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ditions as native subjects in regard to the rights of
property in trade marks and other distinctive marks,
showing the origin or quality of goods, as well as
in patterns and designs for manufactures.

ARTICLE VI.

Articles liable to duty serving as patterns or
samples, which shall be introduced into the United
Kingdom by French commercial travellers, or into
France and Algeria by commercial travellers of the
United Kingdom, shall be admitted free of duty, sub-
ject to the following formalities requisite to insure
their being re-exported or placed in bond :—

1. The officers of Customs at any port or place at
   which the patterns and samples may be imported
   shall ascertain the amount of duty chargeable
   thereon. That amount must either be deposited
   by the commercial traveller at the Custom House in
   money, or ample security must be given for it.

2. For the purpose of identification, each separate
   pattern or sample shall, as far as possible, be marked
   by the affixing of a stamp, or by means of a seal being
   attached to it.

3. A permit or certificate shall be given to the
   importer, which shall contain, —

(a.) A list of the patterns or samples imported,
specifying the nature of the goods, and also
such particular marks as may be proper for
the purpose of identification;
(b.) A statement of the duty chargeable on the
patterns or samples, as also whether the amount
was deposited in money, or whether security
was given for it;
(c.) A statement showing the manner in which
the patterns or samples were marked;
(d.) The appointment of a period, which at the
utmost must not exceed twelve months, at the
expiration of which, unless it is proved that
the patterns or samples have been previously
re-exported or placed in bond, the amount of
duty deposited will be carried to the public
account, or the amount recovered under the
security given. No charge shall be made to
the importer for the above permit or certifi-
cate, or for marking for identification.

4. Patterns or samples may be re-exported through
   the Custom House through which they were imported,
   or through any other.

5. If, before the expiration of the appointed time
   (paragraph 3, d), the patterns or samples should be
   presented at the Custom House of any port or place
   for the purpose of re-exportation or being placed in
   bond, the officers at such port or place must satisfy
   themselves by examination whether the articles which
   are brought to them are the same as those for which
   the permit of entry was granted. If so satisfied, the
   officers will certify the re-exportation or deposit in
   bond, and will refund the duty which had been
   deposited, or will take the necessary steps for dis-
   charging the security.

ARTICLE VII.

It is agreed between the High Contracting Parties
that as regards the matters mentioned in Article III.
of the Treaty of July 23, 1873, the provisions con-
tained in the Treaty and Conventions of 1860, and in
the Treaty of July 23, 1873, shall remain in force,
except as far as these provisions are expressly changed
by the present Supplementary Convention.

ARTICLE VIII.

The present Convention shall have the same dura-
tion as the Treaty concluded between the High Con-
tracting Parties on the 23rd of July last, of which it
is the complement.

ARTICLE IX.

The President of the French Republic engages to
apply to the National Assembly for the necessary
authorization to ratify and give effect to the present
Convention immediately after its signature.

The ratifications shall be exchanged at Paris before
January 31, 1874, and the Convention shall imme-
diately come into force.

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

Done at Versailles, the twenty-fourth day of
January, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-four.

(L.S.) LE DUC DECAZES.
(L.S.) LYONS.

(No. 13.) Downing Street, 3rd May, 1874.
SIR,—I have the honor to inform you that Her
Majesty will not be advised to exercise her power of
disallowance with respect to the Act of the Legisla-
ture of New Zealand (No. 49 of 1873), entitled
"An Act to authorize the raising of Money for
Railways and Purchase of Native Land," a trans-
cript of which accompanied your Despatch No. 79,
of the 4th of November last.

I transmit to you, for communication to your
Government, a copy of a letter from the Board of
Treasury in reference to this Act.

I have, &c.,
CARNARVON.

Governor Sir James Fergusson, Bart.

Treasury Chambers, 27th April, 1874.
SIR,—The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury have had before them the Act of the
Legislature of New Zealand, "To authorize the
raising of Money for Railways and Purchase of
Native Lands," enclosed in Mr. Herbert's letter of
23rd February last.

Their Lordships have directed me to request that
the attention of the Secretary of State may be drawn
to the 20th section of this Act, by which "any part
of the loan guaranteed by the Lords of the Treasury
under certain Acts of the Imperial Parliament may
be applied to any of the purposes to which is applic-
able that part of the loan authorized by this Act to
be raised for purposes of railways."

The Secretary of State is aware that the Imperial
Act 33 and 34 Vict. cap. 40 limits the purposes
to which the loan of £1,000,000 guaranteed by this
Board under the provisions of that Act may be
applied, to the construction of roads, bridges, and
communications, and the introduction of settlers into
the colony.

Their Lordships presume that there is no intention
on the part of the New Zealand Government to
apply the moneys raised under the guarantee to
purposes not provided by the Act; but as a doubt
may arise with regard to the strict interpretation of
the 20th section of the Act, now submitted for the
consideration of this Board, they would suggest that
the New Zealand Government should be informed
that it must be clearly understood that their Lord-
ships have no power to consent to the application of
the guaranteed loan except in conformity with the
provisions of the Act 33 and 34 Vict. cap. 40.

I am, &c.,
JAMES H. COLE,
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
(for Secretary).

Provincial Ordinance allowed by the Governor.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 7th July, 1874.

THE following Ordinance, passed by the Provincial
Council and reserved by the Superintendent of