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Tariff. —A tariff of such duties shall be drawn up by the British Consul and by a person or persons commissioned by Her Majesty the Queen of Madagascar, and shall be submitted for the approval of Her Britannic Majesty. Such tariff shall be drawn up and published within one year after the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty. Tti case any article of produce or merchandise should be inadvertently omitted from such tariff, the duty levied on such article shall be calculated at the market value of the merchandise at the period at which the tariff was framed. (Article VI.) Prohibitions : Subjects and Vessels. —No prohibition shall apply to any article imported or exported by British subjects or vessels unless the prohibition apply equally to the subjects and vessels of every other foreign nation. (Article VI.) Tonnage, Harbour, Pilotage, Lighthouse, Quarantine, and other Local Dues. —No duties of tonnage, harbour, pilotage, lighthouse, quarantine, or other local dues shall be imposed in the ports of the dominions of either country upon the vessels of the other country, from whatever place arriving, or whatever may be their place of destination, which shall not equally be imposed in the like cases on national vessels, or on vessels of the most favoured nation. (Article VIII.) If applicable to British Colonies. Subjects : Commerce. —Applicable to " all parts of Her Britannic Majesty's dominions." (Article II.) MOBOCCO.—Decehbee 9, 1856. General Treat;/. —When the ratifications of the present treaty, aud of the Convention of Commerce and Navigation, which has also been concluded this day between the High Contracting Parties, shall have been exchanged,* the stipulations of the said Treaty and Convention shall come into immediate operation, and shall be substituted for the stipulations of all preceding treaties between Great Britain and Morocco. Most-favoured-Nation Treatment. Diplomatic Agents and Consuls. —The British Charge d'Affaires or other political agent accredited by the Queen of Great Britain to the Sultan of Morocco, as also the British Consuls who shall reside in the dominions of the Sultan of Morocco, shall always have respect and honour paid to them suitable to their rank. Their houses and families shall be safe and protected. No one shall interfere with them, or commit any act of oppression or disrespect towards them either by words or by deeds ; and if any one should do so he shall receive a severe punishment, as a correction to himself and a check to others. ****** They themselves and their deputies or Vice-Consuls shall be entitled, in the most ample sense, to every privilege which is now enjoyed, or may in future be granted, to the Consul of any other nation. (Article III.) Subjects : Personal Privileges.- —With respect to the personal privileges to be enjoyed by the subjects of Her Britannic Majesty in the dominions of the Sultan of Morocco, His Sherifian Majesty engages that they shall have a free and undoubted right to travel and to reside in the territories and dominions of his said Majesty, subject to the same precautions of police which are practised towards the subjects or citizens of the most favoured nations. Her Britannic Majesty, on her part, engages to insure the enjoyment of the same protection and privileges to the subjects of His Majesty the Sultan of Morocco within Her dominions which are or may be enjoyed by the subjects of the most favoured nations. (Article IV.) Subjects : Rights and Privileges, Commerce, aud Navigation. —All British subjects, whether Mahommedans, Jews, or Christians, shall alike enjoy all the rights and privileges granted by the present treaty and the Convention of Commerce and Navigation, which has also been concluded this day, or which shall at any time be granted to the most favoured nation. (Article XIII.) Subjects : Hights and Privileges, Commerce, and Navigation. —The subjects of the Queen of Great Britain, and those who are under her government or protection, shall have the full benefit of the privileges and of the particular favours granted by this treaty, and which may be allowed to the subjects of other nations that are at war with Great Britain; and if after this date any other privileges shall be granted to any other power, the same shall be extended and apply to and in favour of all British subjects in every respect, as to the subjects of such other Power. (Article XX.) If applicable to British Colonies. Subjects. —Applicable to the British "dominions." (Article IV.) Decembee 9, 1850. Commerce and Navigation. —ln order that the two High Contracting Parties may have the opportunity of hereafter treating and agreeing upon such other arrangements as may tend still further to the improvement of their mutual intercourse and to the advancement of the interests of their respective subjects, it is agreed that, at any time after the expiration of five years from the date of the exchange of the ratifications* of the present Convention of Commerce and Navigation, either of the High Contracting Parties shall have the right to call upon the other to enter upon a revision of the same ; but until such revision shall have been accomplished by common consent, and a new Convention shall have been concluded and ratified, the present Convention shall continue and remain in full force .and effect. When the ratifications of the present Convention and of the said General Treaty shall have been

* Sultau's ratification attached to the original treaty. The Queen's ratification delivered to the Moorish Plenipotentiary, April 8, 1857.