SEPARATE AND ADDITIONAL ARTICLE. In order to avoid all doubt respecting the reduction upon the duties in favour of British commerce, which his Sicilian Majesty has promised in the 7th article of the Convention, signed this day between his Britannic Majesty and his Sicilian Majesty, it is declared, by this present separate and additional article, that by the concession of 10 per cent. of diminution, it is understood that in case the amount of the duty should be 20 per cent. upon the value of the merchandise, the effect of the reduction of 10 per cent is to reduce the duty from 20 to 18: and so for other cases in proportion. And that for the articles which are not taxed ad valorem in the tariff, the reduction of the duty shall be proportionate; that is to say, a deduction of the tenth part upon the amount of the sum payable shall be granted. The present separate and additional article shall have the same force and validity as if it had been inserted word for word in the Convention of this day--it shall be ratified, and the ratification thereof shall be exchanged at the same time. In witness whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed it, and have thereunto affixed the seal of their arms. Done at London, the 26th of September, 1816. CASTLEREAGH. CASTELCICALA. TREATY of COMMERCE and NAVIGATION between his MAJESTY and the Free City of FRANKFORT. The following are the articles of this treaty : Article 1.-There shall be between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Free City of Frankfort and its Territories, a reciprocal freedom of com merce. The subjects and citizens of the two countries respectively, shall have liberty freely and securely to come with their ships and cargoes, or with goods borne by land, or by inland navigation, to all such places, ports, and rivers, in the respective territories aforesaid, to which other foreigners are or may be permitted to come, and to enter into the same, and to remain and reside in any port or part of the said territories respectively, and to hire and occupy houses and warehouses for the purposes of their commerce, in such manner as is permitted to merchants of the most favoured nations; and, generally, the merchants and traders of each state shall, within the territories of the other, enjoy the most complete protection and security for their commerce, subject always to the laws and statutes of the two states respectively; and, generally, each of the said high contracting parties agrees to place the other, in all that respects trade, commerce, and navigation, on the footing of the most favoured nation. 2.-No higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation of any articles, goods, wares, and merchandise, the growth, produce, or manufacture of the territory of the republic of Frankfort, or of any other country, into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which may be legally imported from the free city of Frankfort, or the territories thereof, than are or shall be payable on the like articles, goods, wares, and merchandise, imported from any other foreign country; and, reciprocally, no higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation of any articles, goods, wares, and merchandise, into the free city of Frankfort, or into its territories, from the territories of his Britannic Majesty in Europe, than are or shall be payable on the like articles, goods, wares, and merchandise, imported from any other foreign country. 3.-No higher or other duties or charges shall be imposed, nor shall any lower drawbacks or bounties be allowed or granted, in the territories of either of the high contracting parties, on the exportation of any articles, goods, wares, and merchandise, to the -territories of the other by sea or land, or by inland navigation, than such as are or shall be payable, or allowed or granted, on the exportation of the like articles, goods, wares, and merchandise, to any other foreign country. 4.-No prohibition or restriction shall be imposed upon the importation or exportation, by sea or land, or by inland navigation, of any articles, the growth, produce, or manu facture of the territories of either of the high contracting parties, into or from the territories of the other, which shall not equally extend to the like articles, the growth, produce, or manufacture of the territories of all other foreign powers. 5.-All goods, wares, and merchandise imported into the free city of Frankfort, or into the territories thereof, from the territories of his Britannic Majesty in Europe, shall be admitted into the said free city and the territories thereof, on paying duties according to the tariff now in force there; and all goods, wares, and merchandise imported into the territories of his Britannic Majesty in Europe from the said free city of Frankfort, or the territories thereof, shall be admitted into his Britannic Majesty's said territories, on paying duties according to the several acts of the British Parliament now in force respecting the trade and navigation of the United Kingdom; (of which respective tariffs authenticated copies have been interchanged between the high contracting parties at the time of the execution of this present Convention.) The high contracting parties mutually reserve to themselves the right to establish all such changes as to them shall seem meet, respecting the mode of estimating and collec'ing the duties imposed by the said respective tariffs. Should any change be hereafter made in the tariff of duties now payable in the territories of his Britannic Majesty m Europe, as shall have the effect of increasing the amount of the duties payable on the importation of any article into those territories from the free city of Frankfort, or the territories thereof, the said Free City of Frankfort reserves to itself the right of making such an addition to their before-mentioned tariff, as shall countervail and be equal to any such increase. 6.--The same duties shall be paid on the importation of any articles, goods, wares, and merchandise, into the territories of his Britannic Majesty in Europe, from the free city of Frankfort, and the territories thereof, whether such importation shall be in British or in Frankfort vessels; or whether such articles, goods, wares, and merchandise, shall be transhipped at any foreign port from a Frankfort into a British vessel, or be laden on board any such British vessel at any quay, wharf, or warehouse, at which the same may have been discharged from any such Frankfort vessel; and, reciprocally, the same duties shall be paid on the importation of any articles, goods, wares, and merchandise, into the territories of the free city of Frankfort, or into the said city from his Britannic Majesty's territories in Europe, whether such importation shall be in Frankfort or in British vessels; or, whether such articles shall be transhipped at any foreign port from a British into a Frankfort vessel, or be laden on board any such Frankfort vessel at any quay, wharf, or warehouse, at which the same may have been discharged from any such British vessel. 