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Trecutive Committee :-

HORACE DAVIS, President,".

JAMES HOGG,

JAMES W. SPERRY,

Managing

Directors.

Branch in HONGKONG:-

WILLIAM WHILEY,

Manager,

Pedder Street.

SPERRY FLOUR COMPANY

(INCORPORATED)

MERCHANT MILLERS

PROPRIETORS OF

The following celebrated Brands of Flour:-

'SPERRY'S XXX'

'GOLDEN GATE'

'DRIFTED SNOW'

PIONEER' ANCHOR' 'BUCKEYE'

SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE, 134 CALIFORNIA STREET.

香港中環必打街

SPERRYS

MILLS

BAKERS FLOUR

SPERRY &CO.

STOCKTON CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCIS OO OFFICE

194 California Streat

士巴利麵粉公司

he above is a Facsimile of our Celebrated Brand of Flour.

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DAMP WALLS CURED. MASONRY PRESERVED.

The Government Depts, of Gt. Britain, including The Admiralty,

The Royal Arsenal, The RoyalArtilkry, The Royal Engineers,

The Postal Department.

TO H.M. GOVERNMENT.

The Government of India,

The Agents General.

The Crown Agents for the Colonies, and Governments and Publio Bodies throughout the World.

SZERELMEY STONE LIQUID.

EST. 1855. A TEST OF OVER FORTY YEARS HAS PROVED THAT

SZERELMEY STONE LIQUID

CAN BE RELIED UPON TO

Absolutely Waterproof and Preserve BRICK, STONE, CEMENT, STUCCO, PLASTER, ETC.

It is a RELIABLE REMEDY against

TRADE MARK. DAMP, DECAY, SCALING, CHIPPING & DISCOLORATION,

When searching for a remedy for the decay of the Stonework of the BRITISH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT, Professor Faraday, Sir RodERIC MURCHISON, and Sir Charles Barry after an exhaustive investigation all reported to the Government in favour of SZERELMEY STONE LIQUID,

which was successfully used,

5-gallon Drums, 32/6 each; 40-gallon Casks, £12 each.

DISCOUNTS FOR CASH SUFFICIENT TO COVER COST OF TRANSPORT TO MOST FOREIGN COUNTRIES. Adopted by Governments and Public Bodies throughout the World. A descriptive Pamphlet containing the history and details of the process, with authenticated reports of the results produced, may he had post free on application to the address below.

SZERELMEY IRON PAINT

The most Durable Paint known for ALL PURPOSES, Out-door or In-door, STANDS EXTREMES OF HEAT AND COLD.

"This composition has proved itself om gently successful, for iron, when thus coated, soems utterly ilidestructible by the action of the elemcnts."-The Times, PRICES IN LONDON; Rod, Copper Rod, Light Red, Chocolate. Pale Bronze Green, Copper Brown, Umber Brown, Light Brown, Black, Olive Black.

IN LIQUID, READY FOR USE.

40-gallon Casks, £11 each; 5-gallon Drums, 32/6 each; 1-gallon Drums, 7/6 each. IN PASTE, GROUND IN OIL.

One hundredweight Iron Køgs, 25/- each; Half-hundredweight Iron Kegs, 13/6 each. OTHER COLOURS in great variety, at various prices, but ONLY OF ONE QUALITY-THE BEST.

SZERELMEY PORCELAIN PAINT.

A beautiful decorative material specialy designed for HOT CLIMATES for Indoor Deecration. Produces a surface like Porcelain which does not chip or crack, and will last in perfect condition for over ten years. In many beautiful tints. Price 11/- per gallen Crum.

COVERNMENT CONTRACTORS,

SZERELMEY & CO., ROTHERHITHE NEW ROAD, LONDON, S.E.

Telegraphic Address: "SZERELMEY, LONDON."

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AŘÍHOLD, KARBERG S-OF

BELILIOS & C9

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BORNEO C*

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BRANDAO & Co

BROWNE & C

Japan.

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CHINA MUTUAL S.NL.C

NAME CHURCHILL

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C & J TRADING CO

ALFRED DENT & C?

DOOWELL CARLILL & CO

FERGUSSON & CO

Chelbo

GIBB, LIVINGSTON &CO

GILMAN & CO LAYERS &C

HB&M

CORNABE #CO

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OHN GITTINS & CY

Foochow

HALL & HOLTZ 19

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MOLLIDAY, WISE & C

JARDINE,MATHESON & CO

JEBBEN A co

LAPRAIK & C

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UINSTEAD & DAVIS

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A. R. MARTY MARTY & C+

MÉSSAGERIES NARINMES

MEYER & CO

MİTSUI BUSSAN KAISHIA.

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SIEMSSEN & C#

H. SKOTT & CP

SMITH, BELL & CY

Vanilla

STRAITS STEAMSHIP

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CHRONICLE & DIRECTORY

FOR

CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO-CHINA, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, MALAY STATES, SIAM, NETHERLANDS INDIA, BORNEO,

THE PHILIPPINES, &c.

(WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED "THE CHINA DIRECTORY"

'THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST")

AND

FOR THE YEAR

1898

THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION

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F. ALGAR,

12, CLEMENTS LANE,

HONGKONG

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED AT THE "DAILY PRESS" OFFICE

WYNDHAM ANd d'aquilaR STREETS

MDCCCXCVIII.

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AGENTS

Mr. W. H. Hood. 2, Creed Lane, Ludgate Hill, E.C.

Special Ag at for Advectisements

Mr. F. Alggar, 11, Clement's Lane, Lombard St., E.C. Messrs. Street & Co., 10, Cornhill, E.C.

"Meers, G.-E. Pael de Lobel & Cie., 53, Rue Lafayette Messrs. Mahlaa & Waldschmidt, Frankfort s, M. Mr. Henry Sell, 21, Park Row

Mr. L. P. Fisher, 20 and 21, Merchants' Exchange Messrs. Gordon & Gotch, Long Street

"Messrs. Gordon & Gotch, 123, Pitt Street Messrs. Gordon & Gotch, 124 and 126, Queen Street "Messrs. Gordon & Gotch, Queen Street

Messrs. W. Newman & Co., 4, Dalhousie Square "Times of India" Office, Elphinstone Circle

Messrs. A. M. & J. Ferguson

Messrs. H. M. Van Dorp & Co.

Messrs. Graham & Co., Ld., Beach St., George Town Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 5, Battery Road Mes-rs. A. Berli & Co.

Messrs. Kloss & o., 9, Quay de l'Arroyo Chinois .Mr. H. Degenfeld, Rue Jean Dupuis, Hanoi .Messrs. A. S. Watson & Co., Escolta, 14

Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 61

Hiogo News" Company, Limited

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Messrs. A. S. Watson & Co, Amoy

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Messrs. H. Blow & Co.

Mr. P. Kierulff

.Mr. II. W. Churchill

Messrs. A. S. Watson & Co., Kulangsoo

Yun Cheong Book Store

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ADVERTISEMENTS

ESTABLISHED A.D.

1774.

SHAND MASON &

MAKERS OF

STEAM FIRE

　　　　　　　S. M. & Co.'s "Improvel Double Vertical " Steam Fire Engine, constructed for the London County Council, Council of India,etc.

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CO.,

ENGINES.

Supplied to H.M. the QUEEN, H.M. Admiralty, War Department, Board of Trade, Council of India, Crown Agents for Colonies. Foreign Governments, and leading Fire Brigades in all parts of the world including (in the East) HONG-KONG (5) HONG-KONG, Govt. DOCKYARD (2), SHÀNGHAI (3), Tokio (6), YOKOHAMA (10), OBAK 、 (3), H1000 (3), KANAGAWA, YOKOSKA GOVT. Dockyard, MACAO, SAIGON, MANILA (9), BORNEO, BATAVIA, SOUBABATA (3), VLADIVOSTOCK DOCKYARD, etc., also Bombay, MADRAS, CAL- CUTTA, Rangoon, MandaLAY, BENARES, COLOMBO, BARODA. AHMEDABAD, and a number of other Towns in India.

Metropolitan (London) Fire Brigade.-3±

out of 59 Land Steam Fire Engines; 6 out of 9 Floating Steam Fire Engines; and 55 out of 79 Manual FireEngines in use by the London County Council Fire Brigade, are of SHAND MASON & Co.'s construction.

Hundreds of Shand Mason & Co.'s Metallic MANUAL FIRE ENGINES are in use in China, Japan, India, and other Eastern Countries. Catalogues of Steam and Manual Fire Engines, Fire Escapes, Hose, and all other articles

connected with the Extinction of Fire, Sent Free.

75, Upper Ground Street, Blackfriars Road, LONDON.

Telegrame: "SHAND, LONDON." A B C Code.

JOHN MITCHELL

STEEL PEN MAKER TO THE

QUEEN

ESTABLISHED -1822.2

London Depot: 93, Queen Street, CHEAPSIDE.

WORKS: BIRMINGHAM.

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Frontispiece

Amoy, Descriptive and Statistical

INDEX

ADVERTISEMENTS

ROBERT MIDDLETON,

HYDRAULIC & GENERAL ENGINEER, SHEEPSCAR FOUNDRY, LEEDS, ENGLAND.

Complete ANGLO-AMERICAN

And BOX PRESS OIL MILLS.

Palm Kernels, Arachids, &c., &c., per day, Cotton Seed, Rape Seed, &c., &c., Copra,

To Crush from ton to 100 tons of Linseed,

THE "COSMOPOLITAN" OIL MILL.

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OIL MILL MACHINERY.

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LAMBERT'S Patent "Continuous" Oil Press,

LAMBERT'S Patent "Albany Oil Presses.

LAMBERT'S Patent Automatic Cake Moulder.

LAMBERT'S Patent "Economic" Oil Mill.

MEAL CAKE PRESSES. ANGLO-AMERICAN PRESSES. SEED WAREHOUSING AND ELEVATING MACHINERY. BALING PLANTS for Wool, Cotton, Hay, Straw, &c., &c.

SOLE MAKER OF

MIDDLETON'S PATENT BRIQUETTE MACHINERY

COAL

FOR

: AGENTS FOR CHINA AND JAPAN:---

DUST.

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Purveyors to HR.H. the Princess of Wales.

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£10.000 REWARD! See conditions in

SUPERIOR

CHOCOLATE.

lb. Packets.

CHOCOLATE WAFERS. Delicious. Large and small Boxes.

CHOCOLATE HORSESHOES (Registered). Superior Chocolate. "SOUVENIR"

BOXES.

Delicious Chocolate or Confectionery. HIGH LIFE BONBONS. The most tastoful Dessert Sweetmeat. COURT CHOCOLATE. The finest oating Chocolate.

　　　　　　　　　　　every packet & tin. Of all Confectioners, Stores and Grocers, or direct from CELIC DUS AROMA. TETETIC, SUSTAIN NI.-

Vide ANALYST 4.

LONDON WORKS, BERMONDSEY, S.E.

"TILESTONEITE" CEMENT

FOR COVERING ROOFS & OUTside walls OF IRON & WOODEN BUILDINGS.

HEAT-RESISTING, WATER-PROOF, FIRE-PROOF.

ESTONEITEN ROOFING CEMENT

Unequalled as a Non-Conductor, Un- affected by Tropical Rains. Greatly reduces the Temperature of any Surface covered with it. Will stand any Expan- sion and Contraction caused by Solar Heat.

Adopted by the Secretary of State for India. the Crown Agents for the Colonies, and the Agents-General for the Cape of Good Hope and Western Australia, for use on Government building.

One ton covers about 500 sq.ft. and the cost including freight is only about 4d.per sq.ft.

65 & 67, North GLASGOW.

LINCOLNE & CO., Wallace' Street,

W. CANNING & Co., BIRMINGHAM AND MELBOURNE.

MANUFACTURERS OF

ELECTRO PLATING PLANT & POLISHING PLANT.

Every Article used for

SILVER, NICKEL, COPPER, Gold, brass, tin & zinc depositing.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Full Illustrated Catalogue on Application. GOODS SPECIALLY PACKED FOR

EXPORT.

E. PACKARD & Co. LTD. EHRMANNITE

No Cane Super Fac ́ory should be worked without EHRMANNITE.

SUPERPHOSPHATES, CONCENTRATED AND OTHER MANURES FOR

CANE, TOBACCO., ETC.

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PATENT

LOCKS AND SAFES.

CHUBB'S ILLUSTRATED PRICE LIST (sent post

free) gives full particulars of

LOCKS,

SAFES,

DESPATCH BOXES,

WRITING BOXES,

CASH & PAPER BOXES, TRAVELLING

BAGS.

FIT

CHUBB'S

PATENT.

CHUBB'S Quality O Safe, Burglar & Fire Resisting.

WRITING BOX.

Made of the best tinned sheet steel, japauned black, and filleted; fitted with Chubb's Patent Detector Lock and two Keys, tray, portfolio, instrument pad, note paper, envelopes, patent inkstand, wax, etc., and with space for letters and papers beneath the tray.

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AGENCIES.

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PRICES.

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Application.

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Charitable Dispensaries,

ETC.

PHARMACEUTICAL

PREPARATIONS.

New Hemedies.

PATENTEES OF

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SURGICAL DRESSINGS.

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REVOLUTION IN BILLIARDS.

THE NEW PATENT

VACUUM' BILLIARD CUSHION

The Wonder of the Dineteenth Century.

ABSOLUTELY THE TRUEST CUSHION EVER MADE.

Lower and Faster than ever. Never gets hard. Requires no Pumping or Inflating. Always in good order. Balls do not hang against Cushion. Billiards played on a Table fitted with this

Cushion is a perfect pleasure.

What Pneumatic Tyres are to a Cycle, such is a "Vacuum"

Cushion to a illiard Table.

SPECIAL. THIS CUSHION can be FITTED to any BILLIARD TABLE.

The Patent Invisible Switchback Ball Returner, for conveying Balls to Baulk end of Table from Pockets. Invaluable for Private Houses, and does not disfigure the appearance of the Table. Returns

the Ball to Player in four seconds after stroke.

BURROUGHES & WATTS, LTD.,

LONDON-19, Scho Square, W.

MANCHESTER-104, Deansgate.

GLASGOW 42-44, Sauchiehall St. | BIRMINGHAM-Broad Street.

NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE-Northumberland Street.

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Anglo-Chinese Calendar for 1898.

BEING LXI.

LXII. OF QUEEN VICTORIA,

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TORBAY PAINT.

EXTENSIVELY USED BY

THE BRITISH NAVY, WAR OFFICE,

Imperial Japanese and Chinese Railways, British and Foreign Railway Companies, Gas Cos., and Engineering Cos. for BRIDGES, STATION ROOFS,

LOCOMOTIVES, GAS WORKS, WAGONS,

AND FOR THE FINEST DECORATIVE PURPOSES.

Large Surfacing Powers,

Extraordinary Preservative Qualities.

RESISTS THE EXTREMES OF HEAT AND COLD. DAMP AND MOISTURE.

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JANUARY-31 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1st

..6h. 42m.

5h. 26m.

1896 1897

15th

6h. 44m.

5h. 35m.

Maximum Minimum

.78

.52

Moox's PHASES

Full Moon

d. h.

sec.

43 P.M.

Last Quarter 15 11 New Moon

2) 3

First Quarter 29 10

BAROMETER, 1897.

40 P.M.

47 A.M. 47 P.M.

Mean......

.30.10

APOGEE, 4 days, PRIGEE, 20 days,

10.46 hours, P.M.

7.43 hours, P.M.

1896

RAINFALL

1897

1.73 inches

2.26 inches

***

MOST

- DAYS or 1&1 MOONS

Sex

Von.

Tues.

Wed

Thur.

Fridd.

Cimox-LOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS

Kobe and Osaka opened, 1968. Overland Telegraph through Russia opened, 1872.

2ND AFTER CHRISTMAS. First election by the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce of a

member of the Legislative Council, 1884.

First election by the Hongkong Justices of the Peace of a member of the Legislativa

Council, 188.

Decree of Emperor Tao-kwang prohibiting trade with England 1840. Commissioner

Yeh captured, 1858.

EPIPHANY. Fearful fire at Tientsin, 1,400 famine refugees burnt to death, 1878

Forts at Chuenpi taken with great slaughter, 1841.

Sat.

Ice one-fourth inch thick at Canton, 1852.

British str. "Namchow" sank off Cup Chi

near Swatow; about 350 lives lost, 1892.

SZA.

Tues.

Fal.

12 20

bar. 13

Frid.

Sun

TUPS.

17 25

WAL 19

Thur.

Fal

2 * * *S

1st Arrи EPIPHANY. Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak, Hongkong, 1889. Marriage

of the Mikado of Japan, 1860.

Seamen's Church, West Point, opened, 1872. New Union Church, Hongkong, opened,

1891.

Tung-chi, Emperor of China, died, in the nineteenth year of his age, 1875,

Ki-ying, Viceroy of Two Kwang, issues a proclamation intimating the intention of

opening up Canton according to the Treaties, 1846.

Secretary of American Legation murdered at Tokyo, 1871.

Bread poisoning in Hongkong, by Chinese baker Alum, 1857.

2Nd after EpiphANY. Severe frost in Hongkong, 1893.

The Tai-wo gate at the Palace, Peking, destroyed, 1889.

Tzea

Fed.

Sat

Thar.

Ind.

R = 2* * * *6*8 8=

Collision near Woosung between P. & O. steamer

Nepaul" and Chinese transport

Great Gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1867.

Elliot and Kishen treaty, reding Hongkong, 1841. Sailors' Home at Hongkong formally

opened, 1863,

Attempt to set fire to the C N. Co.'s steamer "Pekin,' at Shanghai, 1891.

Wan-nien-ching ;" latter sunk and eighty lives lost, 1887. Celebration of Hongkong's Jubilee, 1891.

The first Chinese Ambassadors arrived in London, 1877.

3RD AFTER EPIPHANY. P. & O. steamer "Niphon" lost off Amoy, 1868.

Mathens Ricci, the Jesuit Missionary, enters Peking, 1801. U.S. corvette "Oneida "

lost through collision with P. & O. steamer "Bombay,' near Yokohama, 1870.

Hongkong taken possession of, 1841. St. Paul's Church at Macao burnt, 1885. Terrific

fire at Tokyo; 10,000 houses destroyed and many lives lost, 1881.

Decres from Yung-ching forbidding, under pain of death, the propagation of the

Christian faith in China, 1788.

ATH AFTER EPIPHANY. Lord Baltoun left China with $8,000,000 ransom money, 1846. Outer forts of Weihaiwei captured by Japanese, 1895.

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FEBRUARY-28 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1st

........6h. 41m.

5h. 47m.

1896

1897

15th

..6h. 33m.

sh. 56m.

Maximum

.69

Minimum

MOON'S PHASES

Full Moon

Bat.

Sun.

　　　　　　Mon. 7 Tues. 8

Wed. 9

Thur. 10

Frid. 11

Last Quarter New Moon First Quarter 28

d. h. m.

sec.

7 2

42 A.M.

BAROMETER, 1896

47 A.M. 46 A.M. 49 43 P.M.

Mean......

-----30.16

3.44 hours, P.M. 2.40 hours, P.M.

1896

RAINFALL

7.94 inches

1897

1.82 inches

APOGEE, 1 day, PERIGEE, 17 days,

Days or {DAYS OF ! 1 & 2

W KEK

MOONA

Tues.

Wed. Thur. Frid.

MONTH

CA DO NO

01 2000 19

Chronology of Remarkable Eventa

Inhabitants of Hongkong declared British subjects, 1841. The Additional Article b Cheloo Convention came into force, 1887. Mrs. Carew sentenced to death at Yoko hama for the murder of her husband; sentence commuted to penal servitude, 1897. The new German Club at Hongkong opened, 1872. Weihaiwei oitadel captured b;

Japanese, 1895

Great robbery in the Central Bank, Hongkong, discovered, 1365. Agreement opening

West River signed, 1807

Anti-Foreign riot at Chinkiang, foreign houses burned and looted, 1889.

Septuagesima SUNDAY. The Spanish Envoy Halcon arrived at Macao to demand satisfag-

tion from the Chinese for the burning of the Spanish brig " Bilbaino," 1840,

The Spanish fleet leaves the port of Cavite, by order of the Governor of Manila, for the

purpose of taking Formosa, 1626.

The "Henrietta Maria" was found drifting about in the Palawan Passage, osptals,

crew, and 250 coolies missing, 1867.

The Japanese constitution granting representative government proclaimed by

Emperor in person at Tokyo, 1889.

Sat. 12

Sun. 13

Mon. 14

SKZAGERIMA SUNDAY. Outbreak of Convicts in Singapore Gaol, 1875.

forts and remainder of the Chinese fleet to the Japanese, 1895 St. Valentine's day. Tung Wah Hospital, Hongkong, opened by Sir R. G. MacDonnell, ¦

Surrender of Island

1872.

Tues. 15

Wed. 18

Ports of Hongkong and Tinghai declared free, 1841. The Chinese frigate "Yu-yuen

corvette "Chin-cheng" sunk by the French in Sheipoo harbour, 1885. Insurgents evacuated Shanghai, 1855. Stewart scholarship at Central School, Hong-

kong, founded, 1884. Alice Memorial Hospital, Hongkong, opened, 1887.

"and

•

Thur. 17

Frid.

The U.S. paddle man-of-war "Ashuelot "wrecked on the East Lammock Rock, neat

Swatow, 1883.

Sat.

Sun.

Mon. 21

Tues. 22 Wed.

* 22 23

Thar.

Frid. 25

Sat. 26

Sun.

Mon.

Lord Antherst's Embassy, returning from China, was shipwrecked in the Java Son,

1817

QUINQUAGESIMA ŠUNDAY.

Mr. A. R. Margary, of H.B.M.'s Consular Service, was murdered at Manwyne, Yunnan

by Chinese, 1875.

SHROVE TURSDAY. The Emperor Tao-kwang died, 1850 (reigned 30 years).

ABH WEDNESDAY. Hostilities between England and China recommenced, 1841. Steamer Queen captured and burnt by pirates, 1857. First stone of the Hongkong City Hall iaid, 1867.

Chusan evacuated by the British troops, 1841. Explosion of boiler of the str. "Yotaal"

between Hongkong and Macao; six Europeans and thirteen Chinese killed and vessel destroyed, 1884.

Captain Da Costa and Lieut. Dwyer murdered at Wong-ma-kok, in Hongkong,

1849.

Bogue Forts (Canton) destroyed by Sir Gordon Bremer, 1841. Hongkong pollos abap

burnt, 1884. Marriage of the Emperor Kwang-su, 1880.

1ST IN LENT. Treaty of peace between Japan and Korea signed at Kokwa, 1876-

Evacuation of Port Hamilton by the British forces, 1887.

Capture of the Hulu ospital by the Spaniards, 1976.

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MARCH-31 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1st

...6h. 23m.

6h. 02m.

1896

1897

15th

..6h. 10m.

6h. 08m.

Maximum

.77

MOON'S PHASES

Minimum

.46

d. h. m. sec.

Full Moon

8 5

P.M.

Last Quarter 15

P.M.

BAROMETER, 1896.

New Moon

P.M.

Mean......

30.03

First Quarter 30

16 42 P.M.

0.38 hours, P.M. 9.46 hours, P.M. 8.42 hours, A.M.

1896 1.45 inches

RAINFALL

1897

0.82 inches

125.

Tid Thur.

Frid

at.

Sun.

Hon.

APOGEE, 1 day, PERIGEE, 14 days, APOGEE, 29 days,

NT OF DATA OF 2 and 3 MONTH MOONS

fas

CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS

St. David's day. Bombardment of the Chinhai forts by French men-of-war, 1885. First Dutch Embassy left China, 1657.

Foreign Ministers received in audience by the Emperor at the Taz Kuang

Po, 1891.

Emperor Kwang-su assumes the government, 1889.

Expulsion of Chinese Custom House from Marno by Governor Amaral, 1849.

2ND IN LEST. Hostilities at Canton recommenced. Fort Napier taken by the English, 1841.

Departure of Governor Sir J. P. Hennessy from Hongkong, 1882.

Taes.

Commercial treaty concluded between the United States and Japan, 1854.

Wel

Thur.

Frid.

Sat.

Sun.

Attack on Messrs. Farnham and Rohl at Shanghai, 1872.

Lin arrived in Canton, 1530. 12,000 Chinese troops attacked the English in Ningpo and

Chin-hai and were repised with great slaughter, 1842.

19 Governor Sir R. G. MacDonnell arrived in Hongkong, 1866.

Imperial Commissioner Ki-chen, degraded by the Emperor, left Canton as a prisoner,

1841. Capture of Eachinh, Tonkin, by the French, 1884.

3RD IN LENT. Chinese Custom House closcxi at Macao, 1849.

Sat.

Sun.

Mon

13 21

Mon. 14

Tues 15 23 Wed. 16 24

8 * * **** * * 2

Thur. 17 25

Frid. 18 26

8,000 Chinese troops routed by the English at Tze-hi, with great slaughter 1842.

Law Courts at Yokohama opened, 1890.

New

Governor Sir H. Robinson left Hongkong for Ceylon, 1865. Chinese Envoy Ping and suite left Shanghai for Europe, 1866.

St. Patrick's Day. Lord Macartney's Embassy left China, 1794.

Tues. 22 Wed

2 2 2 2 ×

Edict of Commissioner Lin to surrender all opium in Canton, 1839. Chungking declared

open to foreign trade, 1891.

Governor Sir G. Bonham landed at Hongkong, 1848.

4TH IN LENT. Wreck of the steamer " Nanzing," near Hongkong, 1891.

29 British ship "Sarah," first free-trader, sailed from Whampoa, 1834.

Death, at Peking, of Sir Harry Parkes, II.B.M. Minister to China, 1585. Captain Elliot forced his way to Canton, 1830.

Thur. 24 3

First Section of Manila-Dagupan railway opened, 1891. Attempted assassination of Li

Hung chang at Shinonoseki, 1995.

Captain Elliot demands passports for himself and all the British subjects imprisoned in

Canton, 1539.

Great Flood at Foochow, 1874.

STU IN LENT. Death of the widow of the Emperor Tung-chi, 1875. Protocol of Conven-

tion between China and Portugal signed at Lisbon, 1887

Frid. 25

Sat

Sun

Mon.

20,289 chests of Opium burned by Lin, 1839.

Tues. 29

Wed 20 Thur. 31

9 10

Seizure and occupation of the Pescadores by the French fleet, 1885.

Arrival of Governor Sir George Bowen, G.C.M.G., in Hongkong, 1883. Abolition of the coolie trade at Macao, 1874.

Connaught in Hongkong, 1890.

Arrival of the Duke and Duchess of

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APRIL-30 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG Temperature

5h. 55m.

..5h. 41m. 6h. 19m.

MOON'S PHASES

6h. 14m.

1896

1897

Maximum

..82

Minimum

.58

d. h. in. sec.

Full Moon

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　7 4 55 Last Quarter 13 10 New Moon First Quarter 29

46 A.M.

BAROMETER, 1897

21 5

44 P.M. 47 A.M. 40 47 A.M.

Mean.....

.29.99

PERIGEE, 10 days, APOGEE, 26 days,

DAYS OF DAYS oF 13 & 3 Int. WEEK MONTI MOONS

5.38 hours, A.M. 2.41 hours, A.M.

1896

2.10 inches

RAINFALL

1897

3.24 inches

Frid.

Sat.

Sun.

Mon.

Tues. Wed.

Thur. Frid.

0 -1

35 −

Sat.

Sun. 10

Mon. 11

Tues.

Wed. 13

Thur. 14

Frid. 15

Sat.

Sun. 17

Mon. 18

Tues.

Wed.

*2 222***

Thur.

Frid.

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Chronology of Remarkable EVENTS

of Hoihow, Hainan, opened, 1876, The ports of Pakhoi, Wenchow, Wuhu, and Ichang opened, 1877.

Prince Kung degraded by the Empress Dowager, 1865.

PALM SUNDAY

The

2 3 4

Eratocol arranging the preliminaries of peace between France and China signed at Paris, 1885. The Czarewitch and Prince George of Greece arrive in Hongkong, 1591. Bogue Forts destroyed by General D'Aguilar, 1847. Wheelbarrow Riot at Shanghai, 1897. Convention between Sir John Francis Davis aud the Viceroy Ki-ying for the admission of

Europeans into the city of Canton, within two months, 1842.

Hongkong Mint opened, 1866. Hadignation Meeting at Shanghai respecting Wheel

barrow Riot, 1897.

Arrival of M. Paul Bert at Hanoi, 1886.

Good Friday,

EASTER DAY.

Terrific tornado in Canton; 2,000 houses destroyed, and 10,000 lives lost, 1878.

37.000 Christians butchered in Japan, 1738. Death at Peking of Marquis Tseng,

1890.

Presentation of colours to Hongkong Regiment, 1895.

St. Francis Xavier left Goa for China, 1552.

Execution at Kowloon city of Treaty of Peace between China

Governor Sir Arthur Kennedy arrived in Hongkong, 1872. 1ST AFTER EASTER. Telegraph to Shanghai opened, 1871. nineteen pirates (including "Nanoa" pirates), 1891. and Japan signed at Shimonoseki, 1895. Convention between China and Japan sertling Corean differences signed at Tientsin, 1885.

The 0, & 0, steamer "San Pablo" wreeked near Turnabout, 1888.

The "Sir Charles Forbes," the first steamer in China waters, arrived, 1830. The

Czarewitch arrived at Hankow, 1891.

Sat. 23

Sun.

Mon.

Tues.

Wed.

Thur.

Frid.

Sat.

& N N N No

Besignation of Shanghai Municipal Council, 1897

East India Co. ceased trade with China, 1834.

Hongkong, 1877.

St. George's Day.

Arrival of Governor J. Pope Hennessy in

2ND AFTER Easter.

Capture of the citadel at Hanoi, Tonkin, by the French forces, 1882, Departure of

Sir William Marsh, acting Governor of Hongkong, 1887.

Foundation stone of Victoria College, Hongkong, laid, 1884.

Ratifications of Corean treaty with England exchanged, 1884. Privy Council for Japan

constituted by Imperial decree, 1888.

Arrival of General Grant in Hongkong, 1879.

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MAY-31 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1st

..5h. 29m.

6h. 25m.

1896

1897

15th

..5h. 21m.

6h. 31m.

Maximum

...90

Minimum

.67

MOON'S PHASES

d. h. m.

sec.

Full Moon

6 2

P.M.

Last Quarter 13

BAROMETER, 1897

A.M.

New Moon

P.M.

Mean........

..29.85

40 A.M.

First Quarter 29 0

PERIGEE, 8 days, 3.45 hours, A.M. APOGEE, 23 days, 3.43 hours, P.M.

1896

RAINFALL

1897

1.15 inches

14.86 inches

CHRONOLOGy of RemarKABLE EVENTS

"Hongkong Hong-

3RD AFTER EASTER. St. Philip and St. James's day. First number of

Gazette" published, 1841. Telegraphic communication established between kong and the Philippines, 1880,

Ratification at Tientsin of the Treaty between Portugal and China, 1888. Suspension of Oriental Bank, 1884.

Riot in French Concession at Shanghai, 1874. Roman Catholic Cathedral at Peking

inaugurated, 1884.

D OF DAYS OF 3 Int. & 4

WEER MONTH

MOONS

Sun. 1

Mom.

Tues.

Wed

Thur.

British troops evacuated Ningpo, 1842.

Frid.

Attack on Mr. Wood at the British Legation at Tokyo, 1874.

Sat.

Departure of Governor Sir William Des Voeux from Hongkong, 1891.

Sun.

Mon. 9

Tues. 10

ลง

4TH AFTER EASTER. Prince Kung's honours restored, 1866.

New Town Hall at Tientsin opened, 1580. Waglan Lighthouse opened, 1893.

Hongkong declared infected with plague, 1894, Colonel Gordon with the Imperial_troops captured Gang-chow, the rebel city, 1864. Occupation of Port Hamilton by the British Squadron, 1885.

Attempted assassination of the C'zarewitch by a Japanese at Otsu, Japan, 1801. Execution

of fifteen pirates (including leader of "Namoa" pirates) at Kowloon, 1891.

East India Co.'s garden at Canton detroyed by the Mandarins, 1831.

A corporal of the British Legation murdered by Chinese soldiers at Peking, 1864. Anti-

Foreign riet at Wuhu, 1891.

Arrival of Sir John Walshami, Bart., in Hongkong, on his way to Peking to assume the

functions of British Minister, ISS.

ROGATIO SUNDAY. Ratification at Peking of the amended Treaty between Russia and

China, 1881. Anti-foreign riot in the Hochow district, 1891.

Loss off Amoy of the French war steamer "Izyre," 1860. Arrival of General Grant in

Shanghai, 1879.

The city of Chapu taken by the British troops, 1842. Anti-foreign riot at Ngankin, 1991.

Ascens os DAY. Disastrous surprise of a French sortic in Tonkin led by Commandant

Riviere, and death of the latter. 1988.

Forts at mouth of Peiho captured by British and French forces, 1858. The Canton Mint

commenced striking silver coins, 1800,

Loss of M. M. str. "Menzalch" while on her passage from Hongkong to Yokohama, 1887.

Imperial Edict respecting anti-Christian literature, iske.

AFTER ASCENSIos. Foreign factories at Canton pillaged, 1841.

U. S. Legation at Tokyo burned down, 1863.

Queen Victoria born, 1819. Captain Elliot and all the British subjects left Canton for

Macao, 1839.

The city of Canton invested by British troops, 1841. Anti-foreign riot at Nanking, 1891.

Formosa Republic dcclared, 1895.

Death of Grand Secretary Wen-siang, 1876.

8 Canton ransomed for $6,000,000, 1841.

Queen's Statue, Hongkong, unveiled, 1896.

WHI: SUNDAY.

Great rain storm in Hong- kong, serious damage, 1889. Anti-Foreign riots in Szechuen, 1895,

H.B.M. screw sloop

　"Reynard" lost on the Pratas shoal in trying to rescue remainder of crew of "Velocipede," 1851. Opening of the Peak Tramway, Hongkong, 1888. Typhoon at Hongkong and Macao; loss of the "Poyang," with 100 lives, near Macao,

1876.

* * * * * * * * 9-

28 738* * * 5 33

Mon.

Tues

Wed.

Thur.

18 28

19 29

WAL 11

Thur.

Frid. 13

hat. 14

Sun.

Frid. 20

Sat

Sun.

Mon

Toes.

Wel

Thur.

Frid.

Sat.

SKR.

Yoo.

Toen. 31

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1st....

JUNE-30 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

5h. 16m.

6h. 38m.

1896

1897

6h. 44m.

Maximum.

.91

Minimuin

.74

15th....... .5h. 16.

Full Moon

MOON'S PHASES

dl. h. ni. sec.

Last Quarter 11

New Moon

4 9 47 43 P.M.

BAROMETER, 1897

40 42 19 11 56 43

P.M.

A.M.

Mean.....

First Quarter 27 } 30 41 1.M.

PERIGEE, 5 days, 11.41 hours, A.M. APOGEE, 19 days, 9.38 hours, P.M.

DAYS OF DAYS OF 4 and 5

*** 42

WEEK

MONTH

MOON8

Wed.

Thur.

Frid.

Sat.

Sun.

Mon.

Tues.

Wed.

Thur.

.29.71

* 1896 18.63 inches

RAINFALL

1897

23.36 inches

Chronology of Remarkable EventS

Attempt to blow up the Hongkong Hotel, 1868, New Opium Agreement between

Hongkong and China came into force. 1887. Anti-foreign riot at Tanyang, 1891. Hongkong connected with London by wire, 1871. Formal transfer of Formosa from

China to Japan, 1895

Earthquake at Manila, killing more than 2,000 persons, 1963.

Kennedy, 1883. Russell & Co. suspend payment, 1891.

Japanese, 19985

Death of Sir Art hur Kelung taken possession of by

West River opened, 1897.

Treaty between France and Corea signed at Seoul, 1886. TRINITY SUNDAY. Departure of the first O. & 0, steamer from Hongkong to San Francisco, 1876. Messrs. Argent and Green murdered in an Anti-foreign riot at Wuhsuch, 1891.

Heavy rains in Hongkong, property to the value of $500,000 destroyed, and many lives

lost, 1864.

Attempted anti-foreign rint at Kiukiang, 1891.

20 Destruction of Mission premises at Wusich by anti-foreign mob, 1991.

O* * *82 2*** ** * 28

1 X A

Frid.

Sat.

Sun.

Suspension of New Orie al Bank, 1892. The P. & 0), steamer dden wrecked off Socotra :

78 lives lost, 1897.

Typhoon at Formosa; loss of several vessels, 1876.

Portuguese prohibited trading at Canton, 1640.

IST AFTER TRıxıry. Opening of the first Railway in Japan, 1872.

British steamer "Carisbrooke" fired into and captured by Chinese Customs cruiser,

1875. Imperial Edict condemning attacks on Foreigners, 1891.

Mon. 13

Tues. 14

Russian and Chinese treaty, 1728.

Tidal Wave, Japan, 286000 lives lost, 1998.

Wed. 15

Thur. 16

Frid. 17

Sat.

Sun. 19

Mon.

Tues.

C120 10 0 0 2 2 ** ** * * * 2 8

Wed. 22

Thur. 23

Frid. 24

British bark "Casar" and Danish schooner

"Carl" taken by pirates off Pedro Blanca 1866. Hope Dock opened at Aberdeen, 1887. Woosung taken, 1842.

First foreign-owned junk leaves Chungking, 1891.

Explosion of the "Union Star" at Shanghai. 17 persons killed and 10 wounded, 1862,

Disastrous inundation at Foochow, two thousand lives lost, 1877.

Shanghai occupied by British forces, 1842.

1 2 3

2ND AFTER TRINITY.

Queen's Accession, 1937. Macartney's embassy arrived in China, 1793. Attack on mis-

sion premises at Haimen city, 1891.

Massacre at Tientsin, 1870.

Canton blockaded by English forces, 1840. Diamond Jubilee celebration, 1897.

Ki-vine visits Hongkong, 1843. Shock of Earthquake in Hongkong, 1974.

surprised by Chinese near Langson, 1884.

French troops

Assassination of M. Carnot, President of the French Republic, 1894.

Sat.

Treaty of Nanking exchanged. 1843.

Attack on British Legation at Tokyo, 1. 862.

Sun.

Mon.

Tues.

Wed.

Thur.

3rd after TrINITY. Treaty between England and China signed at Tientsin, 1858. Ad-

ditional Convention between France and China signed at Peking, 1887.

Treaty between Peauce and China signed, 1858. Confiscation of the str" Prince Albert "

by the British Consul and Customs at Canton, 1866.

Queen's Coronation, 1838.

The Foreign Ministers admitted to an audience of the Emperor of China at Peking, 1878.

Indian Mints closed to silver, 1893.

British expedition to China arrived, 1840.

Woorang railway, 1876. Flooding of the

Opening of a section of the Shanghai and Takasima coal mines, 1891.

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JULY-31 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1st

.5h. 20m.

6h. 47m.

1896

1897

15th

.5h. 25m.

6h. 45m.

Maximum Minimum

.94

.75

MOON'S PHASES

Full Moon

4 4

d. h. m. 48

sec.

42 A.M.

BAROMETER, 1896

New Moon

o3a

18 48 A.M. 23 41 A.M. 16 40 P.M.

Mean.......

.29.78

Dyrs of Days op ! 5 and 6

**K

Frid

>at.

SNA.

Mon.

Last Quarter 11

First Quarter 26

PERIGEE, 3 days, 9.40 hours, P.M. APOGEE, 17 days, 0.42 hours, A.M.

MOSTH· MOONS

1896 12.42 inches

RAINFALL

1897

5.57 inches

CHRONOLOGy of Remarkable Events

Hakodate, Kanagawa, and Nagasaki (Japan) opened to trade, 1857. Two Swedish

missionaries nurdered at Sungpu, 1893,

Amoy forts and many junks destroyed by H.MS.

from the Hoongkiang arrived in Hongkong, 1873.

Blonde, 1840. French Expedition

4TH AFTER TRINITY. Steamer " Don Juan" burnt at sea near Philippines; 145 persons

perished, 1893.

Telegraph cable laid between Hongkong and Macao, 1884.

Tues. 5

Wed. $

Tinghai first taken, 1840. Attack on British Embassy at Tokyo, 1801,

18!

Thur.

Frid.

Sat.

>>>

Sun.

Mon.

Tues.

Wel

Thur.

Frid.

Sat.

Sun.

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Mon.

Tues.

Wed.

Thor.

S & * RENDU 2 2 2 2

Order of nobility instituted in Japan, 1884.

Canton factories attacked by Chinese, 1846.

Frid.

SAL.

ぶ

Mon.

Tues.

First Dutch embassy arrived at Tientsin, 1656.

5TH AFTER TRINITY. Portuguese fleet, left Malacca for China, 1522. The Yangtsze

blockaded by British fleet, 1840.

Engagement between the American Naval Forces and the Coreans; the Expedition

leave to await instructions, 1871. Amherst's embassy arrived in China, 1816.

Foreign Inspectorate of Customs established in Shanghai, 1854. Suspension of Hongkong

Police Officers for accepting bribes, 1897.

First English ship reached China, 1635, French gunboats fired on by Siamese at

Paknam, 1803.

Statue of Paul Bert unveiled at Hanoi, 1890.

Shimonoseki forts bombarded by the English, French, and American squadron, 1871

Eruption of Bandai-san volcano, Japan; 500 persons killed, 1888.

British trade with China re-opened, 1842. The King of Cambodia arrived on a visit to

Hongkong, 1872.

6TH AFTER TRINITY. Dutch envoy Goyer, as bearer of tribute, received in Peking, 1656

Terrible earthquake at Manila, 1880, Additional Article to Chefoo Convention signed in London, 1885.

Nanking captured by the Imperialists, 1863.

Wreck of the C. M. S. N. Co.'s str. "Pautah" on Shantung Promontory, 1887.

Yellow River burst its banks at Chang-kiu, Shantung; great inundation, 1889. Årined attack on Japanese Legation at Seoul, Corca, and eight inmates killed, 1882.

7TH AFTER TRINITY. British trade prohibited at Canton, 1834. Anglo-Chinese Burmaų

Convention signed at Peking, 186.

Kowshing." British steamer carrying Chinese troops, sunk by Japanese, with loss of about 1,000 lives, 1894. Defeat of British forces at Taku, Admiral Hope wounded, 1860. New Hongkong Club opened, 1897.

Wed.

Thur. 29

Canton opened to British trade, 1843. Terrific typhoon at Canton, Macao, Hongkong, and

Whampoa ; loss of life estimated at 40,000 persons, 1862. Nanking re-taken by Imperialists, 1864.

Frid

Sat.

Sias. 31

German Gunboat Illis wrecked off Shantung Promontory ; all but cløven of the crow perished. 1896. Outbreak of rebellion at Manila, 1896, Typhoon at Hongkong and Mac+n, 18. Great earthquake at Kumamoto, Japan, 1889. Defeat of the Chinese by the Japanese at Yashan, 1804. Severe typhoon at Macao, 1836,

8TH AFTER T "IN ITY

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AUGUST-31 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1st 15th

.5h. 33m.

Ch. 39m.

1896

1897

.5h. 38m.

6h. 31m.

MOON'S PHASES

Maximum.

Minimum

.91

..76

d. h. m. see.

Full Moon

2 0

48 P.M.

17 6

8 26

Last Quarter New Moon First Quarter 25 Full Moon

　　　PERIGEE 1 day, APOGEE, 13 days, PERIGEE, 29 days,

DAYS OF DAYS OF 6 and 7

WERK

5.44 hours, A.M. 11.43 hours, A.M. 8.40 hours, A.M.

Chronology of Remarkable EvenT8

P.M.

BAROMETER, 1897

P.M.

A.M.

P.M.

Mean.......

1896

RAINFALL

5.19 inches

1897 25.55 inches

..29.77

MONTH

MOONS

Mon.

Both China and Japan declare war, 1894. Kucheng massacre, 1895,

Tues.

Wed. 3

Thur. 4

Frid.

Sat.

Sun.

Mon.

Tues.

Wed.

Thur.

Frid.

Sat.

-21

Sun.

Mon.

* ** **N*

Victims of Massacre at Tientsin buried, 1870,

British fleet arrived before Nanking, 1842.

Macartney's Embassy entered Peiko, 1796.

Serious Flood at Tientsin, 1871.

Boinbardment of Kelung by French, 1884.

9TH AFTER TRINITY. British squadron arrived off the Peiho, 1840. Assassination of Mr. Haber, German Consul at Hakodate, 1874.

British troops landed at. Nanking, 1842.

Sir H. Pottinger arrived at Hongkong, 1841. Destructive typhoon at Foochow, 1888. First public meeting of British merchants in Canton, called by Lord Napier, whọ

suggested the establishment of a Chamber of Commerce, 1834.

174 British prisoners executed in Formosa, 1842.

10TH AFTER TRINITY. Tong-ur-ku taken, 1860.

Great Fire on French Concession, Shanghai: 991 houses destroyed; loss Tis. 1,500,000

1879. Total loss of the E. & A. steamer "Catterthun" near Sydney, 1895,

Tues.

British trade at Canton stopped by Hong merchants, 1834.

signed, 1856.

French treatywith Siam

Wed.

Thur.

Frid. 19

Sat.

Sun.

Mon.

* 28 AN

Lord Napier ordered by the Viceroy to leave Canton, 1834.

signet, 1ās. Great fire in Hongkong, 1868.

Dutch treaty with Japan

First conference between Sir Henry Pottinger and Ki-ying on board the "Cornwallis," at

Nanking, 1842. Taku forts taken by the Allied forces, 1860.

11TH AFTER TRINITY. Emperor Hien Fung died, 1861.

Governor Amaral (Macao) assassinated, 1849. Ma, Viceroy of Nunking, stabbed, 1870. Seizure of steamer "Spark" by pirates between Canton and Macao, 1874. Telegraph line to Peking opened, 1884.

Tues.

Wed.

Thur.

Frid. 26

Sat.

Sun.

　　　　　　Mon. 29 Tues.

Wed. 31

* * * * * * 28.

Large meeting in Hongkong to protest against the military contribution, 1864.

fleet at Pagoda Anchorage destroyed by French, 1884.

Chinese

Wreck of the C. N. Co's. str.

"Tientsin" near Swatow, 1887.

British Chamber of Commerce established at Canton, 1834. Treaty between Great Britain

and Japan signed, 1858.

British left. Macao, 1839.

Amoy taken by the English, 296 guns captured, 1841.

2 34 4

12TH AFTER TRINITY. Lord Amherst's Embassy left for Yuen-ming-yuen, 1816.

abolished in British possessions, 1833. Kimpai forts silenced by French, 1884.

Treaty of Nanking signed, 1842.

Severe typhoon on coast of China, many lives lost, and much damage done to shipping

at Hongkong, Macao, and Whampoa, 1848.

Slavery

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SEPTEMBER-30 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TemperaturE

1st

..5h. 44m.

6h. 16m.

1896

1897

13th

........5h. 48m.

6h. 02m.

Maximum

..91

Minimum

..76

MOON'S PHASES

d. h. ni. sec.

Last Quarter

New Moon 16 7

First Quarter 23

10 15

26 49 A.M. 46 42 44

BAROMETER, 1897

A.M.

Mean......

.29.87

A.M.

Full Moon

30 6 46 47 A.M.

1896 9.99 inches

RAINFALL

1897

8.34 inches

APOGEE 10 days, 4.42 hours, P.M. PERIGEE, 25 days, 0.44 hours,

BASE DAYS OF 7 and 8

W MONTH Moors

Thur.

Fridd.

4 19

Mon.

Sat.

頭悪

Tues.

2203

223 13

TAL

Thar.

Frid.

Sat: 10

Mon.

Tues. 13

Wad

Thur. 15

Frid

Bat.

SMA.

WOLL

Tues.

Wed

P.M.

CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS

Ma, Viceroy of Nanking, died of the wounds inflicted by an assassin, 1870. Foundation

stone of Gap Rock lighthouse, near Hongkong, laid, 1890.

Arrival of the "Vega" at Yokohama, after having discovered the North-East Passage,

1879. Serious anti-foreign riot at Ichang, 1891.

Hongkong plague proclamation revoked, 1894.

13TH AFTER TRINITY.

Attack on the forts at Shimonoseki, Japan, by the allied fleets under Admiral Kuper, 1864.

Death of Two Tsung-tang at Foochow, 1885.

H.R.H. Prince Alfred received by the Mikado of Japan, 1869. Attack on Dr. Greig, near Kirin, by soldiers, 1891.

Great typhoon in Hongkong, 1867.

Sir Hercules Robinson assumed the government of Hongkong, 1850.

Riot by Chinese mob at Canton; great destruction of houses and property on Shameen, 1883. British gunboat "Wasp" left Singapore for Hongkong and seen no more, 1887.

14TH AFTER TRINITY. Public meeting of foreign residents at Yokohama to protest

against proposed new Treaty with Japan, 1890.

Convention signed at Chefoo by Sir Thomas Wade and Li Hung-chang, 1876.

Public Meeting in Hongkong, with reference to the blockade of the port by the Chinese

Customs' cruisers, 1874. Severe typhoon in Southern Japan, 1891.

Chinese transport Waylee" driven ashore on Pescadores; upwardsof 370 lives lost, 1887,

Pingyang captured by the Japanese, 1894.

New Convention between Germany and China ratified at Peking, 1881.

The battle of the Yalu, in which the Chinese were defeated by the Japanese, losing five

vessels. 18904.

15TH AFTER TRINITY. Destruction by fire of the Temple of Heaven, Peking, 1889. Loss in

Kii Channel, near Kobe, of the Turkish frigate "Ertogrul," with 567 lives, 1890.

Typhoon at Swatow, 1891.

Am. brig "Lubra" taken by pirates, 1866. Terrific typhoon in Hongkong and Macao

many thousands of lives lost, 1874.

H.M.S.

Rattler' lost off Japan, 1868. Piratical attack on the German barque Apenrade," near Macao, 1869, The Satsuma rebels in Japan routed with great slaughter, their leader, Saigo, killed, and the insurrection suppressed, 1877.

16TH AFTER TRINITY. Daring attack upon a Chinese shop in Wing Lok street, Hongkong,

by armed robbers, 1878.

Thur.

Frid.

Sam.

Hea

Lord Napier arrived at Macao dangerously ill, 1834.

Taes. 27

Wed

Thur. 29

Prid

34 4

Commissioner Lin degraded, 1840.

Yellow River burst its banks in Honan; calamitous inundation, 1887. Death of Hon. F.

Stewart, Colonial Secretary, at Hongkong, 1889.

Michaelmas Day. Hurricane at Manila, causing immense damage to shipping, 1886.

All the Bogue forts destroyed by the British fleet, 1841.

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OCTOBER-31 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG Temperature

　　　　1st 15th

.5h. 53m.

5h. 47m.

1696

1897

..5h. 58m.

5h. 34m.

MOON'S PHASES

Maximum Minimum

.91

..65

d. h. m. sec.

Last Quarter 8 1 40

47 A.M.

New Moon

P.M.

BAROMETER, 1997

First Quarter 22

P.M.

Full Moon

Mean......

54 42

.29.98

P.M.

APOGEE, 8 days, PERIGEE, 20 days,

DAYS OF DAYB or 8 and 9

WEKK MONTH

0.37 hours, A.M. 8.43 hours, A.M.

1896 RAINFALL

1897

7.90 inches

6.43 inches

CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS

The "Hongkong Daily Press" started, 1957. Inauguration of Hongkong College of Medicine. 1887. Hyogo declared an open port, 1892. Gold Standard adopted in Japan, 1897.

17TH AFTER TRINITY. Confucius born, B.C. 562. Tamsui bombarded by French, 1884. Serious riot at Hongkong, 1884. Treaty between France and Siam signed at Bangkok'

1893.

Attack on foreigners at Wenchow, 1884.

French expedition left Chefoo for Corea, 1866. Arrival in Hongkong of Governor Sir

William Des Vœux, K.Q.M.0., 1887.

