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ARTICLE XII.

The subjects of one of the two high contracting Powers
shall in the dominions of the other enjoy the same protec-
tion as native subjects in regard to the rights of property
in trademarks and in patterns of every description.

ARTICLE XIII.
The ad valorem duties established within the limits fixed
by the preceding articles shall be converted into specific
duties by a supplementary convention, which shall be con-
cluded before the Ist of July, 1860. The medium prices
during the six months preceding the date of the present
treaty shall be taken as the bases for this conversion.
Duties shall, however, be levied in conformity with the
base above established :-
1. In the event of this supplementary convention not
having come into force before the expiration of -the period
fixed for the execution by France of the present treaty ;
2. Upon those articles the specific duties on which shall
not have been settled by common consent.

ARTICLE XIV.
The present treaty shall be binding for the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland so soon as the necessary legisla-
tive sanction shall have been given by Parliament, with the
reserve made in Article VI. respecting wines." •
Further, her Britannic Majesty reserves to herself the power
of retaining, upon special grounds, and by way of exception,
during a period not exceeding two years, dating from the Ist
of April, 1860, half of the duties on those articles, the free ad-
mission of which is stipulated by the present treaty.
This rekerVe, however, does not apply to articles of silk
manufacture,

ARTICLE XV. •
The engagements contracted by his. Majesty the Emperor
of the French shall be fulfilled, and the tariffs previously in-.
dicated as payable on British goods and manufactures shall be
applied within the following periods •
1. For coal and coke, from the Ist of July, 1860.
2. For bar and pig iron, and for steel of the kinds which are
not subject to prohibition, from the Ist of October, 1840.
• :1. For woriced metals, machines, tools, and mechanical in-
struments of all sorts, within a period which shall not, exceed
the :Bat of December, ISiio.
4. For yarns and manufactures in flax and hemp, from the
.Ist of June, is il•
5. And for all other articles from the Ist of October, 18G1.
ARTICLE XVI. •
Ills Majesf the Emperor of the Preach engages that the
ad valorem duties payable .on the importation into France of
merchan-dise of British production and manutitcture, shall not
exceed amaximunt or 25 per cent. from the ISt of OctOber,
1861.

ARTICLE XVII.
It is understood between the two high contracting Powers,
as an element of the conversion of the ad valorem duties into
specific d uties, that for ills kludsorfabnacreitroonaldvliiaty cboarioaft pnroetseinn!
subiected on importation into v
eluding the two additional declines, the duty shall be 7f, on
every No kilogrammes until the Ist of October, 1854, and Of.
from that period, including in both cases the two additional
deeimes,

ARTICLE XVIII.
The arrangements of the present Treaty of Commerce are
applicable to Algeria, both for the exportation of her pro-
duce and for the importation of British goods.
ARTICLE XIX.
Each of the two high contracting Powers engages to confer
on the other any favour, privilege, or reduction in the tariff
of duties of importation on the articles mentioned in the
present Treaty which the said Power may concede to any
third Power. They further engage not to enforce one
against the other any prohibition of importation or exporta-