The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-15 00:00:00

THE SUN,

the proportion of its population to the collective popu-
lation of the Union, shall have been ascertained, then
that share or portion shall be increased for Hanover
by three-fourths ; but, with respect to the import
duties and tax on beet-root sugar, the increase is not
to exceed 20 silver groschen (26.) per head of the
population in any one year. The sum thus arising
will form the share of Hanover in the produce of the
duties that fall to the common account.
" The sharing of the general transit dues will be
regulated in the same manner.
" The portion of the expense of the Administration
to be borne by Hanover will be calculated according
to the proportion of the population of Hanover to that
of the collective population of the Union.
" Art. 12. As to the distribution of the produce of
the export and transit duties, Hanover will belong to
the western division of the Union.
" Art. 13. The wares and goods that may be within
the State of Hanover when it enters the Union
(1854), shall not be subjected to any after tax for the
general account.
" Art. 14. This treaty is to be in operation from
Ist of January, 1854, till 81st of December, 1865.
But if before the last-named date a Customs' Union of
all the German States shall have been effected, the
present treaty expires from the time the said Union
comes into existence.
" Art. 15. The ratifications of the present treaty
are to be exchanged withiu., at the latest, four weeks.
" OTTO VON MANTISII/FEL.
" AUG. VON DER HEYI3T.
" VON BODELSCRWINGLI.
" A. VON MIINCIIRAUSEN.
" W. TON HAMMERsTEIN.
" Signed and sealed at Berlin, Sept. 7,1851."
To the above treaty are added 14 separate articles,
the substance of which is subjoined :
" 1. The present treaty is extended to the Go-
vernment of Brunswick, its assent to it being as-
sumed.
" The Hanoverian harbour of Geestemunde is ex-
cluded from the territory of Zollverein till the harbour
of Bremen is incorporated with it. The exclusion of
the islands belonging to Hanover is subjected to
further negotiations.
" 2. Each party reserves the power of increasing
the transit duties on beer and brandy according to the
scale of the Zollverein.
" As to the taxes and transport duties on beer and
brandy for the county of Hohnstein and the district
of Elbingerode, the present conditions with Prussia
shall continue to exist.
“3. nanover imposes a penalty of 10 thalers per
cwt. on the exportation of salt into the neighbouring
territories; the sale of salt to subjects of such terri-
tories is prohibited, and the police are bound to pre-
vent such sale or exportation.!
" The police of the neighbouring states have in this
respect the same powers as that of the state of
Hanover.
"In every Hanoverian salt-work a close account
is to be kept, not only of the quantity taxed, but of
the quantity sold, the purchasers and place purchased
for to be entered.
" A. Fixes the conditions on which salt may be
sold in the border districts. 201bs. per year is al-
lowed as the calculation for the consumption of each
inhabitant yearly, exclusive of salt for medical pur-
poses, or what has been rendered useless for con-
sumption.
" B. Specifies these districts by name.
The contracting parties agree to establish common
regulations in future for levying the tolls on the
Weser, and will enter into negotiations for their re-
duction or suspension, provided it can be effected
without prejudice to the frontier duties. An agree-
ment on this point as being based on special circum-
stances is not to be regarded as binding for other

rivers.
" 5. On the northern frontier of Hanover from
Harburg to Leer, the following duties are to be levied :
" Foals under one year ... i thaler per head
" Lean oxen for feeding .. 2f ~
" Cows .. .. ... 1 f
~
" Heifers ... ... ... 1
" Hanover retains by another clause of this article
the right to import iron rails for the railways of the
State not yet complete, free of duty.
"6. Hanoverian iron and metals sent to Hamburgb,
Bremen, and Geestemunde, and re-imported into the
territory of the Union, may enter free of duty, the
identity of the wares being proved. Grain exported
may also be re-imported on the same conditions within
three months.