H.R.H. Prince Alfred visited Peking, but not received by the Emperor, 1869. Great

public meeting at Hongkong to consider increase of crime in Colony, 1878, Supplementary treaty signed at the Bogue, 1548. French landing party at Tamsui

repulsed, 1884. Death of Lady Robinson, wife of the Governor of Hongkong, 1894. 18th after TRINITY, Shanghai captured, 1941. Chinhai taken, 1841. Official inspection of Tientsin-Kaiping Railway, 1885. Wreck off the Pescadores of the Norwegian str. "Normand," with loss of all on board except two, 1892.

Lord Napier died at Macao, 1834. Wreck off the Pescadores of the P. & O. str." Bokhara,"

with loss of 125 lives, 1892.

The first Chinese merchant steamer (the

"Meifoo") left Hongkong for London with

passengers to establish a Chinese firm there, 1581. Revolt in the Philippines, 1872.

Ningpo occupied by British forces, 1841. First railway in Japan officially opened by the

Mikado, 1872.

MOONS

Sat.

Sun.

Mon. 3

Tues. 4

Wed.

Typhoon at Hongkong, 1894.

Thur.

Frid.

Sat.

Sun.

Mon.

Tues.

Wed.

Thur.

Frid.

Sat.

21 20 1DD - PAN ** * ***

Sun. 16

Mon.

Tues.

2 M

"Flors Temple" lost in the China Sea, with upwards of 800 coolies on board, 1859.

Explosion on the Chinese trooper "Kungpai," loss of 500 lives, 1895

19TH AFTER TRINITY. Khanghoa, in Corea, taken by the French, 1866.

St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, dedicated, 1842. Daring piracy on board the British

str. "Greyhound," 1885.

At a meeting of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China a scheme

of reconstruction was approved, 1892.

Wed. 19

Great fire in Hongkong, 1509. Great typhoon at Formosa, 1861.

Thur.

Terrific typhoon at Manila; enormous damage to property, 1892.

Frid.

The Shanghai and Woosung railway closed by the Chinese Government, 1877.

Sat.

H.R.H. Prince Alfred arrived at Shanghai, 1869. Cosmopolitan Dock opened, 1875.

Death, at Saigon, of M. Filippini, Governor of Cochin-Chilia, 1887.

Sun. 23

Mon. 24

Tues.

Wed.

Thur.

Frid.

Sat. 29

Sun.

Mon. 31

20TH AFTER TRINITY. 68 piratical vessels destroyed by Captains Hay and Wilcox, H.M.

ships "Columbine" and "Fury," 1849.

The Japanese cross the Yalu, 1894.

Treaty of Whampoa between France and China signed, 1844. Kahding recaptured by

the Allies, 1862.

Chin-lien-cheng taken by the Japanese, 1894.

Serious earthquake in Central Japan, 7,500 persons killed, 1891. Attempted insurrection

at Canton, 1895

Portuguese frigate ** D. Maria II." blown up at Macao, 1850.

21ST AFTER TRINITY. Great fire in Hongkong, 1866. Fenghuang taken by the Japanese

1894.

H.R.H. Prince Alfred arrived at Hongkong, 1889. Ta-lien-wan and Kinchow taken by

the Japanese, 1894.

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NOVEMBER-30 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1st

......6h. 6m.

5h. 22m.

1896

1897

15th..

........6h. 14m.

5h. 16m.

Maximum

..80

MOON'S PHASES

Minimum

.62

d. h. m. sec.

Last Quarter

6 10

3 48 P.M.

New Moon

14 7

56 46

A.M.

BAROMETER, 1897

First Quarter 21

A.M.

Mean.......

.30.06

Full Moon

15 42

P.M.

APOGEE, 4 days, PERIGEE, 16 days,

8.41 hours, P.M.

2.43 hours, P.M.

1896 2.97 inches

RAINFALL

1897

7.32 inches

Danver Days of Pand 19

MONTH

Meoxs

CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS

Chinese lighthouse tender "Fei-hoo" captured by French, 1884. Arrival at Hongkong

of Mr. N. R. O'Conor, the new British Minister to China, 1892.

Toa 1

The port of Quinhon, Annam, opened to foreign trade, 1876.

Czar of Russia, 1894.

Death of Alexander III.

Wed 2

Thur.

Prid

20 Great Britain commenced the first war with China by the Naval action of Chuen-pee, 1839.

22 X * & NA

Hongkong Jockey Club formed, 1884.

Great fire at Macao, 500 houses burnt, 1834. Peking evacuated by the Allies, 1860.

2nd after TrisITY. English and French treaties promulgated in the "Peking Gazette,"

1860.

Sat.

Sun.

Mon.

Tues.

Wed

Thur. 10

Frid

Sat. 12

un.

Noa

Tres.. 15

Red

Tour. 17

Frid. Sat.

Mon Tas

Fed

! Thur. 24

Pri

Won.

Tren

Ast

Prince of Wales born, 1841. The French repulsed in Corea, 1866.

Queen's Jubilee in Hongkong, 1887.

Celebration of the

Statue of Sir Arthur Kennedy unveiled in the Botanic Gardens, Hongkong, 1897. H.M.S. "Racehorse" wrecked off Chefoo, out of a crew of 108 only 9 saved, 1864. Death

of M. Paul Bert, Resident General of Annam and Tonkin, 1856.

Hongkong first lighted by gas, 1964. The Foreing Ministers had audience within the

Palace, Peking, 1894.

231D AFTER TRINITY. Earthquake at Shanghai, 1847.

Convention signed between Russia and China, 1860. Celebration of Shanghai Jubilee,

1893. Germans took possession of Kianchĩu Bay, 1897

H.M. gunboat "Gnat" lost on the Palawan, 1868. Destruction of the str. "Wah Yeung"

by fire in the Canton river; upwards of 400 lives lost, 1887.

Shanghai opened to foreign commerce, 1843. Celebration of Shanghai Jubilee, 1893.

Great Fire in Hongkong, 1867.

Terrific gunpowder explosion at Amoy; upwards of 800 houses destroyed, and several

hundred lives lost, 1997.

24TH AFTER TRINITY. Portuguese Custom house at Macão closed, 1845. Lord Elgin died,

1463.

Major Baldwin and Lieut. Bird, of H.M.'s 20th Regt., murdered in Japan, 1964. Port

Arthur token by the Japanese, 1894.

Terrible boiler explosion on board the steamer "Yesso" in Hongkong harbour, 86 lives

lost, 1977.

Arrival of the Princes Albert Victor and George of Wales in the "Bacchante" at Woosung

ISL

Capture of Anning. Formosa. 1568. Treaty between Portugal and China signed, 1897.

Imperial Diet of Japan met for the first time, 1890.

Edict issued by the Viceroy of Canton forbidding trade with British ships, 1839. 1ST IN ADVENT, M. Thiers accents the apology of Ch'ung How, the Chinese Ambassador,

for the murder of the French at Tientsin (June 21st, 1870), 1871.

30 17

* * * N***

Foreign factories burnt at Canton, 1956. Great fire in Hongkong, 1867.

Murder of cantain and four men of the British barque "Crofton,' near Ku-lan, 1800.

Opening of the Japanese Diet at Tokyo by the Emperor in person, 1890. St. Andrew's day. St. Joseph's Church. Hongkong, consecrated, 1972. cruiser "Chishima Kan," sunk in collision with the P. & 0. steamer the Inland Sea, 61 lives lost, 1892.

The Japanese "* Ravenna,"

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DECEMBER-31 DAYS

SUNRISE

　　　　　1st 15th

....6h. 25m.

SUNSET 5h. 13m.

..6h. 34m. 5h. 17m.

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1895

1896

Maximum

.**

76.5

Minimum

.47

40.7

MOON'S PHASES

d. h. III. sec.

　　　Last Quarter 6 5 41 46 P.M. New Moon 13 7 19 42 P.M. First Quarter 20 10 57 46 A.M. Full Moon 28 7 15 42 A.M.

BAROMETER, 1896

Mean........

..30.23

APOGEE, 2 days, 2.45 hours, P.M. PERIGEE, 14 days, 8.40 hours, P.M. APOGEE, 30 days. 1.42 hours, A.M.

1895 0.20 inches

RAINFALL

1896

1.29 inches

CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS

Sat.

Sun. 18 Mon. 19

Tues. 20

Wed.

Thur.

Frid.

Sat. 24

Sun.

Mon.

Tues. 27 Wed. 28

Thur.

Frid. 30

Sat. 31

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DAYS OF DAYS OF 10 and 11)

WEEK

MONTH

MOONS

Thur.

Frid.

St. Francis Xavier died on Sanchoan, 1552.

Sat.

Sun.

Mon.

2ND IN ADVENT. First census of Hongkong taken, population 15,000, 1841.

Six foreigners killed at Wang-chuh-ki, 1847. Soochow re-taken by the Imperialists

under General Gonton, 1863. The Japanese warship "Nuebi-kan " left Singapore and not heard of again, 1856.

Tues.

Confucius died, B.C. 490.

Wed. 7

European factories at Canton destroyed by a mob, 1842.

Thur.

Frid.

∞ ∞

Sat. 10

Sun.

Mon.

audience every New Year, 1890.

Tues.

Ningpo captured by the Taipings, 1861. Consecration of new Pei-tang Cathedral, Pek-

ing, 1888.

Piracy on board the Douglas str. Namoa," five hours after leaving Hongkong; Captain Pocock and three others murdered, and several seriously wounded, 1890, "Arrival in Hongkong of Governor Sir William Robinson, 1891.

Admiral Bell, U.S.N.,

3RD IS ADVENT. Indemnity paid by Prince Satsuma, 1883.

drowned at Osaka, 1867.

Imperial decree stating that the Foreign Ministers at Peking are to be received in

French flag hauled down from the Consulate at Canton by Chinese, 1832.

Wed.

Thur.

All Catholic Priests (not Portuguese) expelled from Macao, 1838.

Frid. 16

818

British Consulate at Shanghai destroyed by fire, 1870.

The P. M. S. S. Co.'s steamer "Japan" burnt, 1 European passenger, the cook, and 389

Chinese drowned, 1874.

4TH IN ADVENT.

Sir Hugh Gough and the Eastern Expedition left China, 1842.

Arrival of Princes Albert Victor and George of Wales at Hongkong in the **Bacchante," 1981. Two cotton mills destroyed by fire at Osaka, 120 persons burnt to death, 1893.

Steam navigation first attempted, 1736.

Two Mandarins arrived at Macao with secret orders to watch the movements

Plenipotentiary Elliot, 1836.

CHRISTMAS DAY. Great Fire in Hongkong; 368 houses destroyed, immense destruction

of property, 1878.

Great fire at Tokyo, 11,000 houses destroyed, 263 lives lost, 1807, The C. N. Co.'s steamer

· Shanghai" destroyed by fire on the Yangtsze, over 300 lives lost.

Dedication of Hongkong Masonic Hall, 1865.

Canton bombarded by Allied forces of Great Britain and France, 1857.

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Ting-yau

1890.

Year.

Jan. III. Moon.

Mo-shut Yr.

I. Moon.

The Great Cold.

Festival of Lu Pàn, the patron saint of carpenters and masons.

He is said

to have been a contemporary of Confucius. Among the many stories related of his ingenuity, it is said that, on account of his father having been put to death by the men of Wu, he carved the effigy of one of the genii with one of its hands stretched towards Wu, when, in consequence, drought prevailed for three years. On being supplicated and presented with gifts from Wu, he cut off the hand, and rain immediately fell. On this day carpenters refuse to work.

Worship of the god of the hearth at nightfall. The god of the hearth reports to heaven.

Chinese New Year's day.

31!

Fête day of the Spirits of the Ground.

Fel

II. Moon.

III. Moon.

May. IV. Moon.

V. Moon.

Feast of Lanterns, Fête of Shang-yuen, ruler of heaven.

Fête of Shen and Ts'ai, the two guardians of the door. Auspicious day for

praying for wealth and offspring.

Fête day of the Supreme Judge in the Courts of Hades.

Mencius born B.C. 371. Spring worship of the gods of the land and grain. Fête of the god of literature, worshipped by students.

Fête day of Hung-shing, god of the Canton river, powerful to preserve people

from drowning, and for sending rain in times of drought.

Birthday of Lao Tsze, founder of Tauism, B.C. 604.

Fête of Kwanyin, goddess of mercy.

Tsing Ming, or Tomb Festival.

Fête of Hiuen T'ien Shang-ti, the supreme ruler of the Sombre heavens,

Peh-te, Tauist god of the North Pole.

Fête of I-ling, a deified physician, and of the god of the Sombre Altar, wor-

shipped on behalf of sick children.

Fête of Heu Tu, the goddess worshipped behind graves; of the god of the

Central mountain, and of the three brothers.

Fête of Tien Heu, Queen of Heaven, Holy mother, goddess of sailors.

Fête of Tsz Sun, goddess of progeny.

National Festival of Ts'ang Kieh, inventor of writing.

Fête of the Bodhisattva Mandjushri; worshipped on behalf of the dead. Fête of San Kai, ruler of heaven, of earth, and of hades ; also a fête of Buddha. Fête of the dragon spirits of the ground.

Fête of Lû Sien, Tauist patriarch, worshipped by barbers.

Fête of Kin Hwa, the Cantonese goddess of parturition.

Fête of the goddess of the blind.

Fête of Yoh Wong, the Tauist god of medicine.

Fête of the god of the South pole.

National fête day. Dragon boat festival and boat races. On this day the

Cantonese frantically paddle about in long narrow boats much orna mented. In each boat is a large drum and other musical instruments used to incite the crew to greater exertions. The festival is called Pa Lung Shuu or Tiu Wat Uen, and is held to commemorate the death of the Prince of Tsoo, who, neglecting the advice of his faithful Minister Wat Uen, drowned himself about B.C. 500.

National fête of Sheng Wang, the tutelary god of walled towns.

National fête of Kwân Ti, god of war, and of his son General Kwan. Fête of Chang Tao-ling (A.D. 34), ancient head of the Tauist sect. His de- scendants still continue to claim the headship. It is said the succes- sion is perpetuated by the transmigration of the soul of each successor of Chang Tao-ling, on his decease, to the body of some youthful member of the

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Aug.

VII. Moon

Sept.

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VIII. Moon.

Oct.

ྃ།

ENG MONO

IX. Moon.

Nov.

ཚན་སློབ

X. Moon.

3 15

Dec. XI. Moon.

CHINESE FESTIVALS AND OBSERVANCES

family, whose heirship is supernaturally revealed as soon as the miracle is effected. Fete of Shakyamuni Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. Fête of Lu Pan, the god of carpenters and masons.

Fête of the goddess of mercy.

Anniversary of Kwan Ti's ascent to heaven. Fête of Chuh Yung, the spirit

of fire; and of the god of thunder.

　　　　　　　　　　　　During this moon is held the festival of all First day of the seventh moon.

souls, when Buddhist and Tauist priests read masses to release souls from purgatory, scatter rice to feed starving ghosts, recite magic incantations accompanied by finger play imitating mystic Sanskrit characters which are supposed to comfort souls in purgatory, burn paper clothes for the benefit of the souls of the drowned, and visit family shrines to pray on behalf of the deceased members of the family. Exhibitions of groups of statuettes, dwarf plants, silk festoons, and ancestral tablets are com- bined with these ceremonies, which are enlivened by music and fireworks. Fête day of Lao Tszu, the founder of Tauism.

Fête of the god of Ursa Major, worshipped by scholars, and of the seven

goddesses of the Pleiades, worshipped by women.

Fête of Chung Yuen, god of the element earth.

Fête of the three gods of heaven, of earth, and of water, and of the five

attendant sacrificial spirits.

Fête of Chang Fi, A.D. 220,

After

　　　　　　A leader of the wars during the Three King- doms. He is said have been at first a butcher and wine seller. many heroic exploits, he perished by the hand of an assassin.

Fête of the god of wealth.

Fête of Hu Sün-ping, a Tauist eremite.

Fête of Ti Ts'ang-wang, the patron of departed spirits.

Fête of Hü Sun, a deified physician, worshipped by doctors, and of Kin

Kiah (god of the golden armour) worshipped by the literati.

Fête of the gods of land and grain.

Descent of the star god of the northern measure, and fête of the god of the hearth. National fête day. Worship of the moon, and Feast of Lanterns.

Fête of the god of the Sun.

Fête of Confucius (born 551 B.C.), the founder of Chinese ethics and politics.

Descent of the Star gods of the northern and southern measures from

the 1st to the 9th day inclusive.

Fête of Kwan Ti, the god of war; kite-flying day. Fête of Tung, a rulerin Hades. Fête of Yen Hwui, the favourite disciple of Confucins.

National fête of Chu Hi (A.D. 1130-1200), the most eminent of the later Chinese philosophers whose commentaries on the Chinese classics have formed for centuries the recognized standard of orthodoxy.

Fête of the god of the loom.

Fêtes of the god of wealth; of Koh Hung, one of the most celebrated of Tauist

doctors and adepts in alchemy; and of the golden dragon king.

Fête of Tsu Shêng, one of the reputed inventors of writing.

Fête day of Hwa Kwang, the god of fire, and Ma, a deified physician.

Fête of the three brothers San Mao.

Fêtes of Ha Yuen, the god of water; of the god of small-pox; and of the

god and goddess of the bedstead.

National fête of Confucius (born 551 B.C.), the founder of Chinese ethics

and politics.

Fête day of Yuh Hwang, the higher god of the Tauist pantheon.

1899

Jan.

XII. Moon.

Great Buddhistic Festival.

Tauist feast day of Chang Sin, extensively worshipped for male issue. Fête of the Genius of the North (one of the five evil genii) Festival of the Angel of Sunlight.

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PARS.

1 Mail Routes

PARS.

37.07

Post Cards

Be.. buure

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Mail Time Tables

27.28

Newspapers

68.71

Registration

93- 97 98-104

Bolours

Forbidden Articles

2040

Books

72-77

Miscellaneous

105-107

Balionas

4-5

[itequests

31-43

PAL: Boxes

Homplaints

44-46

Commercial Papers.. 78-81 Parterus

Parcel Post.

108-119

82.88

Money Orders

120-123

Pater stampe

7-9

Private Boxes

Postal Notes

124-138

89.92

Hat-ul P-tage 10.15

Poste Restaute

47-51 Pries Current / 52-56 | and Circulars)

OFFICES.

　　　　　　1-The Head Office for British Postal business in China is at Hongkong; there is Post Office also at Shanghai, and Agencies at the following places

Canton, Hoihow, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo and Hankow.

BUSINESS Hours,

2.--The General Post Office is open for the transaction of public business on Week days from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. On Sundays and Holidays from 8 to 9 am. In the event of a contract mail arriving after the ordinary business hours, the office is opened for the delivery of correspondence as soon as possible after the mails have been landed, and will be kept open for one hour.

HOLIDAYS.

3-Sundays and all Public and Government Holidays are observed as Post Office Holidays, except as notified in the foregoing paragraph, and except the departure of a contract mail happens to be fixed for a Public or Government Holiday, when the Office will be kept open for the purpose of despatching the mail.

DELIVERIES.

4-The following are the hours at which delivery of correspondence takes place from the General Post Office :-

In Town, 8 a.m., 10 a.m., noon, 2 p.m., 4 p.m., 6 p.m.

In the Suburbs, 9 a.m., noon, 5 p.m.

At Kowloon and the Peak, noon, 4 p.m.

　　　　　　On Sundays and Holidays deliveries are effected at 9 a.m. in the town and suburbs. There is also one delivery at Kowloon and the Peak in the morning.

　　　　　Contract mails are, however, delivered as soon as possible after arrival. The ordinary deliveries may be retarded by the contract mails.

The last delivery of Registered Correspondence is at 4 p.m.

There are no deliveries on Chinese New Year's day.

To Shipping.

5-As a general rule correspondence for shipping in harbour is delivered to the agents, but if desired it will be delivered on board at noon and 4 p.m.

PILLAR BOXES.

6-Pillar Letter Boxes have been placed at the following localities and are cleared daily at the following hours, except on Sundays and Holidays:

Town District.

From Ship Street to Bonham Strand West and up to level of Robinson Road.

Clearances: 8.30 a.m., 10.30 a.ın., 0.30 p.m., 2.30 p.m., 4.30 p.m.

Pilar Box No. 7..

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9..

10..

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11.

Kilar Box No. 12..

13.

14.

Fillar Box No. 1...

6....

Victoria, junction of Queen's Road East and Arsenal Street. Victoria, near the Harbour Master's Office.

Victoria, junction of Albany, Robinson and Garden Roads. Victoria, junction of Seymour and Castle Roads.

Victoria, junction of Old Bailey and Caine Road.

Suburban Districts,

Clearances : 9.30 a.m., 0.30

p.m.,

5.30 p.m.

Victoria, junction of Robinson and Bonham Roads.

Victoria, East Point, junction of Percival Street and Praya. West Point, near No. 7 Police Station.

Kowloon und Peak District.

Clearances : noon and 4 p.n.

Kowloon, near Wharf and Godowns.

Magazine Gap, at the Gap.

.Peak District, at Victoria Gap.

Peak District, at Mount Kellett, near Myrtlebank."

Peak District, at Junction of Mount Gough Road with road

to Aberdeen West of Government Villas.

Peak District, at Plantation Road, at junction of roads

between Rural Building Lots 14 and 27.

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There is also a Letter Box fixed in the Charge Room at Tsim Sha-tsui Police Station. Letters containing any article of value should not be posted in these boxes, but should be registered at the General Post Office,

Persons posting in these boxes may cancel their stamps by writing the date across them.

POSTAGE STAMPS,

7.-Hongkong Postage Stamps of the following values can be purchased and are available at any British Post Office or Agency in Hongkong or China:-

2 cents.

20 30

་་

50 cents.

1 dollar.

2 dollars.

邮辱

Post Cards--

1 cent.

2 cents (reply paid).

4 gents,

8 cents (with reply paid).

8. --Boxholders are at liberty to mark their Postage Stamps on the back or face or by perforation, so as to prevent their being stolen. If the mark be on the face, it must be such as not to interfere with the clean appearance of the stau.p.

9.-Correspondence will not be stamped at the Post Office and charged to a boxholder's account, except as provided by paragraph 11.

RATES OF POSTAGE,

10.--Rates of Postage in Hongkong and at British Post Offices in China :-

UNION COUNTRIES

SINGLE REPLY

LETTERA

Tאזון

דאנזו

PER ¦ OZ.

CARDS each.

CARDS eneh,

BOOKN NEWNP'I P'TERNS

RTC. PER 2 02.

RETURN REGIN- İRECEIPT FOR!

·TRATION, ĮREGISTERED

ARTICLE.

cents, 10

centa.

cents, į cents,

cents.

10(e)

10 fea

20 (ra)

DELO SE

10 in)

10/#

10 fi

10 /

except ---

Macao

NON-UNION COUNTRIES:

Abyssinia.

Afghanistan

Africa (West Coast, Native Possessions), Arabia

Beehu maland Protectorate, including

Konye, Lake Ngatni, Macloutsie. Mole- polole, Pafchwe (Khamas Town). Rhode sia (comprising Mashonaland, Matabele- land, and Northern Zambesi), Shoshong, i and Tati River,

British

British Central Africa, including

　　　Nyassaland, Barotse, Lake Moero, Tan- ganyika, and Upper Zambesi .

China or from China to Hongkong) Changchow

Corea

10 (0)

5. (c)

10 C/ 10

Antan-

Friendly Islands (Tonga Islands). Madagascar(except French Establishments,

viz., Anthoxitra, Andevovante, anarivo, Diego Suarez, Fenerive, Fiara- nantson. Foulpointe, Ivondro, Maevata- nana, Mahambo, Malianoro, Mahela, Ma- intirano, Majunga, Mananjary, Moranda- va, M rotsigana, Nossi-Về, St. Mary, Tamatave, Vätomandry and Vohemar).. Morocco (except Casablanca, El-ksar-el- khir, Fez, Laraiche, Mazgan, Mogador, Rabat, Suffi, Tangier and Tetuan, at eich of which places the Gibraltar Post Office or Freueli Post Office maintains an ngen- cy under the Postal Union regulations). Navigators Islands (Sanior) Niger Const. Protectorate, viz :

NALAIN

5 (6)

0903

10 (in)

10 (c)

10 fin

10.0

　　　Benin, Bouny, Briss, Calabar, Opobo, and Warree or Forendos

Orange Free State

Society Islands

Other parts

Sass

1 10

10 )

10 (c)

10 (in)

BETWEEN HONGKONG AND CANTON, AND FOR LOCAL

DELIVERY

(a.) An additional charge is made on delivery,

COMMER- CIAL

PAPERS

Same as for Books, except that the lowest charge is 10 cents

(b.) Registration in China through British Offices extends to Hoihow, Canton, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo, Shanghai and Hankow only.

(in.) Registration is incomplete, not extending beyond Port of Arrival,

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Local Rates.

Il-Circulars, Dividend Warrants, Invitations, Cards, Patterns, Bills, Almanacs, &c., foraldresses in Hongkong, or the Ports of China, but not for Macao, in batches of not ls than ten of uniform size and weight, may be sent to the Post Office unstamped, the patage, at the rate of one cent each, being paid in cash or charged to the sender's ount. Special accounts may be opened with non-boxholders for the delivery of nsiderable numbers of such articles.

　　　　　12. -Such covers, when addressed to places other than Hongkong or China, must be prepaid two cents each in stamps.

　　　　　　13-Circulars, &c., must not exceed 2 ounces each in weight. Patterns, Almanacs, ke, must be under 4 ounces each in weight. Heavier articles are charged ordinary rates.

14-Envelopes containing patterns, &c,, may be wholly closed if the nature of the contents be first exhibited or stated to the Postmaster-General, as he may consider teossary, and approved by him. Printed Circulars may be inserted in such Pattern Parkets.

　　　　　15--Addresses must be complete. That is to say, on such covers as are not addressed so heads of houses, the addressee's residence or place of business must be added. In- ompletely addressed covers are returned to the sender for address.

MAIL ROUTES AND OPPORTUNITIES,

16-All ordinary correspondence is sent on by the best opportunity of which the prepayment admits, unless especially directed or apparently prepaid for some other

route.

17.-Correspondence specially directed for any particular steamer is sent by her failing any request to the contrary), however many times her departure may be d. If it is postponed sine die, the correspondence is sent on by the next opportunity.

18.-Correspondence from the Coast marked viû Brindisi or viá Marseilles is KEPT PE THE ROUTE INDICATED even though that may involve a fortnight's detention. Unless this is intended, therefore, the safest direction is By first mail.

14-Letters from the Coast forwarded without prepayment are not delivered until the Hongkong Office has time to deal with them; paid covers are delivered at once. Unpaid

papers are returned to the senders.

-It is not necessary to pay postage on covers from the Coast containing stamped correspondence for the homeward mails or local delivery.

21.--It is sometimes possible to overtake the French packet at Singapore by means da direct private steamer.

When this can be done Coast correspondence which arrived

too late is so sent on. 22-Mails MAY

also be forwarded to London and ports of call by the tea steamers basing China, either direct, or to catch the next contract mail at Singapore or Suez. Expt by special request, only letters are sent in these mails.

Australia,

The Tones Straits route is the best for Eastern Australia as far as Sydney; for New 23-There are two routes to Australia, viz., vid Torres Straits and via Colombo. lal, Tasmania and Fiji. All correspondence for these places is thus sent unless erwise directed. Correspondence for Adelaide and Perth may be sent by this route. The route od Colombo is best for Western and Southern Australia. Each home-

Pt for King George's Sound, Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney.

Tani Freurh Packet connects at Colombo with the P. & O. steamer which leaves that

Canada, the San Francisco Route, de.

The routes by Vancouver or San Francisco can be freely used for ordinary or zeend correspondence for Union or Non-union countries. The making up of mails

* Dal

Francisco

at Shanghai is left to the United States and Japanese Post Offices. When it is desired to forward letters to the United States by a sailing ship not

totiei as carrying a mail, all that is necessary is to post the letters in the ordinary The Post Office then undertakes the duty of obtaining notice of departure and despatch- Take with the name of the ship, and prepaid 10 cents per half ounce as usual.

in the

correspondence.

MAIL TIME TABLES.

- Tables showing the dates of the departure of the contract mails and the dates u plies to letters are due in Hongkong are published separately.

Mail Notices.

published twice daily, except on Sundays and Holidays, in a Special Mail Notice.

-The dates and hours of closing all mails in the General Post Office are also

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FORBIDDEN ÅRTICLES.

29.-The following articles cannot be sent through the post :---

(a) Samples of merchandise having a saleable value.

(b) Samples and other articles which, from their nature, may expose the postal

officials to danger, or soil or damage the correspondence.

(d) Animals or insects living or dead. *

(e) Any indecent or obscene print, painting, photograph, lithograph, engrav- ing, book, or card, or any other indecent or obscene article, or any letter, newspaper, or publication, packet or card, having thereon any words, marks or designs, of an indecent, obscene, libellous or grossly offensive character. 30.-It is forbidden to insert in ordinary or registered correspondence consigned to the post:

(a) Current coin.

(b) Articles liable to Customs duty.

(c) Gold or silver bullion, precious stones, jewellery, and other precious articles, but only in case their insertion or transmission is forbidden by the legislation of the countries concerned.

REQUESTS FOR Redirection.

　　　　　　　31.-Requests for the redirection of correspondence, or to have it stopped in Hong- kong, must be in writing. The precise address of the correspondence must be given.

　　　　　　　32.--Requests should also state whether private letters or those for the writers firm are required, and to how many mails the request applies.

　　　　　　33.-When the correspondence is required in Hongkong an address must be given to which it may be sent. Under no circumstances will it be delivered at the Post Office windows. If the applicant persists in applying for it instead of waiting till it is sent to him, his request will be cancelled.

　　　　　　　34.-No notice can be taken of requests sent in after any mail is signalled with reference to that particular mail.

35.-Requests of a complicated nature cannot be entertained.

　　　　　　　36.--Correspondence directed to care of boxholders in Hongkong must, without exception, be delivered as addressed.

　　　　　　　37.-Every_request is understood to refer to letters only; papers will not be intercepted unless special reasons be shown to the satisfaction of the Postmaster- General.

38.--There is no charge for redirection of sufficiently prepaid correspondence. 39.-The marine officers are not allowed to deliver correspondence at Singapore. 40.-Letters for a firm will not be intercepted without the written authority of that firm.

　　　　　　　41.-Correspondence from the Continent for Northern Ports by French packet cannot be intercepted, nor can that for Yokohama by any mail.

　　　　　　　42.-No request is acted on for more than three months, at the end of which time the correspondence resumes its usual course. The period of three months allowed will give time to have correspondence directed as it is to be delivered. Should it be desired that the correspondence should resume its ordinary course earlier, it will be necessary to inform the Postmaster-General,

　　　　　　　　43.-The interception of letters is promised only when possible. Sometimes it is not possible, and the omission in any case to intercept them must not be regarded as matter for complaint.

COMPLAINTS.

　　　　　　　44.--All complaints, or representations of matters which cannot be adjusted locally, should be addressed to the Postmaster-General, Hongkong, and, if marked On Postal Business, will be forwarded free by any Postmaster or Agent.

　　　　　　　45.-The cover of any correspondence about which complaint is made should if possible be forwarded with such complaint. Neglect of this generally renders enquiry impossible.

46.-When correspondence has been mis-sent or delayed (both of which are liable to happen occasionally) all that the complainant need do is to write on the cover, Sent to or Delivered at....... or Not received till the ....th instant, or as the case may be, and forward it, without any note or letter whatever, to the Postmaster-General. Attention to this would save much writing and needless trouble.

Live beas may be sent if enclosed in boxes so constructed as to avoid all danger and allow the contents to be sscertained.

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PRIVATE BOxes.

47.-Private boxes may be rented in the offices at Hongkong and Shanghai. The fee is 810 a year payable in advance.

48-Each boxholder is supplied with an account book free, but must himself provide at least two stout bags (Shanghai firms require four) marked with his name in English and Chinese on both sides. Chinese Nankin makes the best bags for this purpose. They should be without strings, but have a couple of iron rings at the mouth for suspending. Boxholders should insist on their coolies returning these bags to the Post Office as soon as emptied, or at any rate not later than next morning. The only safe way to empty a bag is to turn it inside out.

49.-Each boxholder's coolie must be provided with a stout ticket or badge of wood, metal, or pasteboard, bearing his employer's name in English and Chinese. This will enable him to obtain letters whenever a mail arrives.

50.-The advantages of renting a box are many. It secures a quicker and more accurate delivery of correspondence. Unpaid letters are delivered to boxholders with- out the delay of demanding payment, change, &c., as they are charged to his account. The boxholders of Hongkong and Shanghai send bags down in the mail steamer to be filled by the marine officer. Boxholders are allowed to post their letters in sealed boxes*, and to mark their Postage Stamps. They receive free copies of all notices issued by the Post Office, Tables of Rates, &c. * Many inconveniences are saved to them by the facility for charging their accounts with small deficiencies of postage, when there is no time to return a short-paid letter. This, however, is only done as an exception, when the letter cannot go on unpaid, no boxholder being allowed to make a practice of sending short- paid correspondence or letters to be stamped. Boxholders are also allowed certain privileges as to posting local correspondence unstamped (see paragraph 11).

　　　　　　　51.-Boxholders' books are sent out for settlement on the first day of each month, and should be returned promptly. As a general rule no information can be given as to the correspondence charged in these accounts, where it came from, &c. There is only one way to obtain such information, and that is to file the covers of all unpaid corre gundence received. Entries On Board are for unpaid correspondence dealt with by the marine officer on his way up from Singapore.

POSTE RESTANTE.

　　　　　　　52.-All articles superscribed "To be kept till called for." "To await arrival," or in any similar way, and also articles addressed "Post Office," are held to fall under the head "Poste Restante."

　　　　　　　　53-Poste Restante letters, &c., can be obtained at any time during the office hours. The persons applying for them must furnish satisfactory evidence that they are parties to whom the correspondence should be delivered.

　　　　　　　　54-Poste Restante correspondence is kept for the following periods, after which it is regarded

64 as Dead." and is returned to the office of origin :-- Local letters are kept for 1 month...

2 months

Letters for steamers are kept for 3 months

sailing vessels

International

　　　　　　　55.-The Poste Restante is intended for the accommodation of strangers and travellers who have no permanent abode in Hongkong.

　　　　　　　56.-When correspondence is received addressed to parties in "Hongkong," but without a full address, it is placed in the Poste Restante if no request has been received from the addressee regarding it, or his name does not appear in the Directory.

LETTERS. Dimensions.

　　　　　　　　57.-There is no limit to the weight of letters, but, unless to or from a Government Office, they must not exceed 2 feet in length and 1 foot in width and depth.

Address to be complete,

　　　　　　　　58. -Addresses should be as complete as possible in order to facilitate delivery, and in order that, in the event of the letter becoming from any cause undeliverable, it may be perurned to the writer unopened, it is recommended that the sender's name and address be also superscribed on the cover.

postage.

Unpaid Letters: Loose Letters,

59.-- The general rule as to insufficiently raid letters is to double the deficient If the desatching office has not indicated how much the deficiency is, it is taken to be 10 cents per half ounce, and the letter is consequently charged 20 cents per Nothing can be sent wholly unpaid except letters. The prepayment of postage on local letters is compulsory.

half ounce.

The bare should be closed with some recognizable seat, Locind boxes eannot be allowed. A receipt book ald he went with each box, but as the receiving officer cannot undertake to count the correspondence sent, he only Given a receipt for One Box, No attention is promised to anything written in the book-To be Registered for instance.

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Consignees Letters,

　　　　　　　60.-Consignees' letters, being privileged by law, need not be sent to the Post Office at all, but if they are sent they are liable to ordinary rates of postage.

　　　　　　　61.-In the event of an unpaid letter becoming a dead letter, the sender is liable, according to international rules, to pay the deficient postage and the fine.

Soldiers and Sailors Letters,

62.-Privates in H. M. Army or Navy, Non-commissioned Officers, Bandmasters, School-masters (not Superintending or First Class), Writers, or School-mistresses may send HALF-OUNCE letters to the United Kingdom by the English Mail at the rate of two cents each, or by the French Mail at the rate of four cents each. The postage must be prepaid in Hongkong stamps.

　　　　　　　63.--To other places not beyond Great Britain, such as India, Malta, &c., the postage is 2 cents.

　　　　　　　64.-The same privileges apply to letters addressed to the Privates and Non- commissioned Officers named above.

　　　　　　　　65.-The letters must not exceed half an ounce. No handkerchiefs, jewellery, &c., can be sent, even with the ends open.

66.-If from a Soldier or Sailor his class and description must be stated in full on the letter, the cover of which must be signed by the Commanding Officer, with name of regiment, ship, &e., in full. If to a Soldier or Sailor, his class and description, with name of regiment, ship, &c., must be stated in full.

67.-Soldiers and Sailors have no privileges with regard to books, papers, or parcels.

NEWSPAPERS,

68.-A newspaper is a printed paper containing news, It must not exceed two ounces in weight, or it is liable to an additional rate of postage. It may be prepaid as a book at the option of the sender. The Union rate of postage is 2 cents each.

69.--A bundle of newspapers may be prepaid at so much each (and each one must count, however small), or the whole may be paid at book rate.

70.--Two newspapers must not be folded together as one, nor must anything whatever be inserted except bona fide supplements of the same paper and same date. Printed matter may, however, be enclosed if the whole be paid at book rate.

71.- A newspaper must be open at the ends. If it contain any written communica tion whatever it will be charged as a letter. It should be folded with the title outwards Books.

72.-Books are charged at so much per two ounces The Union rate is 2 cents. 73.-The term "books "includes almost all kinds of printed or written matter not of the nature of an actual or personal correspondence, with whatever is necessary for its illustration or safe transmission, as maps, rollers, binding, &e., but a book must contain no communication whatever of the nature of a letter. Stamps of any kind, whether obliterated or not, or any papers representing monetary value, such as coupons, drafts, lottery tickets, &c., must be sent at letter rates.

　　　　　　　74.-A book may contain an inscription presenting it, notes or marks referring to the text, or such writing as. With the author's compliments, &c.

75.-The packet must be open at the ends, and the contents visible, or easily to be rendered visible. Packets which are sealed are treated as letters even though the ends may be open, also packets forwarded in closed covers with the corners cut off or with notched ends, as they are not open to inspection. Packets may be tied with string to protect the contents, but in such a way that the string can be easily untied. (See also par. 80.)

76.-The weight of a book packet is limited as follows :-

To British Offices 5 lbs.

To other Offices 4 Ihs.

77-Book packets for non-British offices must not exceed 18 inches measurement in any one direction, but such objects as maps, pictures, plans, photographs, &e., if made up into rolls of no great thickness and not exceeding 31 inches in length, may be so forwarded to any country.

COMMERCIAL PAPERS,

78.-The distinction between Books and Commercial Papers (papiers d'affaires) is, that whilst Book Packets are to consist of printed matter, Commercial Papers are wholly or partly written by hand. They must not be of the nature of an actual or personal correspondence.

　　　　　　79.-Commercial Papers are such papers as the following:-printers' copy, authors' manuscript; press copies of any documents not letters; law papers; deeds; bills of lading; invoices; insurance papers; copied music; &c. The rate is the same

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for Books, but no packet of commercial papers, whatever its weight, is charged less than 10 cents. Stamps of any kind, whether obliterated or not, or any papers representing monetary value, such as coupons, drafts, lottery tickets, &c., must be

sent at letter rates.

　　　　　　　-Any one Commercial Paper in a Book Packet exposes the whole packet to the above rule as to minimum charge. With this exception all kinds of Printed matter and Patterns may be enclosed in one packet and forwarded at Book

rates.

　　　　　　$1.-Commercial Papers are subjected to all the conditions of Book Post as to the ends of the Packet "being open, liability to examination, hours of closing, late fees, &c.

PATTERNS.

$2.-Samples of merchandise must possess no saleable value, nor bear any writing or printing on or in the packet except the name of the sender or that of his firm, the Address of the addressee, a manufacturer's or trade mark, numbers, prices, and indi- cations relative to weight or size, or to the quantity to be disposed of, or such as are necessary to determine the origin and the nature of the goods.

Liquids.

83-Liquids, oils, and fatty substances easily liquified must be enclosed in glass bottles hermetically sealed. Each bottle must be placed in a wooden box adequately furnished with sawdust, cotton, or spongy material în sufficient quantity to absorb the liquid in case the bottle be broken. Finally the box itself must be enclosed in a case of metal, of wood with a screw-top, or of strong and thick leather.

Ointments.

4.-Fatty substances which are not easily liquified, such as ointments, soft soap, sin, &c., must be enclosed in an inner cover (box, linen bag, parchment, &c.), which itself must be placed in a second box of wood, metal, or strong and thick leather.

Dry Powders.

　　　　　　S-Dry powders, whether dyes or not, must be placed in cardboard boxes which themselves are enclosed in a bag of linen or parchment.

-Packets of patterns and samples must be packed so as to admit of easy

inspection.

　　　　　　　-Such packets for places in the Postal Union must not exceed 12 inches in length, & inches in width and 4 inches in depth.

　　　　　　　-The maximum weight for packets of patterns or samples of merchandise posted in Hongkong or its agencies for the undermentioned places is 12 ounces (350 grammes),

Austria.

Belgium.

France. Greece,

Bulgaria.

Guatemala.

Congo Free State.

Hawaii.

Holland. Hungary.

Costa Rica.

Egypt.

Italy. Liberia. Luxemberg.

Mexico.

Portugal. Roumania.

Salvador. Servia. Siam.

Switzerland.

Tunis.

United States.

To British Offices the limit is 5 lbs. ; to all other places it is 8 oz.

PRICES CURRENT AND CIRCULARS.

89.-A circular is a communication of which copies are addressed, in identical terms of nearly so, to a number of persons. It may be either written or printed, or partly written and partly printed. A price current or circular may be paid as a newspaper

or as a book.

-A bundle of prices current or circulars may be paid as so many newspapers fra h one counting) or the whole may be paid at book rate. The Union rate of postage

B2 cents each.

31.-- Prices Current or Circulars forwarded in closed envelopes with the corners But of, or arith notched ends, are charged letter rates, as they are not really open to uspetion.

　　　　　　32--Prices Current and Circulars arriving in such large quantities as to retard the celivery of the mails are allowed to stand over till there is time to deal with them.

POST CARDS

93.--The following values are issued :

For local circulation (see paragraph 10) For local circulation with reply paid

To Union Countries generally

.1 cent

.2 cents

.4 cents

To Union Countries generally with reply paid.... ..8 cents

-Nothing must be written or printed on the stamped side of the card but the address and, if desired, the sender's address. Any communication whatever, whether

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　　　　　of the nature of a letter or not, may be written or printed, or partly written and partly printed on the other side. But no card will be forwarded on which anything libellous, însulting, or indecent has been written, printed, or drawn.

　　　　　　　95.-Nothing must be attached to a Post Card, nor may it be folded, cut, or otherwise altered. If so, it will be charged as a letter. Thin paper, smaller than the card, may, however, be pasted smoothly on it.

　　　　　　　96.-In regard to hours for posting, late fees, &c., Post Cards are submitted to the same rules as letters.

　　　　　　　97.-A card of insufficient value may be fully prepaid by the addition of an adhesive stamp of proper amount.

REGISTRATION,

　　　　　　　98.-Every description of paid correspondence may be registered, except such as is addressed in pencil, or is addressed to initials or fictitious names, or is not properly fastened and secured. The fee is 10 cents to the United Kingdom and elsewhere, local 5 cents. The sender of any registered article may obtain an acknowledgment of its delivery to the addressee on paying an extra fee of 5 cents,

　　　　　　　99.-Letters to be registered should be handed tothe receiving officerat the proper win- dow, and a receipt obtained. The hour of registry will be marked on the receipt if specially requested. Whoever presents an article for registry MUST ASK (orally) FOR A RECEIPT. Nothing written on the letter or elsewhere can replace this indispensable precaution.

　　　　　　　100.-The Post Office is not legally responsible for the sate delivery of registered correspondence, but will be prepared to make good the value of such correspondence if lost while passing through the Post, to the extent of $10, in certain cases, provided :-

(a) That the sender duly observed all the conditions of registration.

(b) That the correspondence was securely enclosed in a reasonably strong envelope. (e) That application was made to the Postmaster-General of Hongkong immediately the loss was discovered, and within a year at the most from the date of posting such correspondence. (d) That the Postmaster-General is satisfied the loss occurred whilst the correspondence was in the custody of the British Postal administration in China; that it was not caused by any fault on the part of the sender; by destruction by fire, or shipwreck; nor by the dishonesty or negligence of any person not in the employment of the Hongkong Post Office.

　　　　　　　101.-No compensation can be paid for mere damage to fragile articles such as portraits, watches, handsomely bound books, &'c., which reach their destination, although in a broken or deteriorated condition, nor on account of alleged losses of the contents of registered covers which safely reached their destinations, nor on account of any article for which the addressee has signed a receipt.

　　　　　　　102.-The Post Office declines all responsibility for unregistered letters containing bank notes, or jewellery, and where registration has been neglected will make no enquiries into alleged losses of such letters.

　　　　　　　103.-A postcard enclosed in a packet of correspondence, for return to the sender by way of receipt, will not under any circumstances be admitted as evidence that any particular article reached the Post Office,

　　　　　　　104. Registration in China extends to Hoihow, Canton, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow Ningpo, Shanghai, and Hankow only.

MISCELLANEOUS,

105.-Contrary to general usage the Hongkong Post Office will give a receipt of the kind given for a boxholder's box for an ordinary letter, to assure the sender his corre- spondence has not been stolen on the way to the Post. But this receipt is not intended tô be used against the Post Office in case the correspondence goes astray. Some few Offices grant acknowledgments of posting on payment of a halfpenny or so for each letter acknowledged, and even then they decline to admit that any such acknowledgment refers to any particular letter. Others have abandoned the practice of given receipts even on payment. It is odvious therefore that this Office cannot allow its free receipts to be used to found complaints on. If that is intended the correspondence should be registered.

　　　　　　　106.-It is no part of the duties of the Post Office to affix stamps to correspondence, or to see that servants purchase or affix the proper amounts, nor can the officers of the Department, under any circunstances, undertake to do this.

　　　　　　　107. Any article of correspondence duly prepaid and posted becomes the property of the addressee, and cannot be returned to the sender, nor can it be detained, without the written authority of the Governor of Hongkong or of Her Majesty's Consul at the Port, on an application stating fully the reasons for the request.

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PARCEL POST.

　　　　　　108.-To the United Kingdom and Places beyond.-Parcels are forwarded by P. & O. packet only, and arrive in London about eight days later than the mail. No further charge is made on delivery except for Customs dues.

Cigars............

Duties in the United .50 per lb.

}

dom.

Tea..

Duties cannot be prepaid by the sender.

4d. per lb.

　　　　　　199.-Indemnity, not exceeding £1 under any circumstances, will be paid in case of loss of or damage to a Parcel forwarded to, from, or through the United Kingdom.

　　　　　　110.-To India.-By P. & O. and Indian Mail packets only. Insured Parcels by Indian Mail packets only.

111.-Parcels for the United Kingdom and all the countries marked with an asterisk (*) may be insured at the following rates:-

$120.

$240

$360.

fee 20 cents

30 40 14

480. $500.

fee 50 cents

112.-Parcels addressed to Holland, Italy (via Belgium), or Montenegro cannot be insured for more than $400, or to the Azores, Beyrout, Constantinople, Finland, France, Italy (via France), Madeira, Portugal, Roumania, Servia, Smyrna, or Switzerland (via France) for more than $200.

113.-The rates of postage are indicated in the following tables. 114. -To the United Kingdom and British Colonies, &c.

LIMIT OP

WEIGHT

POSTAGE.

EACH

FIRST Subse- lb. quent

lb.

b. 18 c. cents.

LIMIT OF BIZK.

PROHIBITED CONTENTE.

€28 2

2 ft. by 1 ft., by 1 ft.

Do.

Opium.

Do.

· Do., and not smaller) than 3 in. by 2 in.,

by 2 in.

3 ft. 6 in. long, or 6)

ft. in greatest length

Do.

Explosive matter, letters,

liquids, opium.

Opium.

Hongkong, China, Siam

Japan, Corea, Formont

Cochin-China, Cambodge, Tonkin, An-

nam

Straits Settlements, Ceylon, India,* Bur- rosh,* Aden,* Zanzibar," Indian Post Ofices on Persian Gulf, and in Turkish Arabia

བཋཋ ཋ

British North Borneo, Labuas (direct).... 11

Yalta

do.

Gibraltar

do.

United Kingdom,* vid Gibraltar only

Ascension

•

....(vià London) 11

Bahamas

Bechuanaland, British

do. do.

*** 828

2 889 838

and girth combined

Do.

Bechuanaland Protectorate do.

Bertauda

British Central Africa

British Guiana"

British Honduras

British New Guines

　　　　　　　　　Canada Cape Colony

1.80

1.50

Do.

Arms.

Tbacco, except for personal

use, copyright books. Specie or ostrich feathers.

Letters, specie, bullion,gold dust, nuggets, ostrich feathers, tobacco stalks, essences of tobacco, tea, coffee, or chicory, parts of vine, plants, bulbs, roots.

Letters, specie, bullion,gold dust, nuggets, ostrich! feathers, tobacco stalks, essences of tobacco, tea, coffee, or chicory, parts of vine, plants, bulbs, roots.

Dutiable articles, spirits, opium, ganje, charas, bhang, cannrbis indica.

$89 88

do.

=-=

7 1.00

888

$85

Do.

Do. Do.

Letters,

do.

1.10 |(2lbs.)

Do.

{viáVancouver) (via London)

2 ft. by 1 ft., by 1 ft. 3 ft. 6 in. long, or 6 ft. in greatest length and girth combined.

Do.

Letters liquids (unless se- curely packed), tobacco, spirits, opium. Oleomargarine, butterine. Letters, specie, bullion,gold

dust, fuggets. ostrich feather, tobacco stalks, essences of tobacco, ten, coffee, or chicory, parts of vine, plants, bulbe,

roots. Coins, tobacco.

Cyprus"

Falchand Islands"

do.

* Pamels to these countries may be insured.

Bagdad, Bahrain, Bander Abas, Buarah, Bushire, Guadur, Jask, Lings, Mohammerah, Muscat

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114.-To the United Kingdom and British Colonies, &c., Continued.

POSTAGE.

LIMIT OF

WEIGHT.

: EACH

FIRST Subse-i

LIMIT OF SIZE,

PROHIBITED CONTENTS.

Ib.

quent

Ib.

16. S c.

cents. ¡

Fiji

(via Ceylon and Sydney)

Gambia, Gold Coast Co- lony, Lagos,* Sierra Leone

Hawaii

Hawaiian Islands.

(via London)

Jamaica, Turks Islandis Mashonaland, Matabeleland

(via Vancouver) 11 (vià London) 11

do.

1.60

8 0838

1.50

3 3283

3 ft. 6 in. long, or 6" ft in greatest length and girth combined.,

Do.

Letters.

Do.

Monibasa,* Lamu, &c.

(British East Africa)

do.

Natal, Zululand

do.

New Hebrides

do.

1.35

(2 lbs.)

New Zealand

(via Ceylon)

Newfoundland Dc.*

New South Wales..

Niger Coast Protectorate*

Orange Free State

(via Vancouver)

(viá London}

(via Ceylon)

(víà London)

do.

2 2 93353932

3 3 3 293783

and girth combined,

Do.

3 ft. 6 in. long, or 6) ft. in greatest length

Letters, opium. Letters.

Letters, specie, bullion,gold dust, nuggets, ostrich, feathers, tobacco stalks, essences of tobarvo, tea, coffee, or chicory, parts, of vine, plants, bulbe,

roots.

Poisonous drugs.

Letters, gold, silver,ostrich

feathers, fire-armıs, Letters, tobacco, opium.

Do.

Letters, tobacco.

