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Diplomatic Agents and Gonsuh.-~Ea.ch Contracting Party may appoint Consuls for the protection of trade, to reside in the dominions or territories of the other; but no such Consul shall enter upon the exercise of his functions until he shall have been approved and admitted in the usual form by the Government of the country to which he is sent. The Diplomatic Agents and Consuls of each of the two Contracting Parties residing within the dominions or territories of the other shall enjoy the same rights, immunities, privileges, and exemptions which are or may be granted to the Diplomatic Agents or Consuls of equal rank of the most favoured nation. (Article VII.) If applicable to British Colonies. Subjects : Commerce. —Applicable to the British "dominions." (Article li.) EQUATOR.—Mat 3, 1851. Commerce and Navigation. —ln order that the two High Contracting Parties may have the opportunity of hereafter treating and agreeing upon such other arrangements as may tend still further to the improvement of their mutual intercourse, and to the advancement of the interests of their respective subjects and citizens, it is agreed that, at any time after the expiration of seven years from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty (January 29, 1353), either of the High Contracting Parties shall Inwo (he right of giving to the other Party notice of its intention to terminate Articles V., VI., and VII. of the present treaty ; and that, at the expiration of twelve months after such notice shall have been received by either Party from the other, the said Articles, and all the stipulations contained therein, shall cease to be binding on the two High Contracting Parties. (Article XIII.) Most-favoured-Nation Treatment. Subjects : Commerce, Navigation, Ships and Cargoes, Houses and Warehouses, Protection. —Thero shall be between all the territories of Her Britannic Majesty in Europe and the territories of the Equator a reciprocal freedom of commerce. The subjects and citizens of the two countries respectively shall have liberty freely and securely to come, with their ships and cargoes, to all such places, ports, and rivers in the territories aforesaid to which other foreigners are or may bo permitted to come, to enter into the same, and to remain and reside in any part of the said territories respectively ; also to hire and occupy houses and warehouses for the purposes of their commerce ; and, generally, the merchants and traders of each nation respectively shall enjoy the most complete protection and security for their commerce ; subject always to the laws and statutes of the two countries respectively. (Article II.) Her Majesty tho Queen of the United Kingdom of G-reat Britain and Ireland engages further that the citizens of the Equator 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 to which the same is permitted at present, or shall be permitted hereafter, to any other nation. (Article 11.1.) Coasting Trade reserved. —lt being understood that the general liberty of commercial intercourse which is conceded by each Contracting Party to the other by the preceding Articles 11. and 111. shall not apply on either side to the coasting trade of the two respective nations. (Article III.) Subjects : Commerce and Navigation, Favours, Privileges, and Immunities. —lt being the intention of the two High Contracting Parties to bind themselves by the two preceding articles to treat each other on the footing of the most favoured nation, it is hereby agreed between them that any favour, privilege, or immunity whatever, in matters of commerce and navigation, which either Contracting Party has actually granted, or may hereafter graut, to the subjects or citizens of any other State, shall be extended to the subjects or citizens of the other High Contracting Party gratuitously if the concession in favour of that other nation shall have been gratuitous, or in return for a compensation as nearly as possible of proportionate value and effect, to be adjusted by mutual agreement if tho concession shall have been conditional. (Article IV ) Import Duties: Produce and Manvficlures. —No higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into the territories of Her Britannic Majesty of any articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the Equator, and no higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into the territories of the Equator 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 V.) 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 V.) Prohibitions. —Nor shall any prohibition be imposed upon the exportation or importation of any articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of Her Britannic Majesty's dominions, or of the said territories of ihc Equator, to or from the said dominions of Her Britannic Majesty, or to or from tha aaid territories of the Equator, which shall not equally extend to all other nations. (Article V.) L'titing and Unlading of Ships, Safety of merchandise, Sfc, Property, Justice, Imposts. —ln whatever relates to the lading and unlading of ships, the safety of merchandise, goods, and effects, the succession to personal estates, and the disposal of personal property of every sort and denomination, by sale, donation, exchange, or testament, or in any other manner whatsoever, as also the administration, of justice, the subjects and citizens of the two Contracting Parties shall enjoy, in their respective dominions and territories, the same privileges, liberties, and rights as the most favoured nation, and shall not be charged, in any of these respects, with any higher imposts or duties than those which are paid, or may be paid, by the native subjects or citizens of the Power in whose dominions or territories they may be resident. (Article IX.) If applicable to British Colonies. Subjects : Commerce and Navigation. —Applicable to "all the dominions" of Her Britannic Majesty in and out of Europe. (Articles 11. to V.)