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within her dominions, and to allow such ships to provide themselves, at a fair and moderate 

 price, with such supplies, stores, and provisions as they may, from time to time, stand in 

 need of. 



No subject of the Queen of Madagascar shall be permitted to embark on board any British 

 ship, except such as shall hâve received passport from the Malagasy authorities. 



The rights of Sovereignty shall in ail cases be respected in the dominions of the one 

 Sovereign by the subjects of the other. 



Art. X. — If any vessels under the British flag should be wrecked on the coast of the 

 dominions of the Queen of Madagascar, which are under the control of a Governor duly 

 appointed by the Malagasy authorities, Her Majesty engages to give them ail the assistance 

 in her power, and to secure them from plunder, as well as to recover for and to deliver over 

 to the owners thereof ail the property which can be saved from such vessels. Her Majesty 

 further engages to do ail in her power to extend to the officers and crew, and to ail other 

 persons on board such wrecked vessels, full protection, both as to their persons and as to 

 their property. 



Art. XL — Her Majesty the Queen of Madagascar agrées that in ail cases where a British 

 subject shall be accused of any crime committed in any part of her dominions, the person so 

 accused shall be exclusively tried and adjudged by the British Consul or other officer duly 

 appointed for that purpose by Her Britannic Majesty. But any British subject whom the 

 British Consul or other officer shall fmd to hâve been guilty of having openly offended 

 against the laws of Madagascar shall be liable to be banished from the country. 



In ail cases where disputes or différences shall arise within the dominions of the Queen of 

 Madagascar between British subjects and the subjects of Her Majesty the Queen of Mada- 

 gascar, Her Britannic Majesty's Consul or other duly appointed ofncer, aided by an officer 

 duly authorized by Her Majesty the Queen of Madagascar, shall hâve power to hear and 

 décide the same. 



The Malagasy authorities shall not interfère in différences or disputes between British 

 subjects, or between British subjects and the subjects or citizens of any third Power. 



The British authorities shall not interfère in différences or disputes between Malagasy 

 subjects and the subjects or citizens of any third Power in Madagascar. 



Art. XII. — If a subject of the Queen of Madagascar should refuse or évade the payment 

 of a debt due to a British subject, the local authorities shall afford every assistance and 

 facility to the creditor for recovering the debt ; and in like manner, the British Consul shall 

 afford every assistance to subjects of the Queen of Madagascar to recover debts due to them 

 by British subjects. 



Art. XIII. — The local authorities of Madagascar shall hâve no right to interfère with 

 British vessels of commerce, which are subject only to the British authority and to their 

 Captains ; but no British vessel shall communicate with the shore before receiving pratique 

 from the local authorities. In the absence, however, of a British ship of war, the Malagasy 

 authorities, if requested by the British Consul or Consular Agent, shall afford assistance in 

 order to cause his authority to be respected by his own countrymen, and to re-establish 

 and maintain discipline among the crews of British merchant-vessels. 



If any British seamen should désert from their ships, the local authorities shall use every 

 effort to apprehend them, and shall deliver them up to the British Consul or to the Captain 

 of their ship. 



Art. XIV. — The Malagasy authorities shall do ail in their power to deliver up property 

 of a British subject who may die in Madagascar, to his heirs or représentatives, or, in their 

 absence, to the British Consul. 



The property of a subject of the Queen of Madagascar who may die in the British dominions 

 shall be treated in the same manner as the property of a British subject. 