Do.

Persia (except Indian P. O.

0.3

do.

7 2.40

Persian Gulf

Port Darwin

.(direct).... 11

and girth combined.

Queensland

(via Ceylon)

1.00

Do.

(2lbs.)

Samoa, Raratonga (vià Ceylon & Sydney) South Australia

(via Ceylon)

1.00

cunha

St. Helena, Tristan d'A-

[} (viâ London)

(2 lbs.)

Tangier

do.

Tasmania

do.

11.10

(2lbs.)

Transvaal

do.

8 8 8 8 83

Do.

Trinidad*

do.

Uruguay

do.

2.40 20

Victoria (Australia)

(via Ceylon)

1.00

Western Australia

do.

Windward* and Leeward

(2lbs.) 1.00 (2lbs)[

Islandist, Barbados*

(via London)

2 ft. long, or 4 ft. in length and girth combined.

3 ft. 6 in. long, or 61 ft. in greatest length

Do.

2 ft. long, or 4 ft. in) length and girth combined.

3 ft. 6 in. long, or 6 ft. in greatest length and girth combined. Do.

Letters, tobacco, opium. Breceh-loading guns. Letters, specie, bullion,gold dust, huggets, ostrich feathers, tobacco stalks,| essences of tobacco, tea, coffee, or chicory,parts of vine, plants, bulbs, roots.i

Letters.

Letters, liquids (unless se- curely packed}, tobacco, spirits, opium, Letters.

Letters.

Gold (unless manufactur ed), ostrich feathers, spi rits.

Letters, arms, ammunition,

opium.

Letters, tobacco(except for

personal use). Letters, money, precious stones, articles of gold, in addition to the articles inadmissible to Cape Co louy and Natal. Letters, dutiable articles,| spirits, gunga, bhang, cannabis indica, opium. Letters, liquids,lottery tic- kets. orchilla, litmus, plants.

Letters.coins,plants,opium,

spirits, tobacco. Letters, coin, gold, silver.

Do.

Antigua, Montserrat, St. Kitta, Nevis, Dominica, Virgin Islands, Grenada, St. Lucis, St. Vincent, Tobago,

Tortola.

Parcels to these countries may be insured.

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115.-To the Continent of Europe and Foreign Countries.

BRITISH PACKET, eid London.

GERMAN PACKkt. via Bremen

Proffibited Contente.

0 to 2 tb.

2 to 7 lb.

7 to 11 lb.

to 7 lb. 0 to 11 lb.;

$ c.

3 c.

$ c.

Argentine Republic §

2.10

3.30

4.50

Austro-Hungary "

1.70

2.50

3.30

2.00

| Azores Islands".

2.20

3.00

3.80

Belgion"

1.50

2.40

3.30

2.00

Beyrout

1.30

2.30

3.30

Boenis Herzegovina, and

2.00

2.90

3.80

Novi-Bazar

Bulgaria

2.20

3.00

Cameroona,* Little Popo,

250

3.30

4.10

Lome, Togo

Cape Verdi Islands - St.

2.20

3.00

fincent and Santiago

3.80

Chili {

2.80

3.00

4.40

Colombia"

2.10

3.40

5.10

Congo Free State §

1.60

2.40

3.00

Constantinople

•

1.00

1.90

2.80

Costa Rica T

2.00

3.40

4.30

Danish West Indies!

1.80

3.00

4.20

Denmark *

1.70

2.50

3.40

2.00

Dutch East Indies §

2.50

3.30

4.10

Dutch Guiana §

Dutch West Indies §

2.70

3.00

4.40

Egypt" (direct)

0.80

1.50

2.10

Eritrea

2.40

3.20

4.00

Finial

1.80

2.70

Letters, vine plants, gold,}

silver, jewellery

Letters, lottery tickets.

Letters, coins, tobacco,

vines, plants.

Letters, plants, arms, coins.

Letters, fire-arms, tobacco

plante.

Letters, lottery tickets,

plants.

Letters.

Letters, liquids.

Letters, dangerous articles, liquids, (unless securely packed,)

Letters, plants, arms and implements of war, arti- cles injurious to health. Letters, arms, ammunition. Letters.

Fire-arms, tobacco, salt. Letters, arms, ammunition. Letters.

Letters, lottery tickets, pro-

spectuses, almanacks.

Letters, opium, armis, salt,

coffee, plants, or seeds.

Letters.

Letters, arms, ammunition,

liquids.

Letters, tobacco, plants, arms,

chemical compounds. Letters, arms, spirits, coins,

skin and fur of sea-otters.

(except cigars and snuff),|

France

1.60

2.40

3.20

2.00

FREICH COLOSTES :- - §

Algeria, Corsica, Tripoli ..

1.80

2.70

3.50

French Congo, West Coast

1.90

2.70

3.40

of Africa.

French Guiana,

Guade.

kape. Madagascar, Mar-

2.50

3.30

4.10

tinique, Mayotte, Réunion

Obock, Senegal, Tunis

2.10

2.90

3.70

New Caledonia

2.80

3.60

4.40

Tahiti

3.10

3.90

4.60

St. Pierre and Miquelon,

2.00

2.80

3.60

German East Africa §.

3.00

3.80

4.60

German New Guinea §

2.80

3.70

4.50

Letters.

Germany

1,50

2.30

3.20

1.80

! Greece $

1.60

2.40

Holland'

1.40

2.40

3.20

2.00

Italy ¡ría Belgium)*

2.10

2.90

3.70

Do. fr France)*

1.80

2.60

3.40

Jeddah *

1.60

2.80

3.80

Liberia

1.30

2.90

4.30

Letters, arms, ammuni- tion, medicines, tobacco, foreign bronze coins, plants, jewellery, lace, gold, silver.

Letters, dangerous articles,

liquids (unless securely packed. Letters.

Letters, plants with roots, vines or parts of vines, socialistic books,

Letters, tobacco, plants, salt. Letters.

f Letters, tobacco, plants, chemical com-

armis,

pounds, saccharine and its products, and copper coins.

Letters,anns, tobacco,plants,

hashish.

Letters.

› Luxemburg"

1.50

2.40

3.20

1.90

Letters.

Madeira

2.00

2.80

3.00

Letters, coins, tobacco, vines,

plants.

Maaritius ❤

1.90

2.80

3.60

0.85

1.40

1.90

Morocro

| Norway"

2.10

3.00

3.80

1.50

2.30

3.00

1.40

2.30

3.20

Letters.

Letters, liquids,

precious stones, lottery

tickets, circulars.

Letters, tobacco.

money,

Letters.

2.40

Letters.

{ Parcels must not exceed 2 ft. in length, or 4 ft. in length and girth combined.

Parcels must not exceed 3 feet

4 inches in length, or 6 feet in greatest length and girth combined. • Parcels to these countries may be insured

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115.-To the Continent of Europe and Foreign Countries-continued.

British PackET, vid London.

GERMAN PACKET. Direct

PROHIBITED Contenta.

0 to 2 lb.

2 to 7 lb.

7 to 11 lb. 0 to 7 lb. 0 to 11b.

&c.

$ e.

છે.

Paraguay

2.30

3.50

Portugal

1.80

2,60

3.40

2.50

Portuguese West Africa :-

Bolama, in Guines,

2.20

3.00

3.80

Ambriz, Benguela, Caben-

da, Loanda, "Mossamedes,

2.60

3.40

4.20

and St. Thomas,

Roumania"

2,00

2.80

8.60

Salvador

2.70

4.10

5.00

Servia*

9.00

2.80

3.60

Seychelles

1.35

2,60

3.00

Smyrna**

1.00

2.80

Spain f

1.80

2.60

2.30

Sweden*

1.60

2.70

3.60

2.40

Bwitzerland (vid France)"

1.70

2.50

3.40

2.00

Do. (via Belgium)".. 1.90

2.70

3.00

Turkey (FrenchPostOffices}§|

2.10

2.90

3.70

Venezeulaţ

2.80

3.60

Lettere, gold, silver, jewel-

lery, corrosive fluids. Letters, coins, tobacco, vinell,

plants.

Letters, dangerous articles, liquids (unless securely packed).

Letters, tobacco, plants (ex. cept seeds and dried roots), arms, ammunition, bronze coins, patent medicines. Letters.

Letters, vines.

Letters, gold, silver, jewel-

lery.

Letters, materials for gun- powder, plants, arms, to-

bacco.

Letters arins, ammunition, maps, missals, plante, rossi ries, relica, gold, silver, Jewellery.

Letters, gold, silver, druga.

Letters, plants, alcohol. Letters, tobacco, fre-arms. Letters, dangerous articles, liquids (unless securely packed), cocoanut oil, brandy, cotton, starch, in"] digo, sugar, cocon, coffee, syrup of sugar or honey, salt-meat, match-sticks, salt, sarsaparilla, coins, dies for making coins, arms, lead, saltpetre.

　　　　　　　　§ Parcels must not exceed 2 ft. in length, or 4 ft. in length and girth combined. Parcels must not exceed 3 ft. 6 inches in length, or 6 feet in greatest length and girth combined. * Parcels to these countries may be insured.

　　　　　　　116. Except as indicated in the foregoing Tables parcels must not exceed 2 feet in length, breadth, or depth. Those intended for the German packet must be so directed.

　　　　　　117.-Each Parcel must be sealed in such a way as to render it impossible that it should be opened without detection. The sender must supply a declaration of the nature, value, and net weight of the contents, and of the gross weight of the Parcel.

118.-A small charge, not exceeding six cents, may be made for Custom House purposes on the delivery of the parcel. Except Customs dues, this is the only charge the addressee will have to pay.

119.-GENERAL RULES.-Parcels must be posted before 3 p.m. on the working day next before the departure of the packet. A receipt will be given for each. A declara- tion of contents and value is required, except for places the names of which are printed in italics. The form is supplied free. Parcels may be sealed, but any Parcel, even though sealed, is liable to be opened for examination. Dangerous or perishable goods, opium, articles likely to injure the mails, liquids (unless securely packed), and fragile packages are prohibited. No parcel must exceed $500 in value. A Parcel may contain a letter to the same address as that of the Parcel itself (except in cases where enclosure of letters is prohibited) or another Parcel to that address, but no other enclosure. Declarations of Contents must be complete and accurate. Everything in the Parcel should be entered. False declarations expose the Parcel to the risk of confiscation. Parcels containing coin, watches, jewellery, or any article of gold or silver, cannot be sent to the United Kingdom, or to any Foreign Country, or British Possession included in the insurance system, unless they are insured for at least part of their value. MONEY ORDERS.

　　　　　　[Office Hours (Sundays and holidays excepted) 10 to 4, Saturdays 10 to 1, but the office is open from 10 to 5 on the working day next before any mail for Europe, which leaves at noon.]

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　　　　　　[Money orders cannot be issued or cashed on mail mornings, when closing mails for Europe, until noon.]

120-Money Orders are issued at Hongkong and Shanghai at current rates of exchange on the following countries and places:-

Canada.

China Ports (Hoihow, Can- ton. Swacow, Amoy, Foo- chow, Ningpo, Hankow, and Shanghai). Ceylon.

Hawaii (Sandwich Islands). British India (including

Burmah and the Agen-

BRITISH COLONIES :- Bermuda

British Guiana.

British Honduras.

Cyprus.

Falkland Islanda.

Gibraltar.

Malta

Sewfoundland.

Western Australia.

AFRICA.

Cape Colony, (including

Basutoland and British

Bechuanaland).

Gambia

Gold Coast.

Lagos.

cies of the Indian Post Office in the Persian Gulf. Japan Ports(Nagasaki, Ko- be, Osaka, Kioto, Yoko- hama,Tokio, Akamagase-

ki(Shimonoseki)Aomori,

Hiroshima, Kagoshima, Kanazawa, Kumamoto,

Drawn through

WEST INDIES,

Antigua.

Bahamas.

Barbadoes.

Dominica

St. Lucia

St. Vincent.

Tobago,

Trinidad.

Borneo

Nagano, Nagoya,Niigata, Sapporo, Sendai, Ta- dotsu, and Utsunomiya). New South Wales. New Zealand, British North

(Sandakan, Kudat and Labuan). Queensland. London Office.

German Empire.

Siam (Bangkok and Chi-

engmai only). South Australia. Straits Settlements (Singa- pore, Penang, Malacca). Tasmania.

United Kingdom.

Victoria.

United States of American.

Panama

German East African Pro-

tectorate.

Salonica.

Smyrna.

Tangier.

Aghadj).

Gallipoli

Ineboli

Jaffa.

Grenada.

Jamaica. Montserrat. Nevis.

St. Kitta.

Turks' Islands.

FOREIGN COUNTRIES:-

Austria.

Belgium.

Bosnia

Bulgaria

Herzegovina. Holland, Hungary,

Italy (with offices on the Red Sea and at Tripoli). Luxemburg.

New Guinea (German Pro-

tectorate of).

Norway.

Orange Free States.

Portugal (including Ma- deira and the Azores).

Roumania.

Salvador.

Servia.

Sweden.

Switzerland.

South African Republic

(Transvaal),

ASIA MINOR AND LEVAMI. Candia.

Canea (Khania, La Canée). Chios (Khios).

Dardanelles. Dédé-Agatch (Déde.

Durazzo.

Janina.

Jerusalem.

Kaifa (Caiffa).

Kavala (Cavalla)

Kerassonde (Kéressoun).

Lagos (Turkey)

Mitylene.

Prevesa.

Tunis, Uruguay.

Retimo.

FOREIGN CITIES AND

TOWNS :-

Rhodes,

Samsoun.

Rhodesia (including

abonsland,

Matabele-

land, and Northern Zam- bea).

Mauritius.

British East Africa Pro- tectorate (Mombasa and Lamu).

Natal (including Zulu-

land).

St. Helena

Seychelles.

Sierra Leone,

Zanzibar Protectorate.

Cameroons and Togo. Chili.

Congo Free State (Banana,

Boma and Matadi). Denmark (including Ice- land and Faroe Islands). Danish West Indies. Dutch East Indies. Egypt.

France, with Algeria.

Adrianople. Beyrout Constantinople.

121.-Orders on the Countries drawn through the London Post

(dos)

Santi Quarants (Seras-

Trepizond (Trapezunt). Valona.

Vathy-Samoe

Office are paid less

the following discount, for which the renuitter should allow. All such Orders must be expressed in British currency

For sums not exceeding £2...

exceeding £2 but not exceeding £ 6...

£6

£10..

.3d.

.6d.

.9d.

　　　　　　122.-The commission charged is as follows (according to the currency the Order is drawn in):-

(a.) Upon the Australian Colonies for sums not exceeding :-£1, 12 cts.; £2, 24 cts.; £3, 36 cts.; £4, 48 cts.; £5, 60 cts.; £6, 72 cts. ; £7, 84 cts. ; £8, 96 cts.; £9, $1.08; £10, 81.20. (b.) On the United Kingdom and on Countries drawn through London :- £1, 8 cents; £2, 16 cents; £3, 24 cents; £4, 32 cents; £5, 40 cents; £6, 48 cents; £7, 56 cents; £8, 64 cents; £9, 72 cents; £10, 80 cents.

(c) On other places:-Up to $10, or 20 rupees, 20 cts.; $25, or 50 rupees, 40 cts.; $35, or 70 rupees, 60 cts.; $50, or 100 rupees, 80 cts.; 150 rupees, $1.00.

　　　　　　123.-No Order must exceed £10 or $50 (unless drawn on India, when 150 Rupees is the limit).

IMPERIAL POSTAL NOTES.

124.-Postal Notes of the values named below, payable within three months at any Post Office in the United Kingdom, or at Constantinople, can be obtained at Hongkong at any British Post Office in China at prices, which include commission, and which vary with the rate of exchange :-

1/-, 1/6, 5/-, 10/~, 20/-

The prices are published from time to time in the Government Gazette and can be obtained on application.

125.-The purchaser of any Postal Note must fill in the payce's name before parting with it. He may also fill in the name of the Office where payment is to be made. If this is not done the note is payable (within three months) anywhere in the United Kingdom, or at Constantinople. Any Postal Note may be crossed to a Bank

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　　　　　　126-Postal Notes should always be forwarded in registered covers. If this precaution is not taken NO ENQUIRIES WHATEVER will be made as to the loss or alleged loss of any Note.

127.--Postal Notes issued in United Kingdom are not payable in Hongkong or China.

LOCAL POSTAL NOTES.

128.-Postal Notes of the values named below, payable within six months, are issued and paid at Hongkong, Hoihow, Canton, Swatów, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo, Shanghai and Hankow:-

25-cent Note.

$ 1 00

$ 2.00

I cent

Commission charged on issue

$ 3.00

Note.

Commission charged on issue

G cents

$ 4.00

$ 5.00 $10.00

2 cents 4

　　　　　　129.-In addition to the above commission on Notes issued at Hongkong, Hoihow Canton, Swatow, Amoy and Foochow payable at Shanghai, Ningpo, or Hankow, a further charge at current rates is made to cover the difference between chopped and clean dollars.

130.-The officer issuing any Postal Note shall fill in the name of the port where it is payable. The purchaser may, before parting with the Note, fill in the name of the Payee. 131-Every person to whom a Postal Note is issued should keep a record of the number, date, and name of office of issue, to facilitate enquiry if the Note should be lost, and should register the letter in which it is forwarded.

132.-If a Postal Note be lost or destroyed, no duplicate thereof can be issued. This regulation cannot be departed from in any case whatever, for the reason that every Postal Note is payable to bearer and that no specified person can therefore satisfactorily establish the fact of his ownership in a lost Note which is not filled in, and which, if found at any time, would be payable to bearer.

133.-If a Postal Note be crossed

& Co. payment will only be made

through a Banker, and if the name of a Banker is added payment will only be made through that Banker.

134.-After a Postal Note has once been paid, to whomsoever it is paid, the Government will not be liable for any further claim.

　　　　　　135.-If any erasure or alteration be made, or if the Note is cut, defaced or mutilated, payment may be refused.

　　　　　　136.-The officer in charge of a Post Office may delay or refuse the payment of a Note, but he must at once report his reasons for so doing to the Postmaster General.

137.-After the expiration of six months from the last day of the month of issue, a Postal Note will be payable only on payment of a commission equal to the amount of the original commission, but after twelve months it will become invalid and not payable. 138.-It shall be within the discretion of the Postmaster General to suspend at any time the issue of Local Postal Notes.

　　　　　　This edition of the Postal Guide has been re-arranged in a form which it is hoped will be found more convenient for reference than that previously existing. It is requested that any difficulty experienced in using it may be notified, with a view to the improvement of future issues.

This reprint supersedes all previous issues of the Postal Guide, and is the only authorised complete summary of Postal regulations. Whilst always willing to supply information in other ways, the Department declines responsibility for errors in replies to oral applications (especially if addressed to Chinese) or notes to subordinatė officers. The Chinese Shroffs at the windows are placed there to sell stamps, not to decidə what is correct postage, nor to answer enquiries, for which they are not competent.

HONGKONG, January, 1898.

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HONGKONG STAMP DUTIES.

1.-Office bours, 10 to 3; Mail days, 10 to 5; Saturdays, 10 to 1.

-Applications for Impressed Stamps must be made on a requisition supplied gratis, whether the Stamps are to be paid for in cash, or are applied for in exchange for spoiled Stamps. The requisition in either case to be on a separate paper.

3.-Payment must be made on requisition.

4.-Requisitions will be executed as received.

5.--All documents and change should be examined before being removed. No question as to wrong counting or of weight or goodness of money will be entertained afterwards.

6-Spoiled Stamps on unexecuted Instruments.

1.- Allowance will be made for Stamps upon Instruments spoiled by error in the writing: b.-Or defaced by accident:

→Or rendered useless by unforeseen circumstances before completion.

7.-The claim for such Stamps must be made within Six Months after spoiling.

8.-Spoiled Stamps on executed Instruments.

　　　　　a.-Allowance will be made for Stamps on Instruments found unfitted for the purpose originally intended by error therein:

b.-Or which cannot be completed in the form proposed because of death of any person : c.-Or because of refusal of signature.

9-Claims for Stamps on executed Instruments must be made within Six Months after signature, the substituted Deeds, if any, being produced duly stamped.

10.-Stamps on Bills of Exchange or Promissory Notes when signed by the drawer or maker will be allowed if they have not been out of his hands, and have not been accepted or tendered for acceptance.

11.-Bills, &c., wherein any error has been made will be allowed though accepted or tendered for acceptance, provided the claimant produces the Bills substituted within six Months after the date of the spoiled ones.

12-Applications for allowances may be made on Tuesday or Friday from 11 to 3.

13.- No allowance for Spoiled Stamps is made on signed or partly signed Transfers of Shares. 14.-Documents spoiled in stamping will be destroyed, the applicants providing the addi- tional paper, &c.

　　　　　　　　15-Stamps will be impressed upon any part of the Documents where practicable with security to the Revenue, a point to be decided by the Collector.

　　　　　　　　16-Forms may be left at the Office to supply deficiencies in counting, or to replace those spoil-i în stamping.

7.-All Impressed Stamps will be dated.

　　　　　　　　　5.-No Bilis of Exchange in sets will be stamped in which the words First and Second or First, Second, and Third are left blank. The words, Second of the same tenor and date being unpaid, or the like, must also be wholly filled in on each one.

DIGEST OF PENALTIES UNDER THE STAMP ORDINANCE, 1886 SECT. 6.-For neglect to stamp sufficiently, and for negotiating, &c., insuffi- ciently stamped documents

SECT. 6. For not obliterating Adhesive Stamps

SECT. 7.-For not drawing the whole number of which a set of Bills pur-

perts to consist

SECT. 7.-For untrue statement under ad valorem stamp...

Not exceeding

$100

$500

SECT. 10.-Penalties on stamping after execution, where there was no fraudulent intention :---

Within - ne month, double

Within two months, 4 times

After two months, 10 times..

the deficient duty

　　　　　　　　But by Ordinance No. 26 of 1895 a period of seven days is allowed for stamping after execution, in the case of most documents, Bilis of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Transfers of Shares and some others excepted.

SCHEDULE

LIST OF STAMP DUTIES UNDer Ordinances No. 16 OF 1886 and 13 of 1894 JoTR-A document conta ning or relating to several distinct matters is to be separately and distinctly charged with duty in respect of each of such matters. Any document liable to Stamp duty under more than one article of this Schedule shall be charged under that article which imposes the highest duty.

1.-ADJUDICATION as to the amount of stamp duty to be levied on any docu-} $1.

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AFFIDAVITS, Statutory declarations or declarations in writing ou oath

　　or affirmation made before any person authorised by law to take $1. the same or to administer an oath or affirmation and not otherwise (

chargeable with duty

　　　　　　　ExRYPTION.-This Article shall not apply to any such affid-wit er declaration made for the immediate purpose of being filed or used in the Supreme Court or before any Judge or Officer of such Court or to any affidavit or declaration made for the sole purpose of enabling any pers in to receive any pension or charitable allowaner.

2.-AGREEMENT, or any memorandum of an agreement, under hand only,

and not specially charged with any duty, whether the same be only 50 cents.

evidence of a contract, or obligatory on the parties from its being a

written instrument

　　　　　　　NOTE. - Agreements as to letting or tenatey are in all cases chargeable as leases. See articles 22 and 24. AGREEMENT OF Contract accompanied with the deposit of Title Deeds to

any immovable property, or for securing the payment or repayment See Mortgage, 26. of any money or stock

EXEMPTIONS-Label, slip, or memorandum containing the heads of any Insurance to be effected by means of a duly

stamped Policy or Risk Note,

Memorandum, letter, or agreement made for or relating to the sale of any goods, wares, or merchandise, or to the

sale of a y shares in any public company, not being a Broker's note or document given by a Broker. Seaman's advance note, or memorandum, or agreement made between the master and mariners of any ship for

wages. -Emigration Contruct.-Passage Ticket.

-ÅRBITRATION AWARD, where the amount claimed or involved does not exceed $500...$1, Where the amount exceeds $500 but does not exceed $1,000

$2.

And for every additional $1,000 or part of $1,0-0 over the first $1,000... $1. Where no money claim is made or the amount involved cannot be 7 29

ascertained

-ARTICLES of Clerkship, or Contract whereby any person shall first be- come bound to serve as a clerk in order to his admission as an Attorney or Solicitor

ASSIGNMENT, by way of security, or of any security.

Upon a sale

3.-ATTESTED COPY of any Document chargeable with Stamp Duty under {

this Schedule

AVERAGE STATEMENT...

$50.

See Mortgage, 26. ..See Conveyance, 14.

$1.

See Bond, 10.

6.-Bank CHEQUE payable on demand to any person, to bearer, or order. .....2 cents,

7-BANK NOTES, or other obligations for the payment of money issued by any Banker or Banking Company in the Colony for local circulation and payable to bearer on demand.............

Une per cent. per annum on the average value of such notes in cir- culation. To be collected monthly on a statement thereof to be fur- nished by each Banker or Banking Company to the Collector of Stamp Revenue at the end of each month, and to be signed by the Banker, or Alanazer, or Agent, and Accountant of such Banker or Banking Company.

8.-BILL OF EXCHANGE drawn out of but payable on demand within the › Colony, not being a Cheque, and bearing the date on which it was made y * BILL OF EXCHANGE drawn out of and payable on demand out of the

Colony, when negotiated within the Colony......

BILL OF EXCHANGE of any other kind whatsoever except a Cheque or Bank Note and Promissory Note of any kind whatsoever except a Bank Note.

2 cents.

} 2 cents.

10.... 50..

From X

10 to $

Free. #2 cents.

250

104.......... 05 3000 10

500

X 1.00.

* 2,000,

2,000

$3,000

X 3,000, $1.00.

X150.

$5,000 ", Xiao............. $2,00. X10000 $15,000. $3.00.

Ever So additional or }80.50

part thereof.

NOTE 1-A Bill of Exchange for exactly 850 is to be charged 2 cents, and so throughout the table. NOTE 2. --When Bills of Exchange or other such documents are drawn in sets of two or more, half the above duties to be charged on each part of a set. If the Duty be 5 cents the first part of the set shall be charged 3 cents, and the other parts 2 cents each.

Not 3-In the case of Bills in sets drawn out of the Colony, the whole duty shall be payable on that part of the set

　　　　　　　　　which is first pres uted for paymien or acceptance, or `s first otherwise negotiated, the other parts being free. 9.-BILL OF LADING, or ship's receipt where bills of lading are not used, for 10 cents.

each part of every set

EXEMPTION,-Bill of Lading for goods shipped by any Government Officer on account of 10.-KOND, or other obligation concerning RESPONDENTIA AND BOT- TOMRY, and Average Statement, or Bond where no statement is drawn up

Government.

BOND for securing the payment or repayment of money not otherwise pro-)

　　　vided for, or for the transfer or re-transfer of stock, or accompanying the deposit of Title Deeds to any immovable property..

11.-BROKER'S NOTE, or any document having reference to the sale or

purchase of any merchandise, given by any Broker..

BOND

* Order in Council of April 7th, 1887.

..See also

10 cents for every

* } } or part thereof.

See Mortgage, 26.

Articles 4, 20, 21, 33.

50 cents.

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12-CHARTER PARTY, or any Agreement or Contract for the charter or) 10 cents for every

hiring of any sea-going ship or vessel, to be charged on the estimated freight.....

13-COPT CHARTER-

Vessel under 200 tons, each copy.

over 200

事业

COLLATERAL SECURITT

CONTRACT

$100 or part thereof.

$1.

.$2.

.See Mortgage, 26.

.See Agreement, 2.

14-CONVEYANCE or Assignment on sale, to be levied on the amount or"

value of the consideration money, such consideration money to in- [ 50 cents for every clude any sum payable by the purchaser in respect of any mortgage $100 or part or other debt remaining upon the property purchased, or released by | thereof. such purchaser to the vendor. (See also Article 17). Ixxxerios.--Transfer by mere endorsement of a duly stamped Bill of Exchange, Promissory Note, or other negotiable

　　　　　　　　　Instrument, or of a Bill of Lading. Bill of Sale for Chinese Junk. 13.-COPARTNErship. Deed or other instrument of 16-DECLARATION OF TRUST

$2.

.$10.

17-DEED or other instrument of Gift, assignment, or exchange, where no Į money consideration, or a merely nominal money consideration, passes j

• Dɛɛd of Assignment where no money consideration or a merely nominal

$25.

money consideration passes and where such Deed is merely confirmatory › $10. of an A-signment on which the full conveyance duty has been paid....

Nort -The Collector of Stamp Revenue shall, unless the two deeds referred to in the foregoing paragraph are comprised in one and the sanie document, denote by an entry under his hand made upon the Deed stamped with the $10 duty, that the full cirerance duty (if more than $10) has been paid upon the other.

DEPOSIT of Title Deeds

18-DUPLICATE or Counterpart of any Document chargeable with duty under this Schedule, to be affixed on the production of the original Document bearing its proper Stamp, and not otherwise. If the original duty is-

Under $ 1

From $ 1 to $10

$10 to $20.

Over $20.

See Mortgage, 26.

.Same duty.

.$1.

$2.

$3.

Nor. The duplicate or counterpart of any instrument chargeable with duty is not to be deemed duly stamped unless it appears by some entry made by the Collector or by some stamp impressed thereon that the full and proper daty has been paid u on the original instrument of which it is a duplicate or counterpart or unless it is stamped as an original instrument.

19.-EMIGRATION FEES, under the Emigration Consolidation Ordinance, 1874-

Application for a certificate Certificate....

EQUITABLE Charge..

.$1.

.See Mortgage, 26.

part thereof.

.See Agreement, 2.

20.-FOREIGN ÅTTACHMENT BOND, in the Supreme Court, either Jurisdic- ì $1 for every $100 or

tion...

GUARANTEE

$10.

1.-Every INSTRUMENT in writing UNDER SEAL, not otherwise specially Į

　　　　　　charged with duty under this Schedule...... Fort.-The impressions of Chinese names, shop names, or trading names, commonly called chops shall not be taken

to be seals within the meaning of this Article.

22-Lease or agreement for a Lease, made for a term of years, or for`

a period determinable with one or more life or lives or otherwise (30 cents for every contingent, in consideration of a sum of money paid in the way of premium, fine, or the like, if without rent

$100 or part there.

of.

.-LEASE, executed in pursuance of a duly stamped agreement for the same...$1. 4.-LEASE or Agreement for a Lease of any Land, House, Building or Tenement, at a rent, without payment of any sum of money by way of fine or premium, to be levied on the Annual Rent, for a term not ex- ceeding:-

One year

Three years

.10 cents. For every

$100 or

Thirty years

.50

part

Exceeding thirty years

...75

thereof.

Nor-When both rent is paid and there is a fine or premium, the duty is to be the total of that due under both articles

21 24.

　　　　　　　Any surrender of a Lease, the same amount of duty as payable on the Lease itself under the principal ordinance.

　　　　　　　　　　LIKEPTION-All rentals under $50 per annum. 25-LETTER or other instrument of HrPOTHECATION accompanying)

deposit of documents of title to any moveable property, or bond, or other instrument of guarantee in respect of such property or documents of title

* Order in Council of 8th October, 1886.

Referring to parti- cular property, $1. Duplicate, 10 cents. General, $2.

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LETTER OF GUARANTEE

HONGKONG STAMP DUTIES

LETTER OF POWER OF ATTORNEY, or otherinstrument in the nature thereof,)

See Agreement, 2.

2 cents.

for the sole purpose of appointing or antaorising a proxy to vote at any one meeting at which votes may be given by proxy, whether the number of persons named in such instrument be one or more......................... 26.-MORTGAGE, or Agreement for a Mortgage, Bond. Debenture, Covenant, Warrant of Attorney to confess and enter up judgment, and For-ign security of any kind not specially charged with duty under this Sche- dule, to be levied on the amount or value of the principal sum seenred. (i.) Being the only, or principal, or primary security, and also where 10 cents for every any further money is added to the money already secured.............. ) $100 or part thereof (ii) Being acollateral or anxiliary or additional or substituted security,]

other than a Mortgage executed pursuant to a duly stamped agreement for the same, or by way of further assurance for the above-mentioned purpose where the principal or primary security is duly stamped, and for every extension of the time of an Original | 5 cents for every $100 Mortgage endorsed on such Mortgage.

(iii) Transfer, assignment, disposition or assignation of any Mort- gage Bond. Debenture, Covenant, or Foreign security, or of any money or stock secured by any such instrument, or by any War- rant of Attorney to enter up Judgment, or by any Judgment; to be levied on the amount transferred.

or part thereof.

(iv.) Reassignment, release, discharge, surrender, resurrender, warrant 1 cent forevery $100

to vacale, or renunciation of any such security as aforesaid, or of the benefit thereof, or of the money thereby secured........

or part thereof.

}25 cents.

SI.

.$1.

　　　　　　　　(v.) Mortgage executed in pursuance of a duly stamped agreement for sam 27.-Any NOTARIAL ACT whatsoever not otherwise charged with duty in this Schedule 28.-Note oF PROTEST by any Commander or Master of a vessel, or with

regard to any Promissory Note or Bill of Exchange 29.-POLICIES or Risk Notes (Insurance) for each copy and every renewal ;

(a.) Life Insurance (including Interim Receipts) (b.) Marine Hull Risks for Time.... (c.). All other Insurances, Fire, Marine, or otherwise Where the amount insured does not exceed $1.000,

30.-POWER OF ATTORNEY

* cents for every $1000 or

part thereof insured.

10 cents; where it exceeds $1,000, 2 cents.

31.-PROBATE, or Letters of Administration, with or without the W{}

annexed, to be calculated upon the value of the Estate and Effects for or in respect of which such Probate or Letters of Administration shall be granted, exclusive of what the deceased shall have been possessed of, or entitled to as a Trustee for any other person or persons and not beneficially.

EXEMPTION. -- Administration Bonds, and Estates under $250, REASSIGNMENT....

32.-RECEIPT or Discharge given for the payment of money, or in acquittal

}

Where the nett value of the estate does not exceed Köpun, one per cent. on The nett value.

Where sneli value exceeds

በስ $5,000, two per cent. the nett value.

See Mortgage, 26.

of a debt paid in money or otherwise, when the sum received, dis-2 cents. charged, or acquitted exceeds $10.

Exemptions.--Letter acknowledging the arrival of a Currency or Promissory Note, Bill of Exchange, or any security for money, Receipt or Delut Note for the Premium on a duty stamped Pohry of Insurance. Receipt given by any oilicer or soldier of Her Majesty's forces stationed in the Colony for money paid out of Impertal Revenue.

33.- SERVANT'S SECURITY Bond. Any Instrument in writing under seal)

by which any domestic or other S. rvant or Clerk or Compra iore shall give security for the due discharge of his duties, or of the duties of other persons to be employed by him, or for the safe custody of money or property to be e. trusted to him, or for the proper carrying on of business to be conduéted by him, or for the discharge of his responsibilities arising from unei business, whether such security shall be given by the binding of other persons, or by the deposit of money or valuable property or by deposit of the Title Deeds to any property or by any assignment.. 84.-SETTLEMENT. Any instrument, whether voluntary or upon any good or valuable consideration, other than a bona fide pecuniary consideration, whereby any delinite and certain principal sum of! anoney (whether charged or chargeable on lauds or not. or to be laid Į out in the purchase of lauds or not) or any definite and certain į amount of stock, or any security, is settled or agreed to be settled | in any manner whatsoever

The saine duty as a Mortgage, see Ar- ticle 26, i. & ii.

30 cents for every $100 or part there- of of the amount or value of the property settled or agreed to be settled.

EXEMPTION. -Instrument of appointment relating to any property in favour of persons especially named or described as the objects of a power of appointment created by a previous Settlement stamped with ad valorem duty in respect of the same property, or by will, where probate duty lias been paid in respect of the same property as personal estate of

85.-SETTLEMENT executed in pursuance of a duly stamped agreement for the same...$1.

the testator.

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HONGKONG LICENCES

TERM.

AMOUNT OF FEE.

AUCTIONEELS..

Annual.

$300 Colonial Treasury.

BILLIARD TABLES.

do.

BUNG ALLEYS

do.

INSTILLERY

do.

120

$100 or part

K-TRANSFER OF SHARES or stock in any public company, to be computed) 10 cents for every

on the market value of such shares on the day of stamping, which, if doubt Arises, the collector shall decide subject to Section 15 of this Ordinance.) thereof.

Transfer for a nominal amount, to be approved by the Collector...$1. Euros.-Scrip Certificate.

GENERAL EXEMPTIONS.

Ary Document made or executed hý or on behalf of Her Majesty or of any Department of Her Majesty's Service, or whereby Strong or interest is transferred to, or any contract of any kind whatsoever is made with Her Majesty or any person for or

Her Mgesty or any such Department as aforesaid.

Batas cremption does not extend to any Document executed by the Registrar of the Supreme Court as Official Admini- or by a Receiver appointed by any Court, or to any Document rendered necessary by any Ordinance or by the order of bart; anther does it extend to a sale made for the reclivery of an arrear of Revenue or Rent, or in satisfaction of a Decres erst Court, in any of which cases the purchaser shall be required to pay the amount of the requisite Stamp in addition to the parchist money.

DESCRIPTION.

HONG KONG LICENCES.

(Issued from the Colonial Secretary's Office).

FKE WHERE PAYABLE FEE HOW

PAYABLE.

AUTHORITY.

Ord. 21 of 1887, sec. 6. do. do.

Ord. 21 of 1886, sec. 4.

do.

E&ATION (Ordin-

Single

ary/

Voyage.

5 Harbour Office.

Iv.

GAVE

　　　(Special) Annual. (General)... Stipulated

Voyages. Season. KIKOSINE ST'GE/Gen't) | Half-yearly.

Do. (Special)... do.

do.

Ord. 1 of 1889, sec. 6. Ord. 1 of 1889, sec. 21.

do.

5 Colonial Treasury.

do.

By Instal-

MAZINE STORES

Annual.

180

do.

ment, $15

a month.

MARRIAGE (Ordinary).

6 Registrar-Gene-

ral's Office.

Do.

(Special)...

do.

PITSBROKERS

Annual.

350 Colonial Treasury.

Ord. 1 of 1889, s ec. 11. Ord. 15 of 1885, sec. 5. Ord. 8 of 1873, s ec. 11.

do.

Ord. 9 of 1875, sec. 3. Regulation 14th Oct., 1875.

Ord. 14 of 1875, sec.

12.

Ord. 14 of 1875, sec. 14. Ord. 3 of 1860, sec. 3.

EATING-HOUSE

do.

MITTLE-GROUND

Annual.

do.

Seter (Wholesale)

do.

120

do.

De. (Grocers')

do.

120

do.

D. (Chinese)

do.

120

do.

Do. (Temporary)... As required

do.

$10 a m'th Discretn'y

Ord. 21 of 1887, sec. 6. Ord. 21 of 1886, sec. 28.

do. Ord. 21 of 1886, sec. 30 Ord. 21 of 1886, sec. 8.

TRADE MARKS.

(Government Notification No. 429 of 1890).

Ferraristering the first Trade Mark of a series

every additional representation of the same series after the first

n an application to register a subsequent proprietor in case of assignment or transmis-

sion-the first mark of a series

.$25.00

0.50

For

every additional mark of the same series assigned or transmitted at the same time

10.00

0 50

3.00

0.50

E certificate of registration to be used in legal proceedings

Fer ingenting register

Fortifying office copy, MS. or printed, per folio of 72 words ...................

LETTERS PATENT.

(Government Notification No. 369 of 1891).

F: Siling petition of inventor or of owner by assignment under Ordinance No. 14 of 1862...$ 5.00

grant

f letters patent under same Ordinance

appication for extension under same Ordinance

Un grant of extension under same Ordinance

25.00

5.00

25.00

-Applicants must in addition pay the cost of all requisite advertisements in the

Gette and other papers.

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LEGALISED TARIFF OF FARES FOR CHAIRS, JINRICKSHAS, BOATS, AND CUOLIES &c., &c., IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG

CHAIRS

I.-In Victoria, with two bearers.-Half hour, 10 cents; One hour, 20 cents; Three hours, 50 cents; Six hours, 70 cents; Day (6 A.M. to 6 P.M.) $1. If the trip is extended beyond Victoria, half fare extra. II-Beyond Victoria, with four bearers.-Hour, 69 cents; Three hours, $1.00; Six hours, $1.50; Day

(6 A.M. to 6 P.M.), $2.00.

III.-In the Hill Districts, with two bearers.-Half hour, 15 cents; One hour, 30 cents; Three hours, 75 cents; Six hours, $1.00; Day (6 A.M. to 6 P.M.), $1.50. With four bearers.-Üne hour, 60 cents; Three hours, $1.00; Six hours, $1.50; Day (6 A.M. to 6 P.M.), $2.00.

JINRICKSHAS. (With single drawer)

Quarter hour, 5 cents; Half hour, 10 cents; Hour, 15 cents; Every subsequent hour, 10 cents.

NOTE.-Victoria extends froin Mount Davis to Causeway Bay and up to the level of Robinson Road. If the vehicle is discharged beyond these limits half fare extra is to be allowed for the return journey. Extra bearers or drivers and extra hours to be paid proportionate sums.

Cargo BOATS

1st Class Cargo Boat of 800 pienls and upwards 2nd Class Cargo Boat under 809 and not less than 150 piculs 3rd Class Cargo Boat under 450 and not less than 100 piculs 4th Class Cargo Boat under 100 piculs

ROWING BOATS

1st Class Boat upwards of 40 foet in longth, per day of 12 hours 2nd Class Boats from 30 to 40 feet in length, per day of 12 hours All other Boats, per day of 12 hours

All Boats, per hour with 2 passengers

per day. per load.

$10.00

$5.00

5.00

3.00

2.00

1.50

1.00

$2.00

1.50

1.00

0.20

0.10

All Boats, per half hour with 2 passengera

　　　　　　For each extra passenger 5 cents for half-an-hour, 10 cents per hour. Between sunset and sunrise 5 cents extra per passenger.

SCALE OF HIRE FOR STREET Coolies

One day, 33 cents; Half-day, 20 cents; Three hours, 12 conts; One hour, 5 cente; Half-hour, 3 cents.

Nothing in the above scale is to affect private agreements.

FIRE SIGNALS ON SHORE, HONGKONG

1st.-Quick alarm Bell for 5 minutes. 1 Stroke for Eastern district, East of Murray Barracks. 2 Strokes, Central district from Murray Barracks to the Harbour Office. 3 Strokes, Westeru district.

WEATHER-FORECASTS AND STORM-WARNINGS ISSUED FROM THE HONGKONG OBSERVATORY

Storm-signals are hoisted on the must beside th· time-ball at Kowloon Point. They are similar to those hoisted in the British isles by order of the Meteor logical Offico, London.

NORTHERLY GALES

▲ Cone, point upwards, means that strong winds are probable from the Northward or Eastward.

SOUTHERLY Gales

A Cone, point downwards, means that strong winds are probable from the Southward or Westward. These signals are considered justified if followed, at any place within fifty miles of where they are hoisted, by winds of force 6 or upwards to force 12 within 48 hours, and too late if it blows a gale of force 9 before they are hoisted.

VERY HEAVY GALES

A Drum may be hoisted with the cone at times when the weather forecaster believes that a strong gale, winch may possibly reach yph on tore: from the direction in licate by the cone, is approaching, and a gun, placed at the foot of the mast, is fired, whenever the drum is hoisted.

It is

　　　　The use of the drum is at present suspended in the British Isles and no gun is fired there. considered just fied if followed, at any place within fifty miles of where it is hoisted, by a gale of force s and upwards to force 12 within 48 hours, and too late if it blows a gale of force 9 before it is hoisted.

NIGHT SIGNALS

At dusk, whenever a signal ought to be flying if it were daylight, a niht signal will be hoisted in place of the cone, consisting of three lanterns shewing white, or any colour but all alike, hung on a triangular frame, po.nt upwards or downwards as the case may be. No lanterns are boisted to represent the druni.

In every case when it is thought that immediate danger is over, the signal is at once lowered,

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TREATIES WITH CHINA.

GREAT BRITAIN

TREATY BETWEEN HER MAJESTY AND THE EMPEROR OF CHINA

SIGNED, IN THE ENGLISH AND Chinese LanguAGES, AT NANKING,

29TH AUGUST, 1842

Ratifications Exchanged at Hongkong, 26th June, 1843

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and His Majesty the Emperor of China, being desirous of putting an end to the misunderstandings and consequent hostilities which have arisen between the two countries, have resolved to conclude a treaty for that purpose, and have therefore named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say: Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart., a Major-General in the Service of the East India Company, &c.; and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China, the High Commissioners Ke-ying, a Member of the Imperial House, a Guardian of the Crown Prince, and General of the Garrison of Canton: and Ilìpoo, of the Imperial Kindred, graciously permitted to wear the insignia of the first rank, and the distinc- tion of a peacock's feather, lately Minister and Governor-General, &c., and now Lieut-General commanding at Chapoo-Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, and found them to be in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles:-

Art. I.-There shall henceforward be peace and friendship between Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and His Majesty the Emperor of China, and between their respective subjects, who shall enjoy full security and protection for their persons and property within the dominions of the other.

　　　　　　Art. II.-His Majesty the Emperor of China agrees that British subjects, with their families and establishments, shall be allowed to reside, for the purpose of carry- ing on their mercantile pursuits, without molestation or restraint, at the cities and towns of Canton, Amoy, Foochow-foo, Ningpo, and Shanghai; and Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, &c., will appoint superintendents, or consular officers, to reside at each of the above-named cities or towns, to be the medium of communication between the Chinese authorities and the said merchants, and to see that the just duties and other dues of the Chinese Government, as hereinafter provided for, are duly discharged by Her Britannic Majesty's subjects.

A t. III.--It being obviously necessary and desirable that British subjects should bave some port whereat they may careen and refit their ships when required, and keep stores for that purpose, His Majesty the Emperor of China cedes to Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, &c., the Island of Hongkong to be possessed in perpetuity by Her Britannic Majesty, her heirs, and successors, and to be governed by such laws regulations as Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, &c., shall see fit to direct. Art. IV. The Emperor of China agrees to pay the sum of six millions of dollars, 4s the value of the opium which was delivered up at Canton in the month of March, 1839, as a ransom for the lives of Her Britanuic Majesty's Superintendent and sub- jects who had been imprisoned and threatened with death by the Chinese high officers.

and

　　　　　Art. V.-Th. Government of China having compelled the British merchants trading at Canton to deal exclusively with certain Chinese merchants, called Hong merchants (or Co-Hong), who had been licensed by the Chinese Government for this purpose, the Emperor of China agrees to abolish that practice in future at all ports where British merchants may reside, and to permit them to carry on their mercantile transactions with whatever persons they please; and His Imperial Majesty further agrees to pay to the British Government the sum of three millions of dollars, on account of debts due

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to British subjects by some of the said Hong merchants, or Co-Hong, who have become insolvent, and who owe very large sums of money to subjects of Her Britannic Majesty.

Art. VI. The Government of Her Britannic Majesty having been obliged to send out an expedition to demand and obtain redress for tue violent and unjust proceedings of the Chinese high authorities towards Her Britannic Majesty's officers and subjects. the Emperor of China agrees to pay the sum of twelve millions of dollars, ou account of expenses incurred; and Her Britannic Majesty's plenipotentiary voluntarily agrees, on behalf of Her Majesty, to deduct from the said amount of twelve millions of dollars, any sums which may have been received by Her Majesty's combined forces, as ranson. for cities and towns in China, subsequent to the 1st day of August, 1841.

Art. VII.-It is agreed that the total amount of twenty-one millions of dollars, described in the three preceding articles, shall be paid as tollows :-

Six millions immediately.

Six millions in 1843; that is, three millions on or before the 30th June, and

three millions on or before 31st of December,

Five millions in 1884; that is, two millions and a half on or before the 30th of

June, and two millions and a half on or before the 31st of December.

Four millions in 1845; that is, two millions on or before 30th of June, and

two millions on or before the 31st of December.

　　　　　　　And it is further stipulated, that interest, at the rate of 5 per cent. per aunum, shall be paid by the Government of China on any portion of the above sums that are not punctually discharged at the periods fixed.

Art. VIII.-The Emperor of China agrees to release, unconditionally, all subjects of Her Britannic Majesty (whether natives of Europe or India), who may be in con- fivement at this moment in any part of the Chinese Empire.

Art. IX.-The Emperor of China agrees to publish and promulgate, under his imperial sign manual and seal, a full and entire amnesty and act of indemnity to all subjects of China, on account of their having resided under, or having had dealings and intercourse with, or having entered the service of Her Britanic Majesty, or of Her Majesty's officers; and His Imperial Majesty further engages to release all Chinese subjects who may be at this moment in coufinement for similar reasons.

Art. X.-His Majesty the Emperor of China agrees to establish at all the ports which are, by Article II. of this treaty, to be thrown open for the resort of British merchants, a fair and regular tariff of export and import customs and other dues, which tariff shall be publicly notified and promulgated for general information; and the Emperor further engages that, when British merchandise shall have once paid at any of the said ports the regulated customs and dues, agreeable of the tariff to be hereafter fixed, such merchandise may be conveyed by Chinese merchants to any province or city in the interior of the empire of China, on paying a further amount as transit duties, which shail not exceed-

-per cent, on the tariff value of

such goods.

Art. XI.-It is agreed that Her Britannic Majesty's chief high officer in China shall correspond with the Chinese high officers, both at the capital and in the provinces, under the termi communication;" the subordinate Britis officers and Chinese high officers in the provinces under the term "statement," on the part of the former, and on the part of the latter, "declaration," and the subordinates of both countries on a footing of perfect equality; merchants and others not holding official situations, and therefore not included in the above, ou both sites for use the term "representation in all papers addressed to, or intended for, the notice of the respective Govern-

ments.

　　　　　　Art. XII. On the assent of the Emperor of China to this treaty being received, and the discharge of the first instalment of money, Her Britannic Majesty's forces will retire from Nanking and the Grand Canal, and will no longer molest or stop the trade of China. The military post at Chinhae will also be withdrawn ; but the island of Koolangsoo, and that of Chusau, will continue to be held by Her Majesty's forces until the money payments, and the arrangements for opening the ports to British merchants, be completed.

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　　　　　Art. XIII-The ratifications of this treaty by Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, &c., and His Majesty the Emperor of China, shall be exchanged as soon as the great distance which separates England from China will admit; but, in the meantime, counterpart copies of it, signed and sealed by the plenipotentiaries on behalf of their respective sovereigns, shall be mutually delivered, and all its provisions and arrangements shall take effect.

　　　　　Done at Nanking, and signed and sealed by the plenipotentiaries on board Her Britannic Majesty's ship Cornwallis, this 29th day of August, 1842; correspouding with the Chinese date, twenty-fourth day of the seventh month, in the twenty-second year of Taou Kwang.

HENRY POTTINGER,

Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary

And signed by the seals of four Chinese Commissioners.

TREATY OF PEACE, FRIENDSHIP, COMMERCE, AND NAVIGATION

BETWEEN HER MAJESTY AND THE EMPEROR OF CHINA

SIGNED, IN THE English and Chinese LanGUAGES, AT TIENTSIN, 26TH JUNE, 1858

Ralifications Exchanged at Peking, 24th October, 1860

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and His Majesty the Emperor of China, being desirous to put an end to the existing misunderstanding between the two countries and to place their relations on a more satisfactory footing in future, have resolved to proceed to a revision and improvement of the Treaties existing between them; and, for that purpose, have named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:-

Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, a Peer of the United Kingdom, and Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle ;

And His Majesty the Emperor of China, the High Commissioner Kweiliang, a Senior Chief Secretary of State, styled of the East Cabinet, Captain-General of the Plain White Banner of the Manchu Banner Force, Superintendent-General of the Administration of Criminal Law; and Hwashana, one of His Imperial Majesty's Expositors of the Classics, Manchu president of the office for the regulation of the Civil Establishment, Captain-General of the Bordered Blue Banner of the Chines Banner Force, and Visitor of the Office of Interpretation:

　　　　　　Who after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, and found them to be in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Article:

Art. L-The treaty of Peace and Amity between the two nations signed at Sanking on the twenty-ninth day of August, in the year eighteen hundred and forty- two, is hereby renewed and confirmed.

