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Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 28th March, 1842.

HIS Excellency the GOVERNOR has been
pleased to direct the republication in this
Colony, of the following Convention of Com-
merce and Navigation between Her Majesty and
the Hans Towns, signed at London, August
3rd, 1841.

By His Excellency's Command,
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND.

Convention of Commerce and Navigation between
Her Majesty and the Hans Towns, signed at
London, August 3rd, 1841.

HER Majesty the Queen of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, on the
one part, and the Senates of the Free Hanseatic
Cities of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh, (each
State for itself separately), on the other part,
being desirous of improving and extending the
commercial intercourse between their respective
subjects and citizens, have, with this view, and in
conformity with the stipulations of the VIIIth
Article of the Convention of Commerce and Na-
vigation, between. Great Britain and the Free
Hanseatic Republics, signed at London on the
29th of September, 1825, resolved to conclude a
Convention, which shall be considered as Sup-
plementary to the above-mentioned Convention
of 1825.

Her Britannic Majesty and the said Free
Hanseatic Republics have therefore named as
their Plenipotentiaries for this purpose, that is to
say;-

Her Majesty the Queen of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right
Honourable Henry John Viscount Palmerston,
Baron Temple, a Peer of Ireland, a Member of
Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable
Order of the Bath, a Member of Parliament; and
Her Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs;

And the Senates of the Free Hanseatic Cities
of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh, Edward
Banks, Doctor of Laws, a Member of the Senate
and one of the Syndicks of the Free Hanseatic
City of Hamburgh, &c., &c.

Who, after having communicated to each other
their respective Full Powers, found in good and
due form, have agreed upon and concluded the
following Articles :-

ARTICLE I.

The Senates of the Free Hanseatic Cities of
Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh, hereby agree,
that British vessels coming from countries not
being part of the Dominions of Her Britannic
Majesty, shall henceforward, together with their
cargoes, be admitted into the Ports of Lubeck,
Bremen, and Hamburgh; and such vessels shall,
on their admission, pay dues not higher nor other
than those which shall be paid, in similar cir-
cumstances, by vessels belonging to Lubeck,
Bremen, or Hamburgh; and the duties to be paid
upon the cargoes of such British vessels shall not
be higher nor other, than if such cargoes had
been imported in vessels belonging to Lubeck,
Bremen, or Hamburgh. And in consideration
thereof, Her Britannic Majesty agrees that, from
and after the date of the exchange of the Ratifi-
cations of this present Convention, the vessels of
the said Free Hanseatic Republics of Lubeck,
Bremen, and Hamburgh, when coming from Han-
seatic ports, shall together with their cargoes, be
admitted into the ports of all Her Britannic Majes-
ty's Possessions; and such vessels shall, on their
admission, pay dues not higher nor other, than
those which shall be paid, in similar circumstances;
by British vessels; and the duties to be paid upon
the cargoes of such Hanseatic vessels, shall not
be higher nor other, than if such cargoes had
been imported in British vessels.

ARTICLE II.

In consideration of the privileges extended to
British trade and navigation, by the First Article
of the present Convention, Her Britannic Ma-
jesty further agrees, that all goods, wares, and
merchandize, being the produce of the States of
the Free Hanseatic Cities of Lubeck, Bremen,
and Hamburgh, or of the other States of the
Germanic Confederation, or of the States com-
prised in the Germanic Union of Customs, and
which may be imported in any foreign ves-
sels, from the ports of Lubeck, Bremen, and
Hamburgh, or from any port situated on the
Elbe or Weser, into the ports of the British
Possessions abroad, including Gibraltar and Mal-
ta, shall also be permitted to be imported from
the said ports of the Free Cities of Lubeck, Bre-
men, and Hamburgh, into the ports of
British Possessions abroad, (including Gibraltar
and Malta,) in vessels belonging to Lubeck,
Bremen, and Hamburgh, built, owned, and navi-
gated, as stipulated in the Fifth Article of the
Convention of Commerce and Navigation, con-
cluded on the 29th of September, 1825, between,
Great Britain, on the one part, and the
Free Hanseatic Cities of Lubeck, Bremen, and
Hamburgh, on the other part'; and such goods,
wares, and merchandise, being produce of the
Free Hanseatic Republics, or of the other States
of the Germanic Confederation, or of the States
of the Germanic Union of Customs, and so im-
ported in Hanseatic vessels, into the ports of the
said British Possessions abroad, (including Gib-
raltar and Malta,) and all goods, wares, and mer-
chandise, exported in Hanseatic vessels, built,
owned, and navigated as aforesaid, from the
ports of the British Possessions abroad, (including
Gibraltar and Malta,) to any foreign country
whatever, shall pay no other or higher duties,
than if the same were imported or exported in
British vessels.

ARTICLE III.

The present Convention, which shall be consi-
dered as Supplementary to the Convention con-
cluded between Great Britain and the Free Han-
seatic Republics on the 29th of September,
1825, shall be ratified, and the Ratifications shall
be exchanged at London, as soon as possible
within the space of six weeks.