cable to all the Colonies and foreign possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, excepting to those hereinafter named, that is to say, except to: India. The Dominion of Canada. Newfoundland. The Cape of Good Hope. Natal. New South Wales. Victoria. Queensland. Tasmania. South Australia. Western Australia. New Zealand. Provided always that the stipulations of the present Convention shall be made applicable to any of the above-named Colonies or foreign possessions on whose behalf notice to that effect shall have been given by Her Britannic Majesty's Representative at the Court of His Majesty the King of Roumania within one year from the date of the exchange of ratifications of the present Convention. VII. The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Bucharest as soon as possible. It shall come into operation one month after the exchange of ratifications, and shall remain in force until the expiration of one year from the day on which either of the two High Contracting Parties may give notice of its intention to terminate the same. In witness whereof the Undersigned have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms. Done in duplicate at Bucharest, the 20th day of March, in the year 1893. 1st April' (L.S.) CHARLES HARDINGE. (L.S.) AL. LAHOVARI. TREATY of Commerce between Signed at Belgrade, 28 Great Britain and Servia.— [Ratifications exchanged at Belgrade, October, 1893.] HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, and His Majesty the King of Servia, being equally animated with the desire of consolidating their ties of friendship and of developing the commercial relations between the two States, have with this object determined to conclude a Treaty, and have named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say: Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, Edmund Douglas Veitch Fane, Esquire, her Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the King of Servia; And His Majesty the King of Servia, his Excellency M. André Nikolitch, his Minister for Foreign Affairs; Who, after having communicated to each other their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles:ART. I. There shall be full and entire freedom of commerce and navigation between the countries of the High Contracting Parties. The subjects, vessels, and goods, produce of the soil and industry of each of the High Contracting Parties, shall enjoy in the dominions of the other all rights, privileges, immunities, or advantages whatever which are actually enjoyed, or may hereafter be enjoyed, in the said dominions by the subjects, vessels, and goods, produce of the soil and industry of the most favoured nation. II. All articles, produce of the soil or industry of Great Britain and Ireland, which shall be imported into Servia, and all articles, produce of the soil or industry of Servia, which shall be imported into Great Britain and Ireland, whether destined for consumption, warehousing, re-exportation, or transit, shall be subjected as long as this Treaty holds good to the same treatment as and, especially, shall be liable to no higher or other duties than the produce or goods of the most favoured nation. No higher or other duties shall be levied in Great Britain and Ireland on the exportation of goods to Servia, or in Servia on the exportation of goods to Great Britain and Ireland, than may be levied on the exportation of the like goods to the country the most favoured in this respect. Each of the High Contracting Parties therefore undertakes that the other shall enjoy immediately and unconditionally every favour, privilege, or reduction of duties which has been already granted, or may be granted hereafter, in the above-named respects to a third Power. Goods of all kinds coming from or proceeding to the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties shall be exempted in the territory of the other from all transit dues. Most-favoured-nation treatment is mutually guaranteed to each of the High Contracting Parties in all that concerns transit. It is understood that the provisions of the present Article do not apply to such special facilities and privileges as have been or may hereafter be conceded by Servia to the neighbouring States with respect to the local traffic between their conterminous frontier districts. III. It is agreed that as regards cost of transport and all other facilities, Servian goods transported over British railways and British goods transported over Servian railways shall be treated in exactly the same manner as the goods of the nation the most favoured in this respect. IV. The subjects of each of the two High Contracting Parties shall be exempted in the territory of the other from all military service and from all extraordinary requisitions which may be established on account of exceptional circumstances. The liabilities, however, arising out of the possession of landed property, and for military loans and requisitions to which all the subjects of the State may be called upon to contribute as proprietors, or tenants, of real property, shall be excepted. V. The subjects of the two Contracting Parties shall in the dominions of the other enjoy the same protection and be subject to the same conditions as native subjects, or subjects of the most favoured nation, in regard to the right of property, in trade-marks, names of firms, and other distinctive marks showing the origin or quality of goods, as well as in patterns and designs for manufacture. VI. The present Treaty shall be applicable, as far as the laws