　　　　　　The Supplementary Treaty and General Regulations of Trade having been amended and improved, and the substance of their provisions having been incor- porated in this Treaty, the said Supplementary Treaty and General Regulations of Trade are hereby abrogated.

Art. II.-For the better preservation of harmony in future, Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and His Majesty the Emperor of China mutually agree that, in accordance with the universal practice of great and friendly nations, Her Majesty the Queen may, if she see fit, appoint Ambassadors, Ministers, or other Diplomatic Agente to the Court of Peking; and His Majesty the Emperor of China may, in like manner, if he see fit, appoint Ambassadors, Ministers, or other Diplomatic Agents to the Court of St. James.

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Art. III. His Majesty the Emperor of China hereby agrees that the Ambassador, Minister, or other Diplomatic Agent, so appointed by Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, may reside, with his family and establishment, permanently at the capital, or may visit it occasionally at the option of the British Government. He shall not be called upon to perform any ceremony derogatory to him as representing the Sovere gu of au independent nation on a footing of equality with that of China. On the other hand, he shall use the same forms of ceremony and respect to His Majesty the Emperor as are employed by the Ambassadors, Ministers, or Diplomatic Agents of Her Majesty towards the Sovereigns of independent and equal European

nations.

It is further agreed, that Her Majesty's Government may acquire at Peking a site for building, or may hire houses for the accommodation of Her Majesty's Mission, and the Chinese Government will assist it in so doing.

Her Majesty's Representative shall be at liberty to choose his own servants and attendants, who shall not be subject to any kind of molestation whatever.

Any person guilty of disrespect or violence to Her Majesty's Representative, or to any member of his family or establishment, in deed or word, shall be severely punished. Art. IV.-it is further agreed that no obstacle or difficulty shall be made to the free movements of Her Majesty's Representative, and that he and the persons of his suite may come and go, and travel at their pleasure. He shall, moreover, have full liberty to send and receive his correspondence to and from any point ou the sea-coast that he may select, and his letters and effects shall be held sacred and inviolable. He may employ, for their transmission, special couriers, who shall meet with the same protection and facilities for travelling as the persons employed i. carrying despatches for the Imperial Government; and, generally, he shall enjoy the same privileges as åre accorded to officers of the same rank by the usage and consent of Western uations. All expenses attending the Diplomatic Mission of Great Britain shall be bcrue by the British Government.

Art. V. His Majesty the Emperor of China agrees to nominate one of the Secretaries of State, or a President of ors of the Boards, as the high officer with whom the Ambassador, Minister, or other 1.iplomatic Agent of Her Majesty the Queen shall transact business, either personally or in writing, on a footing of perfect equality.

　　　　　　　Art. VI.-Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain agrees that the privileges hereby secured shall be enjoyed in her dominicns by the Ambassador, Minister, or Diplomatic Agent of the Emperor of China, accredited to the Court of Her Majesty.

　　　　　　　Art. VII. Her Majesty the Queen may appoint one or more Consuls in the dominions of the Emperor of China; and such Consul or Consuls shall be at liberty to reside in any of the open ports or cities of China as Her Majesty the Queen may consider most expedient for the interests of British commerce. They shall be treated with due respect by the Chinese authorities, and enjoy the same privileges and immunities as the Consular Officers of the most favoured nation.

Consuls and Vice-Consuls in charge shall rank with intendants of Circuit; Vice- Consuls, Ang Vice-Consuls, an: Interpreters, with Prefects. They shall have access to the officm: residences of these officers, and communicate with them, either personally or in writing, on a footing of equality, as the interests of the public service may require.

Art. VIII. The Christian religion, as professed by Protestants or Roman Catholics, inculcates the practice of virtue, and teaches man to do as he would be done by. Persons teaching it or professing it, therefore, shall alike be entitled to the protection of the Chinese authorities, nor shall any such, peaceably pursuing their calling and not offending against the laws, be persecuted or interfered with.

　　　　　　　Art. IX-British subjects are hereby authorised to travel, for their pleasure or for purposes of trade, to all parts of the interior under passports which will be issued by their Consuls, and countersigned by the local authorities. These passports, if demanded, must be produced for examination in the localities passed through. If the passport be not irregular, the bearer will be allowed to proceed, and no opposition shall be offered to bis hiring persons, or hiring vessels for the carriage of his baggage or merchandise. If he be without a passport, or if he commit any offence against the

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law, he shall be handed over to the nearest Consul for punishment, but be must not be subject to any ill-usage in excess of necessary restraint. No passport need be applied for by persons going on excursions from the ports open to trade to a distance not exceeding 100 li, and for a period not exceeding five days.

The provisions of this Article do not apply to crews of ships, for the due restraint of whom regulations will be drawn up by the Consul and the local authorities.

To Nanking, and other cities, disturbed by persons in arms against the Govern- ment, no pass shall be given, until they shall have been recaptured.

Art. X.-British merchant ships shall have authority to trade upon the Great River (Yangtsze). The Upper and Lower Valley of the river being, however, disturbed by outlaws, no port shall be for the present opened to trade, with the exception of Chinkiang, which shall be opened in a year from the date of the signing of this Treaty.

So soon as peace shall have been restored, British vessels shall also be admitted to trade at such ports as far as Hankow, not exceeding three in number, as the British Minister, after consultation with the Chinese Secretary of State, may determine shall be ports of entry and discharge.

　　　　　　Art. XI.-In addition to the cities and towns of Canton, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo, and Shanghai, opened by the Treaty of Nanking, it is agreed that British subjects may frequent the cities and ports of Newchwang, Tangchow (Chefoo), Taiwan (Formosa), Chao-chow (Swatow), and Kiung-chow (Hainan).

　　　　　　They are permitted to carry on trade with whomsoever they please, and to proceed to and fro at pleasure with their vessels and merchandise.

　　　　　　They shall enjoy the same privileges, advantages, and immunities at the said towns and ports as they enjoy at the ports already opened to trade, including the right of residence, buying or renting houses, of leasing land therein, and of building churches, hospitals, and cemeteries.

Art. XII.-British subjects, whether at the ports or at other places, desiring to build or open houses, warehouses, churches, hospitals, or burial grounds, shall make their agreement for the land or buildings they require, at the rates prevailing among the people, equitably and without exaction on either side.

Art. XIII.-The Chinese Government will place no restrictions whatever upon the employment, by British subjects, of Chinese subjects, in any lawful capacity.

　　　　　　Art. XIV.-British subjects may hire whatever boats they please for the transport of goods or passengers, and the sum to be paid for such boats shall be settled between the parties themselves, without the interference of the Chinese Government. The number of these boats shall not be limited, nor shall a monopoly in respect either of the boats or of the porters or coolies engaged in carrying the goods be granted to any parties. If any smuggling takes place in them the offenders will, of course, be punished according to law.

Art. XV.-All questions in regard to rights whether of property or person, arising between British subjects, shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the British authorities. Art. XVI.-Chinese subjects who may be guilty of any criminal act towards British subjects shall be arrested and punished by the Chinese authorities according

to the laws of China.

　　　　　　British subjects who may commit any crime in China shall be tried and punished by the Consul, or other public functionary authorised thereto, according to the laws of Great Britain.

Justice shall be equitably and impartially administered on both sides.

Art. XVII.-A British subject, having reason to complain of Chinese, must pd to the Consulate, and state his grievance. The Consul will inquire into the merits of the case, and do his utmost to arrange it amicably. In like manner, if a Chinese have reason to complain of a British subject, the Consul shall no less listen to his complaint, and endeavour to settle it in a friendly manner. If disputes take place of such a nature that the Consul cannot arrange them amicably, then he shall quest the assistance of the Chinese authorities, that they may together examine into the merits of the case, and decide it equitably.

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Art. XVIII.-The Chinese authorities shall at all times afford the fullest protection to the persons and property of British subjects, whenever these shall have been subjected to insult or violence. In all cases of incendiarism or robbery, the local authorities shall at once take the necessary steps for the recovery of the stolen property, the suppression of disorder, and the arrest of the guilty parties, whom they will punish according to law.

　　　　　　　Art. XIX.-If any British merchant-vessel, while within Chinese waters, be plundered by robbers or pirates, it shall be the duty of the Chinese authorities to use every endeavour to capture and punish the said robbers or pirates and to recover the stolen property, that it may be handed over to the Consul for restoration to the

owner.

　　　　　　　Art. XX.-If any British vessel be at any time wrecked or stranded on the coast of China, or be compelled to take refuge in any port within the dominions of the Emperor of China, the Chinese authorities, on being apprised of the fact, shall immediately adopt measures for its relief and security; the persons on board shall receive friendly treatment and shall be furnished, if necessary, with the means of conveyance to the nearest Consular station.

　　　　　　Art. XXI.--If criminals, subjects of China, shall take refuge in Hongkong or on board the British ships there, they shall, upon due requisition by the Chinese authorities, be searched for, and, on proof of their guilt, be delivered up.

In like manner, if Chinese offenders take refuge in the houses or on board the vessels of British subjects at the open ports, they shall not be harboured or concealed, but shall be delivered up, on due requisition by the Chinese authorities, addressed to the British Consul

Art. XXII.-Should any Chinese subject fail to discharge debts incurred to a British subject, or should he fraudulently abscond, the Chinese authorities will do their utmost to effect his arrest and enforce recovery of the debts. The British authorities will likewise do their utmost to bring to justice any British subject fraudulently absconding or failing to discharge debts incurred by him to a Chinese subject.

　　　　　　Art. XXIII.-Should natives of Cha who may repair to Hongkong to trade incur debts there, the recovery of such debts must be arranged for by the English Court of Justice on the spot; but should the Chinese debtor abscond, and be known to have property real or personal within the Chinese territory, it shall be the duty of the Chinese authorities, on application by, and in concert with, the British Consul, to do their utmost to see justice done between the parties.

　　　　　　Art. XXIV.-It is agreed that British subjects shall pay, on all merchandise imported or exported by them, the duties prescribed by the tariff; but in no case shall they be called upon to pay other or higher duties than are required of the subjects of any other foreign nation.

　　　　　　Art. XXV.-Import duties shall be considered payable on the landing of the goods, and duties of export on the shipment of the same.

Art. XXVI. Whereas the tariff fixed by Article X. of the Treaty of Nanking, and which was estimated so as to impose on imports and exports a duty of about the rate of five per cent. ad valorem, has been found, by reason of the fall in value of various articles of merchandise therein enumerated, to impose a duty upon these considerably in excess of the rate originally assumed, as above, to be a fair rate, it is agreed that the said tariff shall be revised, and that as soon as the Treaty shall have been signed, application shall be made to the Emperor of China to depute a high officer of the Board of Revenue to meet, at Shanghai, officers to be deputed on behalf of the British Government, to consider its revision together, so that the tariff, as revised, may come into operation immediately after the ratification of this Treaty.

　　　　　　Art. XXVII.-It is agreed that either of the high contracting parties to this Treaty may demand a further revision of the tariff, and of the Commercial Articles of this Treaty, at the end of ten years; but if no demand be made on either si le within six months after the end of the first ten years, then the tariff shall remain in force for ten years more, reckoned from the end of the preceding ten years, and so it shall be at the end of each successive ten years.

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Art. XXVIII.-Whereas it was agreed in Article X. of the Treaty of Nanking that British imports, having paid the tariff duties, should be conveyed into the interior, free of all further charges, except a transit duty, the amount whereof was not to exceed a certain percentage on tariff value; and whereas, no accurate information having been furnished of the amount of such duty, British merchants have constantly complained that charges are suddenly and arbitrarily imposed by the provincial authorities as transit duties upon produce on its way to the foreign market, and on imports on their way into the interior, to the detriment of trade; it is agreed that within four months from the signing of this Treaty, at all ports now open to British trade, and within a similar period at all ports that may hereafter be opened, the authority appointed to superintend the collection of duties shall be obliged, upon application of the Consul, to declare the amount of duties leviable on produce between the place of production and the port of shipment, upon imports between the Consular port in question and the inland markets named by the Consul; and that a notification thereof shall be published in English and Chinese for general information.

But it shall be at the option of any British subject desiring to convey produce purchased inland to a port, or to convey imports from a port to an inland market, to clear his goods of all transit duties, by payment of a single charge. The amount of this charge shall be leviable on exports at the first barrier they may have to pass, or, on imports, at the port at which they are landed; and on payment thereof a certificate shall be issued, which shall exempt the goods from all further inland charges whatsoever.

It is further agreed that the amount of the charge shall be calculated, as nearly as possible, at the rate of two and a half per cent, ad valorem, and that it shall be fixed for each article at the conference to be held at Shanghai for the revision of the tariff.

It is distinctly understood that the payment of transit dues, by commutation or otherwise, shall in no way affect the tariff duties on imports or exports, which will continue to be levied separately and in full.

　　　　　　　Art. XXIX.-British merchant vessels, of more than one hundred and fifty tons burden, shall be charged tonnage-dues at the rate of four mace per ton; if of one hundred and fifty tons and under, they shall be charged at the rate of one mace per ton.

　　　　　　　Any vessel clearing from any of the open ports of China for any other of the open ports, or for Hongkong, shall be entitled, on application of the master, to a special certificate from the Customs, on exhibition of which she shall be exempted from all further payment of tonnage dues in any open ports of China, for a period of four months, to be reckoned from the port-clearance.

　　　　　Art. XXX.-The master of any British merchant-vessel may, within forty-eght hours after the arrival of his vessel, but not later, decide to depart without breaking bulk, in which case he will not be subject to pay tonnage-dues. But tonnage-dues shall be held due after the expiration of the said forty-eight hours. No other fees or charges upon entry or departure shall be levied.

　　　　　　　Art. XXXI.-No tonnage-dues shall be payable on boats employed by British subjects in the conveyance of passengers, baggage, letters, articles of provision, or other articles not subject to duty, between any of the open ports. All cargo-boats, however, conveying merchandise subject to duty shall pay tonnage-dues once in six months, at the rate of four mace per register tʊn.

　　　　　　Art. XXXII.-The Consuls and Superintendents of Customs shall consult together regarding the erection of beacons or lighthouses and the distribution of buoys and lightships, as occasion may demand.

Art. XXXIII.-Duties shall be paid to the bankers authorised by the Chinese Government to receive the same in its behalf, either in sycee or in foreign money, according to the assay made at Canton on the thirteenth of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three.

Art. XXXIV.--Sets of standard weights and measures, prepared according to the standard issued to the Canton Custom-house by the Board of Revenue, shall be delivered by the Superintendent of Customs to the Consul at each port to secure aniformity and prevent confusion.

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Art. XXXV.-Any British merchant vessel arriving at one of the open ports shall be at liberty to engage the services of a pilot to take her into port. In like manner, after she has discharged all legal dues and duties and is ready to take her departure, she shall be allowed to select a pilot to conduct her out of port.

　　　　　　　　Art. XXXVI.-Whenever a British merchant vessel shall arrive off one of the open ports, the Superintendent of Customs shall depute one or more Customs officers to guard the ship. They shall either live in a boat of their owu, or stay on board the ship, as may best suit their convenience. Their food and expenses shall be supplied them from the Custom-house, and they shall not be entitled to any fees whatever from the master or consignee. Should they violate this regulation, they shall be punished proportionately to the amount exacted.

Art. XXXVII.-Within twenty-four hours after arrival, the ship's papers, bills of lading, &c., shall be lodged in the hands of the Consul, who will within a further period of twenty-four hours report to the Superintendent of Customs the name of the ship, her register tonnage, and the nature of her cargo. If, owing to neglect on the part of the master, the above rule is not complied with within forty-eight hours after the ship's arrival, he shall be liable to a fine of fifty taels for every day's delay; the total am unt of penalty, however, shall not exceed two hundred taels.

For

The master will be responsible for the correctness of the manifest, which shall contain a full and true account of the particulars of the cargo on board. presenting a false manifest, he will subject himself to a fine of five hundred taels; but he will be allowed to correct, within twenty-four hours after delivery of it to the customs officers, any mistake he may discover in his manifest without incurring this penalty.

　　　　　　Art. XXXVIII-After receiving from the Consul the report in due form, the Superintendent of Customs shall grant the vessel a permit to open hatches. If the master shall open hatches, and begin to discharge any goods without such permission, he shall be fined five hundred taels, and the goods discharged shall be confiscated wholly.

　　　　　　Art. XXXIX.-Any British merchant who has cargo to land or ship must apply to the Superintendent of Customs for a special permit. Cargo landed or shipped without such permit will be liable to confiscation,

Art. XL-No transhipment from oue vessel to another can be made without special premission, under pain of confiscation of the goods so transhipped.

　　　　　　Art. XLI. When all dues and duties shall have been pail, the Superintendent of Customs shall give a port-clearance, and the Consul shall then return the ships' papers, so that she may depart on her voyage.

Art. XLII.-With respect to articles subject, according to the tariff, to an að valorem duty, if the British merchant cannot agree with the Chinese officer in affixing a value, then each party shall call two or three merchants to look at the goods, and the highest price at which any of these merchants would be willing to purchase them shall le assumed as the value of the goods.

　　　　　　Art. XLIII.-Duties shall be charged upon the net weight of each article, making a deduction for the tare, weight of congee, &c. To fix the tare of any articles, such as tea, if the British merchant cannot agree with the Custom-house officer, then each party shall choose so many chests out of every hundred, which being first weighed in gross, shall afterwards be tared, and the average tare upon these chests shall be assumed as the tare upon the whole; and upon this principle shall the tare be fixed upon other goods and packages. If there should be any other points in dispute which cannot be settled, the British merchant may appeal to his Consul, who will communicate the particulars of the case to the Superintendent of Customs, that it may be equitably arranged. But the appeal must be made within twenty-four hours or it will not be attended to. While such points are still unsettled, the Superintendent of Customs shall postpone the insertion of the same in his books.

Art. XLIV. Upon all damaged goods a fair reduction of duty shall be allowed, proportionate to their deterioration. If any disputes arise, they shall be settled in the manner pointed out in the clause of this Treaty having reference to articles which pay duty ad valorem.

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Art. XLV.-British merchants who may have imported merchandise into any of the open ports, and paid the duty thereon, if they desire to re-export the same, shall be entitled to make application to the Superintendent of Customs, who, in order to prevent fraud on the revenue, shall cause examination to be made by suitable officers, to see that the duties paid on such goods, as entered in the Custom-house books, correspond with the representation made, and that the goods remain with their original marks unchanged. He shall then make a memorandum of the port-clearance of the goods, and of the amount of duties paid, and deliver the same to the merchant, and shall also certify the facts to the officers of Customs of the other ports. All which being done, ou the arrival in port of the vessel in which the goods are laden, every- thing being found on examination there to correspond, she shall be permitted to break bulk, and land the said goods, without being subject to the payment of any additional duty thereon. But if, on such examination, the Superintendent of Customs shall detect any fraud on the revenue in the case, then the goods shall be subject to con- fiscation by the Chinese Government.

British merchants desiring to re-export duty-paid imports to a foreign country shall be entitled, on complying with the same conditions as in the case of re-exporta- tien to another port in China, to a drawback certificate, which shall be a valid tender to the Customs in payment of import or export duties.

Foreign grain brought into any port of China in a British ship, if no part thereof has been landed, may be re-exported without hindrance.

　　　　　　Art. XLVI.-The Chinese authorities at each port shall adopt the means they may judge most proper to prevent the revenue suffering from fraud or smuggling.

Art. XLVII.-British merchant-vessels are not entitled to resort to other than the ports of trade declared open by this Treaty; they are not unlawfully to enter other ports in China, or to carry on clandestine trade along the coast thereof. Any vessel violating this provision shall, with her cargo, be subject to confiscation by the Chinese Government.

Art. XLVIII.-If any British merchant-vessel be concerned in smuggling, the gods, whatever their value or nature, shall be subject to confiscation by the Chinese authorities, and the ship may be prohibited from trading further, and sent away as soon as her account shall have been adjusted and paid.

Art. XLIX. All penalties enforced, or confiscations made, under this Treaty shall belong and be appropriated to the public service of the Government of China.

　　　　　　　Art. L.-All official communications, addressed by the Diplomatic and Consular Agent of Her Majesty the Queen to the Chinese Authorities, shall, henceforth, be writ- ten in English. They will for the present be accompanied by a Chinese version, but it is understood that, in the event of there being any difference of meaning between the English and Chinese text, the English Government will hold the sense as expressed in the English text to be the correct sense. This provision is to apply to the Treaty now negotiated, the Chinese text of which has been carefully corrected by the English original.

　　　　　　Art. LL-It is agreed that henceforward the character" (bartarian) shall not be applied to the Government or subjects of Her Britannic Majesty in any Chinese official do ument issued by the Chinese authorities, either in the capital or in the provinces.

Art. LII.-British ships of war coming for no hostile purpose, or being engaged in the pursuit of pirates, shall be at liberty to visit all ports within the dominions of the Emperor of China, and shall receive every facility for the purchase of provisions, procuring water, aud, if occasion require, for the making of repairs. The commanders of such ships shall hold intercourse with the Chinese authorities on terms of equality au-l courtesy.

　　　　　　Art. LIII.---In consideration of the injury sustained by native and foreign commerce from the prevalence of piracy in the seas of China, the high contracting parties agree to concert measures for its suppression.

　　　　　　Art. LIV.-The British Government and its subjects are hereby confirmed in all privileges, immunities, and advantages conferred on them by previous Treaties: and it is hereby expressly stipulated that the British Government and its subjects will be allowed free and equal participation in all privileges, immunities and advantages that

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may have been, or may be hereafter, granted by His Majesty the Emperor of China to the Government or subjects of any other nation.

　　　　　　　Art. LV.-In evidence of her desire for the continuance of a friendly under- standing, Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain consents to include in a Separate Article, which shall be in every respect of equal validity with the Articles of this Treaty, the condition affecting indemnity for expenses incurred and losses sustained in the matter of the Canton question.

　　　　　　Art. LVI.-The ratifications of this Treaty, under the hand of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and of His Majesty the Emperor of China, respec- tively, shall be exchanged at Peking, within a year from this day of signature.

　　　　　　In token whereof the respective Plenipotentaries have signed and sealed this Treaty. Done at Tientsin, this twenty-sixth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight; corresponding with the Chinese date, the sixteenth day, fifth moon, of the eighth year of Hien Fung.

(L.8.)

ELGIN AND KINCARDINE.

SIGNATURE OF 1ST CHINESE PLENIPOTENTIARY.

SIGNATURE OF 2ND CHInese PlenipOTENTIARY

Separate Article annexed to the Treaty concluded between Great Britain and China on the twenty-sixth day of June, in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-eight

It is hereby agreed that a sum of two millions of taels, on account of the losses sus- tained by British subjects through the misconduct of the Chinese authorities at Canton, and a further sum of two millions of taels on account of the Military expenses of the ex- pedition which Her Majesty the Queen has been compelled to send out for the purpose of obtaining redress, and of enforcing the observance of Treaty provisions, shall be paid to Her Majesty's Representatives in China by the authorities of the Kwangtung province. The necessary arrangements with respect to the time and mode of effecting these payments shall be determined by Her Majesty's Representative, in concert with the Chinese authorities of Kwangtung.

　　　　　　　When the above amounts shall have been discharged in full, the British forces will be withdrawn from the city of Canton. Done at Tientsin this twenty-sixth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, corresponding with the Chinese date, the sixteenth day, fifth moon, of the eighth year of Hien Fung

(L.S.) ELGIN AND KINCARDINE.

SIGNATURE OF 1ST CHINESE PLENIPOTENTIARY. Signature of 2nd Chinese PlenipoteNTIARY,

CONVENTION OF PEACE BETWEEN HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY AND

THE EMPEROR OF CHINA

SIGNED AT PEKING, 24TH October, 1860

Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China, being alike desirous to bring to an end the misunderstanding at present existing between their respective Governments, and to secure their relations against further interruption, have for this purpose appointed Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:-

Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine; and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China, His Imperial Highness the Prince of Kung; who having met and communicated to each other their full powers, and finding these to le in proper form, have agreed upon the following Convention, in Nine Articles:---

　　　　　　　Art. I.-A breach of friendly relations having been occasioned by the act of the Garrison of Taku, which obstructed Her Britannic Majesty's Representative when on his way to Peking, for the purpose of exchanging the ratifications of the Treaty of Peace concluded at Tientsin in the month of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China expresses his deep regret at the misunderstanding so occasioned.

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Art. II. It is further expressly declared, that the arrangement entered into at Shanghai, in the month of October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, between Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador, the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, and His Imperial Majesty's Commissioners Kweiliang and Hwashana, regarding the residence of Her Britannic Majesty's Representative in China, is hereby cancelled, and that, in accordance with Article III. of the Treaty of one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, Her Britannic Majesty's Representative will henceforward reside, permanently or occasionally, at Peking, as Her Britannic Majesty shall be pleased to decide.

Art. III.-It is agreed that the separate Article of the Treaty of one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight is hereby annulled, and that in lieu of the amount of indemnity therein specified, His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China shall pay the sum of eight millions of taels, in the following proportions or instalments, namely -at Tientsin, on or before the 30th day of November, the sum of five hundred thousand taels; at Carton, on or before the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, three hundred and thirty-three thousand and thirty-three taels, less the sum which shall have been advanced by the Canton authorities toward the completion of the British Factory site of Shameen; and the remainder at the ports open to foreign trade, in quarterly payments, which shall consist of one-fifth of the gross revenue from Customs there collected; the first of the said payments being due on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, for the quarter terminating on that day.

　　　　　　It is further agreed that these moneys shall be paid into the hands of an officer whom Her Britannic Majesty's Representative shall specially appoint to receive them, and that the accuracy of the amount shall, before payment, be duly ascertained by British and Chinese officers appointed to discharge this duty.

In order to prevent future discussion it is moreover declared that of the eight millions of taels herein guaranteed, two millions will be appropriated to the indemnification of the British Merchantile Community at Canton for losses sustained by them; and the remaining six millions to the liquidation of war expenses.

Art. IV.-It is agreed that on the day on which this Convention is signed, His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China shall open the port of Tientsin to trade, and that it shall be thereafter competent to British subjects to reside and trade there, under the same conditions as at any other port of China by treaty open to trade.

Art. V.-As soon as the ratifications of the Treaty of one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight shall have been exchanged, His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China will, by decree, command the high authorities of every province to proclaim throughout their jurisdictions that Chinese, in choosing to take service in British Colonies or other parts beyond sea, are at perfect liberty to enter into engagements with British subjects for that purpose, and to ship themselves and their families on board any British vessels at the open ports of China; also, that the high authorities aforesaid shall, in concert with Her Britannic Majesty's Representative in China, frame such regulations for the protection of Chinese emigrating as above as the circumstances of the different open ports may demand.

Art. VI.--With a view to the maintenance of law and order in and about the harbour of Hongkong, His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China agrees to cede to Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, Her heirs and successors, to have and to hold as a dependency of Her Britannic Majesty's Colony of Hongkong, that portion of the township of Kowloon, in the province of Kwangtung, of which a base was granted in perpetuity to Harry Smith Parkes-Esquire, Companion of the Bath, a Member of the Allied Commission at Canton, on behalf of Her Britannic Majesty's Government by Lau Tsung-kwang, Governor-General of the Two Kwang.

It is further declared that the lease in question is hereby cancelled, that the laims of any Chinese to property on the said portion of Kowloon shall be duly investigated by a mixed Commission of British and Chinese officers, and that exerpensation shall be awarded by the British Government to any Chinese whose

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claim shall be by that said Commission established, should his removal be deemed necessary by the British Government.

Art. VII.-It is agreed that the provisions of the Treaty of one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, except in so far as they are modified by the present Convention, shall without delay come into operation as soon as the ratifications of the Treaty aforesaid shall have been exchanged. It is further agreed, that no separate ratification of the present Convention shall be necessary, but that it shall take effect from the date of its signature, and be equally binding with the Treaty above men- tioned on the high contracting parties.

Art. VIII. It is agreed that, as soon as the ratifications of the Treaty of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight shall have been exchanged. His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China shall, by decree, command the high autho rities in the capital, and in the provinces, to print and publish the aforesaid Treaty and the present Convention for general information.

　　　　　　Art. IX. It is agreed that, as soon as the Convention shall have been signed, the ratifications of the Treaty of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight shall have been exchanged, and an Imperial Decree respecting the publication of the said Convention and Treaty shall have been promulgated, as provided for by Article VIII. of the Convention, Chusan shall be evacuated by Her Britannic Majesty's troops there stationed, and Her Britannic Majesty's force now before Peking shall commence its march towards the city of Tientsin, the forts of Taku, the north coast of Shantung, and the city of Canton, at each or all of which places it shall be at the option of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland to retain a force until the indemnity of eight millions of taels, guaranteed in Article III., shall have been paid.

　　　　　　　Done at Peking, in the Court of the Board of Ceremonies, on the twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

ELGIN AND KINCARDINE.

(L.S.)

SEAL OF CHINESE PLENIPOTENTIARY.

Signature OF CHINESE PLENIPOTENTIARY

AGREEMENT IN PURSUANCE OF ARTICLES XXVI. AND XXVIII. OF

THE TREATY OF TIENTSIN

SIGNED AT SHanghai, 8th NOVEMBER, 1858

　　　　　　　Whereas it was provided, by the Treaty of Tientsin, that a conference should be held at Shanghai between Officers deputed by the British Government on the one part, and by the Chinese Government on the other part, for the purpose of determining the amount of tariff duties and transit dues to be henceforth levied, a conference has been held accordingly; and its proceedings having been submitted to the Right Honourable the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, High Commissioner and Plenipotentiary of Her Majesty the Queen on the one part; and to Kweiliang, Hwashana, Ho Kwei-tsing, Ming-shen, and Twan Ching-shih, High Commissioners and Plenipotentiaries of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor, on the other part, these High Officers have agreed and determined upon the revised Tariff hereto appended, the rate of transit dues therewith declared, together with other Rules and Regulations for the better explana- tion of the Treaty aforesaid; and do hereby agree that the said Tariff and Rules the latter being in ten Articles, thereto appended-shall be equally binding on the Governments and subjects to both countries with the Treaty itself.

In witness whereof they hereto affix their Seals and Signatures.

Done at Shanghai, in the province of Kiangsu, this eighth day of November in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, being the third day of the tenth moon of the eighth year of the reign of Hien Fung.

(L.8.)

ELGIN AND KINCARDINE.

SEAL OF CHINESE PLENIPOTENTIARIES. SIGNATURES OF THE FIVE Chinese PlenipOTENTIARIES

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1-In the present reprint of the Chinese Tariff for the trade under the cognizance of the Foreign Custome Inspectorate, the Import and Export divisions of the original Tariff of 1858 and the Lists of Duty-free, of Exceptional, and of Contraband Goods, based on Rules 2, 3, and 5 of the "Rules appended to the Tariff," have been amalgamated and arranged alphabetically.

　　　　　　　2-The decisions of the Chinese Government affecting the original Tariff which have come into operation since it was first published have been entered in their proper order.

3-The following typographical arrangement has been adopted in this reprint

　　1. Dutiable articles taken over from the original Tariff are printed in ordinary type. 2. Duty-free articles are printed in italics.

3. Exceptional and contraband articles specified in the "Rules appended to the Tariff"

are printed in black type.

4. Entries based on decisions given since the publication of the original Tariff are

printed in SMALL CAPITALS.

　　　　　　　4-0f the decisions given since the issue of the original Tariff, the present list comprises only those which affect Customs practice at all the Treaty Ports; local rulings not having been included.

　　　　　　　N.B.-Customs Permits are necessary for the shipment and discharge of whatever is not allowed to accompany passengers as Personal Baggage, e.g., Duty-free Goods, Treasure, Parcels, etc., and all such articles must be entered on the manifest of the vessel concerned.

XaxE OF ARTICLE.

TARIFF UNIT AND DOTY,

Per \T. m. c. c.

NAME OF ARTICLE.

Per

TARIFF UNIT And Duty.

【T. m. c.c.

Agar-agar...

100 catties] 0 15 0

Agaric. See Fungus.

Almonds.

See Apricot

Seeds.

Alur....

Alum, Green, or Copperas

0045 0100

Aniseed, Broken.....

0250

5000

0500

Aniseed Oil ........

Aniseed, Star

Antimacassars. See Ar.

ticles de Tapisserie.

Antiques. See Curiosi-

ties.

Apricot Seeds, or Almonds

Armleta, Glass. See Ban-

zles.

Arrox-root. See Sago. Arsenic..

Articles de Ménage

Ineluding Drawing-room, Lin- vng-room, Bedroom, Bath- room, Kitekra, Pastry, and Counting House Furniture; Furniture for Billiard

Room, Burling Alley, and Racket Court; Safes, Stores, Grates, Cooking Ranges, Fire-roue, Fenders, Coal- wuities, etc.; Cornices and Certains, etc.; Gas Fittings, Bells, etc; Books, Music, Mumoni Instruments, Scien- tiśc Instruments and Ap- parstus, etc ; Saddlery, "Harazet,

and Carriages ; Carpeting and Dragorting, etc. Exclu dag Clocks, Musical Boxes, Pictures, Paintings, Look. -zlamen, Mirrors, Cario- #ties, Lampwicks, Mats, Quts, Blankets, Rays of Hair or Skin, Chinese Car- Pets and Druggets. Leather Trunks, Native Chinaware, Pottery, and Earthenware] Articles de Tapisserie

Inbading Berlin IV'ool Work,

Ântimacaanera, etc.

0450

Artificial Flowers Asafoetida Bambooware

Bangles or Armlets, Glasa Bar Iron. See Metals.

Beams. See Timber.

Beancake

INCLUDING GUANO,*

Bean Oil. See Oil.

Beans and Pens

Beaver Skins. See Skins,

Beaver.

Bed Quilts, Cotton. See

Palampore.

Beef and Pork. See Meats.

Beeswax, Yellow

Beer. See Wines

0 45 0

サラ

Free.

Bells. See Articles de MA

nage.

Berlin Wool Work. Seel

Articles de Tapisseric.

Betel-nuts

Betel-nut Husk

Bezoar, Cow.

Bezonr.

See Cow

Bicho de Mar, Black... Bicho de Mar. White Birds' Nests, 1st Quality, Birds' Nesta, 2nd Quality Birds' Nests, 3rd Quality,

or Uncleaned

Biscuit, all kinds, Plain{

and Fancy..

Bitters. See Wines. Blankets. See Woollen

Manufactures.

Blotting Paper. See Sta-

tionery.

Bombazettes. See Wool-

len Manufactures.

Bonbons. See Confection-

要道

100 catties 1 500 0650 075 0 0500

0 3 5

0060

Free.

[100 catties 1 0 0 0

0150 0 0 7 5

1 5 0 0 03 50

Catty

0550

0450

0150

Free.

Boneware and Hornware. 100 catties 1 5 0 0

* Guano in allowed to pay 5 per cent, ad valorem at importer's option.

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NAME OF ARTICLE.

| TARIFF UNit and Duty.

NAME OF ARTICLE.

Per

Books,

CHINESE. See

Paper, 1st Quality.

\T. m. c. c.

Books, Foreign. See Ar-

ticles de Ménage.

Boots, Chinese. See Shoes

and Boots.

Boots Foreign. See Cloth-

ing, Foreign

Bracelets,

Foreign.

Jewellery, Foreign.

See

Brass Buttons [EXPORT

TARIFF

Brass Buttons [IMPORT

TARIFF]

　　　　　　　Brass-foil Brassware

Brass Wire

　　　　　　　Brick Tea. See Tea, Brick, Brimstone and Sulphur.

Cannot be imported or exported except un- der Special Authority. Broadcloth. See Wool-

　　　　　　　　len Manufactures. Brocades. See

Piece Goods.

Cotton

Brooches. See Jewellery,

Foreign.

Buffalo Hides. See Hides,

Buffalo.

Buffalo Horns. See Horns,

Buffalo.

Buffalo Sinews. See Si-

news.

BUILDING MATERIALS NOT SPECIFIED IN TABIFF, IMPORTED FOR OTHER

100 catties 3 0 0 0

Gross

0055

100 catties 1 5 0 0

THAN OFFICIAL PUR-5 per cent.

POBES.

Building Materials import-

ed for official residences

or offices......

Bullion, Gold and Silver...

Bunting. See Woollen

Manufactures.

Butter

Including Condensed and De-

siccated Mak,

Buttons, Brass. See Brass

Buttons.

Cakes. See Confectionery.

Camagon-wood.

See

See Cotton

Wood, Camagon.

Cambrics.

{ad valorem

Free

1000 1 1 5 0

0200

Cannon

Cannot be imported or exported except un- der Special Authority.] Cantharides...... Canvas and Cotton Duck, not exceeding 50 yards long

Capoor Cutchery Caps, Felt. See Felt Caps. Caps, Silk. See Silk. Cardamoms, Superior Cardamoms. Inferior, or

Grains of Paradise Carpeting, Foreign

Including Off Floor-cloth, (Excluding Chinese Car- pets.] Carpeting, Foreign.

TARIFF UNIT AND DUTY.

Per \T. m. c. c.

100 catties 2000

Piece 0400 100 catties 0 3 0 0

1 0 0 0

0500

Free.

Seel

Hundred

3500

Articles de Ménage. Carpets and Druggets

Not including Foreign Car-

peting and Druggeting, Carriages. See Articles de

Ménage.

Cash. See Copper Cash.

Cassia Buds

Cassia Lignen

Cassia Oil

Cassia Twigs

Cassimeres. See Woollen

Manufactures.

Castor Oil

Excluding Foreign Castor Oil,| if arriving in quantities of lexx than 100 cutties weight:

Free.

Caviare. See Meals,

Ceruse. See Lead, White.

[100 catties 0 8 0 0

0 600

9000

0 150

0 200

Charcoal

Free.

Charms,

Foreign. Seel

Jewellery, Foreign.

Cheese

Chestnuts

100 catties 0 1 0 0

0 1 3 0

0 450

Cotton

0 90 0

See

Camlets.

WOOL, CAMELS'.

See Woollen

Manufactures.

Camphor

Camphor, Baroos, Clean. Camphor, Baroos, Refuse. Candles, Foreign

Canes

100 catties 0 7 5 0 Catty 1 3 0 0 07 20

Free.

Thousand 0 5 0 0

China-root

Chinaware, Coarse.....

Including Swatow NATIVE

CHINAWARE; NOT INCLUD ING COARSE CHINAWARE OF THE VALUE OF TLS, 1 ro Tus. 1,50 PER PICIL EX- PORTED FROM PAKHOL WHICH PAYS AS POTTERY, EARTHENWARE,

Chinaware, Fine... Chinaware, Foreign. See

Glassware.

Chiotzes. See

Piece Goods.

Chocolate. See Confec-

tionery.

Chutneys. See Vegetables. Cigar-cases. See Cigars. Cigar-holders. See Cigars. Cigars, Foreign

Including Cigar-cases, Cigar-

holders, and Pipes.

Cinnabar

Cinnamon

CITRONS, See Vegetables.

Clocks

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100 catties 0 7 5 0 1500

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Piece Goods.

CAMELS' HAIR. See HAIR,

CAMELS'.

CAMELS' WOOL.

CUSTOMS TARIFF

Same or ARTICLE.

TARIFF UNIT and Duty,

XAME OF ARTICLE,

TARIFF UNIT AND DUTY.

Per

7. m. c. c.

See

Clothing, Cotton Clothing, Foreign.

Including Ready-made Cloth- ing of "all kinds for Head, Perma, or Fool, or First Materials for Foreign Cloth- ing, wale and female (if im- pertad is reasonable quanti- ties by Foreign Estail Deu- lers, Tailors, and Milliners, før Poreign sat); Foreign Boots and Shoes, Hosiery, Haberdashery, and Milli- wry [Excluding Umbrel- las, Cotton Handkerchiefs, Sid Ribbons, Silk l'aread, Silk Shawls, Silk Scarves, Silk| Tassels, Silk Caps, Chinese Pet Caps, Chinese Boots und Shoes.]

Clothing, Silk.

Per T. m. c. c. 100 catties] 1 500

Free.

.....100 catties 10 0 0 0

Copper, in Sheets.

Metals.

Copper, in Slabs. Seel

Metals.

Copper Nails. See Metals. Copper Rods. See Metals, Copperware and Pewter-

ware

INCLEDING WHITE METALİ

PIPES (INFERIOR).

Copper, Old, Sueathing. Copper Ore

Copperas.

See Alum,

Green.

Copying Presses. See Sta-

tionery.

Corals, False

Cordage, Manila

Coral....

100 catties 1 1 5 0

0500

Catty

0100

Clores

Cloves, Mother

0500 018

Coal, Foreign

Ton

COAL, NATIVE : FORMO-

* Hurts, ÁNHWEI,

KWANGSI, AND KAI-

Cosly

NATIVE. OTHER

SORTS

0100

0300

Free.

100 catties| 5000

Coal shipped by Yachts for

their own us€

Coal-scuttles. See Articles

de Ménage.

Cochineal..

Cocoa. See Confectionery, Cocoa-xUTS. See Vegetables Cocoons. See Silk.

Cocoona, REFUSE

{

5 per cent. ad valorem

Cocoon SKINS (SHELLS).. Coffee. See Confectionery. Coins, Foreign

Cotr

COCK....

Comfita. See Preserves. Confectionery

Including Pastry, Cakes, Bon- bons, Cofer, Chocolate, Co- cos, Spices, Somers, Season- ings, Flacouring Bönences, Foreign Pepper, Mustard, Tablé Salt in small jars, Ketekup, Finegar, and Oil; Anchory, Tomato, and Wor- Sawers. [Ex-

cestershire cluding Cinamonon, Cloves, Mar," Nutmegs, Honcy, Liquorice, Sugar Candy, Chinese Preserves, Confita, ati Bweetments.) Cooking Ranges. "See Ar-

boles de Ménage. Copper. See Metals. Copper Cash

Can only be exported under Bond to a Chi-

nese Treaty Fort.

Copper Cash, Japanese,

XAY BI IMPORTED.

Free.

100 catties 0 1 0 0 Ton 0150

Free.

Cordials. See Wines,

Cornelian Beads

Corneliaus

Corn-flour.

See Sago.

100 catties 0 35 0

03 50

7000

100 stones

0300

Cornices. See Articles de

Ménage.

Nankeen,

Cotton Cloth, Native. Seej

Cotton Duck.

vas.

See Can-

Cotton Piece Goods:-

Grey, White, Plain and

Twilled:

exceeding 34 ins. wide

and not exceeding}

40 yds. long...

INCLUDING T-CLOTHS

Piece

0080

36)

INCHES WIDE AND 24 YARDS LONG.

exceeding 34 ins. wide and exceed- ing 40 yds. long. Drills and Jeans:

not exceeding 30 ins, wide and not er- ceeding 40 yds, long| not exceeding 30 ins. wide and not ex- ceeding 30 yds, long| T-Cloths:

not exceeding 34 ins,)

wide and not ex- ceeding 48 yds. long not exceeding 34 ins. wide and not ex- ceeding 24 yds. long Dyed, Figured and Plain, not exceeding 36 ins. wide and not) exceeding 40 yds. long

EXCLUDING FOREIGN Cor-

TONS DYED IN CHINAJ See Nankeen and Native Cotton Cloth,

Every 10 yards.

Piece

0 1

0075

0080

0040

0150

On re-shipment, no matter whether for export or consumption on board the vessel in question, a Drawback

(or Exemption Certificate, if applied for) is granted.

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Cotton Piece Goods-cont. Fancy White Brocudes and White Spotted Shirtings,

not ex-

Piece

0 100

CUSTOMS TARIFF

NAME OF ARTICLE,

TARIFF UNIT and Duty.

NAME OF ARTICLE.

Per

\T. m. c. c.

Curiosities, Antiques.....

TARIFF UNIT and Duty.

Per T. m. c. c.

(5 per cent.

ad valorem|

Excluding Curios, Presente, etc., when forming part of a traveller'* Personal Bag- guge and not being carried în auch quantity as to sug-| gest a trading operation: Free.

Curtains. See Articles de

Ménage.

Cutch Cutlery CUTTLE-FISH.

Salt. Damasks.

See Fish,

See Cotton

Pieco Goods.

Dates, Red

0 0 7 0

Dates, Black

Deer Horns.

See Horas,

0 0 3 5

100 catties 0 18 0

Free.

100 catties 0 1 5 0 0 0 90

ceeding 36 ins. wide and not exceeding 40 yds. long... Printed Chintzes and Furnitures, not ex- ceeding 31 ins. wide and not exceeding 30 yds. long....

Cambrics:

not exceeding 46 ins. wide and not ex- ceeding 24 yds. long not exceeding 46 ins.

wide and not ex- ceeding 12 yds. long|

Muslins :

not exceeding 46 ins. wide and not ex- ceeding 24 yds. long not exceeding 46 ins.

wide and not ex- ceeding 12 yds, long Damaska, not exceeding|

36 ins. wide and not

exceeding

long

0 0 7 0

0 0 75

0 0 3 5

40 yds.

0 200

Dimities or Quiltings, not exceeding 40 ins. wide and not exceed- ing 12 yds. long Ginghams, not exceed- ing 28 ins. wide and not exceeding 30 yds.| long

Handkerchiefs, not ex- ceeding 1 yd. square. Fustians, not exceeding

35 yds. long.... Velveteens, not exceed-

ing 34 yds. long

Cotton Bags

Cotton, Raw

Cotton Seed Oil. See Oil,

Cotton Thread

Cotton Yarn

Cow Rezoar [Export

TARIFF]

Cow Bezoar, Indian [IM-

PORT TARIFF)... Cow Hides. See Hides,

Buffalo

Crackers, Fireworks

Crape. Silk.

0 0 6 5

Deer.

Deer Sinews. See Sinews.

Despatch Bozes. See Sta-

tionery.

Dimities. See Cotton Piece

Goods.

Dock Stores (under Special

Regulations)......

NOT INCLUDING SHIPS' SIDE LIGHTS, NOT IN- PORTED YOR SPECIFIED VESSELS,

Doe Skins. See Skins,

Doe.

Dragon's

Blood. See

Gum, Dragon's Blood. Drills. See Cotton Piece

Goods.

Druggeting, Foreign

Excluding Chinese Druggets. Druggets. See Carpets. Duck, Cotton.

Vas.

See Can-

Dye, Green [Native: Lü-

kiao]

Dyed Cottons. See Cot-

ton Piece Goods.

Ear-rings, Foreign. See

Jewellery, Foreign. Earthenware. See Pot-

tery.

Ebony. See Wood, Ebony.

Free.

Catty

0 8 0 0

Thousand

Elephants' Teeth, Broken 100 catties

Elephants' Tecth. Whole.

03 50 3 0 0 0

400

0 0 3 5

Dozen

Piece

0 0 25

0 200

0 15 0

100 catties 0 0 5

0 3 5 0

07 20 0700

Eggs, Preserved...

Catty

0360

1500

Embroideries, Silk.

See

Silk Piece Goods.

See

100 catties 0 5 0 0

See Silk

Piece Goods.

See

Crockery, Foreign.

Glassware.

Crystalware. See Glass-

ware and Crystalware.

Cubebs....

1 500

CUMQUATR.

See Vege-

tables.

Essences, Flavouring.

Confectionery.

False Pearls.

See Pearls.

Bee Cot-

Fancy Cottons.

ton Piece Goods.

Fans, Feather....

Fans, Palm-leaf, Trim-

med

Fans, Palm-leaf, Untrim-

med Fans, Paper

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Hundred

075 0

་

Thourand 0 3 6 0

Hundred

0 200

4 5

CUSTOMS TARIFF

Per

Hundred

0400 1200

100 catties 0 1 0 0

YaR OF ARTICLE.

TARIFY UNIT AND DUTY.

(T. m. c. c.

Feathers,

Peacocks'

Kingfishera',

Felt Cape..

Felt Cuttings

Fenders

See Articles de

Menage.

le Ménage.

Firewood

Fre-irosz. See Articles|

Fireworks. Bee Crackers. Fish, Dried. See Stock

Fish.

Free.

barding CUTTLE-FISH

100 catties 0 1 8 0

1 0 0 0 0200

Fiah, Salt..

Fish Laws

Fuk Skins

Set including Sharks' Ski06.

Fannel,

See

Woollen

Inufactures,

Flats

Ples Silk.

See Silk.

Four..

Free.

See

Flowers, Artificial.

Artificial Flowers.

Fowling-pieces

Cannot be imported or exported except un- der Special Authority For Stins.

For.

See Skins,

Fragrant-wood.

Wood, Fragrant.

See

Fruits, Foreign. See Vege

tables.

Fruits, Fresh and Preser-

ved. See Vegetables.

0 0 3 0

Fungus, or Agaric.........100 catties C 6 0 0

Furniture of all kinds. See

Articles de Ménage,

Furnitures, Cotton.

Bee

Cotton Piece Goods.

Fustians. See

Cotton

Piece Goods.

Galangal

Gambier

Gamboge....

Game, Tinned.

Garlic

See Meats.

Preserved, Foreign,

Garro-wood. See Wood,

Garoo.

Gas Fittings. See Articles

de Ménage.

Ganze, Silk.

Piece Goode,

See Silk

GLARSHIPS': OLD ROPES,

OLD SAILS, OLD SPARS

-LANDED Under PER-

MIT

GEAR, SHIPS': ANCHOES,}

AND OLD I

CHAINS,

METAL, WHEN

0100 0150

1000

0 0 3 5

Free.

RE-5 per cent.

MOVED FROM A VES. jad valorem

SIL KOT INTENDED |

TO M BROKIN UP

Ginghams. See Cotton

Rece Goods.

NAME OF ARTICLE.

Ginseng, American, Clari-

fied

GINSENG, RE-CLARIFIED, i.e., CRUDE GINSENG IMPORTED AND CLARI- FIED AT A TREATY PORT!

AND SHIPPED COAST- WISE, TO PAY EXPORT AND COAST 'TRADE DUTY AS THOUGH IT WERE NATIVE PRODUCE. Ginseng, American, Crude Ginseng, Corean or Japan,] 1st Quality. i.e., VALUED AT Tls. AND OVER A CATTY

Ginseng, Corean or Ja- pan, 2nd Quality, i.e..]

VALUED AT MORE THAN Tis. 1 AND LESS THAN Tls. 5 A CATTY GINSENG, COREAN OR JA-

PAN, UNCLASSED, i.e., VALUED AT Tls. I AND

LESS A CATTY

TO INCLUDE COREAN OR JAPAN GINSENG CUT- TINGS AND BEARD.

Ginseng, Native.......

Glass Bangles, or Arm-

lets

Glass Beads

Glass, or Vitrified Ware. Glassware and

ware

Crystal-

Including Foreiga Crockery and Foreign Chinaware and Porcelain. [Excluding Na-| tive Chinaware, Native Pot- tery, and Native Earthen-] ware; Window Glass, Tele- Ecopes, Spy and Opera Glas- ses, Looking-glasses and Mirrors; also Chinese Glass Beads and Glassware of all Liuds].

Glass, Window

GLASS IMPORTED FOR THE| USE OF CHURCHES 18 LIABLE TO DUTY.

Glue

Goats' Hair. See Hair,

Goats'.

Gold and Silver Bullion.

See Bullion.

Gold Thread, Imitation...

TO COMPREHEND FOREIGN IMITATION GOLD THREAD MADE OF COPPER AND SILVER AND AFTERWARDS GILT.

Gold Thread, Real............. Goldware. See Silver-

ware and Goldware. Grain of all kinds [Sec

Rice]

Grains of Paradiso. See

Cardamoms.

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Per T. m. c. c.

100 catties 8000

Catty

6000

0 5 0 0

0 3 5 0

0 0 5 0

5 per cent.

ad valorem

100 catties 0

0 00

Free.

Box 100 sq. ft.

0150

100 catties 0150

Catty

0 0 3 0

1 6 0 0

100 catties 0 1 0 0

Google

CUSTOMS TARIFF

NAME OF ARTICLE.

