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HARRISON. -3— P- CONVENTION Of COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION BETWEEN HER MAJESTY AND THK HANS TOWNS, Signed at London, August 3, 1841. HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, on the one part, and the Senates of the Free Hanseatic Cities of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh, (each State for itself separately,) on the other part, being desirous of improving and extending the commer- cial intercourse between their respective subjects and citizens, have, with this view, and in conformity with the stipulations of the Vlllth Article of the Convention of Commerce and Navigation between Great Britain and the Free Hanseatic Republicks, signed at London on the 29th of Septem- ber, 1825, resolved to conclude a Convention, which shall be considered as Supplementary to the above-mentioned Convention of 1825. Her Britaniiick Majesty and the said Free Hanseatic Republicks have therefore named as their Plenipotentiaries for this purpose, that is to say : — Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable Henry John Viscount Palmerston, Baron Temple, a Peer of Ireland, a Member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, a Member of Parliament, and Her Britannick Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; And the Sonates of the ' Free Hanseatic Cities of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh, Edward Banks, Doctor of Laws, a Member of the Senate and one of the Syndicks of the Free Hanseatic City of Ham- burgh, &c., &c. Who, after having communicated to each other their respective Full Powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles : — ARTICLE I. The Senates of the Free Hanseatic Cities of Lubeck, Bremen, ami Hamburgh, hereby agree, that British vessels coming from countries not being part of the Dominions of Her Britannick Majesty, shall hencefor- ward, together with their cargoes, be admitted into the Ports of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh ; and such vessels shall, on their admission, pay dues not higher nor other tlian those which shall be paid, in similar cir- cumstances, by vessels belonging to Lubeck, Bremen, or Hamburgh ; and tiie duties to be paid upon tiie cargoes of sucli British vessels sTiall not be higher nor olher, than if such cargoes had been imported in vessels belonging to Lubeck, Bremen, or Hamburgh. And in consideration thereof, Her Britannick Majesty agrees that, from and after the date of the exchange of the Ratifications of this present Convention, the vessels of the saia Free Hanseatic Republicks of Lubeck, Bremen, and Ham- burgh, when coming from Hanseatic ports, shall, together with their cargoes, be admitted into the ports of all Her Britannick Majesty's Posses- sions ; and such vessels shall, on their admission, pay dues not nigher nor other, than those which sholl be paid, in similar circumstances, by British vessels ; nnd the duties to l)e paid upon the cargoes of such Hanseatic vessels, shall not be higher nor other, than if such cargoes had been imported in British vessels. ARTICLE H. In consideration of the privileges extended to British trade and navi- gation, by the First Article of the present Convention, Her Britannick Slajesty further agrees, that all goods, wares, and merchandize, being the B-oduce of the States of the Free Hanseatic Cities of Lubcck, Bremen, and amburgh, or of the other States of the Gcrmanick Confederation, or of the States comprized in the Gcrmanick Union of Customs, and which may be imported in any foreign vessels, from the ports of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh, or from any port situated on the Elbe or Weser, into the ports of the British Possessions abroad, including Gibraltar and Malta, shall also be permitted to be imported from the said ports of the Free Cities of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh, into the ports of the said British Possessions abroad, (including Gibraltar and Malta,) in vessels belonging to Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh, built, owned, and navigated, as stipulated in the Fifth Article of the Convention of Commerce and Navigation, concluded on the 29th of September, 1825, between Great Britam, on the one part, and the Free Hanseatic Cities of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh, on the other part; and such goods, wares, and merchandize, being the produce of tlie Free Hanseatic Republicks, or of the other States of the Gcrmanick Confederation, or of the States of the Germanick Union of Customs, and so imported in Hanseatic vessels, into the ports of the said British Possessions abroad, (including Gibraltar and Malta,) and all goods, wares, and merchandize, ex- ported in Hanseatic vessels, built, owned, and navigated as aforesaid, from the ports of the British Possessions abroad, (including Gibraltar and Malta,) to any foreign country whatever, shall pay no other or higher duties, than if the same were imported or exported in British vessels. ARTICLE III. The present Convention, which shall be considered as Supplementary to the Convention concluded between Great Britain and the Free Han- seatic Republicks on the 29th of September, 1825, shall be ratified, and the Rutificatior.s shall be exchanged at London, as soon as possible within the space of six weeks. In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals of tneir arms. Done at London, the third day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-one. PALMERSTON. (L.S.) BANKS. (L.S.) ii— ■ ^ ^**i^W«;..«ttlMi* R. (-^\