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THE FRIEND
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AND HONG KONG GAZETTE.
VOL. II. No. 95.
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Hongkong, March, 23rd 1812.
By onter, J. ROBT MORRISON, Acting Segretary and Treasure?
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Is conformity with Instructions from the Right Honorable Lord Stanley, Her Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, the annexed copy of a Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Her Majesty and the Emperor of all the Russias is published for general information, together with Her Majesty's Order in Councingiving öffect to that Treaty,
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By order of His Excellency the Governor and Commander in Chief of Hongkongy &c. &c.
Government House, Victoria, (Hongkong) January 2nd 1844.
RICHARD WOOSNAM.
AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE, The 24th day of February, 1843.
PRESENT
THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.
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WHEREAS by an Act passed in the 50th year of the reign of His Majesty's King George the 3rd intituled. An Act to carry into effect a Convention of Commerce concluded between His Majesty and the United States of America, and a Treaty with the Prince Regent of Portugal," divers provisions were male respecting the duties payable, and the bounties and allowances to be granted "pon the importation and exportation of goods, wares and merchandize into or from the United Kingdom, invessels of the United States and in Portuguese vessels, and also respecting the duties and charges payable upon vessels of the United States and upon Portuguese vessels, and likewise respecting the repayment of certain corporations, bodies politic and corporate, and sundry other- persons, of the amount of the sums of money of which they would be deprived by means of the Act now in recital.
And Whereas by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the 1st & 2nd years of the reign of He present Majesty, intituled AM-Act to amend the Lares of the Customs," after reciting as hereinbefore is recited, and also that subsequently to the enactment of the hereinbefore recited Act, ller Majesty and Her Royal Predecessors had made and concluded with divers Foreign Powers Treaties containing provisions similar to those recited in the said recited Act, and that doubts had arison whether; according to the true construction thereof, the said pecited Act did apply and extend to the Trade and Ship- ping of such other Foreign Powers, and that it was expedient that such doubts should be removed, it is thereby enacted and declared that from and after the ratification of any Treaty theretofore made by Her Majesty or any of Her Royal, Predecessors subsequently to the cactment of the said recited Act, or of any Treaty which might thereafter be made by Her Majesty Her Heirs and Successors with any such Foreign Power? in which Treaty had been or should be contained provisions similar to those contained in the said recited Act, all and every the provisions, clauses, matters and things in the said recited Act contained did and should apply and extend to the Trade and Shipping of such Foreign Powers respectively as fully and effectually to all intents and pur- poses as to the Trade and Shipping of the said United States and of the said Kingdom of Portugal. And by the said Act now in recital it is enacted andTM declared, that the said recited Act did not extend, and should not be construed to extend, to grant-or to confer upon the Trade or Shipping of the said United States or of the said Kingdom of Portugal, or of any other Foreign Power, or to the subjects of such States or Kingdom, or of any such Foreign Power as aforesaid, any other or greater advantages than such as should have been stipulated for and granted to the said United States, the said Kingdom of Portugal, or any such other Foreign Power, by the respective Treaties subsisting and in force between them respectively and Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Succes- sors or Her Royal Predecessors, but that the said recited Act should be so construed and applied as to give full and complete effect to such respective Trea- ties so long as the same shall respectively remain in force, and should provide such and only such indemnity as therein mentioned to such bodies politic and corporate and other persons as were therein mentioned, for such losses as they should respectively sustain by the execution of such respective Treaties.
And for the prevention of uncertainty therein it was enacted by the said Act now in recital, that it should and might be lawful for Her Majesty by any Order or Orders by Her made, with the advice of Her Privy Council, and published in the London Gazette from time to time, to declare what are the Foreign Powers with which any such Treaty or Treaties as aforesaid is or are subsisting, and that the Act now in recital and the said recited Act should - apply, and should be deemed from the time of the ratification of any such Treaties to have been applicable to the Trade and Stripping of such Foreig Countries as should be so mentioned in any such Order or Orders in Council as aforesaid so long as any such Order or Orders shall continue unrevoked and no longer.
