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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 8TH JANUARY, 1876.

ARTICLE XL.

In order that the two Contracting Parties may have the opportunity of hereafter treating and agreeing upon such other arrangements as may tend still further to the improvement of their mutual intercourse, and to the advancement of the interests of their respective people, it is agreed that at any time after the expiration of seven years from the date of the present Convention of Commerce and Navigation, either of the High Contracting Parties shall have the right to call upon the other to enter upon a revision of the same; but until such revision shall have been accomplished by common consent, and a new Convention shall have been concluded and put into operation, the present Convention shall continue and remain in full force and effect.

ARTICLE XLI.

If any doubt should arise with regard to the interpretation or the application of any of the stipu- lations of the present Convention, it is agreed that in Tunis the interpretation the most favourable to British subjects shall be given, and in Her Majesty's dominions that most favourable to Tunisians. It is not pretended by any of the foregoing Articles to stipulate for more than the plain and fair construction of the terms employed, nor to preclude in any manner the Tunisian Government from the exercise of its rights of internal Administration where the exercise of those rights does not evi- dently infringe upon the privileges accorded by the present Convention to British subjects or British

commerce.

ARTICLE XLII.

The stipulations of the present Convention shall come into immediate operation and shall be subs- tituted for the stipulations of all preceding Treaties between Great Britain and Tunis, with the excep- tion of the Convention of the 10th of October, 1863, already referred to in Article XVII preceding, which is renewed and confirmed.

This Convention has been written in triplicate, consisting in forty-two Articles, besides the intro- duction, and contained in the preceding forty-three pages, to be signed by both parties, and to be exe- cuted in the manner explained and clearly set forth in its several provisions, having for object the duration, confirmation, and maintenance of amity between them.

Dated Monday, the sixteenth day of Gumad-el-Thany, 1292 of the Hegira, corresponding to the nineteenth of July, 1875,

No. 5.

(L.S.)

(L.S.)

RICHARD WOOD.

MUHAMMAD AS-SADIG PASHA,

Bey.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following copy of a letter from the Board of Trade, enclosing a copy of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1875, is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 6th January, 1876.

(Copy.)

J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.

The Board of Trade to the Colonial Office.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL GARDENS,

11th August, 1875.

SIR,-I am directed by the Board of Trade to enclose a copy of "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1875," and to request your attention to the 3rd Section of this Act relating to the ripe of grain and other seeds or muts in British Ships.

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