"7. Goods imported into the depots of the Hano-
verian harbours, in the Elbe or the Weser, without
otherwise touching the territory of the Zollverein,
may be re-exported by water without payment of
transit dues.

" The remainder of the article specifies the roads
between Bremen, Harburg, and Leer, on which it is
permitted to Hanover to levy the rate of transit toll
allowed by its present treaty with the Zollverein.
"S. In so far as the harbour of Harburg cannot
continue to exist under the assent of both the con-

tracting parties, a deptat for merchandise, according
to the provisions of Article 9, shall be erected there.
" Exceptions from the regulations of the Zollverein
which may be made for facilitating the traffic between
Altona or Hamburgh and the Zollverein, before the
Ist of January, 1854, Hanover may adopt for the
traffic through Harburg.
" The town of Emden is secured the privileges
guaranteed it by the treaty of Vienna of the 9th of
June, 1815, if it does not prefer being made a depot
under the present treaties to the enjoyment of such
privileges.

"On both sides it is understood that the commer-
cial connexion of East Friesland with the interior of
the Union is to be facilitated as much as possible
consistent with security for the amount of the Union
revenue.

" 10. The retiring pensions of the officers of the
Customs displaced by the Union of the Zollverein
with the Steuerverein, will be placed to the collective
account of the Union. Only the actually paid
amount of the pensions is to be brought to that ac-
count. The whole sum is not to exceed the amount
fixed by the treaties of 1835 and 1841.
"Hanover is not to bear any part of the pensions
paid in consequence of former regulations of the Zoll-
verein.

" 11. Hanover undertakes to raise the import duties
on the articles specified in the Appendix, to the scale
therein fixed, at latest by the Ist of March, 1853.
(This appendix has not been given.)
" 12. Prussia undertakes to procure by mediation
the assent of those States to the present treaty, with
which it has to renew the treaty of the Zollverein.
Hanover will invite Oldenburg and Schaumburg-
Lippe to accede to this treaty, and to a simultaneous
understanding for a common Customs administration ;
also to an agreement to the measures taken to prevent
the smuggling of salt into the neighbouring States.
" The conditions of articles 8 and 11, and those of
the separate articles 5 and 7, stipulated for Hanover,
are also secured for the duchy of Oldenburg and the
principality of Schaumburg-Lippe, in case they accede
to this treaty.
" 13. Prussia will immediately commence negotia-
tions with the rest of the States of the Zollverein for
the renewal of the existing treaties, and take the ne-
cessary measures to facilitate those negotiations.
Hanover will take part with Prussia in those negotia-
tions with an equality of vote.
" 14. In the negotiations specified in the last article
Prussia and Hanover agree to reduce the scale of im-
port duties to the following sums :
"1. On French Brandy ... 8 thalers the centuer.
Coffee •• 5 ?I tf
Syrup
Leaf tobacco .. 4
Tea 8 „
Wine in casks 6 ~
"2. The tax on beet-root is to be raised to such a
proportion to the import duty on foreign sugar and
syrup, that the same revenue raised in the Zollverein
on native and foreign sugar for the three years from
1847 to 1849, per head of the population, is to be at
least maintained.
" 3. The abatement to wine merchants to be re-
duced to a just proportion.
"4. A fair drawback is to be allowed to the builders
of sea ships, with regard to the present reduction of
duties on the metals used in ship building; the draw-
back to be charged to the common account of the
Union.
"5. The export duty on wool is reduced to one-
third of a thaler per centuer.
" An understanding will be come to on other re-
ductions
foofretghoinetagriff that may be consistent with the
security of
the revenue.
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at the same time w
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treaty be ra t
coni fi e d.
eluded and signed this day.
" OTTO VON MANTEUFFEL.
"Ave. VON DER HETDT.
" VON BODELSCRWINGII.
"A. VON MuNCHHAUSEN.
" W. VON HAMMERSTAIN.
" Berlin, Sept. 7, 1851."