of such foreign powers, respectively, as fully and effectually, to all intents and purposes, as to the trade and shipping of the said United States, and of the said kingdom of Portugal; and, by the said Act now in recital, it is enacted and declared, that the said recited Act did not extend, and should not be construed to extend, to grant or to confer upon the trade or shipping of the said United States, or of the said kingdom of Portugal, or of any other foreign power, or to the subjects of such states or kingdom, or of any such foreign power as aforesaid, any other or greater advantages than such as should have been stipulated for, and granted to, the said United States, the said kingdom of Portugal, or any such other foreign power, by the respective treaties subsisting and in force between them, respectively, and Her Majesty, Her heirs and successors, or Her royal predecessors; but that the said recited Act should be so construed and applied as to give full and complete effect to such respective treaties, so long as the same shall respectively remain in force, and should provide such, and only such, indemnity as therein mentioned, to such bodies politic and corporate, and other person as were therein mentioned, for such losses as they should respectively sustain by the execution of such respective treaties :

And, for the prevention of uncertainty therein, it was enacted by the said Act now in recital, that it should and might be lawful for Her Majesty, by any Order or Orders by Her made, with the advice of Her Privy Council, and published in the London Gazette, from time to time, to declare what are the foreign powers with which any such treaty or treaties as aforesaid is or are subsisting; and that the Act now in recital, and the said recited Act, should apply and should be deemed,

from the time of the ratification of any such treaties, to have been applicable to the trade and shipping of such foreign countries as should be so mentioned in any such Order or Orders in Council as aforesaid, so long as any such Order or Orders shall continue unrevoked, and no longer :

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, doth, in pursuance and in exercise of the power and authority in Her vested by the Act so passed as aforesaid, in the session of Parliament held in the first and second year of her reign, declare, that such a treaty as in the same Act is mentioned, containing provisions similar to those contained in the said recited Act, of the fifty-ninth year of His Majesty King George the Third, is now subsisting between Her Majesty and His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias being a Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Her Majesty and the Emperor of All the Russias, signed on the eleventh day of January in this present year, and the ratifications whereof were exchanged on the thirty-first day of the same month:

And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

Wm. L. Bathurst.

At the Court at Buckingham-Palace, the 24th day of February 1843,

PRESENT,

The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

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WHEREAS by an Act, made in the session of Parliament holden in the third and fourth years of Her present Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to enable Her Majesty to carry into "effect certain stipulations contained in a Treaty "of Commerce and Navigation between Her Majesty and the Emperor of Austria; and to "enable Her Majesty to declare, by Order in "Council, that ports, which are the most natural ❝and convenient shipping ports of States within "whose dominions they are not situated, may, in "certain cases, be considered, for all purposes of "trade with Her Majesty's dominions, as the "national ports of such States," it was, among other things, enacted, that, from and after the passing of the said Act, notwithstanding any thing contained in an Act, passed in the session of Parliament of the third and fourth years of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act for the encouragement of British

shipping and navigation," it should be lawful for Her Majesty, from time to time, to declare by Her Order in Council, to be published in the London Gazette, "that any port or ports to be named in such Order, being the most convenient port or ports for shipping the produce of any State, to be also named in such Order, shall, although not situated within the dominions of such State, be port or ports for the use of the ships of such State in the trade of such ships with all parts of the British dominions, or with

any part or parts of the same named and limited in such Order, in as full and ample manner as if such port or ports were within the dominions of such State; and, thereupon, and for so long a time as such Order shall be declared to be in force, or shall remain unrevoked, it shall be lawful to import into the British dominions, or into such parts of the same as shall be named and limited in such Order, from such port or ports in the ships of such State, any goods which, by the laws in force at the time of such importation, might then be imported in such ships from a port of the country to which they belonged, and so to import such goods upon the like terms as the same could there be imported from the national ports of such ships:"

And whereas a Treaty of Commerce and Navigation has been concluded between Her Majesty and His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias, and the same was signed on the eleventh day of January of the present year, and the ratifications thereof were exchanged on the thirty-first day of the same month; and by the said Treaty, in consideration that British ships, arriving directly from other countries than those belonging to the High Contracting Parties, are admitted, with their cargoes, into the ports of the Russian empire without paying any other duties whatsoever than those payable by Russian vessels; and in consideration of the advantages which in this respect the said Treaty specifically grants to British commerce in the Grand Duchy of Finland; it is agreed that, from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the said Treaty, Russian vessels, arriving from the mouth of the Vistula, the Niemen, or any other river which forms the outlet of a navigable stream having its source in the dominions of His Majesty the Emperor of All the

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Russias, or passing through the said dominions, shall be admitted, with their cargoes, into the ports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of all the possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, exactly in the same manner as if those vessels arrived directly from Russian or Finnish ports, with all the privileges or immunities agreed upon by the said Treaty of Navigation and Commerce; and that, in like manner, Russian vessels, proceeding from any port of Great Britain, or of the British possessions, for the mouth of any of the above-mentioned rivers, shall be treated as if they were returning to a port of the empire of Russia, or of the Grand Duchy of Finland; it is, however, by the said Treaty declared to be understood, that these privileges shall apply to Russian vessels only so long as British vessels and their cargoes shall be treated at those places, on their arrival and departure, on the same footing with Russian vessels:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, is pleased, in pursuance of the power and authority in Her vested by the hereinbefore-recited Act, and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling Her in that behalf, to order and declare, that Russian vessels, arriving from the ports or mouths of the Vistula, the Niemen, or any other river which forms the outlet of a navigable stream having its source in the dominions of His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias, or passing through the said dominions, shall be admitted, with their cargoes, into the ports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of all the possessions of Her Majesty, exactly in the same manner, and with the same privileges and immunities, as if such vessels arrived directly from Russian ports, or from ports in the Grand Duchy of Finland; and that, in