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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH OCTOBER, 1880.
the same rights as natives, or as arc 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 and trade labels or tickets, as well as n patterns and designs for manufacturers. 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-Con- suls, and Consular Agents to reside respectively in towns and ports in the territories of the other Power. 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 immu- nities 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 Servian railways, and Servian 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 Servia, and Servian vessels and their cargoes shall, in the territories, including the Colonies and foreign pos- sessions, of Her Britannic Majesty, from whatever place arriving, and whatever may be the place of origin or destination of their cargoes, be treated in every respect as national ships and their cargoes.
The preceding stipulation applies to local treat- ment, dues, and charges in the ports, basins, docks, roadsteads, harbours, and rivers of the two coun- tries, pilotage, and generally to all matters con- nected with navigation.
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, ary to be deemed British vessels, and all vessels which, according to Servian law, are to be deemed Servian vessels, shall, for the purposes of this Treaty, s respectively deemed British or Servian vessels.
ARTICLE XIII.
In consideration of the present Treaty, and as contemplated by the XXXVIIth Article of the Treaty concluded at Berlin on the 13th July, 1878. Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland consents to surrender the privileges and immunities hitherto enjoyed by her subjects in Servia, in virtue of the Capitulations between Great Britain and the Ottoman Empire as agreed upon, augmented, and altered at different periods, and finally confirmed by the Treaty of Peace concluded at the Dardanelles on the 5th January, 1809.
Provided always, and it is hereby expressly agreed, that the said Capitulations shall, as regards all judicial matters, except those affecting real estate in Servia, remain in full force as far as they concern the mutual relations between British sub- jects and the subjects of those other Powers, which, having a right to the privileges and im- munities accorded by the aforesaid Capitulations, shall not have surrendered them.
ARTICLE XIV.
The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged at Belgrade as soon as possible after it shall have been approved by the Servian National Assembly. It shall come into force immediately after the exchange of the ratifica- tions, and shall remain in force for ten years froin that date. In case neither of the two Contracting Parties shall have given notice, twelve months before the expiration of the said period of ten years, of their intention of terminating the present Treaty, it shall remain in force until the expiration of one year from the day on which either of the Contracting⚫ Parties shall have given such notice.
In witness whereof the Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty, and have affixed thereto their seals.
26th January
Executed in duplicate at Nisch, the 7th February, 1880.
(L.S.) G. F. GOULD.
(L.S.)
J. RISTITCH.
Despatch from Mr. Gould, Her Majesty's Minister in Servia, relative to Servian Custom-
Houses for Imports liable to ad valorem Duties.
Mr. Gould to the Marquis of Salisbury.—(Received March 20.)
Nisch, February 7, 1880.
My Lord,
THE 6th Article of the Treaty of Friendship and Commerce concluded this day contains a stipulation reserving to the Servian Government the right, after an understanding with Her Majesty's Legation, to limit the places of entry for goods liable to ad valorem duties. I have, therefore, lost no
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