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in order to afford the necessary assistance to those
concerned.

Article IV.
The Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, and
Consular Agents of each of the Contracting Parties,
residing in the dominions and possessions of the
other, shall receive from the local authorities such
assistance as can by law be given to them for the
recovery of deserters from the vessels of their respec-
tive countries.

Article V.
The right of acceding to the present Treaty is
reserved to every State now belonging to, or which
may hereafter join the Zollverein.

Article VI.
The present Treaty shall have the same duration
as the Treaty of Commerce signed on the 30th of
May in the current year, between Great Britain and
the Zollverein.
It shall come into force four weeks after the ex-
change of the ratifications thereof.

Article VII.
The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifi-
cations thereof shall be exchanged at Berlin in six
months,* or sooner if possible.

In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries
have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the
seal of their arms.

Done at Gastein the sixteenth day of August, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-five.

(L.S.) NAPIER.
(L.S.) BISMARCK.

[Circular.]
Downing Street, 9th March, 1866.
SIR, I have the honor to transmit to you a copy
of a Treaty of Commerce, which was concluded on
the 16th of December last, between Her Majesty and
the Emperor of Austria, the Ratifications of which
were exchanged at Vienna on the 4th of January
last.

I have, &c.,
EDWARD CARDWELL.
Governor Sir George Grey, K.С.В.

TREATY OF COMMERCE BETWEEN HER MAJESTY AND
THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA, WITH THE FINAL
PROTOCOL.

Signed at Vienna, December 16, 1865.
[Ratifications exchanged at Vienna, January 4, 1866.]

HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, on the one part; and
His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of
Hungary and Bohemia, &c., on the other part; being
equally animated by the desire of regulating and
extending the commercial relations between their
respective States and Possessions, have resolved to
conclude a Treaty for that purpose, and have named
for their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:-

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, &c., the Right Honor-
able John Arthur Douglas, Baron Bloomfield of
Oakhampton and Redwood, a Peer of Ireland, a
Member of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy
Council, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable
Order of the Bath, Her Majesty's Ambassador Extra-
ordinary and Plenipotentiary to His Imperial and
Royal Apostolic Majesty;

And His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King
of Hungary and Bohemia, &c., Alexander Count

• This term was subsequently extended by Protocol to
  February 24, 1866.

Mendsdorff-Pouilly, Grand Cross of the Order of
Leopold, with the military decoration belonging to
the Commander's Cross of the same Order, Knight
of the Order of Maria Theresa, and Possessor of the
Cross of Military Merit, Knight Commander of the
Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Lieutenant-
General in His Imperial Majesty's Army, Privy
Councillor and Chamberlain, Minister of the Imperial
House and of Foreign Affairs; and Bernhard, Baron
Wüllerstorf-Urbair, Knight of the Order of the Iron
Crown of the Second Class, Rear-Admiral in His
Imperial Majesty's Navy, Privy Councillor, and
Minister for Commerce;

Who, after communicated to each other their
respective full powers, found to be in due and proper
form, have agreed upon and concluded the following
Articles :-

Article I.
During the continuance of the present Treaty, the
subjects and commerce of Austria shall enjoy within
all the dominions and possessions of Her Britannic
Majesty, including Her Majesty's Colonies and
foreign possessions, the same advantages which have
been conceded to French subjects and commerce by
the Treaty between Her Majesty and the Emperor
of the French, signed at Paris on the 23rd of January,
1860, and to the subjects and commerce of the States
of the Zollverein by the Treaty between Her Majesty
and His Majesty the King of Prussia, representing
the sovereign States and territories united to the
Prussian system of customs and contributions, signed
at Berlin on the 30th of May, 1865; and further,
Austrian subjects and commerce shall be placed in
all other respects on the footing of the subjects and
commerce of the most favoured nation.

Article II.
From and after the 1st January, 1867, British
subjects and commerce shall, within the dominions of
His Imperial and Royal Majesty, be placed in every
respect upon the footing of the most favoured nation,
and share in all the advantages and favors which are
enjoyed by the commerce and subjects of any third
Power.

From this rule are excepted:-
a. Advantages such as those which, for the sole
purpose of facilitating frontier traffic, are at present
conceded, or may hereafter be conceded, to the States
of the German Zollverein, or to other neighbouring
States; and also those reductions of or exemptions
from Customs duties which are valid only at certain
parts of the frontier, or for the inhabitants of par-
ticular localities.
b. Those advantages which belong, or may here-
after be conceded, to the subjects of the German
Confederation, in virtue of Federal Treaties and
Federal Laws.
c. Those special and ancient privileges which are
enjoyed by Turkish subjects, as such, for Turkish
commerce in Austria.

Article III.
The Austrian Customs Tariff (the present system
of calculating Customs duties by weight being main-
tained) shall be so regulated that the duty to be
levied upon articles the produce or manufacture of
the dominions of Her Britannic Majesty, upon their
importation into the Austrian States, shall, from the
1st of January, 1867, not exceed 25 per cent. of the
value, with the addition of the cost of transport,
insurance, and commission necessary for the importa-
tion into Austria as far as the Austrian Customs
frontier; and for this purpose there shall serve as
basis the average value of the articles included under
one and the same denomination in each position
of the future Austrian Tariff.