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the said Empire ;" and "in order to the sentencing of individuals whose crime, offence, or misdemeanour has been proved, the judicial sentence issued shall be communicated to the Persian officials in a certified copy thereof;" and "in the preliminary investigations that take place in respect of them' until the culpability or innocence of 'them' shall become apparent, the presence' in person, or by a representative, of the Persian Agents and Vice-Agents will necessarily' be permissible;" still, as the effect of this Article covers such kinds of acts as may have occurred between subjects of the exalted Government (of Turkey) and subjects of the exalted Persian Government, it will become needful in this case, that, for one individual Persian wronged or bodily injured, an Ottoman adverse party should exist; and thence a right and capacity ensues for the Persian officials to inquire into the punitory result decreed against an Ottoman subject. Any information of this kind that may be asked for by them must be given.

Again, since, according to the details set forth in Article VII, 'every kind of suit or contestation," "whether relating to rights," offences, crimes, or personal injuries" that may arise between two Persian subjects must be settled by means of the Persian Agents and Vice-Agents, the decision and determination of all such suits and their other mutual dealings must be relegated to the Agents and Vice-Agents; for this same reason it will be necessary in the case where the delinquents are taken and detained by the local police at the very time of their criminal act, whenever they may be proved to be really Persian subjects, they shall be immediately delivered to the Agents and Vice-Agents. And this act of detention shall only then be put in practice, when the said acts take place openly. Otherwise, whenever they occur in the place of abode of one individual Persian, such conduct and action will naturally be observed, as, according to what is set forth in Article XIV, shall be consistent with the system which, in like cases, is practised in respect of other foreign subjects.

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BRITISH PROCLAMATION, respecting the Alteration of Her Majesty's Style and Titles. ["Empress of India."]— Windsor, April 28, 1876.

BY THE QUEEN.-A PROCLAMATION.

VICTORIA, R.

WHEREAS an Act has been passed in the present Session of Parliament, intituled "An Act to enable Her Most Gracious

Majesty to make an Addition to the Royal Style and Titles appertaining to the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom and its Dependencies," which Act recites that, by the Act for the union of Great Britain and Ireland, it was provided that after such union the Royal style and titles appertaining to the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom and its Dependencies should be such as His Majesty by His Royal Proclamation under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom should be pleased to appoint: and which Act also recites that, by virtue of the said Act, and of a Royal Proclamation under the Great Seal, dated the 1st day of January, 1801, our present style and titles are "Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith" and which Act also recites that, by the Act for the better government of India, it was enacted that the government of India, theretofore vested in the East India Company in trust for us, should become vested in us, and that India should thenceforth be governed by us and in our name, and that it is expedient that there should be a recognition of the transfer of government so made by means of an addition to be made to our style and titles: and which Act, after the said recitals, enacts that it shall be lawful for us, with a view to such recognition as aforesaid of the transfer of the government of India, by our Royal Proclamation under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom to make such addition to the style and titles at present appertaining to the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom and its Dependencies as to us may seem meet; we have thought fit, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, to appoint and declare, and we do hereby, by and with the said advice, appoint and declare that henceforth, so far as conveniently may be, on all occasions and in all instruments wherein our style and titles are used, save and except all charters, commissions, letters patent, grants, writs, appointments, and other like instruments, not extending in their operation beyond the United Kingdom, the following addition shall be made to the style and titles at present appertaining to the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom and its Dependencies that is to say, in the Latin tongue in these words: "India Imperatrix;" and in the English tongue in these words: "Empress of India."

And our will and pleasure further is, that the said addition shall not be made in the commissions, charters, letters patent, grants, writs, appointments, and other like instruments, hereinbefore specially excepted.

And our will and pleasure further is, that all gold, silver, and copper moneys, now current and lawful moneys of the United

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Kingdom, and all gold, silver, and copper moneys which shall, on or after this day, be coined by our authority with the like impressions, shall, notwithstanding such addition to our style and titles, be deemed and taken to be current and lawful moneys of the said United Kingdom; and further that all moneys coined for and issued in any of the Dependencies of the said United Kingdom, and declared by our Proclamation to be current and lawful money of such Dependencies, respectively bearing our style or titles, or any part or parts thereof, and all moneys which shall hereafter be coined and issued according to such Proclamation, shall, notwithstanding such addition, continue to be lawful and current money of such Dependencies respectively, until our pleasure shall be further declared thereupon.

Given at our Court at Windsor, the 28th day of April, 1876, in the 39th year of our reign.

God save the Queen.

ARRANGEMENT between Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden and Norway, respecting the Entry of British India and the French Colonies into the Postal Union. –Berne, January 27, 1876.

