equally extend to the exportation of the like article to any other foreign country.

4. The subjects or citizens of each of the High Contracting Parties shall enjoy, in the dominions and possessions of the other, perfect equality of treatment with native subjects or citizens or subjects or citizens of the most favoured nation in all that relates to exemption from transit duties, warehousing, bounties, facilities, and drawbacks.

5. The High Contracting Parties agree that, in all matters relating to commerce and industry, any privilege, favour, or immunity whatever which either High Contracting Party has actually granted or may hereafter grant to any other foreign. State shall be extended immediately and unconditionally to the subjects or citizens of the other Contracting Party; it being their intention that the commerce and industry of each country shall be placed, in all respects, by the other on the footing of the most favoured nation.

6. It shall be free to each of the High Contracting Parties to appoint Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, and Consular Agents to reside in the towns and ports of the dominions and possessions of the other. Such ConsulsGeneral, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, and Consular Agents, however, shall not enter upon their functions until after they shall have been approved and admitted in the usual form by the Government to which they are sent. They shall enjoy all the faculties, privileges, exemptions, and immunities of every kind which are or shall be granted to Consuls of the most favoured nation. 7. The subjects or citizens of each of the High Contracting Parties who shall conform to the laws of the country

(1) Shall have full liberty, with their families, to enter, travel, or reside in any part of the dominions and possessions of the other High Contracting Party.

(2) They shall be permitted to hire or possess the houses, manufactories, warehouses, shops, and premises which may be necessary for them.

(3) They may carry on their commerce either in person or by any agents whom they may think fit to employ.

(4) They shall not be subject in respect of their persons or property, or in respect of passports, or in respect of their commerce or industry, to any taxes, whether general or local, or to imposts or obligations of any kind whatever other or greater than those which are or may be imposed upon native subjects or citizens, or subjects or citizens of the most favoured nation.

8. British subjects in Bolivia and Bolivian citizens in the United Kingdom will be exempted from all service, both in the army and navy and in the National Guard or Militia, as well as from the obligation to accept judicial, administrative or political duties and positions.

Exception to the preceding rule is made in the case of municipal functions, which they may discharge without loss. of nationality (retaining therefore, in their entirety, the qualities and condition of foreigners), and of those which according to law may be imposed in regard to juries.

9. The subjects and citizens of the High Contracting Parties will also be exempt from all extraordinary war contributions, from forced loans, and from all military requisitions or services whatsoever.

In all other cases their property, whether personal or real, cannot be subjected to any other charges or impost than those which are or may be required of natives or of the subjects or citizens of the most favoured nation.

10. The High Contracting Parties agree that during the period of existence of this Treaty they mutually abstain from diplomatic intervention in cases of claims or complaints on the part of private individuals affecting civil or criminal matters in respect of which legal remedies are provided.

They reserve however the right to exercise such intervention in any case in which there may be evidence of delay in legal or judicial proceedings, denial of justice, failure to give effect to a sentence obtained in his favour by one of their nationals or violation of the principles of International Law.

11. The subjects or citizens of each of the High Contracting Parties in the dominions and possessions of the other shall be at full liberty to exercise civil rights, and therefore to acquire, possess, and dispose of every description of property, movable and immovable. They may acquire and transmit the same to others whether by purchase, sale, donation, exchange, marriage, testament, succession ab intestato, and in any other manner, under the same conditions as national subjects or citizens. Their heirs may succeed to and take possession of it, either in person or by procurators, in the same legal forms and in the same manner as subjects or citizens of the country.

In none of these respects shall they pay upon the value of such property any other or higher impost, duty, or charge than is or shall be payable by subjects or citizens of the

country. In every case the subjects or citizens of the High Contracting Parties shall be permitted to export their property, or the proceeds thereof if sold, freely and without being subjected on such exportation to pay any duty different from that to which subjects or citizens of the country are or shall be liable under similar circumstances.

12. The dwellings, manufactories, warehouses, and shops of the subjects or citizens of each of the High Contracting Parties in the dominions and possessions of the other, and all premises appertaining thereto destined for purposes of residence or commerce shall be respected.

It shall not be allowable to make a search of, or a domiciliary visit to, such dwellings and premises, or to examine or inspect books, papers, or accounts, except under the conditions and with the forms prescribed by the laws for subjects or citizens of the country, or of the most favoured nation.