Tarify Unit and Duty,

NAME OF ARTICLE.

Per

\T. m. c. c.

Tariff Unit and Derr.

Per

\T. m. c. c.

Hornware.

See Bone-

ware.

Sce Clothing.|

Foreign.

Household Stores, etc.

Free.

Grasscloth. Coarse (HAV-

INO 40

OR LESS

THREADS IN THE WARP. TO AN INCH). Grasscloth. Fine (HAVING OVER 40 THREADS IN THE WARP TO AN INCH) Grates. See Articles de

Ménage.

100 catties 0 7 5 0

2500

Hosiery.

Green Alum. See Alum,

Green.

Green Dye.

See Dye,

Green.

0030 0100

Green Paint. See Paint.

Ground-nut Cake

Ground-nuts

GUANO. See Beancake.

Gum.

See Stationery.

Gum Benjamin

Gum Benjamin, Oil of

Gum, Dragon's Blood

Gum Myrrh...

Gum Olibanum

Gunpowder

Cannot be imported or exported except un- der Special Authority. Gypsum, Ground, or Plas-

ter of Paris Haberdashery. See Cloth-

ing, Foreign.

Habit Cloth. See Wool-|

len Manufactures.

HAIR, CAMELS"

Hair, Goats'

Hair-pins, Foreign.

Jewellery, Foreign. Hair Rugs. See Rugs. Hams

600 0600

0450

100 catties 0 0 3 0

{

5 per cent.

See

Handkerchiefs, Cotton. See Cotton Piece Goods. Hare Skins.

Hare.

See Skins,

Harness. See Articles de

Ménage,

Hartall, or Orpiment.... Hemp

ad valorem

100 catties 0 18 0

0 5 5 0

Articles not named in the Tariff as dutiable, nor being| articles, or one or more of a class of articles, spreifically mentioned in the Duty free List, if imported or ezported for the special and personal use of specified Individuals,{ Honge, Companies, or Ships, and in reasonable quanti- ties, may, when declared to| be Household Stores, Shipя"| Stores, or Personal Baggage. be passed free. Turiff named articles declared as Household Stores are duti- able. See also Dock Stores Implements of War

Cannot be imported or exported except un- def Special Authority.

Indigo, Dry....

Indigo, Liquid Ink. Foreign.

tionery. Ink, India Insect Wax.

White.

Iron Bars.

See Sta-

See Wax,

See Metals.

Iron Hoops. See Me-

tals.

IRON HOOPs, Old. Seel

Metals.

Iron, in Pigs. See Me-

tals.

Iron, in Sheets. See Me

tals.

IRON NAILS.

See Metala.

IRON PANS. See Metals. Iron Rods, See Metals. Iron Wire. See Metal,

Isinglass

Ivoryware

Jeans. See Cotton Piece

Goods.

0 3 5 0

Jewellery, Foreign

0 3 5 0

HEMP, RAW, OR China)

per cent.

ad valorem

GRASS (RHEA).

Hemp Seed Oil. See Oil.

Hemp Twine. See Twine.

Hides, Buffalo and Cow.. 100 catties 0 500

Hides, Rhinoceros

Honey

To COMPREHEND WILD

UNCLEANED HONEY.

Hoop Iron.

See Metals.

Horns, Buffalo

Horns. Deer [Import Ta-

RIFF]

Horns, Deer, Young [Ex-|

Horus, Deer,

PORT TARIFF]

_PORT TARIFF] .

Old [Ex-

Horns, Rhinoceros

0420

0900

0 25 0

0 250

0900

Pair

100 catties 18 50 2000

Including Foreign Skirt Studs, Sleere Linke, Watch Chains, Rings, Chitra, Pencil Cases, Ear-rings, Necklete, Brooches. Bracelets, Jackets, Hair-pink, Scent Bottles, [Excluding Coral, Corne- Tians, Bangles, Glass Bonds. False Pearls, Goldware and Silverware,1 Joists. See Timber. Joss-sticks

JUTE

Kentledge. See Metals. Ketchup. See Confection-

ery. Kingfishers'

Feathers.

See Feathers. Kittysols, or Paper Um-

brellas

Kranjee-wood. See Wood,

Kranjee.

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100 catties 1000

018

4000

Catty

0 6 5 0 0150

Free.

100 catties 0 2 0 0

0200

Hundred 0500

NAME OF ARTICLE,

Lacquer. Crude. See

Varnish. Lacquered Ware Laka-wood.

See Wood,

Lastings. See Woollen

CUSTOMS TARIFF

TARIFY UNIT AND DUTT.

Per IT. m. c. c.

NAME OF ARTICLE,

Per

TARIFF UNIT and Duty.

T. m. c. c.

[100 catties 1 0 0 0

Laks.

Lampwicks

Manufactures.

Lead, in Piga.

See Me-

tals.

See

Metals.

Lead, in Sheets.

Lead, Red (Minium).

Lead, White (Ceruse)

Led, Yellow (Massicot). Leather

Leather Articles,

0600

ΟΡ

ARRIVAL, i.e., ORI- GINAL PRICE plus EX- PENSES FOR COMMISSION, FREIGHT, AND OTHER CHARGES. IF THE EX- PENSES CANNOT BE AS- CERTAINED, 10 PER CENT- OF THE INVOICE PRICE ADDED TO THE LATTER CONSTITUTE THE VALUE ON WHICH DUTY IS TO BE

CHARGED.

Maizena. See Sago. Mangrove Bark

Manure-cakes, or Pou-

03 50

drette

03 50

Marble Slabs

0850

Marten Skins. See Skins,

042

Marten.

8.8

Massicot.

See Lead,

Pouches, Purses....

1 5 0

Yellow.

Leather, Green

1 8 0 0

Masts. See Timber.

LEATHER, STRIPS

Ass

or 5 per cent.

ad valoremĮ

Leather Trunks.

See

Trunks.

[100 catties] 0 0 3 0

0090 0200

Lemonade. See Wines.

Le pard

Skins.

Skins, Leopard.

Licbees.....

Mats, of all kinds

Matting

Maws, Fish. See Fish

Maws.

Meal, Indian and Oat ..............

Seel

Meats,

[100 catties 0 2 0 0

eign

POR

5 per cent.

LIRTS, SHIPS' SIDE,

FỚT IMPORTED SPECIFIED VESSELS .....

Lily Flowers, Dried Lily Seeds, or Lotus Nuts. Linen and Cotton Mix-

　　　　　　　　　　tares. See Linen. Linen, Coarse, as Linen and Cotton or Silk and Linen Mixtures, not exceeding 50 yds. long. Linen, Fine, as Irish or Scotch, not exceeding 50 yds. long. Liqueurs. See Wines. Liquorice....

Lockets. See Jewellery,

Foreign

Long Ella. See Woollen

Manufactures.

Looking-glasses. See To-

lescopes.

Lotus-nuts. See

Lily

Seeds.

Locraban Seed

Lang-ngans

Lung-ngans without the

Stone

Laetres, See Woollen

and Cotton Mixtures.

Face......... MACKISKEY

[ad valorem

100 catties 0 2 7

Piece

0 50

0 2 0 0

050

100 catties 0 1 3 5

10 O

0 0 3 5 0 25

03 50

1 0 0 0

per cent. jad valorem

Door

Dary

Preserved, For-

Including Fisk, Flesh, Fowl' Tinned Game of all kinda| Shell-fish, Patties, Sausager, Caviare, Beef and Pork in casks for Ships. [Ex- cluding Hams and Balt Fish.]

MEDICATED WINES......

Hundred Roll of

40 yds.

Free.

5 per cent. { ad valorem|

Free.

Medicines, Foreign

Including_Surgical Instru- ments, Photographic Chemi- cals and Apparatus; also Medicines of Foreign origin made up for_Chinese_use* [Excluding Castor Oil, if arriving in quantities of more than 100 catties weight| at a time.]

Medium Cloth. Ses Wool-|

len Manufactures. Melon Seeds

Metale :-

Copper, Manufactured,

as in Sheets, Rods, Nails

Copper,

Unmanufac-]

tured, as in Slabs.

Copper, Yellow Metal, Sheathing, and Nails

Copper, Japan....

Iron, Manufactured, as]

in Sheets, Rods, Bars, Hoops

Iron, Unmanufactured,

as in Pigs........ Iron, Kentledge.

Iron Wire

INCLUDING TRUSSES

0 200

0200

100 catties 0100

1 500

1 0 0 0

0900 0600

0 1 2 5

0075 0010

5 0

BIND SILK BALES, MANU➡

FACTURED WHOLLY FROM IRON WIRE.

If in reasonable quantities, when declared to be for the personal use of the applicant, and not for sale.

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NAME OF ARTICLE.

TALIPP UNIT AND DUTY.

NAMB OF ARTICLE.

Tarify UNIT AND DUTY.

Per

IT. m. C. C.

Metals-cont.

IRON PANS OF FOR-]

EIGN ORIGIN OR OF CHINESE ORIGIN AND MANUFACTUR-

ED BY CHINESE ..J Iron Pans manufactur- ed by Foreigners at Chinese Treaty Ports cannot be imported or exported. IRON NAILS

IRON HOOPS, OLD

→

THE

WHEN SHIPPED COASTWISE)

TO BE EXEMPT AT PORT OF SHIPMENT AND ΤΟ BE CHARGED 5 PER CENT, ad valorem COAST TRADE DUTY

AT THE

PORT OF DISCHARGE.

Lead, in Pigs

Lead, in Sheets

Quicksilver

Spelter

Cannot be imported or exported except under Special Autho- rity.

(5 per cent. Jad valorem!

Musk Muskets.

Cannot be imported or exported except under Special Autho-| rity.

Muslins. See Cottons.

Mussels, Dried

Mustard. See Confec-

tionery.

Musters. See Samples. Myrrh. See Gum."

Nails, Copper. See Metals. NAILS, IRON. See Metals. Nankeen and Native Cot-

ton Cloths

INCLUDING COTTONS DYED

IN CHINA.

Narrow Cloth. See Wool-

Per Catty

\T. m. c. c.

0900

100 catties 0200

1 5 0 0

100 catties 025 0

lens.

0550 200

Necklets.

See Jewellery,

Foreign.

Newspapers, Chinese

Free.

Nutgalls

[100 catties

0 5 0 0

Nutmegs

2 500

0 3 0 0

Steel

Tin

YUNNAN

TIN MAY BE

PASSED COASTWISE AT HALF THE TARIFF BATK ON BEING PROVED TO BE PROPERTY OF PRIVILEGED{ MINING ASSOCIATION,

Tinplates. TRUSSES, METAL, TO BIND SILK BALES, NOT OF IRON WIRE TRUSSES, METAL, or IRON WIRE. See Iron WIRE.

Milk, Condensed and Desic-

cated. See Butter.

Millet. See Rice.

Millinery. See Clothing,

Foreign.

　　　　　　Mineral Water. See Wines. Minium. See Lead, Red. Mirrors. See Telescopes. Mother-o'-pearl Shell Mother-o'-pearl Ware Munitions of War.

Cannot be imported or exported except

under Special Autho- rity.

Music. See Articles del

0 25 0 1 2 5

0400

5 per cent. ad

valorem.*

100 catties 0 2 0 0 Catty 0100

100 catties) 1 5 0 0

Mushrooms

Ménage.

Musical Boxes...............................

Ja per cent

5 per cent.

Musical Instruments.

Scel

Articles de Ménage.

• Ad interim.

Oil, as Bean, Tea, Wood,| Cotton, and Hemp Seed] Up to 10 picule, if reported to

be for Steamer's use: Free. Oil Floor-cloth. See Car-

peting, Foreign,

Oil, Salad. See Confec-

tionery.

Oiled Paper

Olibanum. See Gum Oli-

banum.

Olive Seeds.

Olives, Unpickled, Salted,]

or Pickled.

Opera Glasses. See Teles-

copes.

OгIUM, FOREIGNT

Under Special Regula-

tions.

OPIUM, BOILED OR PRE-

PARED

Under special Regula-

tions.

Orange Peel. See Peel,

Orange.

ORANGES. See Vegetables.

Orleans. See Woollen

Manufactures.

Orpiment. See Hartall. Otter Skins. See Skins,

Otter.

Oyster Shell, Sea Shells..

Packing Twine. See Sta-

tionery,

Paddy. See Rice. Paint, Green

0450

0 0

0 18 0

Tls. 110.00

137.50$

0090

0450

Paintings. See Pictures.

　　　　　　　† According to the United States Commercial Treaty of November, 1880, citizens of the United States are not allowed to deal in Opium, nor are vessels owned by them, whether employed by themselves or others, nor vessels owned by others but employed by them, allowed to carry Opium.

Tle, 30,0,0,0 Tariff Duty, Tls. 80,0,0,0 Likin. Tla. 37,6,0,0 Tarif Duty, Tls. 100,0,0,0. Lákim.

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Fart of ARTICLE.

TARIFY UNIT AND DUTT.

NAME OF ARTICLE.

Plampore, or Cotton Bed

Quilta

Per

Hundred

\T. m. c. c.

275 0

Falo-leaf Fans. See Fans,

Palm leaf.

PANE, IRow. Seç Metals. Paper. See Stationery, Paper, 1st Quality.

INCLUDING Wrisiso LOT- TINT BOOKS AKD ALL Cixis Books, WITH TIE EXCEPTION OF Books LITEKE OFFICIALLY PRO- VIDED OK PURCHASED POR CHINESE PUBLIC LSBTITE TIONS Boots

CONTLATED BY MISSION-

AMER OR DEALT IN BY

IDES ART

BOTSELLERS

CHINESE

ABE TO

NT Dery. Chinese New

**pers - Free,

Paper, 2nd Quality

PAPER, BLACK TINSEL.

[100 catties] 0 7 0 0

0400

5 per cent.

jad valorem

Paper, Oiled. See Oiled

Paper.

Paper Umbrellas.

Seet

Kittysols.

Patties. See Meats.

Peacocks' Feathers.

Pastry. See Confectionery.

Feathers.

PHAEL BARLET

See

100 catties 2 0 0 0

Peel, Pamelo, 1st Quality

0300 50

PIPES, WHITE METAL INFERIOR). See Cop- perware and Pewter-

ware. Pistols.

Cannot be imported exported except under Special Autho- rity.

Pith Pictures. See Pic-

tures.

Planks. See Timber.

Plaster of Paris.

Gypsum.

Plated Ware, Foreign

Poles. See Timber.

Pongees, Silk,

Piece Goods.

TARIFF UNIT AND DUTY.

T. m. c. c.

Per

See

Free.

See Silk

See

Porcelain, Foreign.

Glassware.

Pork. See Meats, Pre-

served, Foreign. Portfolios. See Stationery. Pottery, Earthenware

INCLUDING COARSE CHINA-

WARE OF THE VALUE OF The 1 to Tl. 1.50 PER PICUL EXPORTED FROM PAXHOI ; BUT NOT IN- CLUDING SWATOW NATIVE; CHINA-WARE.

Pouches, Leather. Leather Articles,

See

Poudrette. See Manure-|

cakes.

Prawns, Dried

Presents. See Curiosities. Preserves, Comfits, and

Sweetmeats....

Printed Cottons. See Cot-|

ton Piece Goods. Printing Presses. See Sta-

Pearls, False

Peas. See Beans.

Perl, Orange

Pel, Pamelo, 2nd Quality

1 5 0

Pencil Cases.

Bee Jewel-

lery, Foreign.

Facile, Foreign.

See Sta-

tionery.

Ps. Foreign. See Sta-

tionery.

Pepper, Black...

0360

Pamelo Peel. See Peel,

Pepper, White

0500

Pumelo.

Pepper, Foreign. See Con-

fectionery.

Purses,

Leather.

See

Peppermint Leaf

Peppermint Oil

0100 3 50

Perfumery.

Free.

Excluding Mask.

Personal Baggage,

See

Household Stores

Pewterware. See Copper-

ware.

Photographic Apparatus.

See Medicines.

Photographic

See Medicines.

Chemicals,

Pickled Olives. See Olives.

Pelles. See Fegetables.

Pictures and Paintings... Pictures on Pith or Rice

Paper

Pig Iron. See Metals.

Files. See Timber.

PINEAPPLES. See Tege-

tables.

Pipa. See Cigars.

Each

0100

Hundred 010

100 catties 0 0 5 0

0 3 6 0

0 5 0 0

0 6 0 0

PUMELOES. See Vegetables

Leather Articles.

Putchuck.

Quicksilver. See Metals.

Quiltings.

See Cotton|

Piece Goods.

Quilts, Cotton. See Pa-

lampore.

Rabbit Skins. See Skins,

Racoon Skins. See Skins,

Rabbit.

Racoon.

Rags, Cotton. See Cot-

ton Rags.

Raisins. See Vegetables. Raspberry Vinegar.

Wines. Rattans

,--,་

Rattans, Split....

Rattanware

Seel

Red Tape. See Stationery Red-wood. See Wood, Red"

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NAME CF ARTICLE.

Rhinoceros Hides. See

Hides, Rhinoceros. Rhinoceros Horns. See

Horns, Rhinoceros. Rhubarb

Ribbons, Silk. See Silk.

RIBBONS, SILK, INTER-

　　　　WOVEN WITH IMITA- TION GOLD OR SIL- VER THREAD

Rice or Paddy, Wheat,

CUSTOMS TARIFF

TARIFY UNIT and Duty.

NAME OF ARTICLE.

Per

T. m. c. c.

Per

TARIFF UNIT and Dutt.

\T. m. c. c.

100 catties 1 2 5 0

100 catties 18 0 0 0

per cent. [ad valorem optional.

Millet, & other Grains [100 catties] 0 1 0 0

Duty free on importa-|

tion from abroad. Can only be exported un- der Bond to Chinese Ports. Native Grain is to pay Export Duty at port of shipment| and Coast Tradé Duty at port of discharge, and leaving Yangtsze Ports by river stea- Trade mers, Coast

Duty is to be deposited in advance. Foreign Grain not landed may be re-exported to Fo-| reign Countries. Fo- reign Grain re-export- ed to Chinese Ports must pay Export Duty. Rice Paper Pictures. See

Pictures.

Rifles

Cannot be imported or exported except un- der Special Authority. Rings, Foreign. See Jewel-

lery, Foreign.

Rose Maloes

Rugs, of Hair or Skin

Saddlery. See Articles de

Each

0090

SATINET, OR FRENCH

SATEEN, WITH A COT- TON WARP AND A SILK WEFT.

Sauces. See Confectionery. Sausages. See Meats. Scarves. See Silk Piece|

Goods.

Scent Bottles.

lery, Foreign.

See Jewel-

Scientific Instruments. See

Articles de Ménage.

Sea Otter Skins. See

Skins, Sen Otter.

Sea Shells. See Oyster

Shell.

Seahorse Teeth....

5 per cent. |ad valorem

100 catties 200

Sealing War.

See Sta-

tionery.

Seasonings.

See Confec-

tionery.

0 1 5 0

SEAWEED, RUSSIAN, SU-

PERIOR..

0 15 0

Seaweed

SEAWEED, Russian, In-

FERIOR.............

Seltzer Water. See Wines. Sesamum Seed........ Sharks' Fins, Black... SHARKS' FINS, CLARI-

FIED

Sharks' Fins, White.

Sharks' Skins.

Shawls, Silk. See Silk

Piece Goods.

Shell-fish,

Tinned.

See

Meats.

Ships' Stores. See House-

5 per cent. [ad valorem] 100 catties Hundred

010

0 1 3 5 0500

1 5 0 200

Ménage.

Safes.

See Articles de

Ménage.

Sago

Free.

Including Arrow-root, Coru-

flour, Maizena,

Salt

Trade in, prohibited.

Balt Fish. See Fish, Salt.

Salted Olives. See Olives. Salt, Table. See Confec-|

tionery. Saltpatre.......

Cannot be imported or exported except un- der Special Authority. Samples and Musters of Goods for sale, in reason- able quantities

Excess OF REASONABLE QUANTITY TO PAY TARIFF DUTT.

Samshu

INCLUDING JAPANESE WINE. Bee Wines, Fu- reign.

Sandalwood.........................................

Sandalwoodware.........................

Sapanwood ......

Satin. See Silk Piece Goods

100 catties 0 5 0 0

Free.

100 catties 0 1 5 0

Catty 100 catties

0400 0 1 0 0

0 1 0 0

hold Stores......

Free.

Shirtings.

See Cotton

Piece Goods.

SHIRTINGS DYED IN CHINA.

See Nankeen and Native Cotton Cloths. Shirtings, Spotted. See

Cotton Piece Goods. Shoes and Boots, Leather

or Satin

Shoes, Foreign. See Cloth-

ing, Foreign. Shoes, Straw Shot.

Cannot be imported or exported except un- der Special Authority. SIDE LIGHTS, SHIPS',

100 pairs 3

0180

5 per cent. NOT IMPORTED FOR [ad valorem]

SPECIFIED VESSELS...

Silk :-

Raw and Thrown....... 100 catties 10 0

Yellow, from Szechuen!

Reeled from Dupions... Wild Raw...

Refuse......................................................

Cocoons

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XANS OF ARTICLE.

| TARIFP UNIT and Duty,

Per \T. m. c. c. 5 per cent.

10 0 0 0

Silk :----continued.

COCOONS, BEYUSE.... {

COCOONSKINE (Shells) Floss, Canton...... Floss, from other pro-

vînces..........

Ribbons and Thread... RIBBONA, INTERWOVEN WITH IMITATION GOLD OR SILVER THERAD. See RIB- BONA, SILK, etc. Piece Goods, viz., Pon- gees, Shawls, Scarves, Crape, Satin, Gauze, Velvet, and Embroi-

Piece Goods-Szechuen,]

|ad valorem

100 catties 4300

dered Goods

Shantung

Tassels

Cape....

12 0 0 0

4500

10 0 0 0

090

5 5 0 0

Hundred

Silk and Cotton Mixtures 100 catties

JOT INCLUDING FRENICH'

SATEEN OR SATINET,

Silk and Linen Mixtures.

See Linen.

Silver Thread, Imitation.

Catty

Silver Thread, Real........ Silverware and Goldware.|100 Sizews, Buffalo and Deer. Skin Rugs. See Rugs. Skins, Beaver..

Stine, Doe. Hare, and

Rabbit..

Skins, For, Large..

Skins, Fox. Small.

Stins, Land Otter..

0 0 3 0 1 3 0 0 catties 10 0 0 0

Each

0 5 5 0

Hundred

50 U

0 5 0 0

0150

0 0 7 5

Hundred

2000

Shina, Marten......

Skins, Racoon

Each Hundred

0150 2000

Skins, Sea Otter.

Each

1 5 0 0

Skins, Tiger and Leopard

Hundred Each

0500 0 150

Sleeve Links.

lary, Foreign.

Smalt...

Sand, Native

Skina, Squirrel...

Saud, Foreign.

Soap, Foreign.

SOAP, CHINESE

See Jewel-|

Soda-water. See Wines. Soy...

Spanish Stripes. See Wool-

len Manufactures.

Spars. See Timber.

Iter. See Metals.

pices. See Confectionery.

a. Bee Wine.

100 catties 1 5 0 0 0800 7 200

Free. 15 per cent.

ad valorem

100 catties 0 400

Free.

Spy Glasses. See Teles-|

coper

Squirrel Skin3. See Skins,

Squirrel.

tationery, Foreign......................

Free.

cluding Pens, Pencils, Ink,

apor, Blotting Paper, Gum,

Waz, * Copyingi

NAME OF ARTICLE.

Presses. Printing Presses, Type, Despatch Bores. Red Tape, Portfolios, Pucking Trine. (Excluding Chinese Paper, Indian Ink, and CarNess Books.] Steel. See Metals. Sticklac...

Stock-fish....

Including Dried Fish.

Stoves. See Articles de

Ménage.

Straw Braid...

Straw Shoes. See Shoes,

Straw.

Studs. See Jewellery, Fb-

reign.

Sugar, Brown (Nos. 1 ro

10 INCLUSIVE,

STANDARD) Sugar Candy

DUTCH

Sugar, White (Nos. 11 AND UPWARDS, DUTCH STANDARD)......

Sulphur and Brimstone. Cannot be imported or exported except un- der Special Authority.

Seel Surgical Instruments.

Medicines. Sweetmeats.

serves.

Tallow, Animal..

See Pre-

Tallow, Vegetable.. Tassels, Silk.

Tassels.

TARIFF UNIT AND DUTY.

\T. m. c. c.

Per

100 catties 0 3 0 0

See Silk

T-Cloths. See Cotton Piecel

Goods.

Tea, Black and Green...... TEA, BRICK

NO TRANSIT DUES ARE TO BE LEVIED ON BRICK TEA MADE FROM Hua- hsiang-ek'a-mo, BOUGHT IN HANKOW, AT TIME OF EXPORT FROM HANKOW. TEA DUST, NOT EXCEED- ING Ht. Tis. 10 PER

PICUL IN VALUE AND

SHIPPED FOR A CHINESE PORT; TEA DUST SHIP- PED FOR A FOREIGN PORT, OR FOR A CHINESE PORT IF EXCEEDING Hk. Tls 10 PER PICUL IN VA- LUE, TO PAY AS TEA. TEA, LOG: VARIETIES:

CHIEN LIANG........

PAI-LIANG KUNG-CHIEN} PAI-LIANG TIEN-CHIEN

0500

0700

0 1 2 0 250

0200 0200

0200 0300

500

600

5 per cent. Jad valorem

PAI-LIANG CHING-CHIEN TEA-CHESTS, os MATE-

RIALS FOR MAKING TEA-CHESTS.... Tea-chests, or Materials for making Tea-chests, ez- ported to another Treaty Port for use in packing] Tea

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1 2 5 0

0 500 0800 1 0 0 0

1 2 5 0

NAME OF ARTICLE.

TEA-BOX

BOARDS.

CUSTOMS TARIFF

TARIFY UNIT and Dutt,

NAME OF ARTICLE.

TARIFF UNIT AND DUTT.

Per

T. n. c.c.

Per

\T. m. c. c.

Seel

Timber-cont.

Piles, Poles, and Joists. To COMPREHEND SOFT- WOOD POLES OF ANT LENGTH.

Each

0030

WOOD BOARDS, TEA-

Box.

Tea Oil.

See Oil.

Teak-wood. See Timber.

Telegraph Material for Chi-l

nese Government Tele-1

graphs...

EXCLUDING TELEGRAPH

MATERIAL

FOR OTHER

THAN CHINESE GOVERN- MENT TELEGRAPHS.

Telescopes, Spy and Opera Glasses, Look- ing-glasses and Mir-

rors

Thread, Cotton. See Cot-

ton Thread.

Thread, Gold. See Gold

Thread.

Thread, Silk. See Silk

Free.

5 per cent.

{ad valorem

Thread.

Tiger Skins.

See Skins,

Tiger.

Tigers' Bones......

100 catties 1 5 5 0

Tin.

See Metals.

Tinder....

Tin-foil.

See Meats.

Tinned Meats. Tinplates. See Metals. TINSEL PAPER, BLACK..

Tobacco, Foreign.....

EXCLUDING JAPANESE To- BACCO. See Tobacco, Prepared. Tobacco, Leaf... Tobacco, Prepared.

Excluding Foreign_Tobacco,| BUT INCLUDING JAPANES Tobacco, except when im- ported by Japanese officials or merchants, for private use, up to 40 eattion at a time. Tortoise-shell Tortoise-shell, Broken Tortoiseshellware

Trunks, Leather TRUSSES, METAL. See

Metals, Iron

100 catties 0 3 5 0

5 per cent. ad valorem Free.

1 2 5 0

100 catties 0 1 5 0 0450

}

Catty

3.J

0 250 0072 0 200

100 catties 1 5 0 0

Timber :-

Masts and Spars, Hard- wood, not exceeding

40 ft.

Masts and Spars, Hard- wood, not exceeding 60 ft....

Masts und Spars, Hard- wood, exceeding 60 ft. Masts and Spars, Soft- wood, not exceeding

　　　　　40 ft........ Masts and Spars, Soft- wood, not exceeding 60 ft..

Masts and Spars, Soft- wood, exceeding 60 ft. Beams, Hard-wood, not exceeding 26 ft. long and under 12 ins.

square

BEAMS OTHER THAN

Turnips, Salted

Wire;

Each

4000

Metals, TRUSSES.

Turmeric....

6000

10 0 0 0

5 per cent. lad valorem] or Tariff Duty, optional.

BEAMS, SOFT-WOOD, i.e., PLANKS OVER 6 INS. IN THICKNESS Planks, Hard-wood, not)

exceeding 24 ft. long. 12ins. wide, and 3 ins. thick..... Planks, Hard-wood, not exceeding 16 ft. long, 12 ins. wide, and 3 ins. thick.....

PLANKS, SOFT-WOOD.

Planks, Teak.....

5 per cent. {ad valorem!

200

T'wine, Hemp, Canton

Twine, Hemp, Soochow... Type. See Stationery. Umbrellas

Umbrellas, Paper. See

Kittysols.

UNION CLOTH. See Wool-

Manufactures:

Spanish Stripes, In-

len

4 5 0

6 5 0 0

0150

Hundred 3 5 0 0

2000

5 per cent. Jad valorem

Cubic foot' 0 0 3 5

ferior.

0100

0180

0150

0 500

Each

0 0 3 5

Varnish, or Crude Lacquer 100 catties 0 5 0 0 Vegetables, Preserved, Fo-

reign Including

Foreign Fruits. Fresh and Preserved, Pick-| les, Chutneys, Raisins, Chi- nese Fresh Vegetables and Fresh Fruits. [Excluding Olives, Dates, Almonds, Chestnuts, Ground-nuts, Lichees, Lung-ngaus. Gar- lic, Melon Seeds, Mush. rooms, Fungus, Salted Tur- nips, ORANGES, Cumquats, CITRONS, PUMBLO ES, COCOA-NUTS, AND PINE- APPLES.]

Velvets. See Silk. Velveteens. See Cottons. Velvets, not exceeding 34

yds. long Vermicelli

Vermillion.

Vessels broken up in port,|

Materials from*

Must be certified by Consul to be condemned and sold in port.

* See also GBar, Ships'.

Free.

Piece

0 1 8 0

|100 catties 0 18 0

Free.

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NAME OF ARTICLE.

TARIFF UNIT AND DUTY

NAME OF ARTICLE.

TARIFF UNit and DutY.

Per

\T. m. c. c.

Per 100 catties

\T. m. c. c.

0 1 4 5

0 1 1 5

VISSELS WRECKED, MA- | |5 per cent.

TARIALS FROM .........................

If cricket in port : Bres of Import Dely, but liable to Esport and Coast Trude Iris.

Vessels wrecked within the

harbor limits,

cargo relanded

export

Figur. See Confectionery.

Vitrified Ware. See Glass-

ware.

Watch Chains, Foreign. See

Joreilery, Foreign.

WATCHES

Watches....

Watches, émaillées

pries

Tar, Bees. See Bees-

war.

Tax Japan.........

War. White, or Insect ... WEISING LOTTERY BOOKS, Se Paper, 1st Quality. Wheat. See Rice. White Wax. See Wax,

White.

Tin low Glass. See Glass,

Window.

Tres. Poreign..

Including Beer, Spirits, Fo- * Bitters, Liqueurs, Cor- dials, Repberry Visegar, 8 du, Seitzer, and Mineral Waben, Irannale, etc. [Excluding Samshu and Chinese Wine; ALSO JA PAKE WIN8, ezeṛpt when saported by Jupunere offi. Sila or merchaaste, for pris Patekar, up to 2m) cattier

tata]

WINES, MEDICATED.

Wood, Camagon.

Word, Ebony.

Tol, Fragrant.

Wood, Garoo...

ad valorem

Wood, Laka......................

Wood, Red..

WOOD BOARDS, TEA-

BOX, IF EXPORTED TO

A FOREIGN COUNTRY. Wood, Oil. See Oil. Wood. Piles. Poles, and Joists. See Timber, Piles, etc.

Woodware.

Wool...

WOOL, CAMELS',

5 per cent.

ad valorem

or Tariff

Duty, optional. Pair

1 0 0

4500

[100 catties 0 6 5 0

1 5 0 0

Free.

5 per cent.

Vad valorem

Food, Kranjee, 35 ft. long,

1 ft. 8 ins. wide, and

1 ft. thick.................................

100 catties] 0 0 3 0

0150

0450

2000

Each

0 8 0

5 per cent. ad valorem

100 catties 1

(5 per cent. Vad valorem

Woollen and Cotton Mix- tures, viz., Lustres, Plain and Brocaded, not exceeding 31 yds. lung..

Woollen Manufactures*

Blankets

Broadcloth and Spanish| Stripes, Habit and Medium Cloth, 51 to 64 ins. wide.

Long Ells, 31 ins. wide Camlets, English, 31

ins. wide... Camlets, Dutch, 33 ins.

wide.

Camlets, Imitation, and

Bombazettes.. Cassimeres, Flannel, &

Narrow Cloth.... Lastings, 31 ins. wide.. Lastings, Imitation, & Orleans, 34 ins. wide. Bunting, not exceeding 24 ins. wide and 40] yds. long...... Spanish Stripes, Infe-

rior..

INCLUDING UNION CLOTH. Woollen, Yarn...... WRECKS, MATERIALS FROM. See VESSELS

WRECKED, ETC.

Yarn, Cotton. See Cottons Yarn, Woollen. See Wool-

len Yarn.

Yellow Metal. See Me-

tals, Copper, etc.

5 0

0 3 5 0

Piece

0 200

Pair

0 200

Chang

0120

0045

0 0 5 0

0 1 0 0

0 0 3

0 0 4 0 0050

0 0 3 5

Piece

0 200

Chang

0 1 0 0

30 0

100 catties

* PROPORTIONate Duty 19 TO BE CHARGED ON EXTRA WIDTH IN WOOLLENS,

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　　　　　　RULE I.-Unenumerated Goods.-Articles not enumerated in the list of exports, but enumerated in the list of imports, when exported, will pay the amount of duty set against them in the list of imports; and, similarly, articles not enumerated in the list of imports, but enumerated in the list of exports, when imported, will pay the amount of duty set against them in the list of exports.

　　　　　Articles not enumerated in either list, nor in the list of duty-free goods, will pay an ad valorem duty of 5 per cent., calculated on their market value.

RULE II-Duty free Goods.-Gold and silver bullion, foreign coins, four, Indian meal, sago, biscuits, preserved meats and vegetables, cheese, butter, confectionery, foreign clothing, jewellery, plated-ware, perfumery, soap of all kinds, charcoal, firewood, candles (foreign), tobacco (foreign), cigars (foreign), wine, beer, spirits, household stores, ship's stores, personal baggage, stationery, carpeting, druggeting, cutlery, foreign medicines, glass, and crystal ware.

　　　　　　The above pay no import or export duty, but if transported into the interior will, with the exception of personal baggage, gold and silver bullion, and foreign coins, pay a transit duty at the rate of 23 per cent, ad valorem.

　　　　　A freight or part freight of duty-free commodities (personal baggage, gold and silver bullion, and foreign coins excepted) will ren ler the vessel carrying them, though no other cargo be on board, liable to tonnage dues.

RULE III-Contraband Goods.-Import and export trade is alike prohibited in the following articles: Gunpowder, shot, cannon, fowling-pieces, rifles, muskets, pistols, and all other munitions and implements of war; and salt.

　　　　　　RULE IV.-Weights and Measures.-In the calculation of the Tariff, the weight of a picul of one hundred catties is held to be equal to one hundred and thirty-three and one-third pounds avoirdupois; and the length of a chang of ten Chinese feet, to be equal to one hundred and forty-one English inches.

　　　　　One Chinese chih is held to be equal to fourteen and one-tenth inches English; and four yards English, less three inches, to equal one chang.

　　　　　　RULE V.-Regarding certain Commodities heretofore Contraband.-The restrictions affecting trade in opium, cash, grain, pulse, sulphur, brimstone, saltpetre, and spelter are relaxed, under the following conditions :-

　　　　　1.-*Opium will henceforth pay thirty taels per picul import duty. The importer will sell it only at the port. It will be carried into the interior by Čhinese only, and only as Chinese property; the foreign trader will not be allowed to accompany it. The provisions of Article IX. of the Treaty of Tientsin, by which British subjects are authorized to proceed into the interior with passports to trade, will not extend to it, nor will those of Article XXVIII. of the same treaty, by which the transit-dues are regulated. The transit-dues on it will be arranged as the Chinese Government see fit; nor in future revisions of the Tariff is the same rule of revision to be applied to opium as to otuer goods.

2.-Copper Cash-The export of cash to any foreign port is prohibited; but it shall be lawful for British subjects to ship it at one of the open ports of China to another, on compliance with the following regulation :-The shipper shall give notice of the amount of cash he desires to ship, and the port of its destination, and shall bind himself, either by a bond with two sufficient sureties, or by depositing such other

• For duty on Opium see Convention signed in 1885.

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　　　　　　security as may be deemed by the Customs satisfactory, to return, within six months from the date of clearance, to the collector at the port of shipment, the certificate, issued by him, with an acknowledgment thereon of the receipt of the cash at the port of destination by the collector at tuat port, who shall thereto affix bis seal; or, failing the production of the certificate, to forfeit a sum equal in value to the cash shipped. Cash will pay no duty inwards or outwards; but a freight or part freight of cash, though no other cargo be on board, will render the vessel carrying it liable to par tonnage dues.

3.-The export of rice and all other grain whatsoever, native or foreign, no natter where grown or whence imported, to any foreign port, is prohibited; but these commodities may be carried by British merchants from one of the open ports of China ..nother, under the same conditions in respect of security as cash, on payment at the port of shipment of the duty specified in the Tariff.

No import duty will be leviable on rice or grain; but a freight or part freight of rice or grain, though no other cargo be on board, will render the vessel importing it lible to tonnage dues.

The export of pulse and beancake from Tung-chau and Newchwang, under the British flag, is prohibited. From any other of the ports they may be shipped, on payment of the tariff duty, to other ports of China, or to foreign countries.

5.-Saltpetre, sulphur, brimstone, and spelter, being munitions of war, shall not be imported by British subjects, save at the requisition of the Chinese Government, or for sale to Chinese duly authorized to purchase them. No permit to land them will be issued until the Customs have proof that the necessary authority bas been given to the purchaser. It shall not be lawful for British subjects to carry these commodities up the Yang-tsze-kiang, or into any port other than those open on the seaboard, nor accompany them into the interior on behalf of Chinese. They must be sold at the ports only, and, except at the ports, they will be regarded as Chinese property.

　　　　　　　Infractions of the conditions, as above set forth, under which trade in opium, (3-h, grain, pulse, saltpetre, brimstone, sulphur, and spelter may be henceforward carried on, will be punishable by confiscation of all goods concerned.

RULE VI.-Liability of Vessels entering Ports.--To the prevention of misunder- standing, it is agreed that the term of twenty-four hours, within which British vessels must be reported to the Consul under Article XXXVII. of the Treaty of Tientsin shall be understood to commence from the time a British vessel comes within the limits the port; as also the term of forty-eight hours allowed ber by Article XXX. of the saine Treaty to remain in port without payment of tonnage dues.

The limits of the ports shall be defined by the Customs, with all consideration for the convenience of trade compatible with due protection ofthe revenue; also the mits of the anchorages within which lading and discharging is permitted by the Customs; and the same shall be notified to the Consul for public information.

KULE VII-Transit Dues.-It is agreed that Article XXVIII. of the Treaty of Tentsin shall be interpreted to declare the amounts of transit-dues legally leviable on merchandise imported or exported by British subjects, to be one-half of the tariff cuties, except in the case of the duty-free goods liable to a transit duty of 24 per cent. si colorem, as provided in Article 11. of these Rules. Merchandise shall be cleared of its transit dues under the following conditions :---

　　　　　　　In the case of Imports.-Notice being given at the port of entry, from which the kuports are to be forwarded inland, of the nature and quantity of the goods, the ship trom which they have been landed, and the place inland to which they are bound,

• NOTIFICATION

BRITISH CONSULATE, SHANGHAI, 21th March, 1862

　　　　　　　　　Amzale IV, of Bule No 5 appended to the Tariff of 1858 is rescinded. Pose am! bean-cake may be benceforth exported from Tungehow and Newchwang, and from all other ports in China Treaty, on the same terms and conditions as are applied to other Native produce by the Regulations bearing date December last; that is to say, they may be shipped on payment of Tariff duty at the port of shipment, and dis- marged at any Chinese purt on payment of half-duty, with power to claim drawback of the haif-duty if re-exported.

Be order, WALTER H. Madhurst, Consul,

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with all other necessary particulars, the Collector of Customs will, on due inspection made, and on receipt of the transit-duty due issue a transit-duty certificate. This must be produced at every barrier station, and viséd. No further duty will be leviable upon imports so certificated, no matter how distant the place of their destination.

　　　　　In the case of Exports.-Produce purchased by a British subject in the interior will be inspected, and taken account of, at the first barrier it passes on its way to the port of shipment. A memorandum showing the amount of the produce and the port at which it is to be shipped will be deposited there by the person in charge of the produce; he will then receive a certificate, which must be exhibited and viséd at every barrier on his way to the port of shipment. On the arrival of the produce at the barrier nearest the port notice must be given to the Customs at the port, and the transit-dues due thereon being paid, it will be passed. On exportation the produce will pay the tariff-duty.*

　　　　　Any attempt to pass goods inwards or outwards otherwise than in compliance with rule here laid down will render them liable to confiscation.

Unauthorised sale, in transitu, of goods that have been entered as above for a part will render them liable to confiscation. Any attempt to pass goods in excEBS of the quantity specified in the certificate will render all the goods of the same denomination, named in the certificate, liable to confiscation. Permission to export produce, which cannot be proved to have paid its transit-dues, will be refused by the Customs until the transit-dues shall have been paid. The above being the arrange- ment agreed to regarding the transit-dues, which will thus be levied once and for all, the notification Lequired under Article XXVIII. of the Treaty of Tientsin, for the information of British and Chinese subjects, is hereby dispensed with.

RULE VIII.-Peking not open to Trade.-It is agreed that Article IX. of the Treaty of Tientsin shall not be interpreted as authorising British subjects to enter the capital city of Peking for purposes of trade.

　　　　　RULE IX.-Abolition of the Meltage Fee.-It is agreed that the percentage of one tael two mace, hitherto charged in excess of duty payment to defray the expenses of melting by the Chinese Government, shall be no longer levied on British subjects.

　　　　　RULE X.-Collection of Duties under one System at all Ports.--It being by Treaty at the option of the Chinese Government to adopt what means app - to it best suited to protect its revenue accruing on British trade, it is agreed that ở.. uniform system shall be enforced at every port.

The high officer appointed by the Chinese Government to superintend foreign trade will, accordingly, from time to time, either himself visit, or will send a deputy to visit the different ports. The said high officer will be at liberty, of his own choice, and independently of the suggestion or nomination of any British authority, to select any British subject he may see fit to aid him in the administration of the Customs revenue, in the prevention of sinuggling, in the definition of port boundaries, or in discharging the duties of harbour master; also in the distribution of lights, buoys, beacons, and the like, the maintenance of which shall be provided for out of the tonnage-dues.

　　　　　The Chinese Government will adopt what measures it shall find requisite to prevent smuggling upon the Yang-tsze-kiang, when that river shall be opened to trade.

Done at Shanghai, in the province of Kiang-su, this eighth day of November, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, being the third day of the tenth moon of the eighth year of the reign of Hien Fung.

(L.8.)

ELGIN AND KINCARDINE.

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SIGNATURES OF FIVE CHINESE PLENIPOTENTIARIES.

* See Chefoo Convention, Section IIL, Article IV.

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AND FINE BY THE CUSTOM HOUSE AUTHORITIES *

Agreed to and Promulgated by the British Minister at Peking, 31st May, 1868

RULE I.-It shall be the Rule for all business connected with the Custom House Department to be in the first instance transacted between the Commissioner of Customs and the Consul, personally or by letter; and procedure in deciding cases shall be taken in accordance with the following Regulations.

RULE II-Whenever a ship or goods belonging to a foreign merchant is seized in a port in China by the Custom House officers, the seizure shall be reported without delay to the Kien-tuh, or Chinese Superintendent of Customs. If he considers the seizure justifiable, he will depute the Shwui-wu-sze, or foreign Commissioner of Customs, to give notice to the party to whom the ship or goods are declared to belong that they have been seized because such or such an irregularity has been committed, and that they will be confiscated, unless, before noon on a certain day being the sixth day from the delivery of the notice, the Custom House authorities receive from the Consul an official application to have the case fully investigated.

The merchant to whom the ship or goods belong, if prepared to maintain that the alleged irregularity has not been committed, is free to appeal, within the limited time, directly to the Commissioner, who is to inform the Superintendent. If satisfied with his explanation, the Superintendent will direct the release of the ship or goods; otherwise, if the merchant elect not to appeal to the Customs, or if after receiving his explanation the Superintendent still declines to release the ship or goods, he may appeal to his Consul, who will inform the Superintendent of the particulars of this appeal, and request him to name a day for them both to investigate and try the case publicly.

RULE III.-The Superintendent, on receipt of the Consul's communication, will mame a day for meeting at the Custom House; and the Consul will direct the merchant to appear with his witnesses there on the day named and will himself on that day proceed to the Custom House. The Superintendent will invite the Consul to take his seat with him on the bench; the Commissioner of Customs will also be seated to assist the Sup, tendent.

Proceedings will be opened by the Superintendent, who will call on the Customs employés who seized the ship or goods to state the circumstances which occasioned the seizure, and will question them as to their evidence. Whatever the merchant may have to advance în contradiction of their evidence he will state to the Consul who will cross-examine them for him. Such will be the proceedings in the interest of truth and equity. The Consul and Superintendent may, if they see fit, appoint deputies to meet at the Custom House in their stead, in which case the order of proceeding will be the same as if they were present in person.

RULE IV.-Notes will be taken of the statements of all parties examined, a copy of which will be signed and sealed by the Consul and Superintendent. The room will then be cleared, and the Superintendent will inform the Consul of the course he proposes to pursue. If he proposes to confiscate the vessel or goods, and the Consul dists, the merchant may appeal, and the Consul having given notice of the appeal to the Superintendent, they will forward certified copies of the above notes to Peking, -the former to his Minister, and the latter to the Foreign Office--for their decision.

　　　　　　　　If the Consul agrees with the Superintendent that the ship or goods ought to be confiscated, the merchant will not have the right of appeal; and in no case will the release of ship or goods entitle him to claim indemnity for their seizure, whether they be released after the investigation at the Custom House, or after the appeal to the high authorities of both nations at Peking.

　　　　　　　　RULE V. The case having been referred to superior authority, the merchant interested shall be at liberty to give a bond, binding himself to pay the full value of

* Substituted for the Rules agreed upon in 1885 between the Chinese Government and Her Britannic

"Majesty's Plenipotentiary.

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the ship or goods attached should the ultimate decision be against him; which bond being sealed with the Consular seal and deposited at the Custom House, the Super- intendent will restore to the merchant the ship or goods attached; and when the superior authorities shall have decided whether so much money is to be paid, or the whole of the property seized be confiscated, the merchant will be called on to pay accordingly. If he decline to give the necessary security, the ship or merchandise attached will be detained. But whether the decision of the superior authorities be favourable or not, the appellant will not be allowed to claim indemnity.

RULE VI. When the act of which a merchant at any port is accused is not one involving the confiscation of ship or cargo, but is one which, by Treaty or Regulation, is punished by fine, the Commissioner will report the case to the Superintendent, and at the same time cause a plaint to be entered in the Consular Court. The Consul will fix the day of the trial, and inform the Commissioner that he may then appear with the evidence and the witnesses in the case. And the Commissioner, either personally or by deputy, shall take his seat on the bench, and conduct the case on behalf of the prosecution.

　　　　　When the Treaty or Regulations affix a specific fine for the offence, the Consul shall on conviction give judgment for that amount, the power of mitigating the sentence resting with the Superintendent and Commissioner. If the defendant is acquitted, and the Commissioner does not demur to the decision, the ship or goods, if any be under seizure, shall at once be released, and the circumstances of the case be communicated to the Superintendent. The merchant shall not be put to any expense by delay, but he shall have no claim for compensation on account of hindrance in his business, for loss of interest, or for demurrage. If a difference of opinion exist between the Commissioner and Consul, notice to that effect shall be given to the Superintendent, and copies of the whole proceedings forwarded to Peking for the consideration of their respective high authorities. Pending their decision, the owner of the property must file a bond in the Consular Court to the full value of the pro- posed fine, which will be sent to the Custom House authorities by the Consul, and the goods or ship will be released.

　　　　　　RULE VII-If the Custom House authorities and Consul cannot agree as to whether certain duties are leviable or not, action must be taken as Rule V. directs, and the merchant must sign a bond for the value of the duties in question. The Consul will affix his seal to this document, and send it to the Custom House autho- rities, when the Superintendent will release the goods without receiving the duty; and these two functionaries will respectively send statements of the case to Peking,- one to his Minister, the other to the Foreign Office.

If it shall be decided there that no duty shall be levied, the Custom House authorities will return the merchant's bond to the Consul to be cancelled; but if it be decided that a certain amount of duty is leviable, the Consul shall require the merchant to pay it in at the Custom House.

RULE VIII.-If the Consul and the Custom House authorities cannot agree as to whether confiscation of a ship, or a cargo, or both of them together, being the property of a foreign merchant, shall take place, the case must be referred to Peking for the decision of the Foreign Office and the Minister of his nation. Pending their decision, the merchant must, in accordance with Rule V., sign a bond for the amount, to which the Consul will affix his seal, and send it for deposit at the Custom House. As difference of opinion as to the value [of ship or goods may arise, the valuation of the merchant will be decisive; and the Custom House authorities may, if they see fit, take over either at the price aforesaid,

If after such purchase it be decided that the property seized ought to be confiscated, the merchant must redeem his bond by paying in at the Custom House the original amount of the purchase-money. If the decision be against confiscation, the bond will be returned to the Consul for transmission to the merchant, and the case then be closed. The sum paid by the Custom House authorities or ship or goods being regarded as their proper price, it will not be in the merchant's power, by a tender of the purchase-money, to recover them.

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WITH ADDITIONAL ARTICLE THERETO FOR REGULATING THE

TRAFFIC IN OPIUM

SIGNED, IN THE ENGLISH AND CHINESE LANGUAGES, AT CHEFOO, 13TH SEPTEMBER, 1876

Ratifications exchanged at London, 6th May, 1886

Agreement negotiated between Sir Thomas Wade, K.C.B., Her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of China, and Li, Minister Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the Emperor of China, Senior Grand Secretary, Governor-General of the Province of Chih-li, of the First Class of the Third Order of Nobility.

The negotiation between the Ministers above named has its origin in a despatch received by Sir Thomas Wade, in the Spring of the present year, from the Earl of Derby, principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, dated 1st January, 1876. This contained instructions regarding the disposal of three questions: first, a satis- factory settlement of the Yunnan affair; secondly, a faithful fulfilment of engagements of last year respecting intercourse between the high officers of the two Governments; thirdly, the adoption of a uniform system in satisfaction of the understanding arrived at in the month of September, 1875 (8th mcon of the 1st year of the reign Kwang Su), on the subject of rectification of conditions of trade. It is to this despatch that Sir Thomas Wade has referred himself in discussions on these questions with the Tsung-li Yamên, further reference to which is here omitted as superfluous. The conditions now agreed to between Sir Thomas Wade and the Grand Secretary are as follow:-

SECTION I-Settlement of the Yünnan Case.

　　　　　　　1.-A Memorial is to be presented to the Throne, whether by the Tsung-li Yamen or by the Grand Secretary Li is immaterial, in the sense of the memorandum prepared by Sir Thomas Wade. Before presentation the Chinese text of the Memorial is to be shown to Sir Thomas Wade.