L'ADMINISTRATION des Postes de l'Inde Britannique ayant fait connaître, conformément à l'Article XVII du Traité concernant la création d'une Union Générale des Postes, conclu à Berne le 9 Octobre, 1874, son intention d'entrer dans l'Union Générale des Postes, et le Gouvernement Français ayant fait une Déclaration semblable au nom de ses Colonies;

Les Délégués soussignés ont arrêté, sauf approbation, les dispositions suivantes :

ART. 1. L'Inde Britannique et les Colonies Françaises accèdent aux stipulations du Traité concernant la création d'une Union Générale des Postes, conclu à Berne le 9 Octobre, 1874, ainsi qu'aux dispositions du règlement de détail et d'ordre arrêté pour l'exécution du dit Traité.

2. Les correspondances originaires de l'un des pays mentionnés à l'Article I, à destination d'un autre pays de l'Union, et vice versa, seront soumises aux taxes de l'Union adoptées par chacune des Administrations en vertu des alinéas 1, 2, 3, 4, et 5 de

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l'Article III et des alinéas 1, 2, et 3 de l'Article IV du Traité de Berne du 9 Octobre, 1874.

Chaque Administration aura la faculté d'ajouter à ces taxes, à titre de port maritime, une surtaxe qui ne pourra pas dépasser les maxima fixés par les Articles III, 2o alinéa, et IV, 2o alinéa, du Traité de Berne pour les envois affranchis.

Toutefois, lorsque la conversion des taxes dans la monnaie nationale fera ressortir des fractions, ces fractions pourront être forcées jusqu'à l'unité.

Il est expressément entendu que la surtaxe maritime ne sera perçue qu'une fois, alors même que plusieurs services maritimes participeraient au transport.

3. Du chef du transport maritime des correspondances mentionnées à l'Article 2 précédent, l'Administration expéditrice paiera à l'Administration ou aux Administrations qui pourvoient à ce transport une bonification:

(1.) De 25 francs par kilogramme, poids net, de lettres et de cartes-correspondance, et

(2.) De 1 franc par kilogramme, poids net, d'objets désignés à l'Article IV du Traité conclu à Berne le 9 Octobre, 1874.

Lorsque le transport maritime sera effectué par deux ou par plusieurs Administrations, la bonification en sera répartie entre elles sur la base des distances parcourues, sans préjudice aux arrangements différents qui pourraient intervenir entre les Administrations intéressées.

Toutefois, aucune bonification ne sera due pour les transports maritimes n'excédant pas 300,000 marins.

4. Les correspondances qui, en vertu de l'alinéa final de l'Article X du Traité de Berne du 9 Octobre, 1874, auront à supporter des frais de transport extraordinaires, pourront être frappées d'une surtaxe en rapport avec ces frais.

5. Par rapport aux dispositions de l'Article XXVII du Règlement joint au Traité de Berne, concernant la répartition des frais du Bureau International de l'Union Générale des Postes, il est convenu que l'Inde fera partie de la 1re classe et l'ensemble des Colonies Françaises de la 3me classe prévues par cet Article.

6. Le présent Arrangement sera mis à exécution à partir du 1er Juillet, 1876.

Fait et signé à Berne, en 14 expéditions, le 27 Janvier, 1876. GUNTHER, pour l'Administration des Postes de

l'Allemagne.

DEWÉZ, pour l'Administration des Postes de
l'Autriche.

EUGÈNE BOREL, pour l'Administration des
Postes de l'Égypte.

J. DE HOYOS, VTE. DE MANZANERA, pour l'Administration des Postes de l'Espagne. ANSAULT, pour l'Administration des Postes de la France.

E. ROY, pour le Ministère de la Marine et des Colonies de France, au nom des Colonies Françaises.

ALAN MACLEAN, pour l'Administration des
Postes de la Grande Bretagne.

HEIM, pour l'Administration des Postes de la
Hongrie.

FASSIAUX, pour l'Administration des Postes
GIFE,
de la Belgique.

ALAN MACLEAN, pour l'Administration des
Postes de l'Inde Britannique.

TANTESIO, pour l'Administration des Pustes de

l'Italie.

HOFSTEDE, pour l'Administration des Postes des Pays-Bas.

M. BJORNSTJERNA, pour les Administrations des Postes de la Suède et de la Norvége.

BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL, for the Apprehension and Delivering up of Seamen Deserters from the Merchant-Vessels of Greece in the British Dominions.*- Windsor, February 12; 1876.

At the Court at Windsor, the 12th day of February, 1876. PRESENT: THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the "Foreign Deserters Act, 1852" [cap. 26],† it is provided that whenever it is made to appear to Her Majesty that due facilities are or will be given for recovering or apprehending seamen who desert from British merchant-ships in the territories of any foreign Power, Her Majesty may, by Order in Council, stating that such facilities are or will be given, declare that seamen not being slaves who desert from merchant-ships belonging to such Power when within Her Majesty's dominions shall be liable to be apprehended and carried on board their respective ships, and may limit the operation of such Order, and may render the cperation

"London Gazette," February 15, 1876.
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