7.--The same duties shall be paid, and the same drawbacks and bounties allowed and granted, on the exportation of any articles, goods, wares, and merchandise, from the territories of his Britannic Majesty in Europe, by sea or by inland navigation, to the free city of Frankfort and the territories thereof, whether such exportation shall be in Frankfort or in British vessels; and, reciprocally, the same duties shall be paid, and the same bounties and drawbacks allowed, on the exportation of any artides, goods, wares, and merchandise, from the territories of the free city of Frankfort, or from the said city by inland navigation, to his Britannic Majesty's dominions in Europe, whether such exportation shall be in British or in Frankfort vessels. 8. No higher or other duties or charges on account of tonnage, light, or harbour dues, pilotage, salvage in case of damage or shipwreck, or any other local charges, shall be imposed in any of the ports of his Britannic Majesty's dominions in Europe on Frankfort vessels, than those payable in the same ports by British vessels; nor at Frankfort on British vessels, than shall be payable at Frankfort on Frankfort vessels. 9.--In consideration of the limited extent of the territory belonging to the republic of Frankfort, it is hereby stipulated and agreed, that any vessel, being Frankfort or British built, and being navigated by a master and a crew, three-fourths of which at least are citizens or subjects of the free city of Frankfort, or of any or either of the states comprised in the Germanic confederation, as described and enumerated in the 53d and 56th articles of the general treaty of Congress, signed at Vienna on the 9th of June, 1815, such vessel, so built, navigated, and wholly owned by Frankfort citizens or subjects, shall, for all the purposes of this treaty, be taken to be and considered as a vessel belonging to Frankfort. 13. The present treaty shall be in force for the term of ten years from the date hereof, and further, until the end of twelve months after the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or the one part, or the Senate of the free city of Frankfort on the other part, shall have given notice of their intention to terminate the same; each of the said high contracting parties reserving to itself the right of giving such notice to the other at the end of nine years. 14. The present treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at London within the space of two months, or sooner if possible. In witness whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms. Done at London, the 13th day of May, in the year of our Lord, 1832. PALMERSTON, AUCKLAND. HARNIER. 559 TABLE OF DUTIES OF CUSTOMS INWARDS. A TABLE of the DUTIES of CUSTOMS payable on Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, imported into the United Kingdom from Foreign Parts,-and of the Drawbacks to be allowed on the Exportation of such Goods, Wares, and Merchandise. INWARDS. £. s. d. Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, being either in part or wholly manufac See as to PARTS OF ARTICLES, entered for duty ad valorem, page 458. 5 0 0 not set, for every 1007. of the value ... Beads, see Beads. Agates, or Cornelians, viz.-set, for every 1007. of the value Alkali, (not being Barilla,) viz. any article containing Soda or Mineral Alkali, whereof Mineral Alkali is the most valuable part, (such Alkali not being otherwise charged with duty,) If not containing more than 20 per cent. of such Alkali, the cwt... 0 11 0 15 ex. 25 and not ex. 30 per cent. ditto .... 0 18 ex. 30 and not ex. 40 per cent. ditto 3 If containing more than 40 per cent. of such Alkali, the cwt. Alkanet Root, the cwt. ... § 1 & 2 Wm. IV. c. 16. § 5. (14 Dec. 1830.) 2 & 3 Wm. IV. c. 84. (4 Aug. 1832.) 1 10 0 40440 4 2 0 0 0 2 0 £. 8. d. 1 8 60 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 08 the produce of and imported from any British possession, the lb. 002 Alum, the cwt. Roch, the cwt..... 0 17 6 0 11 8 Amber Beads, see Beads. Oil of, see Oil. Rough, the lb. ¶ Manufactures of, not otherwise enumerated or described, the lb. Anchovies, the lb. ]. An adequate tare to be allowed for the package, and one-third part for 002 the produce of and imported from any British possession, the the produce of any British possession, and imported direct from Free. Soap, Wood, and Weed, the cwt. 0 1 not otherwise enumerated or described, for every 1007. of the value .20 ∞000 8 ..... Balm of Gilead, and all Balsams not otherwise enumerated or de- * 7 Geo. IV. c. 48. (6 July, 1826.) || 10 Geo. IV. c. 43. (22 June, 1829.) 2 & 3 Wm. IV. c. 84. (4 Aug. 1832.) 1 10 0 0 020 0 4 100000 041012 Bandstring Twist, the dozen knots, each knot containing 32 yards For repayment of Duty on Barilla used in Bleaching, see page 509. imported from any British possession, the cwt. ¶ of other sorts, the lb. Extract of, or of other Vegetable Substances, to be used only for tanning - Bark or any Solid Vegetable Extract to be used solely for the purpose Basket Rods, the bundle not exceeding three feet in circumference at the band T. Baskets, for every 1007. of the value 1 0 20 0 0 Bast Ropes, the cwt... 0 10 or Straw Hats or Bonnets, see Hats. Platting or other manufactures of Bast or Straw for making Hats or Bonnets, see Platting. not otherwise enumerated or described, for every 1007, of the value. Beans, Kidney or French Beans, the bushel.. .30 Beef, Salted,** the cwt. † .. Beef-wood, unmanufactured, imported from New South Wales, the ton Bones of Cattle and other Animals, and of Fish, (except Whale Fins,) for every 1007. of the value Bonnets, see Hats. Books, being of editions printed prior to the year 1801, bound or unbound, the cwt... 0 0.15 10 1 8 6 0 3 2 0 0 0 10 0 12 0 0 5 0 3 1 1 3 6 0 2 13 0 0 0 0 being of editions printed in or since the year 1801, bound or unbound, ... To prevent Foreign Books and Maps, the property of individuals, from Boots, Shoes, and Calashes, || viz.— Women's Boots and Calashes, the dozen pairs.. 1 10 0 + 7 & 8 Geo. IV. c. 56. (6 July, 1827.) § 1 & 2 Wm. IV. c. 16. § 5. (14 Dec. 1830.) 2 & 3 Wm. IV. c. 84. (4 Aug. 1832.) **Not Corned Beef, see page 457. 10 Geo. IV. c. 43. (22 June, 1829.) |