The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-12 00:00:00

BAVARIA.

TREATY BETWEEN PRUSSIA AND

(From the Allgeineine Zeitung of the 27th of July.)
COMMERCIAL TREATY CONCLUDED BETWEEN TIIE

KINGS OF BAVARIA AND WURTEMBERG ON THE
ONE SIDE, AND THE KING OF PRUSSIA AND THE
GRAND DUKE OF HESSE AND THE RHINE ON

THE OTHER, RATIFIED BY THE KING OF BA-
VARIA ON THE 12TH INST. (JULY).

Art. 1. From the Ist of January, 1830, all
inland productions, whether of nature, or in-
dustry, or art, excepting those named in the fol-
lowing article, may be imported into the kingdom
of Prussia and Grand Duchy of Hesse, out of
the kingdoms of Bavaria and Wurtemberg, and
vice versa, free from all import duties, and may
be brought into free commercial circulation.
Art. 2. The exceptions are as follows :-Ist,
(permanently) salt (seed], or rock salt), and all
stuffs out of which kitchen-salt is usually seeth-
ed. 2dly, Cards (gaming) ; all commerce in
salt aml cards remains subject to the regulations
now existing in each of the contracting states.
3dly, Beer, brandy, liqueurs, cider, vinegar, malt.
Upon the import of these into the contracting
states a duty is to be imposed equal to the tax
levied upon the inland produce of the same kind
by each state. According to this principle, the
tax to he levied upon these articles in the re-
spective states shall be officially notified to each
of the contracting Governments. 4thly, Inland
tobacco, wine, and must. Upon the import of
these is to be imposed a per centage of the
duties levied upon the foreign article of the same
kind, according to the general tariff—namely,
upon inland raw tobacco, 40 per cent.; upon
inland manufactured tobacco of every kind, 50
per cent. ; upon inland wine and must, 40 per
cent. As to the wines imported out of Bavaria
and Wurtemberg into Prussia and Hanover, 40
per cent. of the duties now imposed by the ge-
neral tariff for the western provinces of Prussia
is to be laid upon them, but upon their passing
into the eastern provinces that duty is to be
superadded, which is imposed even upon the in-
land wines upon passing into those provinces.
sthly, Sugar of every kind refined in inland sugar
refineries, and inland prepared syrups. These
are subject to the same import duties to which the
outland articles of the same kind are subject. How-
ever, for the benefit of the inland industry of the
contracting states, there shall be a reciprocal re-
duction of 20 per cent. of the general tariff, sub-
ject to such modifications and conditions as shall
be more particularly defined. 6thly, Meal of
every kind, malted corn, barley, bran, nudeln
(a species of paste), powder and starch, also
beef, mutt" and pork, fresh, or salted, or
smoked. These articles may, indeed, be ad-
mitted duty free over the boundaries, but upon
passing farther into a city or commune they shall
be subject to the consumption tax raised upon
inland produce of the same description. 7tilly,
Articles upon which an equal duty is imposed
by a city or commune, whether they be inland
or outland produce. To this are subject
upon their entrance into such city or com-
mune also the prOduce of the same description
which have passed out of any of the contracting
states over the boundaries of the other. The
high contracting parties, however, will provide
that these communing duties shall not be im-
posed upon articles in transitu, and that the
mode of levying them shall throw as little impe-
diment as possible in the way of commerce. 11.
Occasionally and Ist, cotton wares, woven or
knitted ; also cotton lace wares. 2dly, Silk and
half silk, woven and knit, and lace goods. 3dly,
Woollen woven and knit goods ; also hair goods,
woven or knit ; as also half woollen goods, with
exception of carpets of wool, or hair mixed with
linen, and of felt. 4thly, Feather and leathern
goods. sthly, Copper and brass wares, kettles,
pans, and the like; in favour of all those arti-
cles included under these five heads upon their
introduction into anv of the contracting states,
there shall be a reduction of the general tariff of
25 per cent. up to the Ist of January, 1831 ;
and after of 50 per cent. until a full liberty is
established. 6thly, Wrought iron and gross iron
wares. 7thly, Articles which, without being
comprised in the invention patents or privileges
conferred by the contracting states may not be
imitated or imported ; these during the term of
the patent or privilege cannot be imported into
the state conferring such patent or privilege.
Art. 3. Wares and goods, upon their passage
from the territory of one of the contracting states
through the other into foreign states, or from
foreign states through the territory of one of the
contracting states into the other, shall, in their
passage, meet as few impediments as possible.
Hence the high-contracting powers stipulate,
that in the states of the same, from the Ist of
January, 1830, in all such cases the production
of the inland, whether of nature, or industry, or
art, shall be entirely exempted from all transit
duties, excepting, however, the road tolls, and
water tolls upon rivers, implied in the Vienna
Act of Congress or special state treaty.
Art. 4. The export toll upon inland produc-
tions of nature, or industry, or art, shall be re-
gulated by the toll bureaus, to be established in
several parts of the contracting states : the arti-
cles, however, which are carried out of one of
the contracting states to be imported into ano-
ther are free from all export duty. So also is
the regulating the export toll of outland produc-
tions of nature, industry, and art, put into the
hands of the general toll bureaus distributed in
virtue of this treaty in the contracting states ;
but when these productions, after having been in
full free circulation in one of the contracting
states, are subsequently transported into another,
they shall be in this case also exempted from all
export duty. On the other hand, the raw wool
imported out of Prussia into Bavaria and Wur-
temberg, shall be then only exempt from the ex-
port duty of the general tariff, when it is shown
that it is purchased by manufacturers of those
states to be manufactured.

