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Import Duties: Produce, and Manufactures. —No higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into the dominions of Her Britannic Majesty of any article of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the Republic of Bolivia, and no higher or other duties shall bo imposed on the importation into the territories of the Republic of Bolivia of any articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of Her Britannic Majesty's dominions, than are or shall be payable on the like articles, being the growth, produce, or manufacture of any other foreign country. (Article IV.) Export Duties. —Nor shall any other or higher duties or charges be imposed in the territories or dominions of either of the Contracting Parties, on the exportation of any articles to the territories or dominions of the other, than such as are or may be payable on the exportation of the like articles to any other foreign country. (Article IV.) Prohibitions. —Nor shall any prohibition be imposed upon the exportation or importation of any article the growth, produce, or manufacture of Her Britannic Majesty's dominions, or of the said territories of the Republic of Bolivia, 16 or from the said dominions of Her Britannic Majesty, to or from the said territories of the Republic of Bolivia, which shall not equally extend to all other nations. (Article IV.) Diplomatic Agents and Consuls. —It shall be free for each of the two Contracting Parties to appoint Consuls for the protection of trade, to reside in the dominions and territories of the other Party ; but before any Consul shall act as such, he shall in the usual form be approved and admitted by the Government to which he is sent; and either of the Contracting Parties may except from the residence of Consuls such particular places as either of them may judge fit to be excepted. The Diplomatic Agents and Consuls of the Republic of Bolivia shall enjoy, in the dominions of Her Britannic Majesty, whatever privileges, exceptions, and immunities are or shall be granted to Agents of the same rank belonging to the most favoured nation; and in like manner the Diplomatic Agents and Consuls of Her Britannic Majesty in the territories of the Republic of Bolivia shall enjoy, according to the strictest reciprocity, whatever privileges, exceptions, and immunities are or may be granted to the Diplomatic Agents and Consuls of the most favoured nation in the territories of the Republic of Bolivia. (Article XI.) Ships and Cargoes: Import Duties. —lt is further agreed that, for the like term of fifteen years,* the stipulations contained in the Articles V. and VI. of the present treaty shall be suspended, and, in lieu thereof, it is hereby agreed that, until the expiration of the said term of fifteen years,* British ships entering into the ports of the Republic of Bolivia from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or any other of Her Britannic Majesty's dominions, and all articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United Kingdom, or of any of the said dominions, imported in such ships, shall pay no other or higher duties than are or may hereafter be payable in the said ports by the ships and the like goods the growth, produce, or manufacture of the most favoured nation; and, reciprocally, it is agreed that Bolivian ships entering into the ports of the United Kingdom and Ireland, or any other of Her Britannic Majesty's dominions, from any port of the Republic of Bolivia, and all articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of the said republic, imported in such ships, shall pay no other or higher duties than are or may hereafter be payable in the said ports by the ships and the like goods the growth, produce, or manufacture of the most favoured nation. (Additional Article II.) Bounties and Drawbacks on Exports. —-And that no higher duties shall be paid, or bounties or drawbacks allowed, on the exportation of any article the growth, produce, or manufacture of the dominions of either country, in the ships of the other, than upon the exportation of the like articles in the ships of any other foreign country. It being understood that, at the end of the said term of fifteen years, the stipulations of the said Articles V. and VI. shall from thenceforward be in full force between the two countries. (Additional Article II.) If applicable to British Colonies. Citizens, Commerce, and Navigation. —Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland engages, further, that the inhabitants of the Republic of Bolivia shall have the like liberty of commerce and navigation stipulated for in the preceding article, in all her dominions situated out of Europe, to the full extent in which the same is permitted at present, or shall bepermitted hereafter, to any other nation. (Article III.) Import Duties, fyc. —Applicable to British "dominions." (Article IV.) BORNEO.—Mix 27, 1847. Commerce and Navigation. —No time fixed. Most-favoured-Nation Treatment. Subjects: Commerce, Privileges, and Advantages. —The subjects of Her Britannic Majesty shall have full liberty to enter into, reside in, trade with, and pass with their merchandise through all parts of the dominions of His Highness the Sultan of Borneo, and they shall enjoy therein all the privileges and advantages, with respect to commerce or otherwise, which are now or which may hereafter be granted to the subjects or citizens of the most favoured nation ; and the subjects of His Highness the Sultan of Borneo shall in like manner be at liberty to enter into, reside in, trade with, and pass with their merchandise through all parts of Her Britannic Majesty's dominions in Europe and Asia, as freely as the subjects of the most favoured nation, and they shall enjoy in those dominions all the privileges and advantages, with respect to commerce or otherwise, which are now or which may hereafter be granted therein to the subjects or citizens of the most favoured nation. (Article II.) If applicable to British. Colonies. Subjects : Commerce, S(c. —Applicable to " all parts of the British dominions in Europe and Asia." (Article II.)

* From the date of the exchange of the ratifications. The Bolivian ratification was delivered to Mr. Belford Wilson en the Ist November, 1840, and the British ratification was delivered to the Bolirian G-OTernment on the 27th December,_ 1842.