The subjects or citizens of each of the High Contracting Parties in the dominions and possessions of the other shall have free access to the Courts of Justice for the prosecution and defence of their rights, without other conditions, restrictions, or taxes beyond those imposed on native subjects or citizens; they shall enjoy the same treatment as native subjects or citizens in all that concerns deposits, sureties, and fees in legal cases and shall, in the same manner as native. subjects or citizens, be at liberty to employ, in all causes, their advocates, attorneys, or agents from among the persons. admitted to the exercise of those professions according to the laws of the country.

13. The subjects or citizens of each of the High Contracting Parties shall have in the dominions and possessions of the other the same rights as native subjects or citizens in regard to patents for invention, trademarks, and designs, upon fulfilment of the formalities prescribed by law.

14. The stipulations contained in this Treaty shall not apply to cases in which the Government of the Republic of Bolivia may accord special favours, exemptions, and privileges. to the citizens or products of conterminous States in the matters of commerce.

Such favours cannot be claimed on behalf of Great Britain o the ground of most-favoured-nation rights, as long as they are not conceded to any other non-conterminous State.

15. The stipulations of the present Treaty shall not be applicable to any of His Britannic Majesty's Colonies or possessions beyond the seas unless notice to that effect shall

have been given, on behalf of any such Colony, or possession, by His Britannic Majesty's Representative in the Republic of Bolivia to the Bolivian Minister for Foreign Affairs, within one year from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the present Treaty.

Nevertheless, subject to the provisions of Article 14, the goods produced or manufactured in any of His Britannic Majesty's Colonies, Possessions, and Protectorates shall enjoy in Bolivia complete and unconditional most-favoured-nation treatment so long as such Colony, Possession, or Protectorate. shall accord to goods the produce or manufacture of Bolivia treatment as favourable as it gives to the produce or manufacture of any other foreign country.

16. The present Treaty shall come into effect ten days after the day upon which the ratifications are exchanged, and shall remain in force for ten years after such exchange. In case neither of the High Contracting Parties shall have given notice to the other twelve months before the expiration of the said period of ten years of the intention to terminate the present Treaty, it shall remain in force until the expiration of one year from the day on which either of the High Contracting Parties shall have given such notice.

His Britannic Majesty's Government shall also have the right to terminate separately the present Treaty at any time on giving twelve months' notice to that effect, on behalf of any British Colony, Possession, or Dependency, as specified in Article 15, which may have acceded thereto.

It is understood that the provisions of the present and of the preceding Articles referring to British Colonies, Possessions or Protectorates apply also to the Island of Cyprus.

17. The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at London, within the period of one year from the date of signature.

Done in duplicate, in English and Spanish, this 1st day of August in the year 1911.

In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty and have affixed thereto their seals.

(L.S.) CECIL GOSLING.
(L.S.) CLAUDIO PINILLA.

AGREEMENT between Great Britain and Bolivia for the Exchange of Postal Money Orders. Signed at La Paz, February 12, 1912.*

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, &c., and the President of the Republic of Bolivia, being desirous to conclude an Agreement for the Exchange of Postal Money Orders, have for that purpose appointed as their Plenipotentiaries:

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, &c., Cecil William Gustaf Gosling, Esquire, His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Bolivia; and

His Excellency the President of the Republic of Bolivia, His Excellency Doctor Claudio Pinilla, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Worship;

Who, after having mutually communicated their full powers, found in good order and due form, have agreed to the following Articles :

ART. 1. There shall be a regular exchange of Money Orders between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Republic of Bolivia.

2. The Money Order Service between the contracting countries shall be performed exclusively by the agency of Offices of Exchange.

On the part of the United Kingdom the Office of Exchange shall be that of London, and on the part of Bolivia that of La Paz.

3. In view of the fluctuations in the rate of exchange between the two countries, it is agreed that the accounts, as regards Money Orders in both directions, shall be expressed in British money.

The Post Office of Bolivia shall convert into British money the amounts of Orders issued in Bolivia and into Bolivian money the amounts of Orders issued in the United Kingdom. The rate of conversion shall be in accordance with the rate of exchange current at La Paz on the date of the despatch of the Advice List from the Bolivian Office of Exchange in the case of Orders issued in Bolivia, and on the date of the receipt of the Advice List in the Bolivian Office of Exchange in the case of Orders issued in the United Kingdom.

Signed also in Spanish.