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No. 1 of 1889, 3 of 1895), and to treat the Free State differentially 
as opposed to the United Kingdom and British possessions. The 
Free State had once indeed been British territory, but was then an 
independent state, and the action of the Cape raised difficult questions 
of international law as regards most favoured nation clauses in 
treaties. The South African Customs Unions of 1903 and 1906 
contemplated the possibility of the accession of foreign territories 
(e.g. Mozambique; see Natal Act No. 9 of 1906, s. 3), and the 
Transvaal Colony made an agreement with Mozambique under 
which the products and manufactures (except spirits) of that territory 
enter the Colony (now the Province) free of duty. The Protectorates 
now enjoy a customs régime based on the Union as modified by s. 12 
of the schedule to the South Africa Act, 1909, while the Rhodesias 
are dealt with on the basis of the Union.2 The United Kingdom is 
not given the same terms, but the United Kingdom conceded the 
principle in 1873 in the case of Australia. 
Pace 1153. The treaty with Spain can be denounced at six 
months’ notice under the notes of December 28 and 29, 1894. Sweden 
and Mexico have agreed to permit the separate withdrawal of the 
Dominions. For separate adherence, cf. Maritime Conventions Act, 
1911; House of Commons Debates, xxxii. 2687-90. 
Pace 1184. Cf. Bowen, Thirty Years of Colonial Government, 
1. 250 seq. 
Pace 1215. In the session of 1911 New Zealand amended the Act 
of 1909 in accordance with the undertaking given to the Imperial 
Government, by restricting the control of bills of lading to cases of 
carriage from New Zealand. The amendment raised no protest in 
Parliament. See Act No. 37. 
Page 1237. The Copyright Act is now law as 1 & 2 Geo. V. c. 46. 
Pace 1265. The Union Defence Bill, which will no doubt become 
law in 1912, contemplates compulsory training only if voluntary 
enlistment is insufficient to maintain the first line of defence at a level 
of about 25,000 men. The members of that force will consist of five 
regiments of mounted rifies, absorbing the Cape Mounted Police, and 
available for police as well as military service, with artillery; the 
Coast Garrison force, and the Active Citizen force, viz. those between 
L7 and 25 who are being trained. The Second Line will include 
citizens to age 45 who have been trained or have served in Rifle 
Associations. In case of a levy en masse all Europeans up to 60 
may be called on to serve. Those who are trained will serve for 
[our years with a camp attendance of from 8 to 15 days and a 
certain number of drills ; others will pay £1 a head a year up to 
age 44. Non-Europeans are relieved of the burden of defence entirely. 
In this connexion it; is important to note that in an appeal under the 
* See Dilke, Problems of Greater Britain, i. 477 seq. 
Colonial Office List, 1911, p. 283.