jusqu'à ce moment les obligations militaires ou autres afférentes aux sujets Bulgares. IX. Le présent Arrangement s'appliquera seulement aux cas de nationalité Persane contestée qui se sont produits jusqu'à ce jour, ou qui seront signalés par les Préfectures dans les listes dont il est fait mention à l'Article V. Fait en double exemplaire à Sophia, le Juin, 1897. (L.S.) F. ELLIOT. (L.S.) G. VERNAZZA. (L.S.) M. NESTOROFF. SWISS NOTIFICATION of the Accession of Sarawak to the Universal Postal Convention of 1891.-Berne, March 13, 1897. M. LE MINISTRE, Berne, le 13 Mars, 1897. Nous avons l'honneur d'informer votre Excellence que, par note datée du 26 Février dernier, la Légation de la Grande-Bretagne à Berne nous a informés de l'adhésion du Protectorat Britannique de Sarawak à la Convention Postale Universelle (Convention principale), à l'exclusion des autres Actes conclus au Congrès de Vienne. Nous nous empressons de notifier cette adhésion à votre Excellence, conformément à l'Article XXIV de cette même Convention, et faisons ressortir ce qui suit : : 1. Le Protectorat Britannique de Sarawak entrera dans l'Union Postale Universelle le 1er Juillet, 1897. 2. Les offices de poste de ce Protectorat percevront les équivalents de taxes suivants, identiques à ceux en vigueur dans la Colonie Britannique des Straits Settlements: 8 cents de dollar pour 25 centimes; 3 cents de dollar pour 10 centimes; 1 cent de dollar pour 5 centimes. 3. Quant à la participation aux frais du Bureau International, le Protectorat Britannique de Sarawak sera compris dans "l'ensemble des autres Colonies et Protectorats Britanniques, moins le Canada," conformément au § 5 de l'Article XXXII du Règlement pour l'exécution de la Convention principale. Nous saisissons, &c., Au nom du Conseil Fédéral Suisse, DEUCHER, Président de la Confédération RINGIER, Chancelier de la Confédération. CUSTOMS UNION CONVENTION between the Govern ments of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, the Colony of Natal, and the Orange Free State.-Signed at Cape Town. May 6, 1898; at Bloemfontein, May 11, 1898; and at Pietermaritzburg, May 12, 1898. His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, his Excellency the Governor of the Colony of Natal, and his Honour the President of the Orange Free State, mutually, on behalf of their respective Governments, admitting that each Colony and State is entitled to a share in customs duties collected on goods imported for consumption therein through any of the said Colonies or State, and that it is desirable that there should be a general Customs Union between all the Colonies and States of South Africa on the basis-firstly, of a uniform tariff on all imported goods consumed within such Union, and of an equitable distribution of the duties collected on such goods amongst the parties to such Union; and, secondly, of free trade between the Colonies and States, in respect of all South African products, and being desirous, pending the establishment of such a general Customs Union, of extending the existing Customs Union, have agreed on behalf of their respective Governments, upon the following Articles: ART. I. The Customs Union Convention between the Cape Colony and the Orange Free State, entered into in the year 1889, and still subsisting, together with all the Protocols thereto, shall be superseded by this present Convention: Provided, how ever * (a.) That the supersession of the said Convention and Protocols shall not affect the validity of those Protocols thereto whereby Basutoland and the Bechuanaland Protectorate were admitted to the Customs Union, which Protocols are for reference and certainty set forth as Schedules (A) and (B) hereto, and, with the exception of the fourth Article of each Protocol, which are obsolete, are to be regarded as embodied herein, this Convention and its corresponding Articles being deemed to be in the said Protocol referred to in place of the superseded Convention, and its articles of similar import; (b.) That, wherever in either of the said Protocols mutual agreement or joint assent is required, the agreement or assent of the Government of Natal shall be deemed to be necessary; (c.) That