2.-The Memorial having been presented to the Throne, and the Imperial Decree in reply received, the Tsung-li Yamên will communicate copies of the Memorial and Imperial decree of Sir Thomas Wade, together with copy of a letter from the Tsung-li Yamên to the Provincial Governments, instructing them to issue a proclama- tion that shall embody at length the above Memorial and Decree. Sir Thomas Wade will thereon reply to the effect that for two years to come officers will be sent by the British Minister to different places in the provinces to see that the proclamation is posted. On application from the British Minister or the Consul of any port instructed by him to make application, the high officers of the provinces will depute competent officers to accompany those so sent to the places which they go to observe.

　　　　　　3.-In order to the framing of such regulations as will be needed for the conduct of the frontier trade between Burmah and Yunnan, the Memorial submitting the proposed settlement of the Yunnan affair will contain a request that an Imperial Decree be issued directing the Governor-General and Governor, whenever the British Government shall send officers to Yunnan, to select a competent officer of rank to confer with them and to conclude a satisfactory arrangement.

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　　　　　　4.-The British Government will be free for five years, from the 1st January next, being the 17th day of the 11th moon of the 2nd year of the reign of Kwang Su, to station officers at Ta-li Fu, or at some other suitable place in Yunnan, to observe the conditions of trade; to the end that they may have information upon which to base the regulations of trade when these have to be discussed. For the consideration and adjustment of any matter affecting British officers or subjects, these officers will be free to address themselves to the authorities of the province. The opening of the trade may be proposed by the British Government as it may find best at any time within the term of five years, or upon expiry of the term of £ve years.

　　　　　　Passports having been obtained last year for a Mission from India into Yunnan, it is open to the Viceroy of India to send such Mission at any time he may see fit.

　　　　　　5. The amount of indemnity to be paid on account of the families of the officers and others killed in Yüunan, on account of the expenses which the Yunnan case has occasione 1, and on account of claims of British merchants arising out of the action of officers of the Chinese Government up to the commencement of the present year, Sir Thomas Wade takes upon himself to fix at two hun Ired thousand taels, payable on demand.

6.- When the case is closed an Imperial letter will be written expressing regret for what has occurred in Yünnan. The Mission bearing the Imperial letter will proceed to England immediately. Sir Thomas Wade is to be informed of the constitution of this Mission for the information of this Government. The text of the Imperial letter is also to be communicated to Sir Thomas Wade by the Tsung-li Yamên.

SECTION II.-Oficial Intercourse,

　　　　　　Under this heading are included the conditions of intercourse between high officers in the capital and the provinces, and between Consular officers and Chinese officials at the P rts; also the conduct of judicial proceedings in mixed cases.

1. In the Tsung li Yamên's Memorial of the 28th September, 1875, the Prince of Kung and the Ministers stated that their object in presenting it had not been simply the transaction of business in which Chinese and Foreigners might be concerned; missions abroad and the question of diplomatic intercourse lay equally within their prayer.

To the prevention of further misunderstanding upon the subject of intercourse and correspondence, the present conditions of both having caused complaint in the capital and in the provinces, it is agreed that the Tsung-li Yamén shall address a circular to the Legations, inviting Foreign Representatives to consider with them a code of etiquette, to the end that foreign officials in China, whether at the ports or elsewhere, may be treated with the same regard as is shown them when serving abroad in other countries and as would be shown to Chinese agents so serving abroad. The fact that China is about to establish Missions and Consulates abroad renders an understanding on these points essential.

2.-The British Treaty of 1858, Article XVI., lays down that "Chinese subjects who may

　　　　　　　　　　guilty of any criminal act toward- British subjects shall be arrested and punished by Chinese authorities according to the laws of China.

"British subjee's who may commit any crime in China shall be tried and punished by the Consul, or any other public funcționary authorised thereto, according to the laws of Great Britain.

Justice shall be equitably and impartially administered on both sides."

The words "functionary authorised thereto" are translated in the Chinese text British Government.'

In order to the fulfilment of its Treaty obligation, the British Government has established a Supreme Court at Shanghai, with a special code of rules, which it is now about to revise. The Chinese Government has established at Shanghai a Mixed Court; but the officer presiding over it, either from lack of power or dread of unpopularity, constantly fails to euforce his judginents.

　　　　　　It is now understood that the Tsung-li Yamên will write a circular to the Lega- tions, inviting Foreign Representatives at once to consider with the Tsung-li Yamên

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the measures needed for the more effective administration of justice at the Ports open to Trade.

3.-It is agreed that, whenever a crime is committed affecting the person or property of a British subject, whether in the interior or at the open ports, the British Minister shall be free to send officers to the spot to be present at the investigation.

　　　　　To the prevention of misunderstanding on this point, Sir Thomas Wade will write a Note to the above effect, to which the Tsung-li Yamên will reply, affirming that this is the course of proceeding to be adhered to for the time to come.

　　　　　　It is further understood that so long as the laws of the two countries differ from each other, there can be but one principle to guide judiciai proceedings in mixed cases in China, namely, that the case is tried by the official of the defendant's nationality; the official of the plaintiff's nationality merely attending to watch the proceedings in the interest of justice. If the officer so attending be dissatisfied with the proceedings, it will be in his power to protest against them in detail. The law administered will be the law of the nationality of the officer trying the case. This is the meaning of the word hui t'ung. indicating combined action in judicial proceedings, in Article XVL of the Treaty of Tientsin; and this is the course to be respectively followed by the officers of either nationality.

SECTION III.-Trade.

1.-With reference to the area within which, according to the treaties in force, kkin ought not to be collected on foreign goods at the open ports, Sir Thomas Wade agrees to move his Government to allow the ground rented by foreigners (the so-called Concessions) at the different ports, to be regarded as the area of exemption from kis; and the Government of China will thereupon allow I-ch'ang, in the province of Hu-pi; Wu-hu, in An-hui; Wên-chow, in Che-kiang; and Pei-hai (Pak-hoi), in Kwang-tung to be added to the number of ports open to trade and to become Consular stations. The British Government, will farther, be free to send officers to reside at Ch'ung-k'ing to watch the conditions of British trade in Ssu-ch'u British merchants will not be allowed to reside at Ch'ung-k'ing, or to open esta lish- men s or warehouses there, so long as no steamers have access to the port. When steamers have succeeded in ascending the river so far, further arrangements can be taken into consideration.

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It is further proposed as a measure of compromise that at certain points on the shore of the Great River, namely, Ta-t'ung and Ngan-Ching in the province of An- bui; Ho-Kou. iu Kiang-si; Wu-such, Lu-chi kou, and Sha-shih in Hu-Kwang; these being all places of trade in the interior, at which, as they are not open ports, foreign merchants are not legally authorised to land or ship goods, steamers shall be allowed to touch for the purpose of landing or shipping passengers or goods; but in all instances by means of native boats only, and subject to the regulations in force affecting native trade.

　　　　　　Produce accompanied by a half-duty certificate may be hipped at such points by the steamers, but may not be landed by them for sale. And at all such points, except in the case of imports accompanied by a transit duty certificate or exports similarly certificated, which will be severally passed free of lekin on exhibition of such cer ificates, lekin will be duly collected on all goods whatever by the native authorities. Fore gn merchants will not be authorised to reside or open houses of business or warehouses at the places enumerated as ports of call.

　　　　　　2.-At all ports open to trade, whether by earlier or later agreement, at which no settlement ar a has beer. previously defined, it will be the duty of the British Consul, acting in concert with his colleagues, the Consuls of other Powers, to come to an nuderstanding with the local authorities regarding the definition of the foreign

settlement area.

　　　　　　3.-On Opium, Sir Thomas Wade will move his Government to sanction au Arrangement different from that affecting other imports. British merchants, when opium is brought into ort, will be obliged to have it taken cognisance of by the Customis, and deposited in bond, either in a warehouse or a receiving hulk, until such time as there is a sale for it. The importer will then pay the tariff duty upon it,

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and the purchasers the lekin, in order to the prevention of evasion of the treaty. The amount of lekin to be collected will be decided by the different Provincial Govern- ments according to the circumstances of each.

4.-The Chinese Government agree that Transit Duty Certificates shall be framed under one rule at all ports, no difference being made in the conditions set forth therein; and that, so far as imports are concerned, the nationality of the person possessing and carrying the-e is immaterial. Native produce carried from an inland centre to a port of shipment, if bond fide intended for shipment to a foreign port, may be, by treaty, certified by the British subject interested, and exempted by payment of the half duty from all charges demanded upon it en route. If produce be not the property of a British subject, or is being carried to a port not for exportation, it is not entitled to the exemption that would be secured it by the exhibition of a transit duty certificate. The British Minister is prepared to agree with the Tsung-li Yamên upon rules that will secure the Chinese Government against abuse of the privilege as affecting produce.

The words nei-ti, inland, in the clause of Article VII. of the Rules appended to the Tariff, regarding carriage of imports inland, and of native produce purchased inland, apply as much to places on the sea coasts and river shores, as to places in the interior not open to foreign trade; the Chinese Government having the right to make arrangements for the prevention of abuses thereat.

5.-Article XLV. of the Treaty of 1858 prescribed no limit to the term within which a drawback may be claimed upon duty paid imports. The British Minister agrees to a term of three years, after expiry of which no drawback shall be claimed.

　　　　　　6. -The foregoing stipulation, that certain ports are to be opened to foreign trade, and that landing and shipping of goods at six places on the Great River is to be sanctioned, shall be given effect to within six months after receipt of the Imperial Decree approving the memorial of the Grand Secretary Li. The date for giving effect to the stipulations affecting exemption of imports from lekin taxation within the foreign settlements and the collection of lekin upon opium by the Customs Inspec- torate at the same time as the Tariff ty upon it, will be fixed as soon as the British Government has arrived at an understanding on the subject with other foreign Governments.

7.-The Governor of Hongkong having long complained of the interference of the Canton Customs Revenue Cruisers with the junk trade of that Colony, the Chinese Government agrees to the appointment of a Commission, to consist of a British Consul, an officer of the Hongkong Government, and a Chinese official of equal rank, in order to the establishment of some system that shall enable the Chinese Government to protect its revenue without prejudice to the interests of the Colony.

Separate Article.

　　　　　　Her Majesty's Government having it in contemplation to send a Mission of Exploration next year by way of Peking through Kan-su and Koko-Nor, or by way of Ssu-chuen, to Thibet, and thence to India, the Tsung-li Yaniên, having due regard to the circumstances, will, when the time arrives, issue the necessary passports, and will address letters to the high provincial authorities and to the Resident in Thibet. If the Mission should not be sent by these routes, but should be proceeding across the Indian frontier to Thibet, the Tsung-li Yamên, on receipt of a communication to the above effect from the British Minister, will write to the Chinese Resident in Thibet, and the Resident, with due regard to the circumstances, will send officers to take due care of the Mission; and passports for the Mission will be issued by the Tsung-li Yamên, that its passage be not obstructed.

　　　　　　Done at Chefoo, in the province of San-tung, this Thirteenth Day of September, in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-six.

[L.S.]

[L.8.]

THOMAS FRAncis Wade,

LI HUNG-CHANG.

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Additional Articles to the Agreement between Great Britain and China Signed at Chefoo on the 13th September, 1876

SIGNED AT LONDON, 18TH July, 1885

The Governments of Great Britain and of China, considering that the arrange- ments proposed in clauses 1 and 2 of Section III. of the Agreement between Great Britain and China, signed at Chefoo on the 13th September, 1876 (hereinafter referred to as the "Chefoo Agreement "), in relation to the area within which li-kin ought not to be collected on foreign goods at the open ports, and to the definition of the Foreign Settlement area, require further consideration; also that the terms of clause 3 of the same section are not sufficiently explicit to serve as an efficient regula- tion for the traffic in opium, and recognizing the desirability of placing restrictions on the consumption of opium, have agreed to the present Additional Article.

　　　　　1.-As regards the arrangements above referred to and proposed in clauses 1 and 2 of Section III. of the Chefoo Agreement, it is agreed that they shall be reserved for further consideration between the two Governments.

　　　　　2.--In lieu of the arrangement respecting opium proposed in clause 3 of Section III of the Chefoo Agreement, it is agreed that foreign opium, when imported into China, shall be taken cognizance of by the Imperial Maritime Customs, and shall be deposited in bond, either in warehouses or receiving-hulks which have been approved of by the Customs, and that it shall not be removed thence until there shall have been paid to the Customs the Tariff duty of 30 taels per chest of 100 catties, and also a sum not exceeding 80 taels per like chest as li-kin.

　　　　　3.-It is agreed that the aforesaid import and li-kin duties having been paid, the owner shall be allowed to have the opium repacked in bond under the supervision of the Customs, and put into packages of such assorted sizes as he may select from such sizes as shall have been agreed upon by the Customs authorities and British Consul at the port of entry.

　　　　　The Customs shall then, if required, issue gratuitously to the owner a transit cer- tificate for each such package, or one for any number of packages, at option of the owner.

Such certificate shall free the opium to which it applies from the imposition of any further tax or duty whilst in transport in the interior, provided that the package has not been opened, and that the Customs seals, marks, and numbers on the packages have not been effaced or tampered with.

Such certificates shall have validity only in the hands of Chinese subjects, and shall not entitle foreigners to convey or accompany any opium in which they may

be interested into the interior.

　　　　4.It is agreed that the Regulations under which the said certificates are to be issued shall be the same for all the ports, and that the form shall be as follows:-

"Opium Transit Certificate.

This is to cerifty that Tariff and li-kin duties at the rate of taels per chest of 100 catties have been paid on the opium marked and numbered as under; and that, in conformity with the Additional Article signed at London the 18th July, 1885, and appended to the Agreement between Great Britain and China signed at Chefoo the 13th September, 1876, and approved by the Imperial Decree printed on the back thereof, the production of this certificate will exempt the opium to which it refers, wherever it may be found, from the imposition of any further tax or duty whatever, provided that the packages are unbroken, and the Customs seals, marks, and numbers have not been effaced or tampered with.

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"Date

No.

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"Signature of Commissioner of Customs." 5.-The Chinese Government undertakes that when the packages shall have been opened at the place of consumption, the opium shall not be subjected to any tax or

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contribution, direct or indirect, other than or in excess of such tax or contribution as is or may hereafter be levied on native opium.

In the event of such tax or contribution being calculated ad valorem, the same rate, value for value, shall be assessed on foreign and native opium, and in ascertaining for this purpose the value of foreign opium the amount paid on it for li-kin at the port of entry shall be deducted from its market value.

　　　　　　6.-It is agreed that the present Additional Article shall be considered as forming part of the Chefoo Agreement, and that it shall have the same force aud validity as if it were inserted therein word for word.

　　　　　　It shall come into operation six months after its signature, provided the ratifica- tions have then been exchanged, or if they have not, then on the date at which such exchange takes place.

　　　　　　7.-The arrangement respecting opium contained in the present Additional Article shall remain binding for four years, after the expiration of which period either Government may at any time give twelve months' notice of its desire to determine it, and such notice being given, it shall terminate accordingly.

It is, however, agreed that the Government of Great Britain shall have the right to terminate the same at any time should the transit certificate be found not to confer on the opium complete exemption from all taxation whatsoever whilst being carried from the port of entry of the place of consumption in the interior.

　　　　　　In the event of the termination of the present Additional Article the arrange- ment with regard to opium now in force under the regulations attached to the Treaty of Tientsin shall revive.

　　　　　　8.-The High Contracting Parties may, by common consent, adopt any modifica tions of the provisions of the present Additional Article which experience may show to be desirable.

9. It is understood that the Commission provided for in clause 7 of Section III. of the Chefoo Agreement to inquire into the question of prevention of smuggling into China from Hongkong shall be appointed as soon as possible.

10.-The Chefoo Agreement, together with, and as modified by, the present Additional Article, shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at London as soon as possible.

In witness whereof the Undersigned, duly authorized thereto by their respective Governments, have signed the present Additional Article, and have affixed thereto

their seals.

　　　　　　Done at London, in quadruplicate (two in English and two in Chinese), this 18th day of July, 1885, being the seventh day of the sixth moon in the eleventh year of the reign of Kwang-su.

(1.8.) SALISBURY.

(L.S.)

The Marquis Tseny to the Marquis of Salisbury.

TSENG.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Chinese Legation, London, 18th July, 1885. My Lord-In reply to your Lordship's note of this date, I have the honour to state that the Imperial Government accept the following as the expression of the understanding which has been come to between the Governments of Great Britain and China in regard to the Additional Article to the Chefoo Agreement relative to opium, which has been signed this day :--

　　　　　　1. It is understood that it shall be competent for Her Majesty's Government at once to withdraw from this new arrangement, and to revert to the system of taxation for opium at present in operation in China, in case the Chinese Government shall fail to bring the other Treaty Powers to conform to the provisions of the said Additional Article.

　　　　　　　2.-It is further understood that, in the event of the termination of the said Additional Article, the Chefoo Agreement, with the exception of clause 3 of Section III., and with the modifications stipulated in clause 1 of the said Additonal Article, shall nevertheless remain in force.

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Memorandum of the basis of Agreement arrived at after discussion between Mr. James Russell, Puisne Judge of Hongkong; Sir Robert Hart, K.C.M.G., Inspector- General of Customs, and Shao Taotai, Joint Commissioners for China; and Mr. Byron Brenan, Her Majesty's Consul at Tientsin, in pursuance of Article 7 Section III. of the Agreement between Great Britain and China, signed at Chefoo on the 15th September, 1876, and of Section 9 of the Additional Article to the said Agreement, signed at London on the 18th July, 1885.

Mr. Bussell undertakes that the Government of Hongkong shall submit to the Legislative Council an Ordinance* for the regulation of the trade of the Colony in Raw Opium subject to conditions hereinafter set forth and providing :--

-For the prohibition to the import and export of Opium in quantities less than 1 chest. 2-For rendering illegal the possession of Raw Opium, its custody or control, in quan-

tities less than one chest, except by the Opium Farmer.

3.-That all Opium arriving in the Colony be reported to the Harbour Master, and that no Opium shall be transhipped, landed, stored or moved from one store to another, or re- exported without a permit from the Harbour Master, and notice to the Opium Farmer. 4-For the keeping by Importers, Exporters, and Godown Owners, in such form as

　　　　the Governor may require, books shewing the movements of Opium. 5-For taking stock of quantities in the stores, and search for deficiencies by the

Opium Farmer, and for furnishing to the Harbour Master returns of stocks. 6.-For amendment of Harbour Regulations, as to the night clearances of junks.

　　　　　The cor ditions on which it is agreed to submit the Ordinance are :-- 1.-That China arranges with Macao for the adoption of equivalent measures. 2-That the Hongkong Government shall be entitled to repeal the Ordinance if it be found to be injurious to the Revenue or to the legitimate trade of the Colony. 3.That an Office under the Foreign Inspectorate shall be established on Chinese Territory at a convenient spot on the Kowloon side for sale of Chinese Opium Duty Certificates, which shall be freely sold to all comers, and for such quantities of Opium as they may require.

4-That Opium,accompanied by such certificates, at the rate of not more than Tls. 110 per picul, shall be free from all further imposts of every sort, and have all the benefits stipulated for by the Additional Article on behalf of Opium on which duty has been paid at one of the ports of China, and that it may be made up in sealed parcels at the option of the purchaser.

5.-That junks trading between Chinese ports and Hongkong and their cargoes shall not be subject to any dues or duties in excess of those leviable on junks and their cargoes trading between Chinese ports and Macao, and that no dues whatsoever shall be demanded from junks coming to Hongkong from ports in China, or pro- ceeding from Hongkong to ports in China, over and above the dues paid or payablo at the ports of clearance or destination.

6-That the Officer of the Foreign Inspectorate, who will be responsible for the management of the Kowloon Office, shall investigate and settle any complaints made by the junks trading with Hongkong against the Native Customs Revenue Stations or Cruisers in the neighbourhood, and that the Governor of Hongkong, if he deems it advisable, shall be entitled to send a Hongkong Officer to be present at and assist in the investigation and decision.

If, however, they do not agree a reference may be made to the Authorities at

Peking for joint decision.

　　　　Sir Robert Hart undertakes on behalf of himself and Shao Taotai (who was com- pelled by unavoidable circumstances to leave before ti e sittings of the Commission were terminated) that the Chinese Government shall agree to the above conditions. a fairly satisfactory solution of the questions connected with the so-called

The undersigned are of opinion that if these arrangements are fully carried out,

kong Blockade" will have been arrived at.

Signed in triplicate at Hongkong, this 11th day of September, 1886.

• See Ordinance 21 of 1867.

↑ A modification allowing export in smaller quantities than one chest was subsequently agreed.

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ADDITIONAL ARTICLE TO THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND CHINA OF SEPTEMBER 13тн, 1876

Signed at Peking, 31st March, 1890

Ratifications Exchanged at Peking, 18th January, 1891

The Governments of Great Britain and China, being desirous of settling in an amicable spirit the divergence of opinion which has arisen with respect to the first clause of the third section of the Agreement concluded at Chefoo in 1876, which stipulates that "The British Government will be free to send officers to reside at Chungking to watch the conditions of British trade in Szechuan, that British mer- chants will not be allowed to reside at Chungking, or to open establishments or warehouses there, so long as no steamers have access to the port, and that when steamers have succeeded in ascending the river so far, further arrangements can be taken into consideration," have agreed upon the following Additional Article :-

L-Chungking shall forthwith be declared open to trade on the same footing as any other Treaty port. British subjects shall be at liberty either to charter Chinese vessels or to provide vessels of the Chinese type for the traffic between Ichang and Chungking.

　　　　　　II. Merchandize conveyed between Ichang and Chungking by the above class of vessels shall be placed on the same footing as merchandize carried by steamer between Shanghai and Ichang, and shall be dealt with in accordance with Treaty, Tariff Rules, and the Yangtsze Regulations.

　　　　　　III.-All regulations as to the papers and flags to be carried by vessels of the above description, as to the repackage of goods for the voyage beyond Ichang, and as to the general procedure to be observed by those engaged in the traffic between Ichang and Chungking with a view to insuring convenience and security, shall be drawn up by the Superintendent of Customs at Ichang, the Taotai of the Ch'uan Tung Circuit, who is now stationed at Chungking, and the Commissioners of Customs in consultation with the British Consul, and shall be liable to any modifications that may

hereafter prove to be desirable and may be agreed upon by common consent. IV.-Chartered junks shall pay port dues at Ichang and Chungking in accor- dance with the Yangtsze Regulations; vessels of Chinese type, if and when entitled to carry the British flag, shall pay tonnage dues in accordance with Treaty Regulations. It is obligatory on both chartered junks and also vessels of Chinese type, even when the latter may be entitled to carry the British flag, to take out at the Maritime Custom-house special papers and a special flag when intended to be employed by British subjects in the transport of goods between Ichang and Chungking, and without such papers and flag no vessels of either class shall be allowed the privileges and immunities granted under this Additional Article. Provided with special papers and flag, vessels of both classes shall be allowed to ply between the two ports, and they and their cargoes shall be dealt with in accordance with Treaty Rules and the Yangtsze Regulations All other

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ressels shall be dealt with by the Native Customs. The special papers and flag issued by the Maritime Customs must alone be used by the particular vessel for which they were originally issued, and are not transferable from one vessel to another. The use of the British flag by vessels the property of Chinese is strictly prohibited. Infringement of these Regulations will, in the first instance, render the offender liable to the penalties in force at the ports hitherto opened under Treaty, and should the offence be subsequently repeated, the vessel's special papers and flag will be withdrawn, and the vessel herself refused permission thenceforward to trade between Ichang and Chungking.

　　　　　　Art. V.-When once Chinese steamers carrying cargo run to Chungking, British steamers shall in like manner have access to the said port.

Art. VI.-It is agreed that the present Additional Article shall be considered as forming part of the Chefoo Agreement, and as having the same force and validity as if it were inserted therein word for word. It shall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged at Peking, and it shall come into operation six months after its signature, provided the ratifications have then been exchanged, or if they have not, then on the date at which such exchange takes place.

Done at Peking in triplicate (three in English and three in Chinese), this thirty-first day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety, being the eleventh day of the Second Intercalary Moon of the sixteenth year of Koang Hsü.

(L.8.) (L.S.)

JOHN WALSHAM.

SIGNATURE OF CHINESE

PLENIPOTENTIARY.

THE THIBET-SIKKIM CONVENTION

SIGNED AT CALCUTTA, 17TH MARCH, 1890

Ratified at London, 17th August, 1890

Art. I.-The boundary of Sikkim and Thibet shall be the crest of the mountain range separating the waters flowing into the Sikkim Teesta and its affluents from the waters flowing into the Thibetan Machu and northwards into other rivers of Thibet. The line commences at Mouut Gipmochi on the Bhutan frontier, and follows the above-mentioned water-parting to the point where it meets Nepaul

territory.

Art. II.-It is admitted that the British Government, whose protectorate over the Sikkim State is hereby recognised, has direct and exclusive control over the internal administration and foreign relations of that State, and except through and with the permission of the British Government neither the ruler of the State or any of its officers shall have officials relations of any kind, formal or informal, with any other country.

Art. III.-The Government of Great Britain and Ireland and the Government f China engage reciprocally to respect the boundary as defined in Article I. and to prevent acts of aggression from their respective sides of the frontier.

Sikkim-Thibet frontier will hereafter be discussed with a view to a mutually Art. IV. The question of providing increased facilities for trade across the satisfactory arrangement by the high contracting powers.

reserved for further examination and future adjustment.

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Art. VI.-The high contracting powers reserve for discussion and arrangement, the method in which official communications between the British authorities in India and the authorities in Thibet shall be conducted.

　　　　　　　　Art. VII.-Two Joint Commissioners shall within six months from the ratifica- tion of this Convention be appointed, one by the British Government in India, the other by the Chinese Resident in Thibet. The said Commissioners shall meet and discuss the questions which by the last three preceding articles have been reserved.

　　　　　　Art. VIII.-The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in London, as soon as possible after the date of the signature thereof.

Dated Calcutta, 17th March, 1890.

THE BURMAH CONVENTION

SIGNED AT PEKING, 4TH February, 1897

　　　　　　　In consideration of the Government of Great Britain consenting to waive its objections to the alienation by China, by the Convention with France of June 20th, 1895, of territory forming a portion of Kiang Hung, in derogation of the provisions of the Convention between Great Britain and China of March 1st, 1894, it has been agreed between the Governments of Great Britain and China that the following additions and alterations shall be made in the last named Convention, hereinafter referred to as the Original Convention.

(Articles I. to XI. refer to the Burmah Frontier.)

　　　　　　　Art. XII-Add as follows:-The Chinese Government agree hereafter to consider whether the conditions of trade justify the construction of railways in Yunnan, and in the event of their construction, agrees to connect them with the Burmese lines.

　　　　　　　Art. XIII-Whereas by the Original Convention it was agreed that China might appoint a Consul in Burma to reside at Rangoon, and that Great Britain might appoint a Consul to reside at Manwyne, and that the Consul of the two Governments should each within the territories of the other enjoy the same privileges and immunities as the Consuls of the most favoured nation, and further that in proportion as the commerce, between Burma and China increased, additional Consuls might be appointed by mutual consent to reside at such places in Burma and Yunnan as the requirements of trade might seem to demand.

　　　　　　　It has now been agreed that the Government of Great Britain may station a Consul at Momein or Shunning Fu as the Government of Great Britain may prefer, instead of at Manwyne as stipulated in the Original Convention, and also to station a Consul at Szumao.

　　　　　　　British subjects aud persons under British protection may establish themselves aud trade at these places under the same conditions as at the Treaty Ports in China.

The Consuls appointed as above shall be on the same footing as regards correspondence and intercourse with Chinese officials as the British Consuls at the Treaty Ports.

Art. XIV. Instead of "Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Manwyne" in the Original Convention read "Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Shuuning or Momein,'" in accordance with the change made in article XIII.

Art. XV. No addition to Original Convention. Art. XVI. -No addition to Original Convention. Art. XVII.-No addition to Original Convention. Art. XVIII.-No addition to Original Convention.

　　　　　　　Art. XIX.-Add as follows:-Failing agreement as to the terms of revision, the present arrangement shall remain in force.

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SPECIAL ARTICLE.

　　　　　　Whereas on the twentieth day of January one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six the Tsung-li Yamên addressed an official despatch to Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking, informing him that on the thirtieth day of December one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five they had submitted a Memorial respecting the opening of ports on the West River to foreign trade, and had received an Imperial Decree in approval of which they officially communicated a copy.

It has now been agreed that the following places, namely, Wuchow Fu in Kwangsi, and Samshui city and Kongku Market in Kwangtung, shall be opened as Treaty Ports and Consular Stations with freedom of navigation for steamers between Samshui aud Wuchow and Hongkong and Canton by a route from each of these latter places to be selected and notified in advance by the Maritime Customs, and that the following four places shall be established as ports of call for goods and passengers under the same regulations as the ports of call on the Yangtze River, namely, Kongmoon, Komchuk, Shiuhing and Takhing.

It is agreed that the present Agreement together with the Special Article shall come into force within four months of the date of signature, and that the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged at Peking as soon as possible.

In witness whereof the undersigned duly authorised thereto by their respective Governments have signed the present agreement.

　　　　　Done at Peking in triplicate (three copies in English and three in Chinese) the fourth day of February in the Year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

(Sd.) CLAUDE M. MACDONALD.

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(Hieroglyphic) LI HUNG-CHANG.

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TREATY OF PEACE, FRIENDSHIP, COMMERCE, AND NAVIGATION

BETWEEN FRANCE AND CHINA

SIGNED, IN THE FRENCH AND CHINESE Languages, at TIENTSIN, 27TH JUNE, 1858

Ratifications Exchanged at Peking, 25th October, 1860

His Majesty the Emperor of the French and His Majesty the Emperor of China, being desirous to put an end to the existing misunderstanding between the two Empires, and wishing to re-establish and improve the relations of friendship, com- merce, and navigation between the two powers, have resolved to conclude a new treaty based on the common interest of the two countries, and for that purpose have named as their plenipotentiaries, that is to say:

　　　　　　His Majesty the Emperor of the French, Baron Gros, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, Grand Cross of the Order of the Saviour of Greece, Commander of the Order of the Conception of Portugal, &c., &c., &c.

　　　　　　And His Majesty the Emperor of China, Kweiliang, Imperial High Com mis- sioner of the Ta-Tsing Dynasty, Grand Minister of the East Palace, Director-General of the Council of Justice, &c., &c., &c.; and Hwashana, Imperial High Commissi oner of the Ta-Tsing Dynasty, President of the Board of Finance, General of the Bordered Blue Banner of the Chinese Banner Force, &c., &c., &c.;

　　　　　　Who, having exchanged their full powers, which they have found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles :----

　　　　　　Art. I. There shall be perpetual peace and friendship between His Majesty the Emperor of the French and His Majesty the Emperor of China, and between the subjects of the two Empires, who shall enjoy equally in the respective states of the high contracting parties full and entire protection for their persons and property,

Art. II.-In order to maintain the peace so happily re-established between the two empires it has been agreed between the high contracting parties that, following in this respect the practice amongst Western nations, the duly accredited diplomatic agents of His Majesty the Emperor of the French of His Majesty the Emperor of China shall have the right of resorting to the capital of the empire when important affairs call them there. It is agreed between the high contracting parties that if any one of the powers having a treaty with China obtains for its diplomatic agents the right of permanently residing at Peking, France shall immediately enjoy the same right.

The diplomatic agents shall reciprocally enjoy, in the place of their residence, the privileges and immunities accorded to them by international law, that is to say, that their persons, their families, their houses, and their correspondence, shall be inviolable, that they may take into their service such employés, couriers, interpreters, servants, &c., &c., as shall be necessary to them.

The expense of every kind occasioned by the diplomatic mission of France in China shall be defrayed by the French Government. The diplomatic agents whom

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it shall please the Emperor of China to accredit to His Majesty the Emperor of the French, shall be received in France with all the honours and prerogatives which the diplomatic agents of other nations accredited to the court of His Majesty the Emperor of the French enjoy.

Art. III-The official communications of the French diplomatic and consular agents with the Chinese authorities shall be written in French, but shall be accom- panied, to facilitate the service, by a Chinese translation, as exact as possible, until such time as the Imperial Government at Peking, having interpreters sp aking and writing French correctly, diplomatic correspondence shall be conducted in this language by the French agents and in Chinese by the officers of the empire. It is agreed that until then, and in case of difference in the interpretation, in reference to the French text and Chinese text of the clauses heretofore agreed upon in the conventions made by common accord, it shall always be the original text and not the translation which shall be held correct. This provision applies to the present treaty, and in the communications between the authorities of the two untries it shall always be the original text, not the translation, which shall be held correct.

Art. IV.-Henceforth the official correspondence between the authorities and the officers of the two countries shall be regulated according to their respective ranks and conditions and upon the basis of the most absolute reciprocity. This correspondence shall take place between the high French officers and high Chinese officers, in the capital or elsewhere, by dispatch or communication; between the French sub- ordinate officers and the high authorities in the provinces, on the part of the former by statement, and on the part of the latter by declaration.

Between the officers of lowe. rank of the two nations, as above provided, on the footing of a perfect equality.

　　　　　Merchants and generally all persons not having an official character shall on both sides use the form of representation in all documents addressed to or intended for the notice of the respective authorities.

Whenever a French subject shall have recourse to the Chinese authority, his representation shall first be submitted to the Consul, who, if it appears to him reasonable and properly addressed, shall forward it; if it be otherwise, the Consul shall cause the tenour to be modified or refuse to transmit it. The Chinese, on their part, when they have to address & Consulate, shall follow a similar course towards the Chinese authority, who shall act in the same manner.

　　　　　Art. V.-His Majesty the Emperor of the French may appoint Consuls or Con- sular Agents in the coast and river ports of the Chinese empire named in Article VI. of the present treaty to conduct the business between the Chinese authorities and French merchants and subjects and to see to the strict observance of the stipulated rules. These officers shall be treated with the consideration and regard which are dae to them. Their relations with the authorities of the place of their residence shall be established on the footing of the most perfect equality. If they shall have to complain of the proceedings of the said authorities, they may address the superior authority of the province direct, and shall immediately advise the Minister Plenipo- tentiary of the Emperor thereof.

In case of the absence of the French Consul, captains and merchants shall be at liberty to have recourse to the intervention of the Consul of a friendly power, or, if this be impossible, they shall have recourse to the chief of the Customs, who shall abrise as to the means of assuring to the said captains and merchants the benefits of

the present treaty.

Art. VI.-Experience having demonstrated that the opening of new ports to foreign commence is one of the necessities of the age, it has been agreed that the ports of Kiung-chow and Chao-chow in the province of Kwangtung, Taiwan and Tamsui in the island of Formosa (province of Fohkien), Tang-chow in the pro- visee of Shantung, and Nanking in the province of Kiangsu, shall enjoy the same privileges as Canton, Shanghai, Ningpo, Amoy, and Foochow.

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Nanking, the French agents in China shall not deliver passports to their nationals for this city until the rebels have been expelled by the Imperial troops.

　　　　　　Art. VII.-French subjects and their families may establish themselves and trade or pursue their avocations in all security, and without hindrance of any kind, in the ports and cities enumerated in the preceding article.

They may travel freely between them if they are provided with passports, but it is expressly forbidden to them to trade elsewhere on the coast in search of clandestine markets, under pain of confiscation of both the ships and goods used in such operations, and this confiscation shall be for the benefit of the Chinese Govern- ment, who, however, before the seizure and confiscation can be legally pronounced, must advise the French Consul at the nearest port.

Art. VIII-French subjects who wish to go to interior towns, or ports not open to foreign vessels, may do so in all security, on the express condition that they are provided with passports written in French and Chinese, legally delivered by the diplomatic agents or consuls of France in China and vised by the Chinese authorities.

In case of the loss of his passport, the French subject who cannot present it wi en it is legally required of him, shall, if the Chinese authorities of the place refuse him permission to remain a sufficient time to obtain another passport from the Consul, be conducted to the nearest consulate and shall not be maltreated or insulted in any way.

As is stipulated in the former treaties, French subjects resident or sojourning in the ports open to foreign trade may travel without passports in their immediate neighbourhood and there pursue their occupations as freely as the natives, but they must not pass certain limits which shall he agreed upon between the Consul and the local authority. The French agents in China shall deliver passports to their nationals only for the places where the rebels are not established at the time the passport shall be demanded.

These passports shall be delivered by the French authorities only to persons who offer every desirable guarantee.

Art. IX.-All changes made by common consent with one of the signatory powers of the treaties with China on the subject of amelioration of the tariff now in ¡orce, or which may hereafter be in force, as also all rights of customs, tonnage, importation, transit, and exportation, shall be immediately applicable to French trade and mer- chants by the mere fact of their being placed in execution.

Art. X.-Any French subject who, conformably to the stipulations of Article VI. of the present treaty, shall arrive at one of the ports open to foreign trade, may. whatever may be the length of his sojourn, rent houses and warehouses for the disposal of his merchandise, or lease land and himself build houses and warehouses. Frenca subjects may, in the same manner, establish churches, hospitals, religious houses, schools, and cemeteries. To this end the local authority, after having agreed with the Consul, shall designate the quarters most suitable for the residence of the French and the sites on which the above mentioned structures may have place.

The terms of rents and leases shall be freely discussed between the interested parties and regula'ed, as far as possible, according to the average local rates.

The Chinese authorities shall prevent their nationals from exacting or requiring exorbitant prices, and the Consul on his side shall see that French subjects use no violence or constraint to force the consent of the proprietors. It is further under-

stood that the number of houses and the extent of the ground to be assigned to French subjects in the ports open to foreign trade shall not be limited, and that they shall be determined according to the needs and convenience of the parties. If Chinese subjects injure or destroy French churches or cemeteries, the guilty parties shall be punished with all the rigour of the laws of the country.

Art. XI.-French subjects in the ports open to foreign trade may freely engage, on the terms agreed upon between the parties, or by the sole intervention of the Consul, compradores, interpreters, clerks, workmen, watermen, and servants. They shall also have the right of engaging teachers in order to learn to speak and write

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　　　　the Chinese language and any other language or dialect used in the empire, as also to secure their aid in scienific or literary works. Equally they may teach to Chinese subjects their own or foreign languages and sell without obstacle French books or themselves purchase Chinese books of all descriptions.

Art. XII.-Property of any kind appertaining to French subjects in the Chinese empire shall be considered by the Chinese inviolable and shall always be respected by them. The Chinese authorities shall not, under any circumstances whatever, place French vessels under embargo nor put them under requisition for any service, be it public or private.

　　　　　　Art. XIII.-The Christian religion having for its essential object the leading of men to virtue, the members of all Christian communities shall enjoy entire security for their persons and property and the free exercise of their religion, and efficient protection shall be given the missionaries who travel peaceably in the interior furnished with passports as provided for in Article VIII.

　　　　　　No hindrance shall be offered by the authorities of the Chinese Empire to the recognised right of every individual in China to embrace, if he so pleases, Chris- tianity and to follow its practices without being liable to any punishment therefor.

All that has previously been written, proclaimed, or published in China by order of the Government against the Christian religion is completely abrogated and remains null and void in all provinces of the empire.

Art. XIV.-No privileged commercial society shall henceforward be established in China, and the same shall apply to any organised coalition having for its end the exercise of a monopoly of trade. In case of the contravention of the present article the Chinese Authorities, on the representation of the Consul or Consular Agent, shall advise as to the means of dissolving such associations, of which they are also bound to prevent the existence by the preceding prohibitions, so as to remove all that may stand in the way of free competition.

Art. XV. When a French vessel arrives in the waters of one of the ports open to foreign trade she shall be at liberty to engage any pilot to take her immediately into the port, and, in the same manner, when, having discharged all legal charges she shall be ready to put to sea, she shall not be refused pilots to enable her to leave the port without hindrance or delay.

Any individual who wishes to exercise the profession of pilot for French vessels may, on the presentation of three certificates from captains of ships, be commissioned by the French Consul in the same manner as shall be in use with other nations.

The remuneration payable to pilots shall be equitably regulated for each parti- cular port by the Consul or Consular Agent, who shall fix it having regard to the distance and circumstances of the navigation.

　　　　　　Art. XVI.-After the pilot has brought a French trading ship into the port, the Superintendent of Customs shall depute one or two officers to guard the ship and prevent fraud. These officers may, according to their convenience, remain in their own boat or stay on board the ship.

Their pay, food, and expenses shall be a charge on the Chinese Custows, and they shall not demand any fee or remuneration whatever from the captain or consignee. Every contravention of this provision shall entail a punishment proportionate to the amount exacted, which also shall be returned in full.

Art. XVII-Within the twenty-four hours following the arrival of a French merchant ve sel in one of the ports open to foreign trade, the captain, if he be not unavoidably prevented, and in his default the supercargo or consignee, shall report at the French Consulate and place in the hands of the Consul the ship's papers, the bills of lading, and the manifest. Within the twenty-four hours next following the Consul shall send to the Superintendent of Customs a detailed note indicating the name of the vessel, the articles, the tonnage, and the nature of the cargo; if, in consequence of the negligence of the captain this cannot be accomplished within the forty-eight hours following the arrival of the vessel, the captain shall be liable to a penalty of 50 dollars for each day's delay, to the profit of the Chinese Government, but the said penalty shall in no case exceed the sum of 200 dollars.

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　　　　　　Immediately after the reception of the consular note the Superintendent of Customs shall give a permit to open hatches. If the captain, before having received the said permit, shall have opened hatches and commenced to discharge, he may be fined 500 dollars, and the goods discharged may be seized, the whole to the profit of the Chinese Government.

Art. XVIII.-French captains and merchants may hire whatever boats and lighters they please for the transport of goods and passengers, and the sum to be paid for such boats shall be settled between the parties themselves, without the intervention of the Chinese authority, and consequently without its guarantee in case of accident, fraud, or disappearance of the said boats. The number of these boats shall not be limited, nor shall a monopoly in respect either of the boats or of the cariage of merchandise by porters be granted to any one.

Art. XIX. Whenever a French merchant shall have merchandise to load or discharge he shall first remit a detailed note of it to the Consul or Consular Agent, who will immediately charge a recognised interpreter to the Consulate to communicate it to the Superintendent of Customs. The latter shall at once deliver a permit for shipping or landing the goods. He will then proceed to the verification of the goods in such manuer that there shall be no chance of loss to any party.

　　　　　　　The French merchant must cause himself to be represented (if he does not prefer to attend himself) at the place of the verification by a person possessing the requisite knowledge to protect his interest at the time when the verification for the liquida- tion of the dues is made; otherwise any after claim will be null and of no effect.

With respect to goods subject to an ad valorem duty, if the merchant cannot agree with the Chinese officers as to their value, then each party shall call in two or three merchants to examine the goods, and the highest price which shall be offered by any of them shall be assumed as the value of the said goods.

Duties shall be charged on the net weight; the ture will therefore be deducted. If the French merchant cannot agree with the Chinese officer on the amount of tare, each party shall choose a certain number of chests and bales from among the goods respecting which there is a dispute; these shall be first weighed gross, then tared and the average tare of these shall be taken as the tare for all the others.

　　　　　　　If during the course of verification any difficulty arises which cannot be settled, the French merchant may claim the intervention of the Consul, who will immediately bring the subject of dispute to the notice of the Superintendent of Customs, and both will endeavour to arrive at an amicable arrangement, but the claim must be made within twenty-four hours; otherwise it will not receive attention. So long as the result of the dispute remains pending, the Superintendent of Customs shall not enter the matter in his books, thus leaving every latitude for the examination and solution of the difficulty.

　　　　　　On goods imported which have sustained damage a reduction of duties propor- tionate to their depreciation shall be made. This shall be equitably determined, and if necessary, in the manner above stipulated for the fixing of ad valorem duties.

　　　　　　　Art. XX.-Any vessel having entered one of the ports of China, and which has not yet used the permit to open hatches mentioned in Article XIX., may within two days of arrival quit that port and proceed to another without having to pay either tonnage dues or customs duties, but will discharge them ultimately in the port where sale of the goods is effected.

　　　　　　　Art. XXI.-It is established by common consent that import duties shall be discharged by the captains or French merchants after the landing and verification of the goods. Export duties shall in the same manner be paid on the shipment of the goods. When all tonnage dues and Customs duties shall have been paid in full by a French vessel the Superintendent of Customs shall give a general quittance, on the exhibition of which the Consul shall return the ship's papers to the captain and permit him to depart on his voyage. The Superintendent of Customs shall name one or several banks, which shall be authorised to receive the sum due by French merchants on account of the Government, and the receipts of these banks for all payments which have been made to them shall be considered as receipts of the

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Chinese Government. These payments may be made in ingots or foreign money, the relative value of which to sycee shall be determined by agreement between the Consul or Consular Agent and the Superintendent of Customs in the different ports, according to time, place, and circumstances.

　　　　　　Art. XXII. After the expiration of the two days named in Art. XX., and before proceeding to discharge her cargo, every vessel shall pay tonnage-dues accord- ing to the following scale :-Vessels of one hundred and fifty tons and upwards at the rate of four mace per ton; vessels of less than one hundred and fifty tons mea- surement at the rate of ɔne mace per ton.

　　　　　　Any vessel clearing from any of the open ports of China for any other of the open ports, or trading between China and such ports in Cochin-China as belong to France, or any port in Japan, shall be entitled, on application of the master, to a special certificate from the Superintendent of Customs, on exhibition of which the said vessel shall be exempted from all further payment of tonnage-dues in any open port of China for a period of four months, to be reckoned from the date of her port-clearance; but after the expiration of four months she shall be required to par tonnage-dues again.

Small French vessels and boats of every class, whether with or without sails, shall be reckoned as coming within the category of vessels of one hundred and fifty tons and under, and shall pay tonnage-dues at the rate of one mace per ton once in every four months.

"Native craft chartered by French merchants shall in like manner pay tonnage- dues once in every four months.

　　　　　　Art. XXIII.-All French goods, after having discharged the Customs duties according to the tariff in one of the ports of China, may be transported into the interior without being subjected to any further charge except the transit dues according to the amended scale now in force, which dues shall not be augmented in the future.

　　　　　　If the Chinese Customs Agents, contrary to the tenour of the present Treaty, make illegal exactions or levy higher dues, they shall be punished according to the laws of the empire.

　　　　　　Art. XXIV.--Any French vessel entered at one of the ports open to foreign trade and wishing to discharge only a part of its goods there, shall pay Customs dues only for the part discharged; it may transport the remainder of its cargo to another port and sell it there. The duty shall then be paid.

French subjects having paid in one port the duties on their goods, wishing to re-export them and send them for sale to another port, shall notify the Consul or Consular Agent. The latter shall inform the Superintendent of Customs, who, after baring verified the identify of the goods and the perfect integrity of the packages, hall send to the claimants a declaration attesting that the duties on the said goods have been paid. Provided with this declaration, the French merchants on their arrival at the other port shall only have to present it through the medium of the Consul or Superintendent of Customs, who will deliver for this part of the cargo, without deduction or charge, a permit for discharge free of duty; but if the autho rities discover fraud or anything contraband amongst the goods re-exported, these shall be, after verification, confiscated to the profit of the Chinese Government.

　　　　　　Art. XXV.-Transhipment of goods shall take place only by special permission and in case of urgency; if it be indispensable to effect this operation, the Consul shall be referred to, who will deliver a certificate, on view of which the transhipment shall be authorised by the Superintendent of Customs. The latter may always delegate an employé of his administration to be present.

Every unauthorised transhipment, except in case of peril by delay, will entail the confiscation, to the profit of the Chinese Government, of the whole of the goods illicitly transhipped.

　　　　　　Art. XXVI.-In each of the ports open to foreign trade the superintendent of Customs shall receive for himself, and shall deposit at the French Consulate, legal

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scales for goods and silver, the weights and measures agreeing exactly with the weights and measures in use at the Canton Custom-house, and bearing a stamp and seal certifying this authority. These scales shall be the base of all liquidations of duties and of all payments to be made to the Chinese Government. They shall be referred to in case of dispute as to the weights and measures of goods, and the decroo shall be according to the results they show.

Art. XXVII.-Import and export duties levied in China on French commerce shall be regulated according to the tariff annexed to the present treaty under the seal and signature of the respective plenipotentiaries. This tariff may be revised every seven years in order to be in harmony with the changes brought about by time in the value of the products of the soil or industry of the two empires.

　　　　　　By the payment of these duties, the amount of which it is expressly provided shall not be increased nor augmented by any kind of charge or surtax whatever, French subjects shall be free to import into China, from French or foreign ports, and equally to export from China, to any destination, all goods which shall not be, at the date of the signing of the present treaty and according to the classification of the annexed tariff, the object of a special prohibition or of a special monopoly. The Chinese Government renouncing therefore the right of augmenting the number of articles reputed contraband or subjects of a monopoly, any modification of the tariff shall be made only after an understanding has been come to with the French Government and with its full and entire consent.

　　　　　　With regard to the tariff, as well as every stipulation introduced or to be in- troduced in the existing treaties, or those which may hereafter be concluded, it remains well and duly established that merchants and in general all French subjects in China shall always have the same rights and be treated in the same way as the most favoured nation.

　　　　　　Art. XXVIII.-The publication of the regular tariff doing away henceforth with all pretext for smuggling, it is not to be presumed that any act of this nature may be committed by French vessels in the ports of China. If it should be otherwise, all contraband goods introduced into these ports by French vessels or merchants whatever their value or nature, as also all prohibited gools fraudulently discharged, shall be seized by the local authority and confiscated to the profit of the Chinese Government. Further, the latter may, if it see fit, interdict the re-entry to China of the vessel taken in contravention and compel it to leave immediately after the settle- ment of its accounts.

　　　　　　If any foreign vessel fraudulently makes use of the French flag the French Government shall take the necessary measures for the repression of this abuse.

Art. XXIX.-His Majesty the Emperor of the French may station a vessel of war in any principal p rt of the empire where its presence may be considered necessary to maintain good order and discipline amongst the crews of merchant vessels and to facilitate the exercise of the Consular authority; all necessary measures shall be taken to provide that the presence of these vessels of war shall entail no inconvenience, and their commanders shall receive orders to cause to be executed the provisions of Article XXXIII. in respect of the communications with the land and the policing of the crews. Vessels of war shall be subject to no duty.

Art. XXX.-Every French vessel of war cruising for the protection of commerce shall be received as a friend and treated as such in all the ports of China which it shall enter. These vessels may there procure the divers articles of refitting and victualling of which they shall have need, and, if they have suffered damage, may repair there and purchase the materials necessary for such repair, the whole without the least opposition.

　　　　　The same shall apply to French trading ships which in consequence of great damage or any other reason may be compelled to seek refuge in any port whatsoever of China.

If a vessel be wrecked on the coast of China, the nearest Chinese authority, on being informed of the occurrence, shall immediately send assistance to the crew, provide for their present necessities, and take the measures immediately necessary

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for the salvage of the ship and the preservation of the cargo. The whole shall then be brought to the knowledge of the nearest Consul or Consular Agent, in order that the latter, in concert with the competent authority, may provide means for the reli-f of the crew and the salvage of the débris of the ship and cargo.

　　　　　　　Art. XXXI.-Should China be at war with another power, this circumstance shall not in any way interfere with the free trade of French with China or with the opposing nation. French vessels may always, except in the case of effective blockade, sail without obstacle from the ports of the one to the ports of the other, trade in the ordinary manner, and import and export every kind of merchandise not prohibited.

　　　　　　Art. XXXII. -Should sailors or other persons desert from French ships-of-war, or leave French trading vessels, the Chinese authority, on the requisition of the Consul, or failing the Consul that of the captain. shall at once use every means to discover and restore the aforesaid fugitives into the hands of one or the other of them.

In the same manner, if Chinese deserters or persons accused of any crime take refuge in French houses or on board of French vessels, the local authority shall aldness the Consul, who, on proof of the guilt of the accused, shall immediately take the measures necessary for their extradition. Each party hall carefully avoid concealment and connivance,

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　　　　　　　Art. XXXIII.-When sailors come on shore they shall be under special dis- ciplinary regulations framed by the Consul and communicated to the local authority, in order to prevent as far as possible all occasion of quarrel between French sailors and the people of the country.

