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 examination on account of insufficiency; and everything must be done in such a manner as to preclude the suspicion of attempted evasion. If the seals are found intact, the unloading and re-weighing of the goods may be dispensed with.

Under Article 8, wherever possible, the neighbouring Customs houses on both sides of the frontier shall be moved, so that the formalities on crossing the frontier may be gone through simultaneously on both sides.

Article 9 forbids either Government to impose domestic taxes which shall bear more hardly on the similar products of the other country.

Article 10 grants mutual assistance in the detection and punishment of smuggling.

Under Article 11, ships belonging to either country and their cargoes receive the same treatment as those under the national Hag. Reciprocal recognition of measurement certificates is also provided for.

Article 12 provides that ships of either party, driven into ports of the other, through accident or need, shall be exempt from navigation or harbour dues, unless their stay is unduly prolonged or used for transacting business, and that sea-damaged or stranded goods discharged from ships of either Power shall, except for salvage dues, be exempt from dues levied by the other, unless they enter the country for consumption.

Article 13: That boats and their crews of either Power shall be granted the same facilities as those of native origin in the internal waterways of the other, and pay only the same dues on vessel and cargo.

Article 14 relates to equal frontier tolls, etc.

Article 15 forbids any discrimination in point of freight rates or despatching by the railways of either Power against the goods of the other conveyed in transit or otherwise.