Art. 5. The high contracting powers are de-
sirous of procuring the greatest facilities and
freedom for the commercial intercourse of their
subjects respectively ; regulations directed to this
end shall be taken into consideration, and agreed
upon by the several parties. In the mean time,
it is agreed that commercial travellers, as such,
who do not carry goods with them, but only
samples, or seek for orders for inland establish-
ments, shall be subject to no special duty or toll
in any of the contracting states.
Art. 6. The high contracting parties bind

themselves reciprocally to the principle that road
tolls, or any such levies, as also pavement, dam, or
bridge tolls, shall be retained or newly introduced,
without any difference, whether levied to the ac-
count of the status, or an individual or com-
mune, and only in proportion to the ustrd costs
of repair and maintenance. The execution of
this agreement of principle iu the several states
shall be more particularly provided when the
greatest possible equalization of road tolls shall
be taken as a rule. The Prussian road toll of
the general tariff of 1828 shall be considered as
a maximum, and in no case exceeded by any of
the contracting states.
Art. 7. 'the contracting parties also bind
themselves to strive as much as possible, that
their respective toll systems reposing, as above
stipulated, upon the same principles, especially
the import tolls, the form and disposition of the
tariff, and even the administration, shall hartno.
nize more and more every day.
Art. 8. To facilitate the transport of goods
out of one of the contracting states into another,
and for the quicker despatch of such transport
at toll-houses, the contracting states will insert
into the weight and measure regulations of their
respective toll-tariffs, a scale of weights and
measures reduced to the standard of those of
the tariffs of the other states, and make it public,
as well for the use of their toll-collectors as of
the public generally.
Art. 9. The high contracting parties will also
endeavour to introduce into their states an equali-
zation of coins, weights, and measures.
Art. 10. The water or river-tolls, including
those upon the vessel itself, are to continue as
to goods transported upon those rivers referred
to by the Act of the Congress of Vienna, and
according to the stipulations of that Act. All
those duties, too, shall continue, which are re-
gulated by special treaties. Upon all other
rivers in the contracting states, to which neither
the Act of Congress nor any special treaty re-
fers, all water-tolls levied hitherto by the separate
governments shall cease to be raised. Upon all
the rivers, however, of this description in the
contracting states, the productions of the con-
tracting states shall be subject to the same tolls
and duties as the productions of the inland.
Art. 11. Canal-sluice, bridge-road, crane, or
warehouse duties shall be levied upon the sub-
jects of all the contracting states with the same
measure as upon the subjects of the state itself.
Also shall the same, when they have fulfilled,
upon entering the territory of any of the contract-
' nig states, the prescribed conditions by which
such entrance is facilitated, be subject to no
other measures for securing the tolls and the
maintenance of the river police, but such as the
subjects of the state themselves are subject to.
Art. 12. The free or facilitated transit of
productions out of one of the contracting states
into the other, as settled by articles 1 and 2, is
limited to the maintenance of defined toll-
roads, which shall be the subject of a special
accord. The smaller intercourse between the
subjects of the contracting states, upon the
frontiers where they touch, shall be facilitated by
a separate agreement.
Art. 13. Inasmuch as the freedom or facili-
ties stipulated by the articles 1 and 2 do not ex-
tend to any foreign goods,----that is, such as na-
ture does not produce in any of the contracting
states, and such as are not wrought or modified
by their subjects,—all such articles upon their
passing from the states of Prussia and Hesse
into those of Bavaria and Wurtemberg, and vice
versa, continue subject to the same duties im-
posed upon them in each of those states, accord-
ing to their respective general tariffs : but the
high contracting parties entertain the purpose of
defining, by a common regulation, all the condi-
tions, especially in reference to the proofs to be
produced, necessary to be observed by merchaotF
and tradespeople, in order to participate in the
liberties and facilities afforded by this treaty to
the transfer and transit of the inland productions
of nature or of art from one of the contracting
states to the others.

