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vivendi, and I so informed Lord Salisbury by telegraph on the same day.

I notice with satisfaction that no such condition is affixed to your present proposal, although the reservation as to the killing of a limited number of seals on the island is maintained.

I am glad to think that there is yet time to carry out for this fishery season any arrangement which may promptly be agreed to, and I hope that the above explanation may remove the impression. you appear to have formed, that there has been any delay on my part in expediting the consideration of the modus vivendi which you have proposed. I have, &c.,

J. G. Blaine, Esq.

JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE.

The Marquess of Salisbury to Sir J. Pauncefote.

(Telegraphic.)

Foreign Office, May 28, 1891.

I HAVE to inform you that to-night notice will be given of a Bill giving power to Her Majesty to prohibit for a limited time the hunting of seals in Behring Sea.

It is hoped that the House of Commons will sanction this Bill within a few days, but until this has been done it is impossible for Her Majesty's Government to agree formally with that of the United States as to a modus vivendi, or to send cruisers with instructions to prevent the sealing-vessels from entering Behring Sea.

[Continued in a subsequent Volume.]

PROTOCOL between the Cape of Good Hope and the Orange Free State, respecting the Admission of Basutoland into the Customs Union Convention of 1889.-Signed at Cape Town, January 10, 1891; and at Bloemfontein, February 28, 1891.

PROTOCOL to the Customs Union Convention entered into between his Excellency the Governor of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope and his Honour the President of the Orange Free State, on behalf of their respective Governments, and given under their hands and the public seals of the said Colony and State on the

5th day of April, 1889, and the 28th day of March, 1889, respectively, and to the Further Protocol and Supplement thereto, the said Protocol being signed and sealed as aforesaid by his Excellency the Governor of the said Colony, and his Honour the President of the said State, on the 4th day of June, 1890, and the 19th day of June, 1890,† and assented to by his Excellency the Governor of British Bechuanaland on the 4th day of June, 1890, and the said Supplement being signed by his Excellency the Governor of the said Colouy and his Excellency the Governor of British Bechuanaland on the 22nd day of September, 1890, and by his Honour the President of the Orange Free State on the 11th day of September, 1890.

His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope and his Honour the President of the Orange Free State mutually on behalf of their respective Governments, having regard to the application made by or on behalf of the Government of Basutoland to be included as a party to the subsisting Customs Union between the said Colony and State, and having regard to the Article of the subsisting Customs Union Convention entered into in the year 1889 between his Excellency the Governor of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope and his Honour the President of the Orange Free State on behalf of their respective Governments, do hereby signify their joint assent in terms of Article X of the said Convention, to the admission of Basutoland as a party to the said Customs Union, subject to the terms and conditions following, that is to say:

1. The admission of Basutoland to the said Customs Union shall take effect and operate on and after the 1st July, 1891, provided that the Government of Basutoland shall before that date have passed the legislation requisite to give effect to the terms and conditions of this Protocol, relative to its admission as a party to the said Customs Union.

2. His Excellency the High Commissioner shall, at the foot or end of this Protocol, signify on behalf of Her Majesty's Government his assent to this Protocol and to the terms and conditions herein contained relative to the admission of Basutoland as a party to the said Customs Union.

3. So soon as Basutoland shall be admitted as a party to the said Customs Union, the Government thereof shall become, be, and continue bound by the provisions of the aforesaid Customs Union Convention and of this Protocol thereto, and the terms of the said Convention shall, mutatis mutandis, be read and construed as though Basutoland were a fourth party thereto, the Government thereof having all the rights and being bound by all the obligations with † Vol. LXXXII, page 642.

* Vol. LXXXII, page 281.

regard to the respective Governments of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, the Orange Free State, and the Territory of British Bechuanaland, to which the said Governments are mutually entitled, and by which they are mutually bound under the said Convention with regard to each other. Provided always that

(a.) With regard to Articles III, IV, VII, X, and XI of the said Convention, the mutual agreement or joint assent of the two Governments of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope and of the Orange Free State, shall be required and shall be sufficient to carry out the several purposes of the said Articles from time to time;

(b.) The Government of Basutoland shall be deemed to have agreed and consented to any proposal, matter, or thing approved or resolved on in terms of any of the said Articles by the mutual agreement or joint assent of the aforesaid two Governments;

(c.) No amendment of the provisions of the said Convention. shall be made under Article XI thereof, before consultation with the Government of Basutoland;

(d.) No agreement, rule, or regulation made by the mutual agreement or joint assent in terms of paragraph (a) of this proviso of the two Governments therein referred to, shall at any time be deemed or taken to be applicable to and binding upon Basutoland er the Government thereof, unless such agreement, rule, or regulation shall be also applicable to and binding upon the Orange Free State, and the Government thereof, or unless the Government of Basutoland shall directly express to the said two Governments its assent to such agreement, rule, or regulation.

4. The Frotocol of the said Customs Union Convention, entered into between the Governor of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope and the President of the Orange Free State, on behalf of their respective Governments, and given under their hands and the Public Seals of the said Colony and State, on the 30th day of April, 1889, and the 24th day of April, 1889, respectively, shall be deemed for the purposes of this Protocol to form portion of the said Customs Union Convention.

Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, at Cape Town, this 10th day of January,

1891.

(L.S.) HENRY B. LOCH, Governor.

Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Orange Free State, at Bloemfontein, this 28th day of February, 1891.

(L.S.) F. W. REITZ, State President.

On behalf of Her Majesty's Government of Basutoland, I hereby signify my assent to the above Protocol and to the terms and con

ditions therein contained, relative to the admission of Basutoland as a party to the Customs Union subsisting between the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope and the Orange Free State.

Given under my hand and the Public Seal of Basutoland, at Cape Town, this 10th day of January, 1891.

(L.S.) HENRY B. LOCH, High Commissioner.

TABLE of Fees to be taken by the Officers of Her Britannic Majesty's Consular Court for Morocco.

[Approved by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
February 17, 1891.]

Fees in Supreme Court of Gibraltar.

All matters of whatever nature coming before the Supreme Court of Gibraltar shall be governed, so far as affects any proceedings therein, by the Table of Fees for the time being in force in the Supreme Court.

Poundage.

All poundage, except where otherwise herein specified, shall be estimated upon the amount or value of the subject-matter of the proceeding upon which it is payable.

In every case where the poundage cannot be estimated by any of these Rules, it shall be estimated on 501.

The hearing fee on interpleader shall be estimated on the amount of the money or the value of the goods claimed, which value, in case of dispute, shall be assessed by the Court, who, at the hearing, shall direct by whom and when and how such fee shall be paid.

Poundage on judgment summonses under section 63 is calculated on so much

of the amount of the original demand as, under the order of the Court, is payable at the time of the issue of the summons.

In suits for the recovery of tenements, when the term has expired or been determined by notice, all poundage shall be estimated on the amount of the weekly, monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, or yearly rent of the tenement, according as such tenement shall have been let by the week, month, or longer period; and if no rent has been reserved, then on the amount of the half-yearly value of the tenement, to be fixed, if necessary, by the Court. All fractions of a pound, for the purpose of calculating poundage, shall be treated as an entire pound.

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