the subsisting Convention, with all Protocols thereto, * Vol. LXXXI, page 281. shall, as between all the parties thereto, continue to be of binding force and effect until a date to be fixed by agreement among the Parties to this present Convention, after the same shall have been signed by the Parties hereto, and shall have been also assented to by his Excellency the Governor of the Cape Colony, and Her Majesty's High Commissioner, for and on behalf of Basutoland and the Bechuanaland Protectorate aforesaid, and after the same shall have been ratified and approved of by the Parliament of each of the said Colonies, and by the Volksraad of the Orange Free State; and (d.) That all accounts and other matters outstanding between any parties to the subsisting Convention shall, notwithstanding its supersession by this present Convention, be settled and determined under the subsisting Convention and Protocols. II. The following, and none other, shall be the customs duties upon goods imported into any place within the Union; and the Government of each Colony, State, or territory within the Union shall be bound to levy and collect within its jurisdiction the said duties upon all goods so imported from outside the limits of the Union : Customs Union Tariff. CLASS I.-Special Rates. £ s. d. 12 10 0 1. Ale, beer, and cider, all kinds of strength exceeding 2 per cent. proof spirit (a.) In vessels of not greater content than 1 Imperial (b.) In other vessels, bulk or wood, per Imperial gallon.. 2. Acetic acid, per Imperial gallon 3. Animals, viz. (a.) Mules and geldings, and cattle for slaughter, each 4. Beads, known as "Kafir beads," per lb. 5. Bicycles, tricycles, and velocipedes, including accessories, per 1001. 6. Blasting compounds, including all kinds of explosives suitable and intended for blasting, and not suitable for use in firearms, per lb. 7. Butter, butterine, margarine, ghee, and other substitutes for butter, per lb. 0 0 0 16 8 0 6 3 0 16 £ &. d. 001 001 042 030 Ib.. 13. Cocoa and chocolate, unsweetened, per lb. 18. Corn and grain, viz., barley, maize, millet, oats, rye, wheat, (a.) In the grain; or (b) crushed, flaked, ground, hulled, 20. Fish, cured, dried, pickled, preserved, pressed, or smoked, not being of South African catching, per lb. 21. Fodder, viz., chaff, hay, lucerne, oat-hay, and other fodder, not (And 7 per cent. ad valorem in addition.) 26. Guns and gun barrels, fire-arms— (And in either case 7 per cent. ad valorem in addition.) 27. Meats (a.) Cooked, dried, fresh, chilled, frozen, pressed, pickled, salted, smoked, or otherwise cured or preserved, including lard, fats, and other similar substances, and soups, but not including extracts and essences or fresh beef, and chilled or frozen fresh beef, per lb. (b.) Fresh beef, and chilled or frozen fresh beef, per lb. 28. Matches (a.) Wooden, in boxes or packages of not more than 100 (b.) Fusees, vestas, or wax matches, or other patent lights In boxes containing more than 100, but not more than In boxes or packages of more than 50, but not more 29. Ochre (commonly known as "Kafir ochre "), per 100 lbs. 30. Oils £. d. ... (a.) Not essential, perfumed, or fish, in vessels of not less (c.) Fish oil, per Imperial gallon 31. Picks and hoes, Kafir, each 32. Pickles, sauces, chutneys, chillies, and other condiments, per lb.. 33. Pistols and revolvers, each.. 34. Salt (a.) Rock, per ton of 2,000 lbs. : 25 0 3 20 0 0 0 1 0 006 0 0 2 050 (b.) Common, not including refined or table salt, per ton of 35. Soap, not including toilet soaps and soap powders and extracts, per 100 lbs. (b.) Liqueurs and cordials, exceeding 2 per cent. of proof NOTE.-The above rates do not apply to spirits distilled 38. Sugar (a.) The produce of the cane, not refined, glucose, golden syrup, molasses, saccharum, and treacle, per 100 lbs.. (b.) Not cane, and all refined sugars, per 100 lbs. 39. Tallow and substitutes for tallow, per 100 lbs. 40. Tamarinds, per lb. 1 0 0 0 15 0 0 15 0 0.3 6 050 0 4 2 002 0 1 (And in addition 7 per cent. ad valorem.) (b.) Goorak or gooracco and hookah mixture, and all imita (g.) Not manufactured, but stemmed, per lb. 0 6 0 040 0 4 0 0 3 0 3 0 0 2 6 020 |