permit, to all the Colonies and foreign possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, excepting to those hereinafter named, that is to say, except to India. The Dominion of Canada. Newfoundland. New South Wales. Victoria. South Australia. Western Australia. Queensland. Tasmania. New Zealand. The Cape of Good Hope. Natal. List of British Colonies and foreign possessions which have acceded to the above Treaty under Article VI: 1. Natal, March 3, 1894; 2. Newfoundland, March 3, 1894; 3. Queensland, April 11, 1894; 4. Victoria, April 17, 1894; 5. India, April 27, 1894. : The following Colonies have not acceded to the Treaty : 1. Canada; 2. South Australia; 3. Western Australia; 4. Tasmania; 5. New Zealand; 6. The Cape of Good Hope; 7. New South Wales. Provided always that the present Treaty shall be made applicable to any of the above-named Colonies or foreign possessions on whose behalf notice to that effect shall have been given by Her Britannic Majesty's Representative at Belgrade to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of His Majesty the King of Servia within two years from the date of the signature of the present Treaty. VII. The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Belgrade as soon as the formalities prescribed by the constitutional laws of the Contracting States have been observed. 19th It shall remain in force from the date of the exchange of the ratifications until the 31st December, 1903. In case neither of the two High Contracting Parties should have notified, twelve months before the end of the said period, the intention of putting an end to it, it shall remain binding until the expiration of one year from the day on which either of the High Contracting Parties shall have denounced it. In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty, and have thereto affixed their seals. July Done in duplicate at Belgrade, the 28th day of June, 1893. 16th March AGREEMENT supplementary to the Convention concluded on the 1886,* between the Post Office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Post Office of Sweden, concerning the Exchange of Postal Parcels.Signed at Stockholm, November 17, and at London, December 19, 1893.† ART. I. On and after the 1st of February, 1894, postal parcels exchanged between Great Britain and Sweden under the Convention of the 16th March, 1886, between the Post Office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Post Office of Sweden may be insured. 13th April, The two Administrations shall mutually serve as intermediaries for the exchange of insured parcels to and from the other countries. with which they respectively maintain similar exchanges. They shall communicate to each other the amount of insurance fee to be credited in each case and the other conditions of the service. II. The maximum amount for which parcels exchanged between * Vol. LXXVII, page 82. Signed also in the Swedish language. the two countries may be insured is 50l. (1,250 francs) in the United Kingdom and 900 kronor in Sweden. III. The insurance fee, which shall be paid at the same time as the postage, shall be in the United Kingdom 24d. for each 127. or fraction of 127. of insured value, and in Sweden 18 öre for each 216 kronor or fraction of 216 kronor of insured value. IV. The insurance fee for each 127. or 216 kronor of insured value levied on parcels posted in the United Kingdom addressed to Sweden, or posted in Sweden addressed to the United Kingdom, shall be apportioned as follows: To the office of origin 10 centimes. To the office which provides the sea service, 10 centimes. V. On every insured parcel sent under this Agreement the Administration of the country of origin may levy a registration fee not exceeding 24d. or 18 öre, to be paid by the sender in addition to the insurance fee. This registration fee shall be retained by the office which levies it. VI. When an insured parcel is redirected or returned to the office of origin, a new insurance fee is collected from the addressee or the sender, as the case may be. So far as the relations of the two Administrations are concerned, the amount of the insurance fees on redirected or returned parcels and the apportionment of such amount shall be regulated in the same manner as the amount and apportionment of the fees levied on other parcels passing between the two countries. VII. Compensation for the loss or damage of insured parcels shall be paid in accordance with Article X of the Convention of the 7th March, 1886; but the compensation paid in the case of any one parcel shall not exceed the sum for which it has been insured. 15th April, VIII. In the case of all parcels containing coin, objects of gold or silver, or other precious articles, exchanged between the United Kingdom and Sweden, insurance is obligatory. If such a parcel is forwarded uninsured, the Administration which delivers it is entitled to collect the proper insurance fee from the addressee, and retain it. IX. No parcel may be insured for an amount above the real value of its contents. In case the sender of an insured parcel, with intent to defraud, declares the contents to be above their real value, he loses all claim to compensation; and the enforcement of this rule does not prejudice any judicial proceedings of which the law of the country of origin may admit. X. The provisions of the Convention of the generally applicable to insured postal parcels. 13th April, 18th March, 1886, remain Moreover, the follow ing additional detailed regulations are applicable to such parcels :— [1892-93. LXXXV.] G |