ARTICLE 23

In regard to duties of tonnage, harbour, pilotage, lighthouse, quarantine or other analogous duties or charges of whatever denomination levied in the name or for the profit of the government, public functionaries, private individuals, corporations or establishments of any kind, the vessels of each of the two contracting parties shall enjoy in the ports of the territories of the other treatment at least as favourable as that accorded to national vessels or the vessels of any other foreign country.

ARTICLE 24

The provisions of this treaty relating to the mutual concession of national treatment in matters of navigation do not apply to the coasting trade. In respect of the coasting trade, however, as also in respect of all other matters of navigation, the subjects and vessels of each of the contracting parties shall enjoy most-favoured-nation treatment in the territories of the other, in addition to any other advantages that may be accorded by this treaty.

The vessels of either contracting party may, nevertheless, proceed from one port to another port in the territories of the other contracting party, either for the purpose of landing the whole or part of their cargoes or passengers brought from abroad, or of taking on board the whole or part of their cargoes or passengers for a foreign destination.

It is also understood that in the event of the coasting trade of either party being exclusively reserved to national vessels, the vessels of the other party, if engaged in trade to or from places not within the limits of the coasting trade so reserved, shall not be prohibited from the carriage between two ports of the territories of the former party of passengers holding through tickets or merchandise consigned on through bills of lading to or from places not within the above-mentioned limits, and while engaged in such carriage these vessels and their passengers and cargoes shall enjoy the full privileges of this treaty.

ARTICLE 25

Any vessels of either of the two contracting parties which may be compelled by stress of weather or by accident to take shelter in a port of the territories of the other shall be at liberty to refit therein, to procure all necessary stores and to put to sea again, without paying any dues other than such as would be payable in a similar case by a national vessel. In case, however, the master of a merchant vessel should be under the necessity of disposing of a part of his merchandise in order to defray his expenses, he shall be bound to conform to the regulations and tariffs of the place to which he may have

come.

If any vessel of one of the two contracting parties shall run aground or be wrecked upon the coasts of the territories of the other, such vessel and all parts thereof and all furniture and appurtenances belonging thereto, and all

goods and merchandise saved therefrom, including any which may have been cast into the sea, or the proceeds thereof, if sold, as well as all papers found on board such stranded or wrecked vessel, shall be given up to the owners of such vessel, goods, merchandise, &c., or to their agents, when claimed by them. If there are no such owners or agents on the spot, then the vessel, goods, merchandise, &c., referred to shall, in so far as they are the property of a subject of the second contracting party, be delivered to the consular officer of that contracting party in whose district the wreck or stranding may have taken place, upon being claimed by him within the period fixed by the laws of that contracting party, and such consular officer, owners or agents shall pay only the expenses incurred in the preservation of the property, together with the salvage or other expenses which would have been payable in the like case of a wreck or stranding of a national vessel.

The two contracting parties agree, however, that merchandise saved shall not be subjected to the payment of any customs duty unless cleared for internal consumption.

In the case of a vessel being driven in by stress of weather, run aground or wrecked, the respective consular officer shall, if the owner or master or other agent of the owner is not present, or is present and requires it, be authorised to interpose in order to afford the necessary assistance to his fellow-country

men.

ARTICLE 26

All vessels which, according to British law, are deemed to be British vessels, and all vessels which, according to Siamese law, are deemed to be Siamese vessels, shall, for the purposes of this treaty, be deemed British or Siamese vessels respectively.

ARTICLE 27

It shall be free to each of the two contracting parties to appoint consulsgeneral, consuls, vice-consuls and consular agents to reside in the towns and ports of the territories of the other to which such representatives of any other nation may be admitted by the respective governments. Such consulsgeneral, consuls, vice-consuls and consular agents, however, shall not enter upon their functions until after they shall have been approved and admitted in the usual form by the government to which they are sent.

The consular officers of one of the two contracting parties shall enjoy in the territories of the other the same official rights, privileges and exemptions as are or may be accorded to similar officers of any other foreign country.

ARTICLE 28

In the case of the death of a subject of one of the two contracting parties in the territories of the other, leaving kin but without leaving at the place of his decease any person entitled by the laws of his country to take charge of and administer the estate, the competent consular officer of the country to which

the deceased belonged shall, upon fulfilment of the necessary formalities, be empowered to take custody of and administer the estate in the manner and under the limitations prescribed by the law of the country in which the property of the deceased is situated.

It is understood that in all that concerns the administration of the estates of deceased persons, any right, privilege, favour or immunity which either contracting party has actually granted, or may hereafter grant, to the consular officers of any other foreign country shall be extended immediately and unconditionally to the consular officers of the other contracting party.

ARTICLE 29

The consular officers of one of the two contracting parties residing in the territories of the other shall receive from the local authorities such assistance as can by law be given to them for the recovery of deserters from the vessels of the former party. Provided that this stipulation shall not apply to subjects of the contracting party from whose local authorities assistance is requested.

