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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Agents, each one interpreter, one broker, and one
guard, and two servants, not being in the military
service, who shall likewise be exempt from the con-
scription, from the payment of any poll-tax, forced
contribution, or other similar or corresponding
charge. No prohibition nor tax shall be put upon
the provisions, furniture, or any other articles which
may come to the said Agent and Consul-General,
Consuls, or Vice-Consuls, for their own use and for
the use of their families, upon their delivering to the
Officer of the Customs a note under their hand,
specifying the number of articles which they shall
require to be passed on that ground, but this privilege
shall only be accorded to Consular Officers who are
not engaged in trade. If the service of their Sove-
reign should require their attendance in their own
country, no impediment shall be offered to their
departure, and no hindrance shall be offered either to
themselves or their servants, or in regard to their
property, but they shall be at liberty to go and come,
respected and honored. If they should depute
another person to act for them in their absence, they
shall not be prevented in any way from so doing,
nor shall the deputy be prevented from acting in
that capacity.

ARTICLE IV.

There shall be reciprocal freedom of commerce
between the dominions of Her Majesty the Queen
and the Regency of Tunis. British merchants or
their agents and brokers shall be permitted to pur-
chase at all places within the Regency, whether for
the purposes of internal trade or of exportation, all
articles, without any exception whatsoever, being the
produce or manufacture of the said Regency; and
the purchaser shall be free to remove his goods, when
purchased, from one place to another, without any
attempt being made on the part of the local Gover-
nors to interfere with them.

ARTICLE V.

In accordance with the friendship which has at all
times existed between the two Governments, His
Highness the Bey engages to protect British subjects
who may come to his country either for the purposes
of trade or for travelling. They shall be free to
travel or to reside in any part of the Regency with-
out hindrance or molestation; and they shall be
treated with respect, love, and honor. They shall
be exempt from forced military service, whether by
land or by sea; from forced loans, and from every
extraordinary contribution. Their dwellings and
warehouses destined for the purposes of residence and
commerce, as well as their property, both real and
personal, of every kind, shall be respected, and, in
particular, all the stipulations of the Convention
concluded between Her Majesty's Government and
His Highness the Bey on the 10th of October, 1863,
relative to the permission granted to British subjects
to hold real property in the Regency of Tunis, are
hereby confirmed. And British subjects, vessels,
commerce, and navigation shall enjoy, without any
restriction or diminution, all the privileges, favours,
and immunities which are now or may hereafter be
granted to the subjects, vessels, commerce, and navi-
gation of any other nation whatever.

Her Britannic Majesty, on her part, engages to in-
sure to Tunisian subjects, vessels, commerce, and
navigation within her dominions, the enjoyment of
the same protection and privileges which are or may
be enjoyed by the subjects, vessels, commerce, and
navigation of the most favoured nation.

ARTICLE VI.

The perfect security which His Highness the Bey
accords to the British merchants and subjects who
may reside in the Regency extends likewise to the
free exercise of the rites of their religion. They shall
be free to erect churches, upon the application of the
British Agent and Consul-General to His Highness
the Bey, who will grant the necessary permission.
The British Cemetery of Saint George, and other
burial places, now or hereafter to be established,
shall be protected and respected as heretofore.

ARTICLE VII.

His Highness the Bey engages that he will not
prohibit the importation into the Regency of any
article the produce and manufacture of the dominions
and possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, from what-
ever place arriving, and that the duties to be levied
upon such articles of produce or manufacture so im-
ported shall in no case exceed one fixed rate of 8
per cent. ad valorem, to be calculated upon the value
of such merchandise at the place of landing, or a
specific duty, fixed by common consent, equivalent
thereto.

Such articles, after paying 8 per cent. import
duty, shall not be subject to any other internal
charge or impost whatsoever, whether the buyer be
a Tunisian or a foreigner. And if such articles
should not be sold for consumption in the Regency,
but should be re-exported within the space of one
year, the Administration of the Customs shall be
bound, provided the bales or packages have not been
opened, to restore at the time of their re-exportation
duty levied to the merchant, who shall be re-
quired first to furnish proofs that the goods so ex-
ported have paid the said import duty.

After the expiration of one year the merchant shall
be free to re-export his foreign goods without claim-
ing the drawback, and the Custom House shall not
levy upon them any duty whatsoever on re-exportation.

Should a British merchant or his agent desire to
convey, by sea or by land, from one port or place to
another port or place in the Regency of Tunis, goods
upon which the ad valorem duty above mentioned has
been already paid, such goods shall be subject to no
further duty, either on their embarkation or disem-
barkation, provided they be accompanied by a certifi-
cate from the Tunisian Administrator of Customs
that the duty has been paid.

And it is moreover agreed that no other or higher
duties shall be imposed on the importation of any
article the produce or manufacture of one of the
Contracting Parties into the country of the other,
which shall not equally extend to the like articles
being the produce or manufacture of any other
country.

ARTICLE VIII.

Vessels navigating under the British flag and ves-
sels navigating under the Tunisian flag shall be free
to carry on the coasting trade in the States and
Dominions of the Contracting Parties. They shall
enjoy the same rights and immunities as are enjoyed
by national vessels, and they shall be free either to
land a portion of their cargoes, or to embark goods,
foreign or native, to complete their cargoes, in each
other's ports, without being obliged in each case to
procure any special license from the local authori-
ties, or to pay any charges and dues that are not paid
by national vessels.

The stipulations of this Article shall however, as
regards the colonial coasting trade, be deemed to ex-
tend only to the coasting trade of such of the
colonial possessions of Her Britannic Majesty as,
under the provisions of the Act relating thereto, may
have opened their coasting trade to foreign vessels.

ARTICLE IX.

His Highness the Bey formally engages to abolish
all monopolies of agricultural produce or of any
other article whatsoever, save and except tobacco and
salt, and save and except the fisheries, and the tan-
nery of hides of oxen, camels, and horses.