted in the usual form by the Government to which they are sent. They shall exercise whatever functions, and enjoy whatever privileges, exemptions, and immunities, are or may hereafter be, granted there to Consular Officers of the most favoured nation. ARTICLE XI.

It is agreed that, as regards freights and all other facilities, British goods conveyed over Monte- negrin railways or publicly-constructed high roads, and Montenegrin goods conveyed over_British railways, shall be treated in exactly the same manner as the goods of any other nation the most favoured in that respect.

ARTICLE XII.

British ships and their cargoes shall in Montenegro, and Montenegrin ships and their cargoes in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, from whatever place arriving, and whatever may be the place of origin or destination of their cargoes, shall be treated in every respect as national ships and their cargoes.

The preceding stipulation applies to local treatment, dues, and charges in the ports, basins, docks, roadsteads, harbours, and rivers of the two countries, pilotage, and generally to all matters connected with navigation, without prejudice to the Rules and Regulations of the Maritime and Sanitary Police and of the Maritime Code in force in Montenegro.

Every favour or exemption in these respects, or any other privilege in matters of navigation, which either of the Contracting Parties shall grant to a third Power shall be extended immediately and unconditionally to the other Party.

All vessels which, according to British law, are to be deemed British vessels, and all vessels which, according to the laws in force in Montenegro, are to be deemed Montenegrin vessels, shall, for the purposes of this Treaty, be respectively deemed British or Montenegrin vessels.

ARTICLE XIII.

The Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, Pro-Consuls, and Consular Agents of each of the Contracting Parties residing in the dominions and possessions of the other shall receive from the local authorities such assistance as can by law be given to them for the recovery of deserters, not being slaves, from the merchant-vessels of their respective countries.