ARTICLE 30

The subjects of each of the two contracting parties shall have in the territories of the other the same rights as subjects of that contracting party in regard to patents for inventions, trade-marks, trade names, designs and copyright in literary and artistic works, upon fulfilment of the formalities prescribed by law.

ARTICLE 31

As soon as possible after the preponderating proportion of the imports into Siam is obtained from countries whose subjects or citizens shall have become subject to Siamese law and jurisdiction (even though still enjoying privileges under the right of evocation), the Siamese Government will promulgate and bring into operation laws for the proper regulation of the matters dealt with in Article 30 and will also take the necessary measures for the regulation of merchandise marks by which imported products shall be protected from competition through false marks, false indications of origin, the short reeling of yarns, and the false lapping of piece-goods.

ARTICLE 32

It is hereby understood and agreed that none of the stipulations of the present treaty by which Siam grants most-favoured-nation treatment is to be interpreted as granting rights, powers, privileges or immunities arising solely by virtue of the existence of rights of exemption from Siamese jurisdiction, judicial, administrative or fiscal, possessed by other foreign countries.

ARTICLE 33

The two contracting parties agree that any dispute that may arise between them as to the proper interpretation or application of any of the provisions of

the present treaty shall, at the request of either party, be referred to arbitration, and both parties hereby undertake to accept as binding the arbitral award.

The court of arbitration to which disputes shall be referred shall be the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague, unless in any particular case the two contracting parties agree otherwise.

ARTICLE 34

The stipulations of the present treaty shall not be applicable to India or to any of His Britannic Majesty's self-governing dominions, colonies, possessions or protectorates unless notice is given by His Britannic Majesty's representative at Bangkok of the desire of His Britannic Majesty that the said stipulations shall apply to any such territory.

Nevertheless, goods produced or manufactured in India or in any of His Britannic Majesty's self-governing dominions, colonies, possessions or protectorates shall enjoy in Siam complete and unconditional most-favourednation treatment so long as goods produced or manufactured in Siam are accorded in India, or such self-governing dominion, colony, possession or protectorate, treatment as favourable as that accorded to goods produced or manufactured in any other foreign country.

ARTICLE 35

The terms of the preceding article relating to India and to His Britannic Majesty's self-governing dominions, colonies, possessions and protectorates shall apply also to any territory in respect of which a mandate on behalf of the League of Nations has been accepted by His Britannic Majesty.

ARTICLE 36

The provisions of the present treaty which apply to British subjects shall also be deemed to apply to all persons who both enjoy the protection of His Britannic Majesty and are entitled to registration in Siam in accordance with Article 6 of the general treaty signed this day.2

ARTICLE 37

The present treaty shall be ratified and the ratifications shall be exchanged at London as soon as possible. It shall come into force on the same day as the general treaty between the two contracting parties signed this day, and shall be binding during ten years from the date of its coming into force. In case neither of the two contracting parties shall have given notice to the other twelve months before the expiration of the said period of ten years of its intention to terminate the present treaty, it shall remain in force until the expiration of one year from the date on which either of the two contracting parties shall have denounced it.

2 Printed supra p. 12 at p. 14

It is clearly understood that such denunciation shall not have the effect of reviving any of the treaties, conventions, arrangements or agreements abrogated by former treaties or agreements or by Article 5 of the general treaty signed this day.

As regards India or any of His Britannic Majesty's self-governing dominions, colonies, possessions or protectorates, or any territory in respect of which a mandate on behalf of the League of Nations has been accepted by His Britannic Majesty to which the stipulations of the present treaty shall have been made applicable under Articles 34 and 35 either of the two contracting parties shall have the right to terminate it separately on giving twelve months' notice to that effect. Such notice, however, cannot be given so as to take effect before the termination of the period of ten years mentioned in the first paragraph of this article, except in the case of His Britannic Majesty's self-governing dominions (including territories administered by them under mandate) and the colony of Southern Rhodesia, in respect of which notice of termination may be given by either contracting party at any time.

In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the present treaty and have affixed thereto their seals.

Done in duplicate in the English language, at London, the 14th day of July, in the nineteen hundred and twenty-fifth year of the Christian era, corresponding to the 14th day of the 4th month in the 2468th year of the Buddhist era.

(L.S.) AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN. (L.S.) PRABHA KARAVONGS.

NOTES EXCHANGED BETWEEN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND SIAM IN CONNECTION WITH THE GENERAL AND COMMERCIAL TREATIES BETWEEN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND SIAM, SIGNED AT LONDON ON JULY 14, 19251

SIR:

London, July 14-September 15, 1925

No. 1.

The Siamese Minister to Mr. Austen Chamberlain

SIAMESE LEGATION, LONDON, July 14, 1925.

In signing this day the general and commercial treaties between Great Britain and Siam,2 I have the honour to assure you, by order of my government, that it is not the present intention of the Royal Siamese Government to impose any new, or increase any existing, export duties on teak, tin or rice.

I have, &c.

PRABHA KARAWONGS.

'British Treaty Series No. 9 (1926). Cmd. 2644.

Printed supra, pp. 12 and 18.