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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 13TH JANUARY, 1877.

ARTIKEL IX. "De twee postadministratiën stellen, by onderling vinden, err in overeenstemming met de alsdan ende schikkingen, de voorwaarden vast om- nt de uitwisseling, in opene of in gesloten evenmalen, van de voor andere vreemde landen temde of daarvan afkomstige correspondentie, voor hare wederkeerige tússchenkomst dien-

ARTIKEL X.

De ambtelyke briefwisseling tússchen de twee batadministratiën geschiedt port-vrÿ.

ARTIKEL XI.

De twee postadministratiën treffen in gemeen overleg de noodige schikkingen voor de úitvvering

overeenkomst.

ARTIKEL XII.

Deze overeenkomst treedt in werking op den 1sten Janúary, 1877.

Her vorkonde waar van Húnne Excellentiën de overneúr Generaal van Nederlandsch-Indië en Gouverneur van Hongkong de tegenwoordige ereenkomst hebben onderteekend, en er hún regel op hebben gezet.

Gedaan te Batavia den

dag van in het jaar één dúizend acht honderd zes en zeventig.

(Sd.) VAN LAusherg.

ARTICLE IX.

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The two postal departments shall fix by mutual agreement, and in conformity with the arrange- ments in force at the time, the conditions upon which they shall respectively exchange in open or closed mails torrespondence from or destined to other foreign countries and for which their re- ciprocal intervention is available.

ARTICLE X.

Official correspondence between the two postal departments shall be free of postage.

ARTICLE XI.

The two postal departments shall by mutual consent establish regulations for carrying this agreement into effect.

ARTICLE XII.

This convention shall come into effect on the 1st January, 1877.

In witness whereof, their Excellencies the Governor General of Netherlands-India and the Governor of Hongkong have signed the present convention and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms.

Done at Hongkong the Twenty-ninth day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.

(Sd.) A. E. KENNEDY,

Governor.

(,,) J. GARDINER AUSTIN,

Colonial Secretary.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following copies of the Customs Regulations for the Port of Quin-Hon in Annam, and of the Tide Tables for the year 1877 of Lower Conchin-China, are published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 8th January, 1877.

J. GARDINER AUSTIN,

Colonial Secretary.

DOUANES.

SERVICE DE QUIN-HON.

RÈGLEMENT GÉNÉRAL DES DOUANES

A L'USAGE DES NAVIRES.

ARTICLE PREMIER.

Le port de Quin-hon ouvert au commerce étranger est limité:

Au sud par une ligne tirée de l'extrémité sud du cap San-ho, à l'extrémité nord de la plage de ble de Vong-dua.

A l'est par le méridien de la vigie de Huong-mai.

Au nord par une ligne menée de l'extrémité nord-ouest de la presqu'ile de Huong-mai, près des pêcheries de crevettes, à la limite ouest des cales de construction.