Art. 14. For the maintenance of their coin-

mercial and toll system, and for the suppression
of smuggling, the contracting parties will strenu-
ously assist each other, and all the measures ne-
cessary for this purpose shall be regulated by a
special agreement, and, more particularly, a for-
mal toll-cartel.

Art. 15. The Prussian sea-ports shall be open
to the subjects of Bavaria and Wurtemberg, for
the same duties as those imposed upon the
Prussian subjects themselves.
Art. 16. The Consuls of each of the contract-
ing powers, in sea-ports or other places of com-
merce, shall be instructed to give the subjects of
the others protection and support.
Art. 17. So soon as the joint toll regulations
of Bavaria and Wurtemburg are introduced into
the Bavarian Rhine circuit, and properly secured,
shall the stipulations of this treaty be put into
execution in the said Rhine circuit, and espe-
cially those which refer to the freedom and faci-
lities given to the transfer of inland productions
of nature or art, as connected with the import
duties upon the same.
Art. 18. This treaty shall also apply to the
subjects of those Governments which have already
associated themselves to the Wurtemberg-Bava-
rian or Hesse-Prussian toll system, or shall
hereafter give their adhesion to either of them,
as to the subjects of the high contracting parties.
Art. 19. Plenipotentiaries from each of the
contracting powers shall assemble yearly in one
of the capitals, in order to take counsel upon the
means of strengthening and extending this treaty,
and communicate such considerations thereupon
as the experience of each year may suggest.
Art. 20. The term .of this treaty is fixed for
12 years, from the Ist January, 1830. If not
during that time renounced, it shall be consi-
dered to be binding for 'l2 years more, and so
on for the subsequent terms. As to the mode
and season of renouncing or withdrawing from
it, there shall be a special agreement.
Art. 21. Two copies of this treaty shall be
forthwith laid before the high contracting Courts
for their ratification, and the interchange of the
ratifications take place at Berlin at the latest
within six weeks.

(Signed by the Plenipotentiaries the 27th
of May.)

takeLio)laoel:
oavtatitz great mwoarslisi—o,faiaAtarproioaig.es which
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contemp-
tible, common-place affairs they are ! A few soft looks,
a walk, a dance, a squeeze of the hand, a popping of ti ti
question, a purchasing of a certain number of yards of
white satin, a ring, a Clergyman, a stage or two in a
hired carriage, a night in a country inn, and the whole
matter is over. For five or six weehs two sheepish-look-
ing persons arc seen dangling about on each other's arm,
looking at waterfalls, or making morning calls, and guzzling
wine and cake ; then every thing falls into the most mono-
tonous routine ; the wife sits at one side of the hearth,
the husband. atthe other, and little quarrels, little pleasures,
little cares, and little children, gradually gather round
them. This is what ninety-nine out of a hundred find to
be the delights of love and matrimony.—Edinburgh Li-
terary Journal.