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Art. 5. With respect to the per- 

 sonal privileges to be enjoyed by 

 the subjects of his Britannic Ma- 

 jesty in the kingdom of the Two 

 Sicilies, his Sicilian Majesty pro- 

 mises that they shall have a free 

 and undoubted right to travel, and 

 to reside, in the territories and 

 dominions of his said Majesty, 

 subject to the same precaations of 

 Police whirh are practised towards 

 the most favoured nations. They 

 shall be entitled to occupy dwell- 

 ings and warehouses, and to dis- 

 pose of their personal property of 

 every kind and description, by sale, 

 gift, exchange, or will, and in any 

 other way whateve'r, without the 

 smallest loss, or hinderance being- 

 given them on that head. They 

 shall not be obliged to pay, under 

 any pretence whatever, other taxes 

 or rates than those which are paid, 

 or that hereafter may be paid, by 

 the most favoured nations in the 

 dominions of his said Sicilian Ma- 

 jesty. They shall be exempt from 

 all military service, whether by 

 land or sea ; their dwellings, ware- 

 houses, and every thing belonging 

 or appertaining thereto for objects 

 of commerce or residence, shall be 

 respected. They shall not be sub- 

 jected to any vexatious search or 

 visits. No arbitrary examination 

 or inspectionof their books, papers, 

 or accounts, shall be made, under 

 the pretence of the supreme au- 

 thority of the State, but these shall 

 alone be executed by the legal 

 sentence of the competent tri- 

 bunals. His Sicilian Majesty en- 

 gages on all these occasions to 

 guarantee to the subjects of his 

 Britannic Majesty who shall reside 

 in his states and dominions the 

 preservation of their property and 

 personal security, ia the same 



manner as those are guaranteed 

 to his subjects, and to all foreign- 

 ers belonging to the most favoured 

 and most highly privileged na- 

 tions. 



Art. 6. According to the tenour 

 of the articles ] and 2 of this 

 treaty, his Sicilian Majesty en- 

 gages not to declare null and void 

 the privileges and exemptions 

 which actually exist in favour of 

 British commerce within his do- 

 minions, till the same day, and ex- 

 cept by the same act, by which the 

 privileges and exemptions, what- 

 soever they are, of all other na- 

 tions, shall be declared null and 

 void within the same. 



Art. 7 . His Sicilian Majesty pro- 

 mises, fi'om the date when the 

 general abolition of the privileges 

 according to rhe articles 1, 2, and 

 6 shall take place, to make a re- 

 duction of 10 per cent, upon the 

 amount of the duties, pa^ble ac- 

 cording to the tariff in force the 

 1st of January, l8l6, upon the 

 total of the merchandize or pro- 

 ductions of the United Kingdom 

 of Great Britain and Ireland, her 

 colonies, possessions, and depen- 

 dencies, imported into the States of 

 his said .Sicilian Majesty, according 

 to the tenour of article 4 of the 

 present convention ; it being un- 

 derstood that nothing in this arti- 

 ticle shall be construed to prevent 

 the King of the Two Sicilies from 

 granting, if he shall think proper, 

 the same reduction of duty to other 

 foreign nations. 



Art. 8. The subjects of the Io- 

 nian islands shall, in consequence 

 of their being actually under the 

 immediate protection of his Bri- 

 tannic Majesty, enjoy all the ad- 

 vantages which are granted to the 

 consmcrcfc and to the subjects of 



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