FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of NOVEMBER 7,

1843.

At the Court at Windsor, the 2d day of October 1843,

PRESENT,

The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

WHEREAS under and by virtue of an Order of His late Majesty King William IV, in Council, dated the twenty-second day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and of an Act of Parliament, passed in the session of Parliament held in the fourth and fifth years of the reign of His said late Majesty, intituled "An "Act to amend the laws relating to the Customs," by which Act certain doubts with regard to the continuance of the said Order were removed; the following goods are prohibited to be imported or brought into the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, that is to say:

Beef,

Pork,

fresh or salted, except from the United Kingdom, or from some other British possession.

Fish, dried or salted.

Train oil, blubber, fins, or skins, the produce of creatures living in the sea; except from the United Kingdom, or from some other British possessions, or unless taken by British ships fitted out from the United Kingdom, or from some British possession, and brought in from the fishery; and except herrings, from the isle of Man, taken and cured by the inhabitants thereof.

And such goods, if imported or brought into the said colony of the Cape of Good Hope, contrary to the said prohibitions, are, by the said Order, declared to be forfeited.

And whereas by an Act of Parliament, passed in the session of Parliament held in the third and fourth years of the reign of His late Majesty King William IV, intituled "An Act to regulate the "trade of the British possessions abroad," it was,. amongst other things, enacted, that it should be lawful for His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, by any Order or Orders in Council to be issued from time to time, to give such directions and make such regulations touching the trade and commerce to and from any British possessions on or near the Continent of Europe, or within the Mediterranean Sea, or in Africa, or within the limits of the East India Company's charter (excepting the possessions of the said Company), as to His Majesty in Council should appear most expedient and salutary, anything in the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding:

And whereas it is expedient that the prohibitions hereinbefore mentioned should be discontinued, and that the said articles so prohibited as aforesaid should henceforth be permitted to be imported into the said colony of the Cape of Good Hope,

either to be warehoused or for consumption, subject, nevertheless, if for consumption, to such duties as the same may, for the time being, be liable to; and that the several articles specified in the table herein contained should be subject, on importation into the said colony of the Cape of Good Hope, when entered for home consumption, to the duties hereinafter set forth, in lieu of the duties (if any) now payable thereon:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty doth, with the advice of Her Privy Council, and in pursuance and exercise of the power so vested in Her as aforesaid by the said lastly hereinbefore recited Act of Parliament, order, and it is hereby ordered:

That so much of the said recited Order in Council, as prohibits the importation and bringing into the said colony of the Cape of Good Hope the articles herein before described, and as declares the *same to be forfeited if imported or brought contrary to such prohibitions, shall be, and the same is hereby, revoked.

And it is hereby further ordered, that, upon the articles mentioned in the table of duties hereinafter contained, imported into the said colony of the Cape of Good Hope, there shall be levied upon the entry thereof for consumption, the several duties of Customs as the same are respect tively set forth in figures in the said table, in lieu of the duties, if any, to which the same articles are liable under or by virtue of any Order in Council now in force in the said colony of the Cape of Good Hope.

levied, paid,

And it is hereby further ordered, that the duties set forth in the said table shall be received, and appropriated in like the same had been imposed and set in the certain Orders in Council,

masas if

by and

bearing date

respectively the twenty-second day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and the eleventh day of March one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, imposing duties upon the importation of goods into the colony of the Cape of Good Hope.

And it is hereby further ordered, that this Order shall come into operation from the time when the same shall be made known in the said colony, by a proclamation of the Governor of the said colony of the Cape of Good Hope.

Table of Customs' Duties.

Meat, salted or cured, of all sorts, not being the production or manufacture of the United Kingdom, or

£ J. d.

of any British possession, the cwt. 0 3 0 Meat, salted or cured, of all sorts, being the production or manufacture of the United Kingdom, or

of any British possession, the cwt. 0 1.3 Oil, train and blubber, the produce of fish or creatures living in the sea, of foreign fishing, the tun (Imperial measure)

Oil, spermaceti, of foreign fishing,

the tun (Imperial measure)... Fish, dried or salted, and fins and skins, the produce of creatures living in the sea, of foreign fishing or taking, for every £100 of the value thereof

3 0 0

7 10 0

12 0 0

And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and the Right Honourable Lord Stanley, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, are to give the necessary directions herein.

C. C. Greville,sio

TREATY between HER MAJESTY and the EMPEROR of CHINA, signed, in the English and Chinese Languages, at Nanking, August 29, 1842.

With other Documents relating thereto.

TREATY.

[Ratifications exchanged at Hong-Kong, June, 26, 1843.]

HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the Emperor of China, being desirous of putting an end to the misunderstandings and consequent hostilities which have arisen between the two countries, have resolved to conclude a treaty for that purpose, and have therefore named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:

Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart. a MajorGeneral in the service of the East India Company, &c. &c.

And His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China, the High Commissioners Keying, a Member of the Imperial House, a Guardian of the Crown Prince, and General of the Garrison of Canton; and Elepoo, of the Imperial Kindred, graciously permitted to wear the insignia of the first rank, and the distinction of a peacock's feather, lately Minister and Governor-General, &c. and now Lieutenant-General commanding at Chapoo;

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Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, and found them to b in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles: