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Memorandam.
1. This Tariff extends to the whole of British India except Aden.
2. Nothing herein contained affecta the régulations now in force in British India relating to the transhipment of goods, or any regalations which maj be applied to Portuguese India under Article VIII of the foregoing Treatjy or authorizes the levy of duties of Customs on any article carried from one port in British or Portuguese India to another, except sait, salted fish, opium, and spirit.
3. Qoods not prohibited to be imported into, or used in British or Portuguese India, whereof any article liable to duty under this Tariff forms a part or ingrédient, shall be chargeable with the fùU duty which woold be payable on such goods if they were entirely composed of such article, or, if composed of more than one article liable to duty, then with the fall duty which woald be payable on such goods Jf they were entirely composed of the article charged with the highest rate of duty.
4. The Govemments of British and Portuguese India mayj, from time to time, prescribe raies for ascertaining and determiuing what spirit imported into Portuguese India shall be deemed to hâve been effectually and permanently rendered unfît for human consumption, so as to be subject only to an ad valorem duty of 10 per cent, under Schedule (A) of this Tariff, and for causing such spirit to be so rendered, if necessary, by their own oflicers, before the duty of Customs leviable thereon is levied, and at the expense of the person importing it.
Such rules, on being published in the respective officiai Gazettes, shall havc the force of law , and whoever wilfully contravenes any such mie shall be liable to fine not exceeding 500 rupees.
In the absence of any such rules, or if any dispute arises as to their applicability , the executive offîcer of highest rank in the Department of Customs in the port shall décide what spirit in subject only to the said ad valorem duty, and such décision shall be final.
5. On ail pepper exported by sea from the port of Cochin there shall be levied such duty not exceeding 9 rupees per khandi, as the Gbvernor of Fort St. George in Council from time to time détermines; and iit the close of each year, or as soon thereafler as may be convenient, the Collector of Customs at the said port shall, after deducting the expenses of collection, pay the duty coliected under this section to the Govemments of Travancore and Cochin in such proportion, and in such manner, as the Governor of Fort St. George in Council from time to time directs.
6. No opium shall be imported into or exported from any part of British India, except in accordance with the British Indian Opium Act, 1878, or any other law relating to opium for the time being in force in British India.
7. No opium shall be exported from any part of Portuguese India except in accordance with Article XIV of the foregoing Treaty.
R, B. D, Marier, Joao de Andrcide Corvo.
Lisbon, Deceraber 26, 1878.
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Tbf; Vnnffrt.'jrz,fA . Rc'/ert B-rreî L»aT:i Morier. C:rcpaiii.:n of tfce M'-zit H<>û//irt5i'/> OH^r 'J th^ Bv»L. Hrrr Briranr:: Hs'estT'? EnTcv Extraordioarr aûd Mlii>*^r Fi-^nip^^t-entiary a*, •h-r OoTin of H 15 M:^t Faithfixl Maj^^-tr. à'-;,, à/::.: Sifi'i Jiâo ie Acirâde Corro. C:-:iidllGr çf State. Peer r/f tb* Ke^lm , Mîn:*tfrr ani Sf^retarr of State for Foreign A^Tair? of His MrM Falthfui Màî<-t.v. Profe«sor of the Polrtevhiiic S-zk::! of Lisbon, LWatwiant-^.V^lon^rl of Enîrin^r*. Knight Grani Cross of tbe Ancient Most Noble and Iîia»t.rioaë Order of St. James for the r^ward of scientific, literary, and arti%tic merit, Knight Comiiiaiider of the Order of Cbrist, Companion of the Militarj- Order of Aviz, Effective Knight Grand Cross of tlw Order of the Rose of Brazil, Knight Grand Cross of the Légion of H/îfionr of France, of I^opold of Aastria, of Saints Maurice and Lazams of Italy, of the liojal Order of Charles ELI of Spaiii, of the Order of the Polar Star of Sweden, Officer of Pablic Ins*m«tion in France. &ç., &c.; being frjmijihed with the authoritj of their respective Govemments, hâve agreerl upon the following Additional Article to the Treaty of Commerce and Extradition with référence to the Indian possessions of the Britiah and Portugne«e Crowns, signed on the 26 th day of December, 1878: —
"At the expiration of three years from the date at wbich the arrangements re^pecting the manufacture and sale of sait, provided for in Article XII of the Treaty aforesaid, shall bave been definitively concluded, eacb of the High Contracting Parties shall bave the right to invite the other Contracting Party to reconsider the stipulations of that Article with a view to their altération, modification, or improvement, and, should it be alleged that abuses bave ansen in the practical application of the stipulations aforesaid, the High Contracting Parties engage jointly to inv^ti-
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gâte nnch allégations, and, in the event of their being proved to be correct, to cooperate with each other for the removal of such abuses.
»Itis, nevertheless , understood that, unless both High Contracting Parties shall mutnally agrée to substitute some other arrangements for the manufacture and sale of sait than those stipulated for in Article XII of the Treaty aforesaid, the arrangements stipnlated for in the said Article XII shall continue in force for the remaining portion of the tenu of twelve years during which the Treaty has to nin.«
The présent Additional Article shall hâve the same force and validity as if it had been inserted word for word in the aforesaid Treaty of the 26th December, 1878 , and shall be included in the ratification of the said Treaty.
In witnees whereof the Undersigned Plenipotentiaries hâve signed the same, and haye afGxed thereto the seals of their arms.
Donc in duplicate at Lisbon, this 8th day of March, 1879.
R. B. D. Marier, Joao de Andrade Corvo.
Déclaration.
The Undersigned, Her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Eztraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of His Most Faithful Majesty, and His Most Faithful Majesty's Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, having met, this sixth day of Augost, 1879, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Lisbon, for the pnrpose of ezchanging the ratifications of the Treaty of Commerce and Extradition between Her Britannic Majesty and His Most Faithful Majesty with référence to their Indian PossessionSi signed at Lisbon on the twenty-sixth day of December, 1878, made the following déclarations: —
His Most Faithful M^jesty's Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs declared that His Majesty's Govemment, whilst fnlly determined to do everything in their power to hasten the preparatory labours required for the fall exécution of the Treaty stipulations, so as, if possible, to bring them to a conclusion within the three months, at the expiration of which, from the date of the exchange of ratifications, Article XXII stipulâtes that the Treaty shall come into force, nevertheless, cannot, in view of the varied and complicated nature of the reforme which it will be necessary to introduce into the administrative System of the Portuguese Colonies in India, engage with certainty that thèse preparatory labours shall be so far advanced, at the expiration of three months from to-day, as to enable the Treaty to come into force at the date thus specified.
Her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary having taken act of the déclaration made by His Most FaitÛtal Majesty's Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Afiairs, dedared himself authorized by his Govemment to propose to the Govemment of His Most Faithful Majesty that theDelegates to whom, nnder ArtideXVII of the Treaty, is confided the task of preparing the measnres reqnisite for
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