have been payable in the like case of a wreck of a national vessel. The charge for such salvage and other expenses shall be made and settled immediately, subject to such right of appeal on the part of the person paying the same, as may exist in the British dominions. The goods and merchandise saved from the wreck shall not be subject to duties unless cleared for consumption, in which case they shall be liable to the same duties as if they had been imported in a British ship.

7. That the foregoing concessions are granted on condition of a perfect and entire reciprocity in favour of British vessels in the ports of the Papal States. They shall come into operation from and after the date of the present De

claration, and shall remain in force for seven years, and further until the expiration of twelve months after notice shall have been given by the British Government, or by the Papal Government, for terminating such reciprocal arrangement.

In witness whereof the Undersigned has signed the present Declaration, destined to be exchanged against a similar Declaration on the part of His Eminence the Cardinal Secretary of State, and has affixed thereto the seal of his

arms.

Done at Florence, the seventeenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and fiftythree.

(L.S.) P. CAMPBELL SCARLETT. (L.S.) G. CARd. Antonelli.