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Import and Export Duties. —lt is agreed that British subjects shall pay, on all merchandise imported or exported by them, the duties prescribed by the tariff; but in no case shall, they be called upon to pay other or- higher duties than aro required of the subjects of any other foreign nation. (Article XXIV.) Subjects : Privileges, Immunities, and Advantages. —The British Government and its subjects are hereby confirmed in all privileges, immunities, and advantages conferred on them by previous treaties and it is hereby expressly stipulated that the British G-overnment and its subjects will be allowed free and equal participation in all privileges, immunities, and advantages that may have been, or may be hereafter, granted by His Majesty the Emperor of China to the Government or subjects of any other nation. (Article LIV.) If applicable to British Colonies. Not applicable to British Colonies. COLUMBIA.— Febbuaet 10, 1866. Commerce and Navigation. —The present treaty of the 17th October, 1866, commerce and navigation, when ratified, shall, so far as regards the United States of Columbia, be substituted for the treaty between His Britannic Majesty and the State of Columbia, signed at Bogota on the 18th April, 1825, and shall remain in force for ten years from the date of the exchange of the ratifications (17th October, 1866), and, further, until the expiration of twelve months after either of the Contracting Parties shall have given notice to the other of its intention to terminate the same; each of the Contracting Parties being at liberty to give such notice to the other at the expiration of the first nine years, or at any time afterwards. (Article XXII.) Most-favoured-Nation Treatment. Subjects : Commerce, Navigation, Ships, and Cargoes. —There shall be between all the dominions and possessions of the two High Contracting Parties reciprocal freedom of commerce and navigation. The subjects and citizens of each of the two Contracting Parties respectively shall have liberty freely and securely to come, with their ships and cargoes, to all places, ports, and rivers in the dominions and possessions of the other, to which other foreign subjects or citizens are or may be permitted to come, upon the same terms and under the same conditions as those of the most favoured nations. (Article II.) Import Duties. —No other or higher duties shall be imposed on the importation into the dominions and possessions of Her Britannic Majesty of any article the produce or manufacture of the dominions and possessions of the United States of Columbia, from whatever place arriving, and no other or higher duties shall be imposed on the importation into the dominions and possessions of the United States of Columbia of any article the produce or manufacture of Her Britannic Majesty's dominions and possessions, from whatever place arriving, than are or maybe payable on the like article the produce or manufacture of any other foreign country ; nor shall any prohibition be maintained or imposed on the importation of any article the produce or manufacture of the dominions and possessions of either of the Contracting Parties into the dominions and possessions of the other, which shall not equally extend to the importation of the like articles being the produce or manufacture of any other country. (Article III.) Export Duties. —No other or higher duties or charges shall be imposed in the dominions and possessions of either of the Contracting Parties, on the exportation of any article to the dominions and possessions of the other, than such as aro or maybe payable on the exportation of the like articles to any other foreign country. (Article IV.) Prohibitions. —Nor shall any prohibition be imposed on the exportation of any article from the dominions and possessions of either of the two Contracting Parties to the dominions ami possessions of the other, which shall not equally extend to the exportation of the like article to any other country. (Article IV.) Diplomatic Agents and Consuls.— -The Diplomatic Agents and Consuls of each of the two High Contracting Parties in the dominions or territories of the other shall enjoy whatever privileges, exemptions, and immunities are or shall be granted there to Agents of the same rank belonging to the most favoured nation. It shall be free for each of the Contracting Parties to appoint Consuls-General, Consuls, ViceConsuls, and Consular Agents, to reside in the towns and ports of the dominions and possessions of the other. Such Consuls-General, 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. They shall exercise whatever functions, and enjoy whatever privileges, exemptions, and immunities are or shall be granted there to Consuls of the most favoured nation. (Article XIII.) Subjects : Property. —The subjects and citizens of each of the Contracting Parties in the dominions and possessions of the other shall be at full liberty to acquire, possess, and dispose of every description of property which the laws of the country may permit any foreigners, of whatsoever nation, to acquire and possess. They may acquire and dispose of the same, whether by purchate, sale, donation, exchange, marriage, testament, succession ah intestato, or in any other manner, under the same conditions as are established by the laws of the country for all foreigners. Their heirs and representatives may succeed to and take possession of such property, either in person or by agents acting on their behalf, in the same manner and in the same legal forms as subjects or citizens of the country. In the absence of heirs and representatives the property shall be treated in the same manner as the like property belonging to a subject or citizen of the country under similar circumstances. (Article XVII.) If applicable to British Colonies. Subjects: Ships and Cargoes, Import Duties, Sfc. —Applicable to the British " dominions and possessions." (Articles 11. and III.)