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64 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD MARCII, 1861.

Affidavits made in British Dominions be- fore whom to be sworn.

Portion of section

XI. Afidavits Declarations and Affirmations sworn made and taken in any Place out of the Colony of Hongkong under the Dominion of Her Majesty before any Court, Judge, Notary Public, or Person lawfully authorised to administer Oaths in such Place may be used in the said Court in its Probate Jurisdiction. And all Officers of the said Court shall take judicial Notice of the Seal or Signature, as the case may be, of any such Court, Judge, Notary Public, or Person which shall be attached, suspended, or subscribed to any such Affidavit, Declaration, or Affirmation— or to any other Document.

II. All of Section XV. of Ordinance No. 8 of 1860 from the words in the seventh 15 of No. 8 of 1860 to line "and all the" to the End inclusive shall be struck out.

be struck out.

Provision for Re-

No. 8 of 1860.

III. In every reprinted Copy of Ordinance No. 8 of 1860 the Amendments herein- prints of Ordinance before specified in respect of the same shall be made by the Printer before publishing

the same; and it shall not be afterwards necessary to print or reprint this Ordinance.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

No. 26.

this 23rd Day of March, 1861.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The subjoined Copy of the First Supplementary Convention to the Treaty of Commerce with France of the 23rd January, 1860, is published for general information.

By Order,

W. T. MERCER,

Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 18th March, 1861.

CONVENTION BETWEEN HER MAJESTY AND THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH,

SUPPLEMENTARY TO THE TREATY OF COMMERCE OF JANUARY 23rd, 1860,

WITH A TARIFF ANNEXED THERETO.

SIGNED AT PARIS, OCTOBER 12TMп, 1863.

[RATIFICATIONS exchanged at Paris, October 25TH, 1880.] Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the Emperor of the French, desiring to ensure the ex- ccution of the Treaty of Commerce concluced be- tween them on the 23rd of January, 1860, within the limits and in the manner contemplated by the Second Additional Article to that Treaty, have resolved to negotiate a first complementary arran- gement in order to determine the specific or ad valorem duties which shall be imposed upon the goods of British origin and manufacture enumerat ed in the said Treaty, when imported into France; and they have for that purpose named as their plenipotentiaries, that is to say:

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honour- able Heury Richard Charles, Earl Cowley, Viscount Dangan, Baron Cowley, a Peer of the United Kingdom, a Member of Her Britanic Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Her said Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipontentiary to His Majesty the Emperor of the French; and Richard Cobden, Esquire, a Member of the British Parliament; ̧

Sa Majesté la Reine du Royaume Uni de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande, et Sa Majesté P'Empereur des Français, désirant assurer l'exécu- tion du Traité de Commerce conclu entre elles le 23 Janvier, 1860, dans les limites et de la manière prévues par le deuxième Article Additionnel à ce inème Traité, ont résolu de négocier un premier arrangement complémentaire pour déterminer les droits spécifiques ou à la valeur qui devront gréver, à leur importation en France, les marchandises d'origine ou de manufacture Britanniques énu- mérés dans le dit Traité, et ont, à cet effet, nommé pour leurs Plénipotentiaires, savoir:

Sa Majesté la Reine du Royaume Uni de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande, le Très Honorable Henry Richard Charles, Comte Cowley, Vicomte Dangan, Baron Cowley, Pair du Royaume Uni, Membre du Très Honorable Conseil Privé de Sa Majesté Britannique, Chevalier Grand-Croix du Tres Honorable Ordre du Bain, Ambassadeur Extraordinaire et Plénipotentiare de Sa dite Ma- jesté près Sa Majesté l'Empereur des Français; et M. Richard Cobden, Ecuyer, Membre du Parle- ment Britannique;

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