BRITISH AND FOREIGN

STATE PAPERS.

1898-1899.

VOL. XCI.

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LIST OF VOLUMES.

[For Volumes I to XXVI, compiled by the late Lewis Hertslet, Esq., see List in Volume LXXXII.]

COMPILED BY SIR EDWARD HERTSLET, K.C.B?

1838-1839........ Vol. XXVII. 1856-1857....

Vol. XLVII.

1839-1840..

XXVIII.

1857-1858..

XLVIII.

XLIX.

L.

LIII.

1848-1849..

XXXVII.

1866-1867...

LVII

LVIII.

1850-1851..

1851-1852..

1852-1853..

General Index to the

first 42 volumes.... J

XLIII.

General Index to the

1853-1854..

1854-1855....

1855-1856...

XLVI.

Alphabetically ar

ranged)

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COMPILED BY SIR EDWARD HERTSLET, K.C.B., AND

EDWARD CECIL HERTSLET, Esq.

COMPILED BY AUGUSTUS H. OAKES, ESQ., C.B., AND

WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK, Esq.

CONTENTS.

AFRICA.

CONVENTION. Great Britain, Belgium, &c. Liquor Traffic.

Page

The Hague, 29th July, 1899.. 963

TREATIES, &c., with FOREIGN POWERS, viz. :-with

Belgium, &c. Declaration. Discharge of Projectiles

and Explosives from Balloons.

The Hague, 29th July, 1899.. 1011