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Malagasy authorities. They shall be at liberty to build on land purcbased, rented, or leased 

 by them, houses of any material they please, except of stone or clay at the capital of Mada- 

 gascar, and other towns, where such buildings are forbidden by the laws of the country ; 

 and Her Majesty the Queen of Madagascar engages that British subjects shall, as far as lies 

 in her power, equally with her own subjects, enjoy within her dominions, full and complète 

 protection and security for themselves and for any property which they may so acquire in 

 future, or which they may hâve acquired already before the date of the présent Treaty. 



British subjects may freely engage in their service, in any capacity whatever, any native 

 of Madagascar not a slave or a soldier, who may be free from any previous engagement. 

 Leases, contracts of sale or purchase of houses or lands in Madagascar, and engagements of 

 labourers, may be executed by deeds signed before the British Consul and the local autho- 

 rities. Ail such engagements, however, are liable to be determined by mutual consent, 

 should the services of persons so engaged be required by the Queen, or on their own appli- 

 cation, after due notice. 



No domicihary visits shall be made to the establishments, houses, or properties possessed 

 or occupied by British subjects, unless by the consent of the occupants, or in concert with 

 the British Consul. 



In the absence, however, of any Consular officer, the local authorities may enter, after 

 giving due notice to the occupants, whenever it is certainly known that stolen property or 

 persons escaping from justice are concealed on the premises. 



No British subjects residing in Madagascar shall hâve the right of entering the house of 

 any subject of the Queen of Madagascar against the will of the occupant. 



Art. VI. — Munitions of war shall be imported by the Queen of Madagascar alone into 

 her dominions ; but save the said munitions of war, no article whatever shall be prohibited 

 from being imported into the territories of Her Majesty the Queen of Madagascar ; nor shall 

 any article whatever be prohibited from being exported therefrom, except munitions of war, 

 and the following articles which are forbidden by the law of Madagascar to be exported, 

 namely, timber and cows. 



The trade between the dominions of Her Britannic Majesty and the dominions of Her 

 Majesty the Queen of Madagascar shall be perfectly free, subject to a duty not exceeding 

 ten per cent. 



A Tariff of such duties shall be drawn up by the British Consul and by a person or persons 

 commissioned by Her Majesty the Queen of Madagascar, and shall be submitted for the 

 approval of Her Britannic Majesty. 



Such Tariff shall be drawn up and published within one year after the exchange of the 

 ratifications of the présent Treaty. 



In case any article of produce or merchandize should be inadvertently omitted from such 

 Tariff, the duty levied on such article shall be calculated at the market value of the merchandize 

 at the period at which the Tariff was framed. 



No prohibition shall apply to any article imported or exported by British subjects or vessels, 

 unless the prohibition apply equally to the subjects and vessels ofevery other foreign nation. 



Art. VIL — Her Majesty the Queen of Madagascar agrées that no duty exceeding ten 

 per cent shall be levied on the exportation from Her Majesty's dominions of any article, 

 the growth, produce, or manufacture of those dominions. 



Art. VIL — No duties of tonnage, harbour, pilotage, light-house, quarantine, or other 

 local dues, shall be imposed in the ports of the dominions of either country upon the vessels 

 of the other country, from whatever place arriving, or whatevei may be their place of desti- 

 nation, which shah not equally be imposed in the like cases on national vessels, or on vessels 

 of the most favoured nation. 



Art. IX. — Her Majesty the Queen of Madagascar engages to permit the ships of war 

 of Her Britannic Majesty freely to enter into the military ports, rivers, and creeks situated 