Art. XXXIV.-In case of French trading vessels being attacked or pillaged by pirates within Chinese waters, the civil and military authorities of the nearest place, p-on learning of the occurrence, shall actively pursue the authors of the crime and shall neglect nothing to secure their arrest and punishment, according to law. The pirated goods, in whatever place or state they may be found, shall be placed in the hands of the Consul, who shall restore them to the owners. If the criminals cannot be seized, or the whole of the stolen property cannot be recovered, the Chinese officials shall suffer the penalty inflicted by the law in such circumstances, but they shall not be held pecuniarily responsible.

Art. XXXV.-When a French subject shall have a complaint to make or claim to bring against a Chinese, he shall first state his case to the Consul, who, after having examined the affair, will endeavour to ar ange it amicably. In the same manner, when a Chinese has to complain of a French subject, the Consul shall attentively hear his claim and endeavour to bring about an amicable arrangement. But if in either case this be impossible, the Consul shall invoke the assistance of a mpetent Chinese official, and these two, after having conjointly examined the affair, shall decide it equitably.

Art. XXXVI.-If hereafter French subjects suffer damage, or are subjected to any insult or vexation by Chinese subjects, the latter shall be pursued by the real authority, who shall take the necessary measures for the defence and pro- tection of French subjects; if ill-doers or any vagrant part of the population com- mence to pillage, destroy, or burn the houses or warehouses of French subjects or 20 other of their establishments, the same authority, either on the requisition of the Consul or of its own motion, shall send as speedily as possible an armed force to disperse the riot and to arrest the criminals, and shall deliver the latter up to the severity of the law; the whole without prejudice of the claims of the French subjects to be indemnified for proved losses.

Art. XXXVII.--If Chinese become, in future, indebted to French captains or merchants and involve them in loss by fraud or in any other manner, the latter shall no longer avail themselves of the combination which existed under the former state of things; they may address themselves only through the medium of their Consul to the local authority, who shall neglect nothing after having examined the affair to opel the defaulters to satisfy their en agements according to the laws of the untry. But, if the debtor cannot be found, if he be dead, or bankrupt, and is not able to pay, the French merchants cannot claim against the Chinese authority.

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In case of fraud or non-payment on the part of French merchants, the Consul shall, in the same manner, afford every assistance to the claimants, but neither he nor his Government shall in any manner be held responsible.

　　　　　　Art. XXXVIII.-If unfortunately auy fight or quarrel occurs between French and Chinese subjects, as also if during the course of such quarrel one or more persons be killed or wounded, by firearms or otherwise, the Chinese shall be arrested by the Chinese authority, who will be responsible, if the charge be proved, for their punish- ment according to the laws of the country. With regard to the French, they shall be arrested at the instance of the Consul, who shall take the necessary measures that they may be dealt with in the ordinary course of French law in accordance with the forms and practice which shall be afterwards decided by the French Government.

　　　　　　　　The same course shall be observed in all similar circumstances not enumerated in the present convention, the principle being that for the repression of crimes and offences committed by them in China French subjects shall be dealt with according to the laws of France.

Art. XXXIX.-Disputes or differences arising between French subjects in China shall, equally, be settled by the French authorities. It is also stipulated that the Chinese authorities shall not in any manner interfere in any dispute between French subjects and other foreigners. In the same way they shall not exercise any authority over French vessels; these are responsible only to the French authorities and the captain.

Art. XL.-If the Government of His Majesty the Emperor of the French shall consider it desirable to modify any of the clauses of the present treaty it shall be at liberty to open uegotiations to this effect with the Chinese Government after an interval of ten years from the date of the exchange of the ratifications. It is also understood that no obligation not expressed in the present convention shall be imposed on the Consuls or Consular Agents, nor on their nationals, but, as is stipulated, French subjects shall enjoy all the rights, privileges, immunities, and guarantees whatsoever which have been or shall be accorded by the Chinese Govern- ment to other powers.

　　　　　　Art. XLI. His Majesty the Emperor of the French, wishing to give to His Majesty the Emperor of China a proof of his friendly sentiments, agrees to stipulate in separate articles, having the same force and effect as if they were inserted in the present treaty, the arrangements come to between the two governments on the matters antecedent to the events at Canton and the expense caused by them to the Government of His Majesty the Emperor of the French.

　　　　　　Art. XLII.-The ratifications of the present treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation shall be exchanged at Peking within one year after the date of signature, or sooner if possible.

　　　　　　After the exchange of ratifications, the treaty shall be brought to the knowledge of all the superior authorities of the Empire in the provinces and in the capital, in order that its publication may be well established.

In token whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the present treaty and affixed their seals thereto.

　　　　　　Done at Tientsin, in four copies, this twenty-seventh day of June, in the year of grave one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, corresponding to the seventeenth day of the fifth moon of the eighth year of Hien Fung.

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KWEI-LIANG.

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HWASHANA.

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AND THE EMPEROR OF CHINA

SIGNED AT PEKING, 25TH OCTOBER, 1860

His Majesty the Emperor of the French and His Majesty the Emperor of China, being desirous to put an end to the difference which has arisen between the two Empires, and to re-establish and assure for ever the relations of peace and amity which before existed and which regrettable events have interruptel, have named as their respective Plenipotentiaries :-

His Majesty the Emperor of the French, Sieur Jean Baptiste Louis, Baron Gros, Senator of the Empire, Ambassador and High Commissioner of France in China, Grand Officer of the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour, Knight Grand Cross of several Orders, etc., etc., etc.;

And His Majesty the Emperor of China, Prince Kung, a member of the Imperial Family and High Commissioner;

Who, baving exchanged their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles :----

Art. I. His Majesty the Emperor of China has regarded with pain the conduct of the Chinese military authorities at the mouth of the Tientsin river, in the month of June last year, when the Ministers Plenipotentiary of France and England arrived there on their way to Peking to exchange the ratifications of the Treaties of Tientsin.

Art. II.-When the Ambassador, the High Commissioner of His Majesty the Emperor of the French, shall be in Peking for the purpose of exchanging the ratifica- tions of the Treaty of Tientsin, he shall be treated during his stay in the capital with the honours due to his rank, and all possible facilities shall be given him by the Chinese Authorities in order that he may without obstacle fulfil the high mission confided to him.

Art. III.-'The treaty signed at Tientsin on the 27th June, 1858, shall be faith- fully placed in execution in all its clauses immediately after the exchange of the ratifications referred to in the preceding article, subject to the modifications introduced by the present Convention.

Art. IV. Article IV. of the Secret Treaty of Tientsin, by which His Majesty the Emperor of Chuna undertook to pay to the French Government an indemnity of two million taels, is aunulled and replaced by the present Article, which increases the amount of the indemnity to eight million taels.

　　　　　　　It is agreed that the sum already paid by the Canton Customs on account of the rum of two million taels stipulated by the Treaty of Tientsin shall be considered as baving been paid in advance and on account of the eight million taels referred to in the present article.

The provisions of the Article of the Secret Treaty of Tientsin as to the mode of payment of the two million taels are annulled. Payment of the remainder of the sum of eight million taels to be paid by the Chinese Government as provided by the present Convention shall be made in quarterly instalments consisting of one-fifth of the gross Customs revenues at the ports open to foreign trade, the first term commencing on the 1st October of the present year, and finishing on the 31st December following. This sum, specially reserved for the payment of the indemnity due to France, shall be paid into the hands of the Minister for France or of his delegates in Mexican dollars or in bar silver at the rate of the day of payment.

A sum of five hundred thousand taels shall, however, be paid on account in advance at one time, and at Tientsin, on the 30th November next, or sooner if the Chinese Government judges it convenient.

A Mixed Commission, appointed by the Minister of France and by the Chinese Anthorities, shall determine the rules to be followed in effecting the payment of the whole of the indemnity, the verification of the amount, the giving of receipts, and in short fulfilling all the formalites required in such case.

Art. V.-The sum of eight million taels is allowed to the French Government to liquidate the expenses of its armament against China, as also for the indemnification of French subjects and protégés of France who sustained loss by the burning of the

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factories at Canton, and also to compensate the Catholic missionaries who have suffered in their persons or property. The French Government will divide this sum between the parties interested, after their claims shall have been legally established, in satisfaction of such claims, and it is understood between the contracting parties that one million of taels shall be appropriated to the indemnification of French subjects or protégés of France for the losses they have sustained or the treatment to which they have been subjected, and that the remaining seven million taels shall be applied tɔ the liquidation of the expeases occasioned by the war.

　　　　　　Art. VI.-In conformity with the Imperial edict issued on the 20th March, 1856, by the August Emperor Tao Kwang, the religious and charitable establishments which have been confiscated during the persecutions of the Christians shall be restored to their proprietors through the Minister of France in China, to whom the Imperial Government will deliver them, with the cemeteries and edifices appertaining to them.

　　　　　　Art. VII.--The town and port of Tientsin, in the province of Pechili, shall be opened to foreign trade on the same conditi ns as the other towns and ports of the Empire where such trade is permitted, and this from the date of the signature of the present Convention, which shall be obligatory on the two nations without its being necessary to exchange ratifications, and which shall have the same force as if it were inserted word for word in the Treaty of Tientsin.

The French troops now occupying this town shall, on the payment of the five hundred thousand taels provided by Article IV. of the present Convention, evacuate it and proceed to occupy Taku and the north-east coast of Shantung, whence they shall retire on the same conditions as govern the evacuation of the other points occupied on the shores of the Empire. The Commanders-in-Chief of the French force shall, however, have the right to winter their troops of all arms at Tientsin, if they judge it convenient, and to withdraw them only when the indemnities due by the Chinese Government shall have been entirely paid, unless the Commanders-in-Chief shall think it convenient to withdraw them before that time.

Art. VIII.--It is further agreed that when the present Convention shall have been signed and the ratifications of the Treaty of Tientsin exchanged, the French forces which occupy Chusan shall evacuate that island, and that the forces before Peking shall retire to Tientsin, to Taku, to the north coast of Shantung, or to the town of Canton, and that in all these places or in any of them the French Government may, if it thinks fit, leave troops until such time as the total sum of eight million taels shall have been fully paid.

Art. IX.-It is agreed between the high contracting parties that when the ratifications of the Treaty of Tientsin shall have been exchanged an Imperial edict shall order the high authorities of all the provinces to permit any Chinese who wishes to go to countries beyond the sea to establish himself there or to seek his for un", to embark, himself and his family, if he so wishes, on French ships in the ports of the empire open to foreign trade. It is also agreed, in the interest of the emigrants, to ensure their entire freedom of action and to safeguard their rights, that the competent Chinese authorities shall confer with the Minister of France in China for the making of regulations to assure for these engagements, always voluntary, the guarantees of morality and security which ought to govern them.

　　　　　　Art. X.-It is well understood between the contracting parties that the tonnage dues which by error were fixed in the French Treaty of Tientsin at five mace per ton for vessels of 150 tons and over, and which in the treaties with England and the United States signed in 1858 were fixed at four mace only, shall not exceed this same sum of four mace, and this without the invocation of the last paragraph of Art. XXXII., of the Treaty of Tientsin, which gives to France the forinal right to claim the same treatment as the most favoured nation.

　　　　　　The present Convention of Peace has been made at Peking, in four copies, on the 25th October, 1860, and has been signed by the respective plenipotentiaries, who have thereto affixed their seals and their arms.

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TREATY OF PEACE, FRIENDSHIP, AND COMMERCE BETWEEN

FRANCE AND CHINA

SIGNED AT TIENTSIN, 9TH JUNE, 1885

　　　　　　The President of the French Republic and His Majesty the Emperor of China each animated by an equal desire to bring to an end the difficulties which have given rise to their simultaneous intervention in the affairs of Annam, and wishing to re-establish and improve the relations of friendship and commerce which previously existed between France and China, have resolved to conclude a new treaty to further the common interest of both nations on the basis of the preliminary Convention signed at Tientsin on the 11th May, 1884, and ratified by an Imperial decree of the 13th April, 1885.

　　　　　　　For that purpose the two high contracting parties have appointed as their pleni- potentiaries the following, that is to say:-

　　　　　　The President of the French Republic, M. Jules Patenôtre, Euvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary for France in China, Officer of the Legion of Honour, Grand Cross of the Swedish Order of the Pole Star, &c., &c.

And His Majesty the Emperor of China, Li Hung-chang, Imperial Commissioner, Senior Grand Secretary of State, Grand Honorary Preceptor of the Heir Presumptive; Superintendent of Trade for the Northern Ports, Governor-General of the Province of Chihli, of the First degree of the Third Order of Nobility, with the title of Sou-yi; Assisted by Hsi Chen, Imperial Commissioner, Member of the Tsung-li Yamên, President of the Board of Punishments, Administrator of the Treasury at the Ministry of Finance, Director of Schools for the Education of Hereditary Officers of the Left Wing of the Yellow Bordered Banner ;

And Teng Chang-su, Imperial Commissioner, Member of the Tsung-li Yamên, Director of the Board of Ceremonies ;

　　　　　　Who baving communicated their full powers, which have been found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles :-

　　　　　　　Art. I.-Frauce engages to re-establish and maintain order in those provinces of Annam which bord: r upon the Chinese empire. For this purpose she will take the necessary measures to disperse or expel the bands of pirates and vagabonds who endanger the public safety, and to prevent their collection together again. Nevertheless the French troops shail not, under any circumstances, cross the frontier which separates Tonkin from China, which froutier France promises both to respect herself and to guarantee against any aggression whatsoever,

On her part China undertakes to disperse or expel such bands as may take refuge in her provinces bordering on Tonkin and to disperse those which it may be attempted to form there for the purpose of causing disturbances amongst the populations placed under the protection of France; and, in consideration of the guarantees which have been given as to the security of the frontier, she likewise engages not to send troops into Tonkin.

The high contracting parties will fix, by a special convention, the conditions under which the extradition of malefactors between China and Annam shall be carried out. The Chinese, whether colonists or disbanded soldiers, who reside peaceably in Annam, supporting themselves by agriculture industry, or trade, and whose conduct shall give no cause of complaint, shall enjoy the same security for their persons and Property as French protégés.

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　　　　　Art. II.-China, being resolved to do nothing which may imperil the work of pacification undertaken by France, engages to respect, both in the present and in the future, the treaties, conventions, and arrangements concluded directly between France and Annam, or which may hereafter be concluded.

　　　　　　As regards the relations between China and Annam, it is understood they shall be of such a nature as shall in no way injure the dignity of the Chinese empire or give rise to any violation of the present treaty.

　　　　　Art. III. Within a period of six months from the signature of the present treaty commissioners appointed by the high contracting parties shall proceed to the spot in order to define the frontier between China and Tonkin. They shall place landmarks wherever necessary to render the line of demarcation clear. In those cases where they may not be able to agree as to the location of these landmarks or ou such rectifications of detail as it may be desirable to make, in the interest of the two nations, in the existing frontier of Tonkin, they shall refer the difficulty to their respective Governments.

　　　　　　Art. IV.-When the frontier shall have been agreed upon, French or French protégés and foreign residents of Tonkin who may wish to cross it in order to enter China shall not be allowed to do so unless they shall have previously provided them- selves with passports issued by the Chinese frontier authorities on the requisition of the French authorities. For Chinese subjects an authorisation given by the Imperial frontier authorities shall be sufficient.

Chinese subjects wishing to proceed from China to Tonkin by the land route shall be obliged to provide themselves with regular passports, issued by the French authorities on the requisition of the Imperial authorities.

Art. V.-Import and export trade shall be permitted to French or French- protected traders and to Chinese traders across the land frontier between China and Tonkin. It shall, however, be carried on through certain spots which shall be settled later, and both the selection and number of which shall correspond with the direction and importance of the traffic between the two countries. In this respect the Regulations in force in the interior of the Chinese Empire shall be taken into

account.

　　　　　In any case, two of the said spots shall be marked out on the Chinese frontier, the one above Lao-kai, the other beyond Lang-son. French traders shall be at liberty to settle there under the same conditions, and with the same advantages, as in the ports open to foreign trade. The Government of His Majesty the Emperor of China shall establish custom-houses there, and the Government of the French Republic shall be at liberty to maintain Consuls there whose powers and privileges shall be identical with those of Agents of the same rank in the open ports.

　　　　　On his part, His Majesty the Emperor of China shall be at liberty, with the concurrence of the French Government, to appoint Consuls in the principal towns of Tonkin.

　　　　　Art. VI.-A special code of Regulations, annexed to the present Treaty, shall define the conditions under which trade shall be carried on by land between Tonkin and the Chinese provinces of Yunnan, of Kwang-si, and of Kwang-tung. Such Regulations shall be drawn up by Commissioners, who shall be appointed by the High Contracting Parties, within three months from the signature of the present Treaty.

All goods dealt with by such trade shall be subject, on import and export between Tonkin and the provinces of Yunnan and Kwang-si, to duties lower than those laid down by the present Tariff for foreign trade. The reduced Tariff shall not, however, be applied to goods transported by way of the land frontier between Tonkin and Kwang-tung, and shall not be enforced within the ports already open by Treaty.

　　　　　　Trade in arms, engines, supplies, and munitions of war of any kind whatsoever shall be subject to the Laws and Regulations issued by each of the Contracting States within its own territory.

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The export and import of opium shall be governed by special arrangements to be inserted in the above-mentioned code of Regulations.

Trade by sea between China and Annam shall likewise be dealt with by a separate code of Regulations. In the meanwhile, the present practice shall remain unaltered.

Art. VII.-With a view to develop under the most advantageous conditions the relations of commerce and of good neighbourship, which it is the object of the present Treaty to re-establish between France and China, the Government of the Republic shall construct roads in Tonkin, and shall encourage the construction of railways

there.

When China, on her part, shall have decided to construct railways, it is agreed that she shall have recourse to French industry, and the Government of the Republic shall afford every facility for procuring in France the staff that may be required. It is, moreover, understood that this clause shall not be looked upon as constituting an exclusive privilege in favour of France.

Art. VIII.-The commercial stipulations of the present Treaty and the Regula- tions to be agreed upon shall be liable to revision after an interval of ten complete years from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the present Treaty. But in case six months before it expires neither one nor other of the High Contracting Parties shall have expressed a wish to proceed to a revision, the commercial stipula- tions shall remain in force for a fresh period of ten years, and so further in like

manner.

Art. IX. As soon as the present Treaty shall have been signed, the French forces shall receive orders to retire from Kelung and to cease search, &c., on the high seas. Within one month from the signature of the present Treaty the Island of Formosa and Pescadores shall be entirely evacuated by the French troops.

Art. X.-All stipulations of former Treaties, Agreements, and Conventions between France and China, which are not modified by the present Treaty, remain in full force.

　　　　　　　The present Treaty shall be ratified at once by His Majesty the Emperor of China, and after it shall have been ratified by the President of the French Republic, the exchange of ratifications shall take place at Peking with the least possible delay.

　　　　　　　Done in quadruplicate at Tientsin, this 9th June, 1885, corresponding to the 27th day of the 4th moon of the 11th year of Kwang-su.

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PATENOTRE.

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[L.S.]

H8I CHEN.

[L.S.]

LI HUNG-CHANG,

[L.8.]

Teng Chang-SU.

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TRADE REGULATIONS FOR THE TONKIN FRONTIER JOINTLY DETERMINED ON BY FRANCE AND CHINA

Signed at Peking, 25th APRIL, 1886

[Translated from the French Text]

　　　　　　Whereas in Article VI. of the Treaty between the President of the French Re- public and His Majesty the Emperor of China, signed the 9th day of June, 1865, it is stated that "

　　　　　　　　　　Regulations for the conduct of overland trade between Tonkin and the Chinese provinces of Yunnan, Kwang- si, and Kwang-tung shall be jointly discussed and concluded by Commissioners appointed by the two Powers, and will form a supple- ment to the present Treaty ;" and whereas in the tenth article of that agreement it is set forth that "provisions of former Treaties and Regulations agreed to by France and China, except in so far as they are modified by the present agreement, will continue to retain their original validity," the two High Contracting Parties have for this purpose named as their plenipotentiaries, that is to say :-

　　　　　The President of the French Republic, G. Cogordan, Minister Plenipotentiary of France to China, Officer of the Legion of Honour, Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy, &c., &c., together with E. Bruwaert, Consul of the first class, Assistant Commissioner for Treaty negotiations, Knight of the Order of Gustav of Sweden, and of the Order of Leopold of Belgium;

And His Majesty the Emperor of China, Li, Grand Preceptor of the Heir Ap- parent, Grand Secretary of State, Superintendent of Trade for the Northern Seaboard, Joint Commissioner of Admiralty, Governor of Chihli, and a member of the first degree of the third order of the hereditary nobility, with the title of Sou yi;

Who after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, and found them to be in due form, have concluded the following Articles

　　　　　　Art. I. In accordance with the terms of Article V. of the Treaty of the 19th June, 1885, the high contracting parties agree that for the present two places shall be opened to trade, one to the north of Langson and the other above Lao-kai. China will establish Custom Houses there, and France shall have the right to appoint Consuls, who shall enjoy all rights and privileges conceded in China to the Consuls of the most favoured nation.

　　　　　　The work of the Commission charged with the delimitation of the two countries not being completed at the time of the signature of the present Convention, the place to be opened to trade north of Langson shall be selected and determined in the course of the present year by arrangement between the Imperial Government and the representative of France at Peking. As to the place to be opened to trade above Lao-kai, this will also be determined by common accord when the frontier between the two countries shall have been defined.

Art. II. The Imperial Government may appoint Consuls at Hanoi and at Haiphong. Chinese Consuls may also be sent later on to other large towns in Tonkin by arrangement with the French Government.

　　　　　　The agents shall be treated in the same manner and have the same rights and privileges as the Consuls of the most favoured nation in France. They shall maintain official relations with the French authorities charged with the Protectorate.

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Art. III.-It is agreed, on the one side and the other, that in the places where Consuls are appointed the respective authorities will facilitate the installation of these agents in suitable residences.

Frenchmen may establish themselves in the places opened to trade on the frontier of China under the conditions set forth in the Articles VII., X., XI., XII., and others of the treaty of the 27th June, 1858.

Annamites shall enjoy in these places the same privileged treatment.

　　　　　　Art. IV.-Chinese shall have the right of possessing land, erecting buildings, opening commercial houses, and having warehouses throughout Annan.

　　　　　　　They shall receive for their persons, their families, and their goods the same protection as the most favoured European nation, and, like the latter, may not be made the object of any ill-treatment. The official and private correspondence and telegrains of Chinese officials and merchants shall be freely transmitted through the French postal and telegraphic administrations.

Frenchmen will receive from China the same privileged treatment.

　　　　　　　Art. V. Frenchmen, French protégés, and foreigners residing in Tonkin may cross the frontiers and enter China on condition of being furnished with passports. These passports will be given by the Chinese authorities at the frontier, on the requisition of the French authorities, who will ask for them only for respectable persons; they will be surrendered to be cancelled on the hol·ler's return. In the case

of t. ose who have to pass any place occupied by aborigines or savages, it will be mentioned in the passport that there are no Chinese officials there who can protect them.

　　　　　　　　Chinese who wish to come from China to Tonkin by land must in the same wayle furnished with passports granted by the French authorities on the requisition of the Chinese authorities, who will ask for them only on behalf of respectable

persons.

　　　　　　　The passports so granted on the one side or the other shall serve only as titles to travel and shall not be considered as certificates of exemption from taxes for the trasort of merchandise.

　　　　　　　　　　Chinese authorities on Chinese soil and French authorities in Tonkin shall have the right to arrest persons who have crossed the frontier without passports and send them back to their respective authorities to be tried and punished if necessary.

　　　　　　　Chinese residing in Annam may return from Toukin to China on simply obtaining from the Imperial authorities a pass permitting them to cross the frontier.

　　　　　　　　Frenchmen and other persons established in the open places on the frontier may travel without passports to a distance of 50 li (578 metres to the li) around such places.

Art. VI. Merchandise imported into the places opened to trade on the frontier of China by French merchants and French protégés may, after payment of the import duties, be conveyed to the interior markets of China under the conditions fixed by Rule VII. annexed to the Treaty of the 27th June, 1858, and by the general rules of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs with regard to import transit passes.

When foreign merchandise is imported into these places a declaration shall be ale at the Custom House of the nature and quantity of the merchandise, as well as of the name of the person by whom it is accompanied. The Customs authorities will proceed to verification, and will collect the duty according to the general tariff of the Imperial Maritime Customs, diminished by one-fifth. Articles not mentioned in the tariff will remain subject to the duty of 5 per cent, ad valorem. Until this duty has been paid the goods may not be taken out of the warehouses to be sent away and sold. A merchant wishing to send foreign merchandise into the interior shall make a fish declaration at the Custom House, and pay, without reduction, the transit dues fied by the general rules of the Chinese Maritime Customs.

After this payment the Customs will deliver a transit pass which will enable the arriers to go to the localities mentioned in the pass for the purpose of disposing of the said merchandise.

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Under these conditions, no new duties will be levied at the interior barriers or lekin stations.

　　　　　　Merchandise for which transit passes have not been obtained will be liable to all the barrier and lekin duties imposed upon indigenous products in the interior of the country.

　　　　　Art. VII-Merchandise bought by Frenchmen and persons under French protection in the interior markets of China may be brought into the open places on the frontier, for the purpose of being from thence exported to Tonkin, under the conditions fixed by Rule VII. annexed to the Treaty of the 27th June, 1858, with regard to the transit of merchandise for export.

When Chinese merchandise for export arrives at these places, declaration shall be made at the Custom House as to the nature and quantity of the merchandise, as well as the name of the person accompanying it.

The Customs authorities will proceed to verification.

　　　　　　Such of this merchandise as shall have been bought in the interior by a merchant furnished with a transit pass, and which consequently has not paid any lekin or barrier duty, shall in the first place pay the transit duty fixed by the general tariff of the Chinese Maritime Customs.

It shall then pay the export duty diminished by one-third. Articles not named in the tariff will remain subject to the duty of 5 per cent. ad valorem.

After payment of these duties the merchandise will be allowed to pass free, and to be sent beyond the frontier.

The merchant who, not being furnished with a transit pass, has bought goods in the interior, shall pay the duties levied at the barriers and lekin stations; receipts shall be delivered to him, and on arriving at the Custom House he shall be exempted from payment of the transit dues on presentation of these receipts.

French merchants and persons under French protection importing or exporting merchandise through the Customs offices on the frontiers of Yunnan and Kwangsi, and Chinese merchants importing or exporting mercandise to or from Tonkin, will not have to pay any toll on their carriages or beasts of burden. On the navigable water-courses on the frontier, vessels may, on the one side and the other, be subjected to the payment of tonnage-dues, conformably to the rules of the Maritime Customs of the two countries.

As regards the provisions of the present article and the preceding one, it is agreed by the high contracting parties that if a new customs tariff should be established by common accord between China and a third Power, for trade by land on the south-western frontiers of the Chinese Empire, France shall obtain the application of it.

Art. VIII.-Foreign merchandise which, not having been sold within a period of thirty-six months after having paid the import duty at one of the Chinese frontier Customs stations, is forwarded to the other frontier Customs station, shall be examined at the first of these stations, and if the wrappings are found intact, and if nothing has been disturbed or changed, a certificate of exemption for the amount of the first duty collected will be given. The bearer of this certificate will deliver it to the other frontier station, in payment of the new duty which he will have to pay. The Customs may in like manner give bonds which will be available for payment of duties at the Custom House by which they are issued any time within three years. Money will never be returned.

If the same merchandise is re-despatched to one of the open ports of China, it will there, conformably to the general rules of the Chinese Maritime Customs, be subjected to payment of the import duties, and the certificates or bonds given at the frontier Customs shall not there be made use of. Neither will it be allowed to present there, in payment of duties, the quittances delivered by the frontier Customs on the first payment. As to transit dues, conformably to the rules in force at the open ports, when once they have been paid, bonds or exemption certificates will never be given in respect of these.

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Art. IX.-Chinese merchandise which, after having paid transit and export dues st one of the frontier Customs stations, may be sent to the other frontier Customs station to be sold, shall be subjected on its arrival at the second station only to a payment-called a re-importation duty-of one-half the export duty already collected. The merchandise conformably to the rules established in the open ports may not be transported into the interior by foreign merchants.

　　　　　　If this Chinese merchandise be transported to one of the open ports of China, it will be assimilated to foreign merchandise, and shall pay a new import duty in full, conformably to the general tariff of the Imperial Maritime Customs.

This merchandise will be allowed to pay transit duty on being sent into the in- terior. Chinese merchandise imported from a Chinese seaport into an Annamite port in order to be transported to the land frontier and then to re-enter Chinese territory, will be treated as foreign merchandise and will pay the local import dues. This merchandise will be allowed to pay the transit duty on being sent into the interior.

　　　　　　Art. X. Declarations to the Chinese Customs must be made within thirty-six hours of the arrival to the goods under a penalty of Tls. 50 for each day's delay; but the fine shall not exceed Tis. 200. An inexact declaration of the quantity of the goods, if it is proved that it has been made with the intention of evading payment of the duties, will entail upon the merchant confiscation of his goods. Goods not provided with a permit from the chief of the Customs, which are clandestinely introduced by by-ways, and unpacked or sold, or which are intentionally smuggled, shall be entirely confiscated. In every case of false declaration or attempt to deceive the Customs as regards the quality or the real origin or real destination of goods for which transit passes have been applied the goods shall be liable to con- fiscation. The penalties shall be adjudged according to the conditions and proce- dure fixed by the Rules of 31st May, 1868. In all cases where confiscation shall have been declared, the merchant shall be at liberty to recover his goods on payment of a sum equivalent to their value, to be duly settled by arrangement with the Chinese authorities. The Chinese authorities shall have every liberty to devise measures to be taken in China, along the frontier, to prevent smuggling.

　　　　　　Merchandise descending or ascending navigable rivers in French, Annamite, or Chinese vessels will not necessarily have to be landed at the frontier, unless there is an appearance of fraud, or a divergence between the nature of the cargo and the declaration of the manifest. The Customs will only send on board the said vessels agents to visit them.

Art. XI.-Produces of Chinese origin imported into Tonkin by the land frontier shall pay the import duty of the Franco-Annamite tariff. They will pay no export duty on leaving Tonkiu. The Imperial Government will be notified of the new tariff which France will establish in Tonkin. If taxes of excise, of consumption, or of guarantee be established in Tonkin on any articles of indigenous production, similar Chinese productions will be subjected, on importation, to equivalent taxes,

　　　　　　Art. XII.-Chinese merchandise transported across Tonkin from one of the wo frontier Customs stations to the other, or to an Annamite port to be from thence exported to China, shall be subjected to a specific transit duty which shall not exceed two per cent. of the value. At the point where it leaves Chinese territory this merchandise will be examined by the French Customs authorities on the frontier, who will specify its nature, quantity, and destination in a certificate which shall be produced whenever required by the French authorities during its transport across Tonkin, as well as at the port of shipment.

　　　　　In order to guarantee the Franco-Annamite Customs against any possible fraud, uch Chinese produces, on entering Tonkin, shall pay the import duty.

　　　　　　A transit permit will accompany the goods to the place of leaving the country whether this be the port of transhipment or the land frontier, and the sum paid by the proprietor of the merchandise will, after deducting the transit dues, be then restored to him in exchange for the receipt delivered to him by the Tonkin Customs.

　　　　　Every false declaration or act evidently intended to deceive the French admin- tration as to the quality, quantity, real origin, or real destination of merchandise

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for which the special treatment applicable to Chinese products traversing Tonkin in transit is asked, will entail the confiscation of such merchandise. In every case where confiscation has been declared, the merchant shall be free to recover his goods on payment of a sum equivalent to their value, which shall be duly determined by an arrangement with the French authorities.

The same rules and the same transit duty will be applicable in Anuam to Chinese merchandise despatched from a Chinese port to an Annamite port in order to get to the Chinese frontier Customs by crossing Tonkin.

Art. XIII.-The following articles, that is to say, gold and silver invots, foreign money, flour, Indian neal, sago, biscuits, preserved meats and vegetables, cheese, butter, confectionery, foreign clothing, jewellery, plated ware, perfumery, soaps of all kinds, charcoal, firewood, candles (foreign), tobacco, wine, beer, spirits, household stores, ship's stores, personal baggage, stationery, carpeting, cutlery, drugs, foreign medicines, and glass ware, shall be verified by the Chinese Customs on the r entry and clearance; if they are really of foreign origin and intended for the personal use of foreigners, and if they arrive in moderate quantity, a duty exemption certificate will be given which will pass them free at the frontier. If these articles are withheld from declaration or the formality of an exemption certificate, their clandestine intro- duction will reuder them subject to the same penalty as smuggled goods.

　　　　　With the exception of gold, silver, money, and luggage, which will remain exempt from duty, the above-mentioned articles destine for the personal use of foreigners and imported in moderate quantity, will pay, when they are transported into the interior of China, a duty of 24 per cent, on their value.

　　　　　　The Franco-Annamite frontier Customs shall colleet no duty on the following articles of personal use which Chinese carry with them, either on entering or leaving Toukin, that is to say, money, luggage, clothes, women's head ornaments, paper, hair pencils, Chinese ink, furniture, or food, or on articles ordered by the Chinese Consuls in Tonkin for their personal consumption.

　　　　　Art. XIV.-The high contracting parties agree to prohibit trade in and trans- port of opium of whatsoever origin by the land frontier between Tonkin on the oɑe side and Yunnan, Kwang-si, and Kwangtong on the other sine.

Art. XV.-The export of rice and of cereals from China is forbidden. The import of these articles shall be free of duty.

　　　　　　he import of the following articles into China is forbidden :-- Gunpowder, pro- jectiles, rifles and guns, saltpetre, sulphur, lead, spelter, arms, salt, and immoral publications.

In case of contravention these articles shall be entirely confiscated.

If the Chinese authorities have arms or munitions bought or if merchants receive express authority to buy them, the importation will be permitted under the special surveillance of the Chinese Customs. The Chinese authorities may, further- more, by arrangement with the French Consuls, obtain for the arms and munitions which they wish to have conveyed to China through Tonkin exemption from all the Franco-Annamite duties.

The introduction to Tonkin of arms, munitions of war, and immoral publica- tions is also prohibited.

　　　　　　Art. XVI.--Chinese residing in Annam shall be placed under the same condi- tions, with regard to criminal, fiscal, or other jurisdiction, as the subjects of the most favoured nation. Law-suits which may arise in China, in the open markets on the frontier, between Chinese subjects and Frenchmen or Annamites shall be decided in a Mixed Court by Chinese and French officers.

　　　　　　With reference to crimes or offences committed by Frenchmen or persons under French protection in China, in the places opened to trade, the procedure shall be in conformity with the stipulations of "Articles XXXIII, and XXXIV. of the treaty of the 27th June, 1858.

　　　　　Art. XVII.-If in the places opened to trade on the frontier of China Chine-e deserters or persons accused of crimes against the Chinese law shall take refuge in the houses or on board the vessels of Frenchmen or persons under French protection

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the local authority shall apply to the Consul, who, on proof of the guilt of the accused, shall immediately take the necessary measures in order that they may be given up and delivered to the regular course of the law,

Chinese guilty or accused of crimes or offences who seek refuge in Annam shall, on the request of the Chinese authorities and on proof of their guilt, be sought for, arrested, and extradited in all cases where the subjects of the countries enjoying the most liberal treatment in the matter of extradition might be extradited from France. Frenchmen guilty or accused of crimes or offences, who seek refuge in China, shall, at the request of the French authorities and on proof of their guilt, be arrested and delivered up to the said authorities to be tried according to the regular process of law.

On both sides all concealment and connivance shall be avoided.

　　　　　　　Art. XVIII.-In any difficulty not provided for in the preceding provisions recourse shall be had to the rules of the Maritime Customs, which, in conformity with existing treaties, are now applied in the open towns or ports.

In case these rules are insufficient the representatives of the two countries shall refer the matter to their respective Governments.

In accordance with the terms of Article VIII. of the treaty of the 9th June, 1885, the present stipulations may be revised ten years after the exchange of the

ratifications.

　　　　　　　Art. XIX. The present Convention of Trade, after having been ratified by the Governments, shall be promulgated in France, in China, and in Annam.

　　　　　　　The exchange of the ratifications shall take place at Peking within one year from the date of the signature of the Convention, or earlier if possible.

　　　　　　　Done at Tientsin, in four copies, the 25th April, 1886, corresponding to the 22nd day of the third moon of the twelfth year of Kwang-Su.

(Signed)

[L.8.] [L.S.]

G. COGORDAN.

E. BRUWAERT.

[L.S.]

LI HUNG-CHANG.

ADDITIONAL CONVENTION BETWEEN FRANCE AND CHINA, 1887

[Translated from the Chinese Text]

His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China and the President of the French E-public, desiring to strengthen the comm reial relations between the two countries and also to ratify and give effect to the Treaty signed at Tientsin on the 25th_April, 1886, have appointed Plenipotentiaries to take the necessary steps thereto. H.I.M. the Emperor of China has specially appointed H.IH. Prince Ching and H E Sun Yo-wen, member of the Tsung-li Yamêu and Vice-President of the Board of Works. The President of the Republic has appointed His Excellency Constans, Deputy, -Minister of the Interior, and Minister Plenipotentiary in China. Who, having exchanged their full powers and established their authenticity in due form, have agreed on the following Articles :--

Art. I.-Such articles of the Treaty signed at Tientsin as are not affected by this Convention shall on the exchange of the ratifications be put in force at once.

　　　　　　　Art. II. Whereas it was agreed by the Treaty of 1886 that Lungehow in Kwangsi and M. ngtzu in Yunnan should be opened to trade, and whereas Manghao, which Les between Paosheng and Mengtzu, is on the direct road between the two places by water, it is agreed that this also shall be opened to trade on the same conditions as the other ports, and that a deputy of the Consul at Mengtzu shall be allowed to reside there.

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　　　　　Art. III.-In order to develop the trade between China and Tonkin as rapidly as possible the tariff rules laid down in Articles VI. and VII. of the Treaty of 1886 are temporarily altered, and it is agreed that foreign goods imported to Yunnan and Kwangi from Tonkin shall pay 70 per cent. of the import duties collected by the Customs at the Coast Ports in China, and that produce exported from China to Ton- kin, shall pay 60 per cent. of the export duties in force at the Treaty Ports.

Art. IV. Chinese produce which has paid import duties under Art. XI. of the Treaty of 1886, and is transported through Tonkin to a port of shipment in Cochin- China, shall if exported thence to any other place than China pay export duties accord- ing to the Franco-Annamite tariff.

Art. V.-Trade in Chinese native opium by land is allowed on payment of an export duty of Tls. 20 per picul, but French merchants or persons under French pro- tection may only purchase it at Lungchow, Mengtzu, and Manghao, but no more than Tls. 20 per picul shall be exacted from the Chinese merchants as inland dues. When opium is sold the seller shall give the buyer a receipt showing that the inland dues have been paid, which the exporter will hand to the Customs when paying export duty. It is agreed that opium re-imported to China by the Coast Ports cannot claim the privileges accorded other re-imports of goods of native origin.

Art. VI.-French and Tonkinese vessels other thau men-of-war and vessels carrying troops and Government stores plying on the Songkat and Caobang Rivers between Langshan and Caobang shall pay a tonnage due of 5 candareens per ton at Lungchow, but all goods on board shall pass free. Goods may be imported to China by the Songkat and Caobang Rivers or overland by the Government road, but until the Chinese Government establishes Custom-houses on the frontier goods taken overland must not le sold at Lungehow until they have paid duty there.

　　　　　　Art. VII.-It is agreed that should China enter into treaties with regard to com- mercial relations on her southern and south-western frontiers all privileges accorded by her to the most favoured nation are at once without further formality accorded to France.

　　　　　　Art. VIII.-The above Articles having been agreed to and translated into Chinese, H.I.H. the Prince on behalf of China and H.E. the Minister on behalf of France have signed duplicate copies and affixed their seals hereto.

　　　　　　Art. IX.-When the ratifications of this Convention and of the Treaty of 1886 shall have been exchanged they shall be put in force as if they were one Treaty.

　　　　　　Art. X.-The ratifications of the Convention shall be exchanged at Peking when the assent of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China and of His Excellency the President of the French Republic shall have been signified.

Signed at Peking on the 26th June, 1887.

E. CONSTANS.

PRINCE CHIʼNG.

SUN YU-WEN.

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Art. I.-It is agreed, to assure the policing of the frontier, that the French Governm nt will have the right of maintaining an agent of the Consular order at Tonghing opposite Monkay on the frontier of Kwantung. A further regulation will determine the conditions under which these should be exerc sed in accordance with the French and Chinese authorities and the communal police of the Sino- Annamite frontier.

Art. II.-Article 2 of the Additional Convention, signed at Peking, June 26th, 1857, is modified and completed as follows:-It is agreed between the high contracting parties that the town of Lungehow in Kwangsi and that of Mengtse in Yunnan are open to French-Ann mite commerce. It is intended Lesid s that the post open to commerce on the river route of Laokay to Méngtse will no longer be Manuao, but Hokow, and that the French Government have the right of maintaining at Hokow an agent under the Consul at Mêngtse, at the same time the Chinese Government can maintain a customs agent.

Art. III-It is agreed that the town of Ssumao in Yunnan shall be open to French-Anuamite commerce, like Lungchow and Mê. gtse, and that the French Government will have the right as in the other open ports of maintaining a Consul at the same time that the Chinese Government can maintain a customs agent. The local authorities will employ themselves to facilitate the ustallat on of the French Consul in the proper residence, Frenchmen and protected French subjects may establish themselves at Ssumao under conditions of the Articles 7, 10, 11, 12, and others of the treaty of June 27th, 1858; also by Article 3 of the Convention of April 25th, 1886. Goods destine or China can be transported by the rivers, part e lary the Loso an the Mekong as wel as by land routes, and particularly by the Mandarin-road which leads either from Monglê or Ipang to Ssumao and Puerh, the du ies which these goods will be subject to being paid at Ssumao.

Art. IV.--Article 9 of the Commercial Convention of April 25th, 1886, is uslifel as follows:-(1) Chinese goods in transit from one of the other four towns open to commerce on the frontier, Lungehow, Mengtse, Ss.mao, and Hokow, in passing by Annam, will pay on having the reduced duties of four-tenths. spesial certificate will be delivered stating the payment of this duty, and destined to accompany the goods. Whe.. they have come to another town they shall be exempt from payment and import duty. (2) Chinese goods which shall be exported from the four above-named locali ies and trau-ported to Chinese ports, maritime or fluvial, open to commerce, shall be freed on leaving the routier by paym u of the reduced export duy of four-tenths. A special certificate will be delivered stating the paym nt of this duty, and destined to accompany the goods. When they salt arrive at one of the ports, maritime or fluvial, open to commerce, toey shall be freed the half-duty of re-importation in conformity with the general rue for all such goods in the maritime or fluvial ports open to commerce. (3) Chinese goods whica shalt be transported from Chinese ports, maritime or duvial, op n to commerce, by way of Annam, towards the four above-named bealities," shall be freed on leaving of all duty. A special certificate will be d-livered, stating the payment of this duty, and destined to accompany the goods. When they shall have arrived at one of the frontier customs they shall be freed on entry by half duty of re-importation based on the reduction of four-tenths. (4) The Chinese goods above mentioned, accompanied by the special certificate

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above mentioned, shall be, before passing the export customs, or after passing customs re-importation, submitted to the regulations governing native Chinese goods.

　　　　　　Art. V.-It is understood that China, for the exploitation of its mines in the provinces of Yunnan, Kwangsi, and Kwangtung, will address itself, in the first instance, to French commerce and engineers, the exploitation remaining otherwise subject to the rules and the edicts by the Imperial Government which affects national industry. It is understood that railways already in existence or projected. in Annam can, after mutual agreement, and under conditions to be defined, be prolonged on Chinese territory.

Art. VI.-Article 2 of the Telegraphic Convention between France and China, signed at Chefoo, December 1, 1888, is completed as follows:-D.-A union shall be established between the secondary prefecture of Ssumao and Annam by two stations, which shall be Ssumao in China and Muang Halin in Annam, midway between Laichow and Luang Prabang. The tariff shall be fixed in conformity with Article 6 of the Telegraphic Convention of Chefoo.

Art. VII. It is agreed that the commercial stipulations contained in the present Convention being of a special nature, and the result of mutual concessions deter- mined by the necessities of the relations between Lungchow, Hokow, Mêngtse, Ssumao, and Annam, the advantages which result therefrom cannot be invoked by the subjects and protected subjects of the two high contracting parties but on these points as well as on the fluvial and land ways here determined of the frontier.

Art. VIII. The present stipulations shall be put in force as if they were in- serted in the text of the additional convention of June 26th, 1887.

　　　　　　Art. IX. The terms of former treaties, agreements, and conventions between France and China not modified by the present treaty remain in full force. The pre- sent complementary convention shall be ratified immediately by His Majesty the Emperor of China, and after it has been ratified by the President of the French Republic the exchange of ratifications shall be made at Peking with the least delay possible.

Done at Peking in four copies June 20th, 1895, corresponding to the 28th day of the 5th moon of the 21st year Kwang Su.

(Signed)

A. GERARD.

CHING,

SIU.

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TREATY OF AMITY, COMMERCE, AND NAVIGATION BETWEEN

PRUSSIA AND CHINA

Signed in the German, French, and Chinese Languages at Tientsin, 2nd September, 1861

Ratifications Exchanged at Shanghai, 14th January, 1863

　　　　　　Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, between the States of the German Customs Union, the Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg- Strelitz, and the free Hanseatic Towns of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburg on the one part, and China on the other part.

　　　　　　His Majesty the King of Prussia, for himself, as also on behalf of the other members of the German Zollverein, that is to say:- -The Crown of Bavaria, the Crown of Saxony, the Crown of Hanover, the Crown of Wurtemburg, the Grand Duchy of Baden, the Electorate of Hesse, the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the Duchy of Brunswick, the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, the Grand Duchy of Saxony, the Duchies of Saxe Meiningen, Saxe Altenburg, Saxe Coburg Gotha, the Duchy of Nassau, the Principalities Waldeck and Pyrmont, the Duchies Anhalt, Dessau, Koethen, and Anhalt Bernburg, the Principalities Lippe, the Principalities Schwarzburg Sondershausen and Schwarzburg Rudolsadt, Beuss the Elder Line, and Reuss the Younger Line, the Free City of Frankfort, the Grand Baillewick Meisenheim of the Landgravate Hesse, the Baillewick Hamburg of the Landgravate Hesse, also the Grand Duchies Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and the Senates of the Hanseatic Towns, Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburg, of the one part, and His Majesty the Emperor of China of the other part being sincerely desirous to establish friendly relations between the said States and China, have resolved to confirm the same by a Treaty of Friendship and Commerce, mutually advantageous to the subjects of both High Contracting Parties, and for that purpose have named for their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:-

His Majesty the King of Prussia, Frederick Albert Count of Eulenburg, Chamberlain, His Majesty's Envoy Entraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Knight of the Red Eagle, Knight of St. John, &c., &c., &c.; and His Majesty the Emperor of China, Cheong-meen, a member of the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Peking, Director-General of Public Supplies, and Imperial Commissioner: and Chong-hee, Honorary Under-Secretary of State, Superintendent of the three Northern Ports, and Deputy Imperial Commissioner, who after baving communicated to each other their respective full powers, and found the same in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles:

　　　　　　Art. I.-There shall be perpetual peace and unchanging friendship between the contracting States. The subjects of both States shall enjoy full protection of person and property.

　　　　　　Art. II.-His Majesty the King of Prussia may, if he see fit, accredit a diplomatic agent to the Court of Peking, and His Majesty the Emperor of China may, in like manner, if he see fit, nominate a diplomatic agent to the Court of Berlin.

　　　　　　　The diplomatic agent nominated by His Majesty the King of Prussia shall also represent the other contracting German States, who shall not be permitted to be represented at the Court of Peking by diplomatic agents of their own. His Majesty the Emperor of China hereby agrees that the diplomatic agent, so appointed by His Majesty the King of Prussia, may, with his family and establishment, permanently reside at the capital, or may visit it occasionally, at the option of the Prussian Government.

　　　　　　　Art. III.-The diplomatic agents of Prussia and China shall, at their respective residences, enjoy the privileges and immunities accorded to them by international law.

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Their persons, their families, their residence, and their correspondence shall be held inviolable. They shall be at liberty to select and appoint their own officers, couriers, interpreters, servants, and attendants without any kind of molestation.

　　　　　　All expenses occasioned by the diplomatic missions shall be borne by the respective governments.

The Chinese Government agrees to assist His Prussian Majesty's diplomatic agent, upon his arrival at the capital, in selecting and renting a suitable house and other buildings.

Art. IV. The contracting German States may appoint a Consul-General, and for each port or city opened to foreign commerce a Consul, Vice-Consul, or Consular Agent, as their interests may require

These officers shall be treated with due respect by the Chinese authorities, and enjoy the same privileges and immunities as the Consular officers of the most favoured nations.

In the event of the absence of a German Consular Officer, the subjects of the contracting German Sta es shall be at liberty to apply to the Consul of a friendly Power, or in case of need to the Superinten·lent of Customs, who shall use all efforts to secure to them the privile.es of this treaty.

Art. V.-All official communications addressed by the diplomatic agents of His Majesty the King of Prussia, or by the Consular officers of the contracting German States, to the Chinese auth_rities, shll be written in Germa. At present and until otherwise agreed, they shall be accompanied by a Chinese translatiou; but it is hereby mutually agreed that, in the event of a differen e of meaning appearing between the German and Chinese texts, the German Government shall be guided by the sense expressed in the German text.

In like manner shall all official communicati- ns addressed by the Chinese autho- rities to the Ambassadors of Prussia, or to the Consuls of the contracting German States, be writte.. in (hinese, and the Chine-e authorities shall be guided by this text. It is further agreed that the transitions may not be adduced as a proof in deciding difference.

In order to avoid future differences, and in consider tion that all diplomatists of Europe are acquainted with the French language, the present treaty has been executed in the German, the Chinese, and the French languages. Ail these version have the same sense and signification; but the French text shall be considered the original text of the treaty, and shall decide wherever the German and Chinese versions d ffer.

Art. VI. The subjects of the contracting German States may, with their families, reside, frequent, and carry on trade or industry in the ports, cities, and towns of Canton, Swatow or Chao chow, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo, Shanghai, Tang how or Chefoo. Tientsin, Newchwang, Chinkiang, Kink ang; Hnkow, Kiungehow (Hainan), and at Taiwan and Tamsi in the Island of Formosa. They are permitted to proceed to and from these places with their vessels and merchandise, and within these loca es to purchase, rent, or let houses or land, build, or open churches, churchyas, and hospitals.

　　　　　　Ait. VII.-Merchant vessels belonging to any of the contracting German States may not enter othe: ports than those declared open in this treaty. They must not, contrary to law, enter other ports, or carry on ilient trade along the coast. All vessels, detectà in violating this stipulation shall, together with their cargo, be subject to, confi cation by the Chinese Government.

　　　　　　Art. VIII-Subjects of the contracting German States may make excursions in the neighbourhood of the open ports to a distance of one hundred li, and for a time not exceeding five days.

　　　　　　Those desirous of proceeding into the interior of the country must be provided with a passport, issued by their respective Diplomatic or Consular authorities, and countersigned by the local Chinese authorities. These passports must upon demand

be exhibitel.

　　　　　　　The Chinese authorities shall be at liberty to detain merchants and travellers subjects of any of the contracting German States, who may have lost their passports

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until they have procured new ones, or to convey them to the next Consulate, but they shall not be permitted to subject them to ill-usage or allow them to be ill-used.

　　　　　　　It is, however, distinctly understood that no passport may be given to places at present occupied by the rebels until peace has been restored.

