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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

ARTICLE XVII.
Belgian subjects shall not have the right to
claim in Great Britain exclusive property in a
mark, model, or pattern, unless they shall have
previously complied with the regulations, if
any, which are or may be in force for the
deposit at London, by British subjects, of
marks, models, or patterns.
Reciprocally, British subjects shall not have
the right to claim in Belgium exclusive pro-
perty in a mark, model, or pattern, unless they
shall have previously complied with the laws
and regulations on those subjects which are or
may be in force in Belgium.

1. The tonnage duty imposed in Belgian
   ports shall cease to be levied;
2. The pilotage duties in Belgian ports and
   in the Scheldt, so far as depends upon Belgium,
   shall undergo a reduction—
   Of 20 per cent. for sailing vessels;
   Of 25 per cent. for vessels towed;
   Of 30 per cent. for steam-vessels.
3. The system of local taxes imposed by the
   city of Antwerp shall be throughout dimiu-
   ished.

ARTICLE XVIII.
Each of the High Contracting Parties shall
have the right to name Consuls for the pro-
tection of trade in the dominion and territories
of the other Party; and the Consuls who may
be so appointed shall enjoy, within the terri-
tories of each Party, all the privileges,
exemptions, and immunities which are or may
be granted in those territories to Agents of the
same rank and character appointed by or
authorized to act for the Government of the
most favoured nation.
Before any Consul can act as such, he must,
however, in the usual form be approved and
admitted by the Government of the country to
which he is sent; and each of the two High
Contracting Parties shall have the right to
except from the residence of Consuls any par-
ticular places which either of them may judge
proper to be excepted.

ARTICLE XXII.
As a temporary exception to the stipulations
of Article XIV., and for the space of two
years from the 1st of October, 1862, the new
system shall be applied in the following man-
ner to certain articles of British origin herein-
after enumerated:—
Cotton yarns twisted, warped, or dyed, shall
pay the duties imposed upon single yarns
unbleached or bleached, with an addition of
five centimes for twisted yarns, ten centimes
for warped yarns, and fifteen centimes for dyed
yarns, per kilogramme.
The duty on stuff of wool mixed with cotton
shall be twenty-two and a-half per cent. until
the 1st of October, 1863, and twenty per cent.
until the 1st of October, 1864. During the
continuance of the transitory system the im-
porter may, at his choice, pay either one hun-
dred and eighty francs, the hundred kilogram-
mes, or the duties stipulated above.
The duty upon printed cotton tissues shall
be one hundered and fifty francs the hundred
kilogrammes.

ARTICLE XIX.
If any vessel of war or merchant-vessel of
either of the two countries should be wrecked
upon the coasts of the other, such vessel, or
any parts thereof, and all furniture and appurte-
nances belonging thereunto, as well as all goods
and merchandize which shall be saved therefrom,
or the proceeds thereof, if sold, shall be restored
to the proprietors or agents, on being
claimed by them. In case there should be no
such proprietors or to their agents, upon the
spot, the said articles and goods, or the proceeds
thereof, as well as all the papers found on
board of any such vessel, shall be delivered to
the British or Belgian Consul in whose district
the wreck shall have taken place; and such
Consul, proprietors, or agents shall not be cal-
led upon to pay any charge but the expenses
incurred in the preservation of the property,
and the same rate of salvage which would be
equally payable, under the like circumstances,
by a national vessel. The goods and merchan-
dize saved from the wreck shall not be subject
to the established duties, unless cleared for
consumption.

ARTICLE XXIII.
It is understood that in case the present
duty on the importation of foreign spirits
should be maintained in the British Tariff, the
Article relative to spirits which is contained in
the Treaty concluded between Belgium and
France on the 1st of May, 1861, shall not be
applied to British spirits, so far as regards the
reductions therein stipulated, until the 1st of
October, 1865.

ARTICLE XX.
The British flag shall continue to enjoy in
Belgium the repayment of the Scheldt Toll so
long as the Belgian flag shall enjoy the same.

ARTICLE XXIV.
The Ionian Islands being under the pro-
tection of Her Britannic Majesty, the subjects
and vessels of those islands shall enjoy, in the
dominions of His Majesty the King of the
Belgians, all the advantages which are granted
to the subjects and vessels of Great Britain by
the present Treaty, as soon as the Government
of the Ionian Islands shall have agreed to grant
to the subjects and vessels of His Majesty the
King of the Belgians the same advantages
which are granted in those islands to the sub-
jects and vessels of Her Britannic Majesty: it
being understood, that in order to prevent
abuses, every Ionian vessel claiming the
benefits of that Treaty shall be furnished with
a patent signed by the Lord High Commis-
sioner of Her Britannic Majesty, or by his
representative.

ARTICLE XXI.
From and after, at latest, the day on which
the capitalization of the Scheldt Toll shall be
effected by a general arrangement,—

ARTICLE XXV.
The present Treaty shall continue in force
for ten years dating from the tenth day after