all the faculties, privileges, exemptions, and immunities of every kind which are or shall be granted to Consuls of the most favoured nation. XIII. The subjects or citizens of each of the High Contracting Parties who shall conform to the laws of the country 1. Shall have full liberty, with their families, to enter, travel, or reside in any part of the dominions and possessions of the High Contracting Party. 2. They shall be permitted to hire or possess the houses, manufactories, warehouses, shops, and premises which may be necessary for them. 3. They may carry on their commerce either in person or by any agents whom they may think fit to employ. 4. They shall not be subject in respect of their persons or property, or in respect of passports, or in respect of their commerce or industry, to any taxes, whether general or local, or to imposts or obligations of any kind whatever, other or greater than those which are or may be imposed upon native subjects or citizens, or subjects or citizens of the most favoured nation. XIV. The subjects or citizens of each of the High Contracting Parties in the dominions and possessions of the other shall be exempted from all compulsory military service whatever, whether in the army, navy, national guard, or militia. They shall be equally exempted from all judicial and municipal functions whatever other than those imposed by the laws relating to juries, as well as from all extraordinary war contributions, forced loans, and every species of military requisitions or service. In all other cases their personal and real property cannot be subjected to other charges or imposts than those that may be or have been exacted from the subjects or citizens of the country or from subjects or citizens of the most favoured nation. XV. The subjects or citizens of each of the High Contracting Parties in the dominions and possessions of the other shall be at full liberty to exercise civil rights, and therefore to acquire, possess, and dispose of every description of property, movable and immovable. They may acquire and transmit the same to others, whether by purchase, sale, donation exchange, marriage, testament, succession ab intestato, and in any other manner, under the same conditions as national subjects or citizens. Their heirs may succeed to and take possession of it, either in person or by procurators, in the same legal forms and in the same manner as subjects or citizens of the country. In none of these respects shall they pay upon the value of such property any other or higher impost, duty, or chargo than is or shall be payable by subjects or citizens of the country. In every case the subjects or citizens of the High Contracting Parties shall be permitted to export their property, or the proceeds thereof if sold, freely and without being subjected on such exportation to pay any duty different from that to which subjects or citizens of the country are or shall be liable under similar circumstances. XVI. The dwellings, manufactories, warehouses, and shops of the subjects or citizens of each of the High Contracting Parties in the dominions and possessions of the other, and all premises appertaining thereto destined for purposes of residence or commerce, shall be respected. It shall not be allowable to make a search of, or a domiciliary visit to, such dwellings and premises, or to examine or inspect books, papers, or accounts, except under the conditions and with the forms prescribed by the laws for subjects or citizens of the country, or of the most favoured nation. The subjects or citizens of each of the two High Contracting Parties in the dominions and possessions of the other shall have free access to the Courts of Justice for the prosecution and defence of their rights, without other conditions, restrictions, or taxes beyond those imposed on native subjects or citizens; they shall enjoy the same treatment as native subjects or citizens in all that concerns deposits, sureties, and fees in legal cases, and shall, in the same manner as native subjects or citizens, be at liberty to employ, in all causes, their advocates, attorneys, or agents from among the persons admitted to the exercise of those professions according to the laws of the country. XVII. The subjects or citizens of each of the High Contracting Parties shall have in the dominions and possessions of the other the same rights as native subjects or citizens in regard to patents for inventions, trade-marks, and designs, upon fulfilment of the formalities prescribed by law. XVIII. All goods bearing marks or descriptions which state, or manifestly suggest, that the goods are the produce or manufacture of one of the Contracting States, shall, if such statement or suggestion be false, be seized on importation into either of the two States. The seizure may also be effected in the State where the false indication of origin has been applied, or in that into which the goods bearing the false indication may have been imported. The seizure shall be effected either at the request of the proper Government Department or of an interested party, whether an individual or a society, in conformity with the domestic legislation of each State, but the authorities are not bound to effect the seizure of goods in transit. The Tribunals of each country shall decide what appellations, on account of their generic character, do not fall within the provisions of the present Article. XIX. The Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, and Consular Agents of each of the High 