Oustoms Notification {Siulan — Ugmula), 21.4.02. 297 (17.) Sudan Agent's Office, Sudan Government, Cairo.

2\st April, 1902. My Lord, I have the honour to inform Your Lordship that the Sudan Government has had under consideration the question of duties to be paid on goods coming from Uganda into or passing through the Sudan.

It has been decided that the Customs Convention* recently concluded with Eritrea shall apply to such goods under the following conditions : — 1. Certificates of origin should be furnished by the Uganda authorities in order to facilitate and ensure the efficient collection of the proper Customs dues.

2. In the event of goods not specially specified in Article VI of the Convention being imported into the Sudan from Uganda, there shall be levied the following : — (a) On goods proved to the satisfaction of the Sudanese Custom House authorities to be the bond fide natural produce of Uganda, a duty equal to that payable under the Egyptian Tariff for the time being in force on the importation into Egypt of the like goods coming from any third country but in no case to exceed 5 per cent. (b) On other goods, a duty equal to that payable under the Egyptian Tariff above-mentioned without the 5 per cent, reservation. This duty is at present 8 per cent, ad valorem on most articles. 3. On gum, india-rubber, ivory, ostrich feathers, etc., etc., an import duty in accordance with (a) or (b) and in addition the existing royalty (20 per cent, at present), minus the amount of the import duty paid under (a) or (6).

In other words, imported goods which are liable to pay royalty in the Sudan are allowed a drawback of the original amount of import duty paid.

4. (o) Goods duly sealed and accompanied by certificates of origin delivered by Uganda Authorities, passing in transit through Anglo-Egyptian territory, other than goods imported into Egypt and not intended for re-exportation thence, shall be entitled to a drawback of the whole of the duty paid on their entry into the Sudan, i.e., of import duty, or of royalty, or of both.

(6) The maximum time allowed for goods passing in transit through Anglo-Egyptian territory will be six months.

I have the honour to be, my Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient servant, (Signed) GLEICHEN, Miralai, Sudan Agent, Cairo. (For Governor-General of the Sudan.) The Right Honourable, The Earl of Cromer, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., K.C.S.I., CLE.

His Britannic Majesty's Agent and Consul-General in Egypt.

Foreign Office, \2th Matt, 1902. My Lord, I have received Your Lordship's despatch No. 61, Confidential of 23rd ultimo, forwarding copy of a letter from the Agent of the Government of the Sudan at Cairo in regard to the duties to be paid on goods coming from Uganda into or passing through the Sudan.

I approve the proposals in Count Gleichen's letter, and will communicate them to H.M.'s Commissioner in Uganda. I am, etc., (Signed) LANSDOWNE. The Earl of Cromer, G.C.B., etc., etc.

Cairo.

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BOUNDARY AGREEMENT BETWEEN FRANCE AND THE CONGO FREE STATE, 14th AUGUST, 1894.

The undersigned, Gabriel Hanotaux, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the French Republic, etc. ; Jacque? Haussmann, Director of Political and Commercial Affairs at the Colonial Office, etc. ; Joseph Devolder, ex-Minister of * Vide No, 13,