Now therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, doth, in pursuance and in excrcise of the power and authority in. Her vested by the Act so passed as aforesaid in the Session of Parliament held in the 1st and 2nd year of Her reign, declare that such a Treaty as in the same. Act is mentioned, containing provisions similar to these contaned in the said recited Act of the 59th year of His Majesty King George the 3rd, is now subsist- ing between Her Majesty and His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, being a Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Her Majesty and the Em- peror of all the Russias, signed on the 11th day of January, in this present year, and the ratifications whereof were exchanged on the 31st day of the same
And the Right Honorable the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly,
month.
TREATY OF COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION
BETWEEN
HER MAJESTY
AND THE
EMPEROR OF ALL THE RUSSIAS.
Signed at St. Petersburgh,-Jamiary 11, 18“.
[Ratifications exchanged at London, January 1, 1843]
WM. L. BATHURST,
"Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by Command of Her Majesty, 1843.
Au nom de la Tres Saints of Indivisible Trinité.
In the name of the Most Holy and Indivisible Trinity, Hen Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Sa Majesté la Reine du Royaume Uni de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande, and His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, being desirous of extending, in- et Sa Majesté l'Empereur de toutes les Russias, animés du désir d'étendre, creasing, and consolidating the commercial relations between their respective domi- d'accroître, et de consolider les relations commerciales entre leurs Etats et pos- nions and possessions, and of thereby procuring all possible facilities and encourage- sessions respectifs, el do procurer par là toutes les facilités et tous les cucour- ments for those of their subjects who partake in those relations; and being persuaded agemens possibles à coux de leurs sujets qui out part à ces relations; persuadés that nothing can more contribute to the accomplishment of their mutual wishes in que rien ne saurait contribuer davantage à l'accomplissement de leurs souhaits this respect, than the reciprocal abolition of the differential and countervailing duties mutuels à cet égard, que l'abolition réciproque des droits différentiels et retorsils which are at present exacted and evied on the vessels or produce of either of the two qui actuellement sont exigés et prélevés sur les vaisseaux ou les produits de l'un States in the ports of the other, have named as their Plompotentiaries for the condes deux Etats dans les ports de l'autre unt nommé leurs Plenipotentiaires pour clusion of a Treaty to this effect, that is to say:
conclure un Traité à cet effet savoir:
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, **** Su Majesté la Reine du Royaume Uni de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande, the Right Flonourable Charles Baron Stuart de Rothsay in the Isle of Bute, Peer of || le Trés Honorable Churles Baron Stuart de Rothsay dans l'ile de Bute, Pair dy Parliament, Member of the Privy Council, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Parlement,
Honourable Order of the Bath, and of the ancient Order of the Tower and Sword of Ordre lembre du Conseil Prive, Chevalier Grand Croix du Trés Honorable
l'ortugal, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias
And His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russins, the Sicur Charles Robert Count Nesselrode, this Privy Councillor, Vice-Chancellor, Member of the Council of the Empiro, Knight of the Orders of Russia, and of several others; and the Sieur Georgo Count Cancrine, General of Infantry, Minister of Finance, Member of the Council of the Empire, Knight of the Orders of Russia, and of several others :
Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles : ARTICLE 1.
There shall be reciprocal freedom of Navigation and Commerce for the chips and subjects of the two High Contracting Powers, in all parts of their respective dominions where Navigation and Commerce are at present allowed, or may hereafter be allowed to the ships and subjects of any other nation,
et de l'antique Ordre de da Tour et de l'Epée du Portugal, Am- bassadeur Extraordinaire et Plénipotentialre pres Sa Majesté l'Empereur de toutes les Russies;
Et Sa Majesté l'Empereur de toutes les Russies, le Sieur Charles Robert Comte de Nesselrode, Son Conseiller Prive actuel, Vice-Chancellor, Membre du Conseil de l'Empire, Chevalier des Ordres de Russie, et de plusieurs autres”; et le Sicur Georges Comte de Cancrine, Général d'Infanterie, Ministre des fi- rances, Membre du Conseil de l'Empire, Chevalier des Ordres de Russie, et de plusieurs autres:0
Lesquels, après s'être communiqué leurs pleins pouvoirs rospectifs, trouvés en bonne et due forme, ont arrêté et conclu les Articles suivans:
ARTICLE 1.
Il y aura réciproquement liberte de Navigation et de Commerce pour les navires et sujets les deux Hautes Puissances Contractentes dans toutes les part- ies de leurs Etats respectifs où la Navigation et le Commerce sont permis à- present, ou seront permis à l'avenir, aux sujets et naviresale quelque autre nation.
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