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 respective countries. XX. The stipulations of the present Treaty shall not be applicable to any of His Britannic Majesty's Colonies or possessions beyond the seas unless notice to that effect shall have been given, on behalf of any such Colony or possession, by His Britannic Majesty's Representative in the Republic of Nicaragua to the Nicaraguan Minister for Foreign Affairs, within one year from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the present Treaty. It is understood that, under the provisions of this Article, His Majesty's Government can, in the same manner, give notice of adhesion on behalf of any British Protectorate or sphere of influence, or on behalf of the Island of Cyprus, in virtue of the Convention of the 4th June, 1878, between Great Britain and Turkey.t XXI. The present Treaty shall come into effect ten days after the day upon which the ratifications are exchanged, and shall remain in force for ten years after such exchange. In case neither of the High Contracting Parties shall have given notice to the other twelve months before the expiration of the said period of ten years of the intention to terminate the present Treaty, it shall remain in force until the expiration of one year from the day on which either of the High Contracting Parties shall have given such notice. His Britannic Majesty's Government shall also have the right to terminate separately the present Treaty at any time on giving twelve months' notice to that effect on behalf of any British Colony, possession, or dependency, as specified in Article XX, which may have acceded thereto. XXII. The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at London, within the period of one year from the date of signature. Done in duplicate at Managua, this 28th day of July, in the year 1905. In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty, and have affixed thereto their seals. (L.S.) HERBERT HARRISON. *See list of Colonies which have acceded, page 79. PROTOCOL. The Undersigned, Plenipotentiaries of the High Contracting Parties of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation signed between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Republic of Nicaragua this day, have agreed as follows: I. It is declared that in all cases in which the provisions of the said Treaty grant treatment of the most favoured nation, the term shall not be held to include the Central American Republics. II. It is declared that the stipulations in Article II of the said Treaty, with respect to the port of San Juan del Norte, are permanent. III. The Nicaraguan Government will give Custom-house bonds to the merchants at the port of San Juan del Norte, for a sum equal to that which they have paid as commercial tax during the last ten years. The merchants will pay Custom-house duties with these bonds until the said bonds are extinguished. The value of the bonds assigned to each merchant will be the sum he has paid as commercial tax during the last ten years, and it is understood that to those who have been tax-paying merchants during a shorter time, will be assigned the sum corresponding to that time. IV. It is understood that nothing contained in the Treaty signed this day shall be held to prevent the Government of either country from taking such steps as they may judge expedient, either by way of countervailing duties or otherwise, to neutralize the effect of bounties granted, either directly or indirectly, on the production or exportation of goods. Signed at Managua, this 28th day of July, 1905. HERBERT HARRISON. List of British Colonies, &c., which have acceded to the above Treaty under Article XX: British Honduras. Gambia. Hong Kong. Jamaica (with the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Cayman Islands). Leeward Islands. New Zealand. Northern Nigeria. Seychelles. Southern Nigeria. AGREEMENT between Great Britain and Norway, respecting Telegraphic Communication between the two Countries.Signed at Stockholm, February 2, 1905.* THE British and Norwegian Governments, recognizing that the provision of, and control over, the means of telegraphic communication between the United Kingdom and Norway is a matter in which both Governments are jointly interested, have agreed as follows: ART. I. The Concessions of the Great Northern Telegraph Company for their Peterhead-Egersund cable shall not be renewed beyond the 1st January, 1911, without previous consultation between the two Governments. The British and Norwegian Telegraph Administrations shall, in good time before the expiry of the concessions, submit to discussion the question whether they are to be renewed or not. II. No new concession shall be granted to any company or private individual for the establishment of submarine cables between the two countries without previous consultation between the two Governments. III. No concession shall be granted to any company or private individual for the establishment of communication between the two countries by means of wireless telegraphy without previous consultation between the two Governments. Done in duplicate and signed at Stockholm, this 2nd day of February, 1905. (L.S.) RENNELL RODD. (L.S.) AUG. F. GYLDENSTOLPE. AGREEMENT between Great Britain and Portugal, respecting the direct exchange of Parcels by Parcel Post.-Signed at Lisbon, July 28, 1905.† THE Governments of His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions Signed also in the Norwegian language. + Signed also in the Portuguese language. |