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diplomatic,  consular  and  naval  representatives,  agents  and  officers  and
to  the  subjects  and  citizens  of  the  most  favoured  nation.

Article  III.

This  convention  shall  be  ratifted  on  the  part  of  Both  High  Contracting
  Parties,  and  the  instruments  of  ratification  shall  be  forwarded
to  both  Governments  through  the  German  Consulate  at  Tamatave.

This  convention  shall  come  into  effect,  in  the  Kingdom  of  Madagascar
  from  the  date  of  its  ratification  by  Her  Majesty  the  Queen  of
Madagascar,  which  shall  take  place  as  soon  as  may  be  within  three
months  from  the  date  ot  its  signature,  and  in  the  German  Empire  from
the  date  of  its  ratification  by  His  Majesty  the  German  Emperor,  King
of  Prussia,  which  shall  take  place  as  soon  as  may  be  within  six  months
from  the  ratification  by  Her  Majesty  the  Queen  of  Madagascar.

Signed  and  sealed  in  duplicate  originals,  drawn  up  in  the  German
and  Malagasy  languages  with  an  english  translation  attached  to  each,
at  Berlin,  this  15th  day  of  May,  in  the  year  1883.

(L.  S.)  Count  von  Hatzfeldt.  Ravoninahitriniarivo.
(L.  S.)  
Ramaniraka.

 

Der  vorstehende  Vertrag  ist  beiderseits  ratifizirt  worden.

 

Herausgegeben  im  Reichsamt  des  Innern.
Berlin,  gedruckt  in  der  Reichsdruckerei.