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5. Both Governments engage not to establish any penal settlements in or to transport convicts to the Western Pacific. 6. In this declaration, the words " possessions and protectorates in the Western Pacific " shall not include the colonies which have now fully-constituted Governments and Legislatures. The present declaration shall take effect from the date of its signature. Declared and signed in duplicate, at Berlin, this tenth day of x\pril, 1886. (1.5.) Edwaed B. Malet. (1.5.) Geaf Bismaeck. Approximate Cost of Paper.— Preparation, not given; printing (1,400 copies), _9 18s., exclusive ol map.

Authority : Samuel Costall, Government Printer, Wellington.—lB94.

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