Art. IX. The subjects of the contracting German States shall be permitted to engage compradores, interpreters, writers, workmen, sailors, and servants from any part of China, upon a remuneration agreed to by both parties, as also to hire boats for the transport of persons and merchandise. They shall also be permitted to engage Chinese for acquiring the Chinese language or dialects, or to instruct them in foreign languages. There shall be no restriction in the purchasing of German or Chinese books. Art. X.-Persons professing or teaching the Christian religion shall enjoy full protection of their persons and property, and be allowed free exercise of their religion.

Art. XI.-Any merchant-vessel of any of the contracting German States arriving at any of the open ports shall be at liberty to engage the services of a pilot to take her to port. In like manner, after she has discharged all legal dues and duties, and is realy to take her departure, she shall be permitted to select a pilot to conduct ber out of port.

　　　　　　　Art. XII.-Whenever a vessel belonging to any of the contracting German States has entered a hubour, the Superintendent of Customs may, if he see fit, depute one or more Customs officers to guard the ship, and to see that no merchandise is smuggled. These officers shall live in a boat of their own, or stay on board the ship, as may best suit their convenience. Their salaries, food, and expenses shall be defrayed by the Chinese Customs authorities, and they shall not be entitled to any fees whatever from the master or consignee. Every violation of this regulation shall be punished propo tionally to the amount exacted, which shall be returned in full.

Art. XIII.-Within twenty-four (24) hours after the arrival of the ship, the master, unless he be prevented by lawful causes, or in his stead the supercargo or the cous gnee, shall lodge in the hands of the Consul the ship's papers and copy of the manifest.

Within a further period of twenty-four (24) hours the Consul will report to the Superintendent of Customs the name of the ship, the number of the crew, her registered tonnage, and the nature of the cargo.

If owing to neglect on the part of the master the above rule be not complied with within forty-eight hours after the ship's arrival he shall be liable to a file of ifty (50) dollars for every day's delay; the total amount of penalty, however, shall not exceed two hundred (200) dollars.

Immediately after the receipt of the report, the Superintendent of Customs shall issue a permit to open hatches.

If the master shall open hatches and begin to discharge the cargo without said permit, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred (500) dollars, and the goods so di-charged without permit shall be liable to confiscation.

Art. XIV. Whenever a merchant, a subject of any of the contracting German States, has cargo to land or ship, he must apply to the Superintendent of Customs for a special permit. Merchandize landed or shipped without such permit shall be subject

to forieiture.

Art. XV.-The subjects of the contracting German States shall pay duties on all goods imported or exported by them at the ports open to foreign trade according to the tariff appended to this tre ty; but in no case shall they be taxed with higher duties than, at present or in future, subjects of the most favoured nations are liable to. The commercial stipulations appended to this treaty shall constitute an integral part of the same, and shall therefore be considered binding upon both the high con- tracting parties.

　　　　　　　Art. XVI-With respect to articles subject to an ad valorem duty, if the German merchant cannot agree with the Chinese officers as to their value, then each party shall call in two or three merchants to examine and appraise the goods, and the highest price at which any of these merchants may declare himself willing to purchase them shall be assumed as the value of the goods,

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Art. XVII.-Duties shall be charged upon the net weight of each article; tare therefore to be deducted. If the German merchant cannot agree with the Chinese officers on the exact amount of tare, then each party shall choose from among the goods respecting which there is a difference a certain number of chests or bales, which being first weighted gross, shall afterwards be tared and the tare fixed accord- ingly. The average tare upon these chests or bales shall constitute the tare upon the whole lot of packages.

Art. XVIII. If in the course of verification there arise other points of dispute, which cannot be settled, the German merchant may appeal to his Consul, who will communicate the particulars of the differences of the case to the Superintendent of Customs, and both will endeavour to bring about an amicable arrangement. But the appeal to the Consul must be made within twenty-four hours, or it will not be attended to.

　　　　　　As long as no settlement be come to, the Superintendent of Customs shall not enter the matter at issue in his books, in order that a thorough investigation and the final settlement of the difference be not prejudiced.

Art. XIX.-Should imported goods prove to be damaged, a fair reduction of duty shall be allowed, in proportion to their deterioration. If any disputes arise, they shall be settled in the same manner as agreed upon in Art. XVI. of this treaty having reference to articles which pay duty ad valorem.

Art. XX.-Any merchant vessel belonging to one of the contracting German States having entered any of the open ports, and not yet opened hatches, may quit the same within forty-eight hours after her arrival, and proceed to another port, without being subject to the payment of tonnage-dues, duties, or any other fees or charges; but tonnage-dues must be paid after the expiration of the said forty-eight

hours.

　　　　　　Art. XXI.-Import duties shall be considered payable on the landing of the goods, and ducies of export on the shipping of the same. When all tonnage-dues and duties shall have been paid, the Superintendent of Customs shall give a receipt in full (port-clearance), which being produced at the Consulate, the Consular officer shall then return to the captain the ship's papers and permit him to depart on the

voyage.

　　　　　　Art. XXII.-The Superintendent of Customs will point out one or more bankers authorized by the Chinese Government to receive the duties on his behalf. The receipts of these bankers shall be looked upon as given by the Chinese Government itself. Payment may be made in bars or in foreign coin, whose relative value to the Chinese Sycee silver shall be fixed by special agreement, according to circumstances, between the Consular Officers and the Superintendent of Customs.

　　　　　　Art. XXIII.-Merchant-vessels belonging to the contracting German States of more than one hundred and fifty tons burden shall be charged four mace per ton ; merchant-vessels of one hundred and fifty tons and under shall be charged at the rate of one mace per ton.

The captain or consignee having paid the tonnage-dues the Superintendent of Customs shall give them a special certificate, on exhibition of which the ship shall be exempted from all further payment of tonnage-dues in any open port of China which the captain may visit for a period of four months, to be reckoned from the date of the port clearance mentioned in Art. XXI.

Boats employed by subjects of the contracting German States in the conveyance of passengers, baggage, letters, articles of provisions, or articles not subject to duties shall not be liable to tonnage dues. Any boat of this kind, however, conveying merchandize subject to duty, shall come under the category of vessels under one hundred and fifty tons, and pay tonnage-dues at the rate of one mace per register ton.

Art. XXIV.-Goods on which duties have been paid in any of the ports open to foreign trade, upon being sent into the interior of the country shall not be subject to any but transit duty. The same shall be paid according to the tariff now existing, and may not be raised in future. This also applies to goods sent from the interior of the country to any of the open ports.

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　　　　　　　All transit duties on produce brought from the interior to any of the open ports or importations sent from any of the open ports into the interior of China may be paid once for all.

　　　　　　　If any of the Chinese officers violate the stipulations of this article by demanding illegal or higher duties than allowed by law, they shall be punished according to Chinese law.

Art. XXV.-If the master of a merchant vessel belonging to any of the contracting German States, having entered any of the open ports, should wish to land enly a portion of his cargo, he shall only pay duties for the portion so landed. He may take the rest of the cargo to another port, pay duties there, and dispose of the

Bame.

Art. XXVI.-Merchants of any of the contracting German States, who may have imported merchandize into any of the open ports and paid duty thereon, if they desire to re-export the same, shall be entitled to make application to the Superintendent of Customs, who shall cause examination to be made to satisfy himself of the identity of the goods and of their having remained unchanged.

On such duty-paid goods the Superintendent of Customs shall, on application of the merchant wishing to export them to any other open port, issue a certificate, testifying the payment of all legal duties thereon.

The Superintendent of Customs of the port to which such goods are brought, shall, upon presentation of said certificate, issue a permit for the discharge and landing of them free of all duty, without any additional exactions whatever.

But if, on comparing the goods with the certificate, any fraud on the revenue be detected, then the goods shall be subject to confiscation.

But if the goods are to be exported to a foreign port, the Superintendent of Customs of the port from which they are exported shall issue a certificate stating that the merchant who exports the goods has a claim on the Customs equal to the amount of duty paid on the goods. The certificate shall be a valid tender to the Customs in payment of import or export duties.

Art. XXVII.-No transhipment from one vessel to another can be made without special permission of the Superintendent of Customs, under pain of confiscation of the goods so transhipped, unless it be proved that there was danger in delaying the transhipment.

Art. XXVIII-Sets of standard weights and measures, such as are in use at the Canton Custom House, shall be delivered by the Superintendent of Customs to the Consul at each port open to foreign trade. These measures, weights, and balances shall represent the ruling standard on which all demands and payments of duties are made and in case of any dispute they shall be referred to.

Art. XXIX.-Penalties enforced or confiscations made for violation of this Treaty, or of the appended regulations, shall belong to the Chinese Government.

Art. XXX.-Ships-of-war belonging to the contracting German States cruising about for the protection of trade, or being engaged in the pursuit of pirates, shall be at liberty to visit, without distinction, all ports within the dominions of the Emperor of China. They shall receive every facility for the purchase of provisions, the procuring of water, and for making repairs. The commanders of such ships shall hold intercourse with the Chinese authorities on terms of equality and courtesy. Such ships shall not be liable to payment of duties of any kind.

Art. XXXI.-Merchant vessels belonging to any of the contracting German States, from injury sustained, or from other causes, compelled to seek a place of refuge, shall be permitted to enter any port within the dominions of the Emperor of China without being subject to the payment of tonnage dues or duties on the goods, if only landed for the purpose of making the necessary repairs of the vessel, and remaining under the supervision of the Superintendent of Customs. Should any such vessel be wrecked or stranded on the coast of China, the Chinese authorities shall immediately adopt measures for rescuing the crew and for securing the vessel and The crew thus saved shall receive friendly treatment, and, if necessary, shall be furnished with means of conveyance to the nearest Consular station.

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Art. XXXII.-If sailors or other individuals of ships-of-war or merchant vessels belonging to any of the contracting German States desert their ships and take refuge in the dominions of the Emperor of China, the Chinese authorities shall, upon due requisition by the Consular Officer, or by the captain, take the necessary steps for the detention of tae desert r, and haud him overto the Consular Officer or to the captain. In like manner, if Chinese descrters or criminals take refuge in the houses or on board ships belonging to subjects of the contracting German States, the local Chinese authorities shall apply to the German Consular Officer, who will take the necessary measures for apprehending the said deserter or criminal, and deliver him up to the Chinese authorities.

Art. XXXIII.-If any vessel belonging to any of the contracting German States, while with n Chinese waters, be plunderel by pirates, it shall be the duty of the Chinese authorities to use every means to capture and punish the said pirates, to recover the stolen property where and in whatever condition it may be, and to hand the same over to the Consul for restoration to the owner. If the robbers or pirates cannot be apprehend d, or the property taken cannot be entirely recovered, the Chinese authorities shall then be punished in accordance with the Chinese law, but they shall not be held pecuniarity responsible.

　　　　　　Art. XXXIV.-If subjects of any of the contracting German States have any occasion to address a communication to the Chinese authorities, they must sul mit the same to their Consular Officer, determine if the mat er be just, and th· lan- gunge ne proper and respectful, in which event he shall transmit the same to the proper authorities, or return the same for alterations. If Chinese subjects have occasion to address a Consul of one of the contracting German States, they must adopt the same course, and submit their communication to the Chinese authorities, who will act in like manner

Art. XXXV. Any subjects of any of the c ntracting German States having reason to complain of a Chinese, must first proceed to the Consular Offie r and state his grievance. The Consular Officer, having inquired int› tae merits of the case, will endeavour to arrange it amicably. In like manner, if a Chinese have reason to complain of a subject of any of the contacting German States, the Consular Officer shali listen to his complaint and endeavour to bring about a friendly settlement. If the dispute, however, is of such a nature that the Consul cannot settle the same amicably, he shall then request the assistance of the Chinese authorities, that they may conjoin ly examine into the merits of the case, and decide it equitably.

Art. XXXVI -The Chinese authorities shall at all times afford the fullest protection to the subjects of the contracting German States, especially when they are exp sed to insult or violence. In all cases of incendiarism, robbery, or demolition, the local authorities shall at once dispatch an armed force to disperse the mob. tó apprehend the guilty, and to panish them with the rigour of the law. Those roubed or whose property has been demolished shall have a claim upon the despoilers of their property for indemnification, proportione i to the injury sustained.

Art. XXXVII.-Wh never a subject of His Majesty the Emperor of China fails to discharge the debts due to a subject of one of the contracting German States, or fraudulently absconds, the Chinese authorities, upon application by the creditor, will do their utmost to effect his arrest and to enforce payment of the debt. In 1 ke manner the authorities of the contracting Ge:man Stat s shall do their utmost to enforce the payment of debts of their subjects towards Chinese subjects, and to bring to justice any who fraudulently abscond. But in no case shall either the Chinese Government or the Government of the contracting German States be held responsible for the debts incurred by their respective subjects.

　　　　　　Art. XXXVIII.-Any subject of His Majesty the Emperor of China having committed a crime against a subject of one of the contracting German States, shall be apprehended by the Chinese authorities and punished according to the laws of China.

　　　　　　　In like manner, if a subject of the contracting German States is guilty of a crime against a subject of His Majesty the Emperor of China, the Consular Officer shall arrest him and punish him according to the laws of the State to which he belongs.

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　　　　　　Art. XXXIX.-All questions arising between subjects of the contracting German States in reference to the rights of property or person shall be submitted to the jurisdiction of the authorities of their respective States. In like manner will the Chinese authorities abstain from interfering in differences that may arise between subjects of one of the contracting German States and foreigners.

Art. XL. The contracting parties agree that the German States and their subjects shall fully and equally participate in all privileges, immunities, and ad- vantages that have been, or may be hereafter, granted by His Majesty the Emperor of China to the government or subjects of any other nation. All changes made in favour of any nation in the tariff, in the customs duties, in tonnage and harbour dues, in import, export, or transit duties, shall as soon as they take effect, imme- distely and without a new treaty, be equally applied to the contracting German States and to their merchants, shipowne s, and navigators.

　　　　　　　Art. XLI.-If in future the contracting German States desire a modification of any stipulation contained in this treaty, they shall be at liberty, after the lapse of ten years, dated from the day of the ratification of this treaty, to open negotiations to that effect. Six months before the expiration of the ten years it must be officially notified to the Chinese Government that modifications of the treaty are desired, and in what these consist. If no such notification is made, the treaty remains in force for another

ten years.

Art. XLII. The present treaty shall be ratified and the ratifications be exchanged within one year, dated from the day of signature, the exchange of the ratiûcations to take place at Shanghai or Tientsin, at the option of the Prussian Government. Im- mediately after the exchange of ratifications has taken place, the treaty shall be brought to the knowledge of the Chinese authorities, and be promulgated in the capital and throughout the provinces of the Chinese Empire, for the guidance of the authorities. In faith wher of we, the respective Plenipotentiaries of the high contracting powers, have signed and sealed the present treaty.

Done in four copies, at Tientsin, this second day of September, in the year of cur Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, corresponding with the Chinese date the twenty-eighth day of the seventh moon of the eleventh year of Hien Fung.

(Signed)

COUNT EULENBURG, CHONG MEEN.

[L.S.] [L.S.]

[L.S.]

CHONG HEE.

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Separate Article

In addition to a treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation concluded this day between Prussia, the other states of the German Customs Union, the Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg Strelitz, the Hanseatic towns of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburg of the one part, and China of the other part, which treaty shall take effect after exchange of the ratifications within twelve months from its signature, and which stipulates that His Majesty the King of Prussia may Lominate a diplomatic agent at the Court of Peking with a permanent residence at that capital, it has been convenanted between the respective Plenipotentiaries of these States, that, owing to and in consideration of the disturbances now prevailing in China, His Majesty the King of Prussia shall wait the expiration of five years after the exchange of ratifications of this treaty before he deputes a diplomatic agent to take his fixe residence at Peking.

　　　　　　　In faith whereof the espective Plenipotentiaries have hereunto set their signa- tures nd affixed their seals.

　　　　　　　Done in four copies at Tientsin, this second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred an sixty-one, corresponding to the Chinese date of the twenty-eighth day of the seventh moon of the eleventh year of Hien Fung.

(Signed)

[L.S.] [L.8. [L.S.]

COUNT EULEnburg. CHONG MEEN.

CHONG HEE.

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Separate Article

In addition to a treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, concluded between Prussia, the other States of the German Customs Union, the Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and the Hanseatic towns of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburg on the one part, and China on the other part.

　　　　　　It has been separately agreed that the Senates of the Hanseatic towns shall have the right to nominate for themselves a Consul of their own at each of the Chinese ports open for commerce and navigation.

This separate article shall have the same force and validity as if included word for word in the above-mentioned treaty.

In faith whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed this present separate article and affixed their seals.

Done in four copies at Tientsin, the second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, corresponding to the Chinese date of the twenty-eighth day of the seventh moon of the eleventh year of Hien Fung.

(Signed)

[L.S.] (L.8.

[L.S.]

COUNT EULENBURG. CHONG MEEN. CHONG HEE.

SUPPLEMENTARY CONVENTION BETWEEN GERMANY AND CHINA

SIGNED AT PEKING IN THE GERMAN AND CHINESE LANGUAGES, on the 31ST MARCH, 1880

Ratified 16th September, 1881

[Translated from the German Text]

His Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia, &c., in the name of the German Empire, and his Majesty the Emperor of China, wishing to secure the more perfect execution of the Treaty of the 2nd September, 1861, have, in conformity with Article XLI. of that Treaty, according to the terms of which the High Contracting German States are entitled, after a period of ten years, to demand a revision of the Treaty, decided to conclude a Supplementary Convention.

　　　　　　With this view they have appointed their Plenipotentiaries-viz., His Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia, &c., his Euvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Max August Scipio von Brandt; and His Majesty the Emperor of China, the Minister of the Tsung-li Yamen, the Secretary of State, &c., Shen Kue-fen; and the Secretary of State, &c., Chin Lien ;

Who, after communicating to each other their full powers, and finding them in due form, have agreed upon the following Articles :-

Art. I.-Chinese concession.-The harbours of Ichaug, in Hupei; Wuhu, in Anhui; Wenchow, in Chekiang; and Pakhao, in Kwangtung, and the landing-places Tat'ung and Anking in Anhui; Huk'ow, in Kiangsi; Wusueh, Luchikow, and Shah- shih, in Hukuang, having already been opened, German ships are in future also to be permitted to touch at the harbour of Woosung, in the province of Kiangsu, to take in or discharge merchandise. The necessary Regulations are to be drawn up by the Taotai of Shanghai and the competent authorities.

　　　　　　German concession. In the event of special regulations for the execution of concessions which the Chinese Government may make to foreign Governments being attached to such concessions, Germany, while claiming these concessions for herself and for her subjects, will equally assent to the regulations attached to them.

Art. XI. of the Treaty of the 2nd September, 1861, is not affected by this regulation, and is hereby expressly confirmed.

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Should German subjects, on the strength to this article, claim privileges, immu- nities, or advantages which the Chinese Government may further concede to another Power, or the subject of such Power, they will also submit to the regulations which have been agreed upon in connection with such concession.

Art. II.--Chinese concession.-German ships, which have already paid tonnage dues in China, may visit all other open ports in China, as well as all ports not Chinese, without exception, without being again obliged to pay tonnage dues, within the given period of four months.

German sailing-vessels which remain in the same Chinese harbour for a longer period than fourteen days shall only pay for time over and above this period half of the tonnage dues stipulated by Treaty.

German concession.-The Chinese Government shall have the right of appointing Consuls to all towns of Germany in which the Consuls of other States are admitted, and they shall enjoy the same rights and privileges as the Consuls of the most favoured nation.

Art. III.-Chinese concession. The Chinese Commissioner of Customs, and the other competent authorities, shall, after agreeing upon the necessary regulations, themselves take measures for the establishment of bonded warehouses in all the open ports of China in which they are required in the interests of foreign commerce, and where local circumstances would admit of such an arrangement being made.

German concession.-Germau ships, visiting the open ports of Chica, shall deliver a manifest containing an exact statement as to the quality and quantity of their cargoes.

　　　　　　　　　　Mistakes which may have occurred in the manifests can be rectified in the course of twenty-four hours (Sundays and holidays excepted). False state- ments as to the quantity and quality of cargo are punishable by confiscation of the gools and also by a fine, to be imposed upon the captain, but not to exceed the aum of Tls. 500.

　　　　　　　Art. IV. -Chinese concession.-The export duty on Chinese coal, exported by German merchants from the open ports, is reduced to 3 mace per ton. In those porta in which a lower duty on the export of coal has already been fixed upon, the lower duty remains in force.

German concession.-Any one acting as pilot for any kind of craft whatever, without being furnished with the regulation certificate, is liable to a fine not to exced Tls. 100 for each separate case.

Regulations with a view to exercising a proper control over sailors are to be introduced with the least possible delay.

Art. V.-Chinese concession.--German ships in want of repairs in consequence of damages sustained within or without the port are not required to pay tonnage dues during the period necessary for repairs, which is to be fixed by the Inspectorate

of Customs.

German concession.--Ships belonging to Chinese may not make use of the German flag, nor may German ships make use of the Chinese flag.

Art. VI.-Chinese concession.--In the event of German ships, no longer fit for sea, being broken up in any open port of China, the material may be sold without ang import duty being levied upon it. But if the materials are to be brought ashore a"permit of discharge" must first be obtained for them from the Cutsoms Inspec- torate, in the same manner as in the case of merchandise.

German concession.-If German subjects travel into the interior for their own pleasure without being in possession of a passport issued by the Consul and stamped by the proper Chinese authority, the local authorities concerned are entitled to have them taken back to the nearest German Consulate, in order that the requisite supervision may be exercised over them. The offender is, in addition to this, liable to a fine up to 300 taels.

Art. VII.-Chinese concession.-Materials for German docks are free of duty A list of articltes which may be imported free of duty in conformity with this stipulation is to be drawn up and published by the Inspector-General of Customs.

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German concession.-Passes issued to German subjects for conveying foreign merchandise into the interior, as well as passports for the purpose of travelling issued to German subjects, are only to remain in force for a period of thirteen Chinese mouths from the day on which they were issued.

Art. VIII.--The settlement of the question relating to judicial proceedings in mixed cases, the t.xation of foreign merchandise in the interior, the taxation of Chinese goods in the possession of foreign merchants in the interior, and int rcourse between foreign and Chinese officials are to become the subject of special negotiation, which both Governments hereby declare themselves ready to enter upou,

Art. IX.-All the provisions of the former Treaty of the 2nd September, 1861, which have not been altered by this agreement, are hereby confirmed anew, as both parties now expressly declare,

In the cases of those articles, on the other hand, wh ch are affected by the present treaty, the new interpretation of them is to be consider d as binding.

Art. X.-The present Supplementary Convention shall be rat fied by their Majesties, and the ratifications exchanged at Peking, within a year from the date of its signaure.

　　　　　　The provisions of the agreement come into force on the day of the exchange of the ratifications.

　　　　　　In witness whereof the plenipotentiaries of both the High Contracting Powers have signed and sealed with their seals the above agreement in four copies, in the German and Chinese texts, which have been compared and found to correspond.

Done at Peking the 31st March, 1880, corresponding to the 21st day of the second month of the sixth year Kwang Su.

(Sigued)

[L.S.] L.8.] [L.S.]

M. VON BRANDT. SHEN KUE-FEN. CHING LIEN.

SPECIAL STIPULATIONS TO THE SUPPLEMENTARY CONVENTION

　　　　　　　For the sake of greater clearness and completeness, it has seemed fitting to append a number of special stipulations to the Supplementary Convention.

　　　　　　The following stipulations must be observed by the subjects of both the Contracting Parties, in the same way as the stipulations of the Treaty itself. In proof whereof the plenipotentiaries of the two States have thereto set their seals and signatures :-

1.-In accordance with the newly granted privileges for the port of Woosung in the province of Kiangsu, German ships shall be at liberty to take in and to unload there merchandise which is either intended for Shanghai or comes from Shanghai; and for this purpose the competent auti orities there shall have the right of devising regulations in order to prevent frauds on the taxes and irregularities of every kind; which regulations shall be binding for the merchants of bot 1 countries, German m rchants are not at liberty to construct landing-places for ships, merchants' houses, or warehouses at the said | lace.

2.-An experiment to ascertain whether bonded warehouses can be established in the Chinese open ports shall first be made at Shanghai.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　For this purpose the Customs Director at the said place, with the Customs Inspector-General, shall forthwith draw up regulations suitable to the local conditi ns, and then the said Customs Director and his colleagues shall proceed to the establishment of such bonded

warehouse.

　　　　　　　3. If any goods found on board a German ship, for the discharge whereof a written permit from the Customs Office is required, and not entered in the manifest, this shall be taken as proof of a false manifest, no matter whe: her a certificate of the reception of such goods on board, bearing the captain's signature, be produced

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　　　　　　　4.-If a German ship, in consequence of damages received in one of the open Chinese ports, or outside thereof, needs repair, the time required for such repair shall be reckoned in addition to the term after the lapse of which tonnage-dues are to be paid. The Chinese authorities have the right to make the necessary arrange- ments for this purpose. But if it appears therefrom that this is only a pretext and a desion to evade the legal payments to the Customs chest, the ship therein concerned shall be fined in double the amout of the tonnage-dues whereof it has tried to evade the payment.

　　　　　　　5.-No ships of any kind which belong to Chinese subjects are allowed to make use of the German flag. If there are definite grounds for suspiciou that this has nevertheless been done, the Chinese authority concerned is to address an official communication thereon to the German Consul, and if it should be shown, in con- sequence of the investigation instituted by him, that the ship was really not entitled to bear the German flag, the ship as well as the goods found therein, so far as they belong to Chinese merchants, shall be immediately delivered over to the Chinese authorities for further disposal. If it be ascertained that German subjects were aware of the circumstances, and took part in the commission of the irregularity, the whole of the g ols belonging to them found in the ship are liable to confiscation, and the people themselves to punishment according to law.

In case a German ship carries the Chinese flag without authority to do so, then. if it be ascertained through the investigation made by the Chinese authorities that the ship was really not entitled to bear the Chinese flag, the ship, as well as the gels found therein, so far as they belong to German merchants, shall be imme- diately delivered over to the German Consul for further disposal and the punishment of the guilty. If it be shown that German owners of goods were aware of the cir- cumstance and took part in the commission of this irregularity, all the goods belong- ing to them found in the ship shall incur the penalty of confi-cation by the Chinese authorities. The goods belonging to Chinese may be immediately seized by the Chinese authorities.

6.-If, on the sale of the materials of a German ship which, from unseaworthi- ness, has been broken up in one of the open Chinese ports, an attempt be made to mix up with them goods belonging to the cargo, these goous shall be liable to con- fiscation, and, moreover, to a fine equal to double the amount of the import duty which they would otherwise bave had to pay.

7.-If German subjects go into the interior with foreign goods, or travel there, the passes or certificates issued to them shall only be valid for thirteen Chi: ese months, reckoned from the day of their issue, and after the lapse of that term must no longer be used. The expire i passes and certificates must be returned to the Customs authorities in whose official distr.ct they were issued in order to ie cancell d.

N.B.-If a pleasure excursion be undertaken into regions so distant that the term of a year appears insufficient, this must be noted on the pass by reason of an understanding between the Consul and the Chinese authority at the time it is issued.

If the return of the assport be omitted, no further pas shall be issued to the person concerned until it has taken place. If the pass be lost, no matter whether within the term or after its expiration, the person concerned must forthwith make a for nal declaration of the fact before the nearest Chinese authority. The Chinese official applied to will then do what else may be necessary for the invalidat on of the pass.

　　　　　　　　　If the recorded declaration prove to be untrue, in case the transport of goods be concerned, they will be confiscated; if the matter relate to travelling, the traveller will be taken to the nearest Consul, and be delivered up to him for punishment.

8-Materials for German docks only enjoy, in so far as they are actually employed for the repair of ships, the favour of duty-free importation, in open ports. The Customs authority has the right to send inspectors to the dock to convince themselves on the spot as to the manner and way in which the materials are being used. If the construction of a new ship be concerned, the materials employed for this, in so far as they are specially entered in the import or export tariff, will be

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reckoned at the tariff duty, and those not entered in the tariff at a duty of 5 per cent. ad valorem, and the merchant concerned will be bound to pay this duty subsequently.

　　　　　　Any one who wishes to lay out a dock is to get from the Customs Office a gratis Concession certificate, and to sign a written undertaking, the purport and wording whereof is to be settled in due form by the Customs office concerned.

　　　　　　9.-Art. XXIX. of the Treaty of the 2nd September, 1861, shall be applicable to the fines established by this present Supplementary Convention.

　　　　　　Done at Peking the 31st March, 1880, corresponding with the 21st day of the 2nd month of the 6th year Kwang Sü.

(Signed)

[1.8.]

M. VON BRandt.

[L.S.]

SHEN KUE-FEN.

[L.S.]

CHING LIEN.

THE PRINCE OF KUNG AND THE MINISTERS OF THE TSUNG-LI YAMEN

TO HERR Von Brandt.

Kwang Sü, 6th year, 2nd month, 21st day. (Peking, March 31st, 1880.)

　　　　　　With regard to the stipulation contained in the second Article of the Supple- mentary Convention concluded on occasion of the Treaty revision, that German sailing-ships which lie for a longer time than fourteen days in Chinese ports shall only pay for the time beyond that term the moiety of the tonnage dues settled by Treaty, the Plenipotentiaries of the two contracting parties have agreed and declared that the said stipulation shall first of all be introduced by way of trial, and that in case on carrying it out practical difficulties should arise, another stipula tion may be put in its place on the basis of a renewed joint discussion by both parties.

(PRINCE KUNG AND THE MINISTERS OF THE TSUNG-LI YAMEN).

PROTOCOL.

The undersigne1, who have been expressly empowered by their Government to make the following arrangements, have agreed that the term settled by the Pleni- potentiaries of the German Empire and of China in the Supplementary Convention concluded at Peking on the 31st March this year, for the exchange of the Ratifica- tion of the Convention, shall be prolonged till the 1st December, 1881.

　　　　　　　The other stipulations of the Supplementary Convention of the 31st March, this year, are not affected by this alteration.

　　　　　　In witness whereof the undersigned have subscribed with their own hands and affixed their seals to this Agreement, in two copies of each of the German and Chinese texts, which have been compared with each other and found to correspond.

　　　　　　Done at Peking the 21st August, 1880, corresponding with the 16th day of the 7th month of the 6th year Kwang Sü.

(Signed)

[L.S.] [L.S.]

M. VON BRAndt.

SHEN KUE-FEN.

[L.S.]

LIN SHU.

[L.8.]

CHING LIEN.

WANG NEEn-Shou.

CHUNG LI.

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SIGNED, IN THE RUSSIAN, CHINESE, AND FRENCH LANGUAGES,

AT ST. PETERSBURG, 12TH FEBRUARY, 1881

Ratifications exchanged at St. Petersburg, 19th August, 1881

[Translated from the French Text]

　　　　　　His Majesty the Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias and His Majesty the Emperor of China, desiring to regulate some questions of frontier and trade touching the interests of the two Empires, in order to cement the relations of friendship between the two countries, have named for their plenipotentiaries, to the effect of establishing an agreement on these questions:-

His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias: His Secretary of State Nicholas de Giers, senator, actual privy councillor, directing the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and his envoy extraordinary and minister plenipoten.itary to His Majesty the Emperor of China, Eugène de Buzow, actual councillor of state.

And His Majesty the Emperor of China: Tseng, Marquess of Neyong, vice- president of the high court of justice, his envoy extraordinary and minister plenipo- tenitary to His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, furnished with special powers to sign the present Treaty in quality of ambassador extraordinary.

The above named plenipotentiaries, furnished with full powers, which have been found sufficient, have agreed upon the following stipulations:-

Art. I.-His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias consents to the re- establishment of the Chinese Government in the country of Ili, temporarily occupied since 1871 by the Russiau Armies. Russia remains in possession of this country, within the limits indicated by Article VII. of the present Treaty.

Art. II.-His Majesty the Emperor of China engages to decree the proper measures to shelter the inhabitants of the country of Ili, of whatever race and to whatever religion they belong, from all prosecution, in their goods or in their persons, for acts committed during or after the troubles that have taken place in that country. A proclamation in conformity with this engagement will be addressed by the Chinese authorities, in the name of His Majesty the Emperor of China, to the popula- tion of the country of Ili, before the restoration of this country to the said authorities.

　　　　　　　Art. III-The inhabitants of the country of Ili will be free to remain in the places of their actual residence as Chinese subjects, or to emigrate to Russia and to adopt Russian dependence. They will be called to pronounce themselves on this subject before the re-establishment of Chinese authority in the country of Ili, and a delay of one year, from the date of the restoration of the country to the Chinese authorities, will be accorded to those who show a desire to emigrate to Russia. The Chinese will oppose no impediment to their emigration or to the transportation of their moveable property.

　　　　　　Art. IV.-Russian subjects possessing land in the country of Ili will keep their rights of property, even after the re-establishment of the authority of the Chinese Government in that country.

　　　　　　This provision is not applicable to the inhabitants of the country of Ili who shall adopt Russian nationality upon the re-establishment of Chinese authority in this country.

　　　　　　Russian subjects whose lands are situated without places appropriated to Russian factories, in virtue of Article XIII. of the Treaty of Kuldja of 1851, ought to discharge the same taxes and contributions as Chinese subjects.

　　　　　　Art. V.--The two governments will appoint commissioners of Kuldja, who will proceed to the restoration on the one part, to the resumption on the oth r, of

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the administration of the province of Ili, and who will be charged, in general, with the execution of the stipulations of the present Treaty relating to the re-establish- ment, in this country, of the Chinese Government.

　　　　　　　The said commissioners will fulfil their commission, in conforming to the understanding which will be established as to the mode of restoration on the one part and of resumption on the other, of the administration of the country of Ili, between the Governor-General of Turkestan and the Governor-General of Shansi and Kansuh, charged by the two governments with the high direction of the affair.

　　　　　　　The resnu ption of the country of Ili should be finished within a delay of three months or sooner, if it can be done, dating from the day o; the arrival at Tashkend of the functionary who will be delegated by the Governor-General of Shansi and Kansuh to the Governor-General of Turkestan to notify to him the ratification and the promulgation of the pr. sent Treaty by His Majesty the Emperor of China.

Art. VI.-The Government o' His Majesty the Emperor of China will pay to the Russian Government the sum of nine millions of metallic roubles, designed to cover the expen-es occasioned by the occupation of the country of Ili by the Russian troops since 1871, to satisfy all the pecuniary claims arising from, up to the present day, the losses which Russian subjets have suffered in t eir goods pillaged on Chinese territories, and to furnish relief to the families of Russian subjects killed in armed attacks of which t ey have been victims on Chinese territory.

　　　　　　　The above mentioned sum of nine millions of metallic roubles will be paid within the term of two years from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the present Treaty, according to the order and the conditions agreed upon between the two governments in the special Protocol annexed to the present Treaty.

　　　　　　Art. VII. The western portion of the country of Ii is incorporated with Russia, in order to serve as a place of establishment for the inhabitants of this country who shall adopt the Russian dependence and who, by this action, will have had to abandon the lands which they possessed there.

　　　　　　　The frontier between the po-sessions of Russia and the Chinese province of Ili will follow, starting from the mountains Bèdjin-taon, the course of the river Khorgos, as far as the place where this river falls into the river Ili, and, crossing the latter, will take a direction to te south, towards the mountains Ouzoun-taou, leaving to the west the village of Koldjat. Proceeding from this point it will follow, whilst being directed to the south, the delineation fixed by the protocol signed at Tchugtu- chack in 1864.

　　　　　　Art. VIII-A part of the frontier line, fixed by the protocol signe ! at Tehugtu- chack in 1864, at the teas of the Lake Zaison, having been found defective, the two governments will name commissioners who will modify, by a common agreement, the ancient delineation in such a manner as to remove the defects pointed out and to establish an effective separation between the Kirghiz tribes submitted to the two Empires.

　　　　　　　To the new delineation will be given, as much as possible, an intermediat" direc- tion between the old frontier and a straight line leading from the Kouit un hill towards the Saour hills, crossing the Tcherny-Irtysh.

Art. IX. - The commissioners to be named by the two contracting parties will proced to place posts of demarcation, as wel on the delineation fix d by the preceding Articles VII. and VIII., as on the parts of the frontier where posts have not yet b en placed. The time and the place o: meeting of these commissioners shall be fixed by an understanding between the two governments.

　　　　　　　The two governments will also name commissioners to examine the frontier and to place posts of demarcation between the Russian province of Ferganah and the western part of the Chinese provine" o: Kashgar. The commissioners will take for the base of their work the existing frontier.

　　　　　　　Art. X.-The right recognised by the treaties of the Russian Government to nominate Consuls to Hli, to Tarbagatai, to Kashgar, and to Ourga is extended, from the present time, to the towns of Soutcheon (Tsia-yu-kwan) and of Turfan. In the following towns: Kobdo, Uliassoutai, Khami, Urumtsi, and Goutchen, the Russian

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Government will establish consulates in proportion to the devel pinent of commerce, and after an understanding with the Chinese Government.

　　　　　　　The Consul of Soutcheou (Tsia-yu-kwan) and of Turfan will exercise consular functions in the nighbouring districts, where the interests of Russian subjects demand the presence.

　　　　　　　The dispositions contained in Articles V. and VI. of the Treaty concluded at Peking in 1860, and relative to the concession of land for the houses for the con- sulates, for cemeteries, and for pasturage, will apply equily to the towns of Sout- cheou (Tsia-yu-kwan) and of Turfan The local authorities will aid the Consul to find provisional habi ations until the time when the houses of the consulates shall be built.

　　　　　　　The Russian Consuls in Mongolia and in the districts situated on the two slopes of the Ti-n-shan will make use of, for their journeys and for their correspondence, the postal insti utious of the government, conformably to the stipula ious of Ar icle XI. of the Treaty of Tient-in and of Article XII. of the Treaty o Peking. The Chinese authorities, to whom they will address themselves for this purpose, will lend them aid and assistance.

　　　　　　The town of Turfan not being a locality open to foreign trade, the right of establishug a consulate will not be invoked as a precedent to obtain a right analogous to the ports of China for the provinces of the interior and for Maneburia.

　　　　　　　　Art. XI.-Russian Consuls will communicate, for affairs of service, either with the local authorities of the town of their residence, or with the superior authorities of the circuit or of the province, according as the interests which are respectively confided to them, the importance of the affairs to be treated of, and their prompt expedition shall require. As to the rules of etiquette to be observed at the time. of their interviews and, in general, in their relations, they will be based upon the respect which he functionaries of two friendly powers reciprocally owo each other.

　　　　　　　All the affairs which may arise on Chinese territory, on the subject of commer. cial or other transactions, between those under the jurisdiction of the two states, will be examined and regulated, by a common agreement, by the consuls and the Chinese authorities.

In lawsuits on commercial matters, the two parties will terminate their difference amicably by means of arbitrators chosen by one side and the other. If agreement is not established in this way, the affair will be examined and regulated by the authorities of the two states.

Engagements contracted in writing, between Russian and Chinese subjects, lative to orders for merchandise, to the transport of it, to the location of shops, of houses, and of other places, or relating to other transactions of the same kind, may be presented for legalisation by the consulates and by the superior local alministrations, who are bound to legalize the documents w ich are presented to them. In case of non-execution of the engagements contracted, the consul and the Chinese authorities will consult as to the measures necessary to secure the execution of these obligations.

Art. XII-Russian subjects are authorized to carry on, as in the past, trade free of duties in Mongolia subject to Cina, as well in places and aim is a here th re is a Chinese administration as in those where there is none.

Russian subjects will equally enjoy the right of carrying on trade free of duties in the towns and other localities of the provinces of Ili, of Tarbagata, of Ka-hgar, of Urumts, and others situated on the lopes north and south of the chain of the Len-shan as far as the Great Wall. This immunity will be abrogated when the development of the trade necessitates the establishment of a customs tariff, conform- able to an understanding to be come to by the two Governments.

　　　　　　Russian subjects can import into the above-name provinces of China and export from them every description of produce, of whatever origin they may be. They may make purchases and sales, whether in cash, or by way of exchange; they will have the right to make their payments in merchandise of every description.

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　　　　　　Art. XIII.-In the places where the Russian Government will have the right to establish consulates, as well as in the town of Kalgan, Russian subjects may construct houses, shops, warehouses, and other buildings, on the lands which they will acquire by means of purchase, or which may be conceded to them by the local authorities, conformably to that which has been established for Ili and Tarbagatai, by Article XIII. of the Treaty of Kuldja of 1851.

The privileges granted to Russian subjects, in the town of Kalgan, where there will not be a consulate, constitute an exception which cannot be extended to any other locality of the interior provinces.

Art. XIV.-Russian merchants who may wish to dispatch merchandise from Russia, by land, into the interior provinces of China, can, as formerly, direct it by the towns of Kalgan and Tungchow, to the port of Tientsin, and from there, to the other ports and interior markets, and sell it in those different places.

Merchants will use this same route to export to Russia the merchandise purchased, as well in the towns and ports above nained as in the interior markets.

They will equally have the right to repair, for matters of trade, to Soutcheou (Tsia-yu-kwan), the terminal point of the Russian caravans, and they will enjoy there all the rights granted to Russian trade at Tientsin.

　　　　　　Art. XV.-Trade by land, exercised by Russian subjects in the interior and exterior provinces of China, will be governed by the Regulations annexed to the present Treaty.

The commercial stipulations of the present Treaty, as well as the Regulations which serve as a supplement to it, can be revised after an interval of ten years has elapsed from the date of the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty; but if, in the course of six months before the expiration of this term, neither of the contracting parties manifest a desire to proceed to the revision, the trade stipulations as well as the Regulations will remain in force for a new term of ten years.

Trade by sea route of Russian subjects in China will be subject to the general regulations established for foreign maritime commerce in China. If it becomes necessary to make modifications in these regulations, the two Governments will establish au understanding on this subject.

Art. XVI. If the development of Russian overland trade provokes the necessity of the establishment, for goods of export and import in China, of a Customs tariff, more in relation than the tariffs actually in force, to the necessities of that trade, the Russian and Chinese Governments will proceed to an understanding on this subject, by adopting as a base for settling the duties of entry and exit the rate of five per cent. of the value of the goods.

Until the establishment of this tariff, the export duties on some kinds of teas of inferior quality, actually imposed at the rates established for the tea of superior quality, will be diminished proportionately to their value. The settling of these duties will be proceeded with, for each kind of tea, by an understanding between the Chinese Government and the envoy of Russia to Peking, within the term of one year, at the latest, from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the present Treaty. Art. XVII.--Some divergencies of opinion having arisen hitherto as to the application of Article X. of the treaty concluded at Peking, in 1860, it is established by these presents, that the stipulations of the above-named article, relative to the recoveries to be effected, in case of theft and the harbouring of cattle beyond the frontier, will be for the future interpreted in this sense, that at the time of the discovery of the individuals guilty of theft or the harbouring of cattle, they will be condemned to pay the real value of the cattle which they have not restored. It is understood that in case of the insolvency of the individuals guilty of theft of cattle, the indemnity to be paid cannot be placed to the charge of the local au hor.tics.

　　　　　　The frontier authorities of the two States will prosecute, with all the rigour of the laws of their country, the individuals guilty of the harbouring of or theft of cattle, and should take the measures in their power for the restitution to whom they belong of cattle diverted, or which may have passed the frontier.

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The traces of cattle turned aside or which may have passed the frontier may be indicated, not only to the guards of the frontier posts, but also to the elders of the Dearest villages.

Art. XVIII.-The stipulations of the treaty concluded at Aigoun the 16th May, 1858, concerning the rights of the subjects of the two Empires to navigate the Amoor, the Sungari, and the Oussouri, and to carry on trade with the populations of the riverine localities, are and remain confirmed.

The two Governments will proceed to the establishment of an understanding concerning the mode of application of the said stipulations.

Art. XIX.-The stipulations of the old treaties between Russia and China, not modified by the present Treaty, remain in full vigour.

Art. XX. The present Treaty, after having been ratified by the two Emperors, will be promulgated in each Empire, for the knowledge and Governance of each one. The exchange of ratifications will take place at St. Petersburg, within a period of six months counting from the day of the signature of the Treaty.

Having concluded the above Article, plenipotentiaries of the two contract- ing parties have signed and sealed two copies of the present Treaty, in the Russian, Chinese, and French languages. Of the three texts, duly compared and found in agreement, the French text will be evidence for the interpretation of the present Treaty.

one.

Done at St. Petersburg, the twelfth of February, eighteen hundred and eighty-

(Signed)

[L.8.]

L.8.

NICOLAS DE Giers. EUGENE BUrzow,

[L.8.]

TSENG.

PROTOCOL

　　　　　　　In virtue of Article VI. of the Treaty signed to-day by the plenipotentiaries of the Russian and Chinese Governments, the Chinese Government will pay to the Bussian Government the sum of nine millions of metallic roubles, designed to cover the expenses of the occupation of the country of Ili by the Russian troops and to satisfy divers pecuniary claims of Russian subjects. This sum shall be paid within a period of two years counting from the day of the exchange of the ratifica- tions of the Treaty.

Desiring to fix the mode of payment of the aforementioned sum the undersigned have agreed as follows:-

The Chinese Government will pay the equivalent of the sum of nine millions of metallic roubles in pounds sterling, say one million four hundred and thirty-one thousand six hundred and sixty-four pounds sterling two shillings to Messrs. Baring Brothers & Co. in London, in six equal parts, of two hundred and thirty- eight thousand six hundred and ten pounds sterling thirteen shillings and eight pence each, less the customary bank charges which may be occasioned by the transfer of these payments to London.

The payments shall be scheduled at four months' distance the one from the other; the first shall be made four months after the exchange of the ratifications of the Treaty signed to-day, and the last two years after that exchange.

The present protocol will have the same force and value as if it had been inserted word for word in the Treaty signed to-day.

In faith of which the plenipotentiaries of the two Governments have signed the present protocol and have placed their seals to it.

Done at St. Petersburg, the twelfth of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one.

(Signed)

[L.8.] [L.8.

[L.S.]

NICOLAS DE GIERS.

EUGENE Burzow. TSENG.

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Art. I.-A trade by free exchange and free of duty (free trale) between Russian and Chinese subjects is authorised within a zone extending for fifty versts (100 li) on either side the frontier. The sup rvision of this trade will rest with the two Governments, in accordance with their respective frontier regulations.

　　　　　　Art. II.-Russian subjects proceeding on business to Mongolia and to the districts situated on the northern and southern slopes of the Tian-shan mountains may only cross the frontier at certain points specified in the list annexed to those regulations. They must procure from the Russian authorities permits in the Russian and Chinese languages, with Mongolian and Tartar translation. The name of the owner of the goods, or that of te leader of the caravan, a specification of the goods, the number of packages, and the number of heads of cattle may be indicated in the Mongolian or Tartar languages, in the Chinese text of these permits. Merchants, on entering Chinese territory, are bound to produce their permits at the Chinese pos nearest to the frontier, where, after examination, the permit is to be counter- signed by the chief of the post. The Chinese authorities are entitled to arrest merchant, who have crossed the frontier without permit, and to deliver them over to the Russian authorities nearest to the frontier, or to the competent Russian Consul, for the infliction of a severe penalty. In case of the permit being lost, the owner is bound to give notice to the Russian Consul, in order that a fresh one may be issued to him, and inform the local authorities, in order to obtain a temporary certificate which will ena de him to pursue his journey. Merchandise introduced into Mongolia and the districts situated on the slopes of the Tian-shan, but which have found no sale there, may be forwarded to the towns of Tientsin and Sou- tcheou (Tsia-yu.kwan), to be sold or to be sent farther int› China. With regard to the duties on such merchandise, to the issue of permits for its carriage, and to other Customs formalities, proceedings sh ill be taken in accor lance with the following provisions.

Art. III.-Russian merchants forwarding goods from Kiachta and the Nertchinsk country to Tientsin must send them by way of Kalgan, Dounba, and Toun-tcheou. Merchandise forwarded to Tientsin from the Russian frontier by Kobdo and Kouihoua-tchen is to follow the same route. Mere ants must be provided with transport permits issued by the Russian authorities, and duly rise by the competent Chines authorities, which mus: give, in the Chinese an 1 'Russian languages, the name of the owner of the goods, the number of packages, and a description of the goods they contain. The officials of the Chinese Custom houses situated on the road by which merchandise is forwarded will proceed, without delay, to verify the number of the packages, and to examine the goods, which they will allow to pass onwards, after fixing a visit to the permit. Pa kages opened in the course of the Customs examinations will be closed again at the Custom-house, the number of packages opened being noted on the permit. The Customs examination is not to last more than two hours. The permits are to be presented within a term o, six months at the Tientsin Custom-house to be cancelled. If the owner of the goods finds this term insufficient, he must at the proper time and place give notice to the Chinese authorities. In case of the permit being lost the merchant must give notice to the authorities who delivered it to him to obtain a duplicate and must for that purpose make known the number and date of the missing permit. The nearest Custom- house on his road, after having ascertained the accuracy of the merchant's declara- tious, will give him a provisional certificate, accompanied by which his goods may proceed on their journey. An inaccurate déclaration of the quantity of the gods, · if it be proved that it was intended to conceal sales effected on the road, or to escape payment of duty, will render the merchant liable to the infliction of the penalties laid down by Art. VIII. of the present regulatious.

Art. IV.-Russian merchants who may wish to sell at Kalgan any portion of the goods brought from Russia must make a declaration to that effect to the local authorities within the space of five days. Those authorities, after the merchant has

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paid the whole of the entrance duties, will furnish him with a permit for the sale of the goods.

　　　　　　　Art. V.-Goods brought by Russian merchants by land from Russia to Tientsin will pay an entrance duty equivalent to two-thirds of the rate established by the tariff. Goods brought from Russia to Sou-tcheou (Tsia-yu-kwan) will pay in that town the same duties and be subject to the same regulations as at Tientsin.

　　　　　　　Art. VL-If the goods left at Kalgan, having paid the entrance duties, are not sold there, their owner may send them on to Toun-tcheou, or to Tientsin, and the Customs authorities, without levying fresh duties, will repay to the merchant one-third of the entrance duty paid at Kalgan, a note to that effect being made on the permit issued by the Kalgan Custom-house. Russian merchants, after paying transit dues, i..., on -half of the duty specified in the tariff, may forward to the internal markets gools left a Kalgan which have paid the entrance dues, subject only to the general regulations established for foreign trade in China. A transport permit, which is to be produced at all the Custom-houses and barriers on the road, will be delivered for these goods. Goods not accompanied by such permit will have to pay duty at the Custom-houses they pass, and lekin at the barriers.

Art. VII.-Goods brought from Russia to Sou-tcheou (Tsia-yu-kwan) may be forward d to the internal markets under the conditions stipulated by Art. IX. of these Regulations for goods forwarded from Tientsin destined for the internal market.

　　　　　　　Art. VIII.-If it be ascertained, when the Customs examination of goods brought from Russia to Tientsin takes place, that the goods specified in the permit have been with-drawn from the packages and replaced by other, or that their quantity (after deducting what has been left at Kalgan) is smaller than that indicated in the permit, the whole of the goo's included in the examination will be confiscated by the Customs authorities. It is understood that packages damaged on the road, and which, con- sequently, have been repacked, shall not be liable to confiscation, provided always that such damage has been duly decl:red at the nearest Custom-house, and that a note to such effect has been made by the office after it has ascertained the untouched condition of the goods as at first sent off Goods concerning which it is ascertained that a portion has been sold on t road will be liable to confiscation. If goods have ben taken by by-ways in order to evade their examination at the Custom- houses established on the routes indicated in Art. III., the owner will be liable to a Ene equal in amount to the whole entrance duty. I a breach of the aforesaid regalations has been committed by the carriers, without the knowledge or connivance of the owner of the goods, the Customs authorities will take this circumstance into consideration in determining the amount of the fine. This provision only applies to localities through which the Russian land trade passes, and is not ap licable to similar e ses arising at the ports and in the interior of the provinces. When goods are confiscated the merchant is entitled to release them by paying the equivalent of their value, duly arrived at by an understanding with the Chinese authorities.

Art IX.-Ou the exportation by sea from Tientsin to some other Chinese port geued to foreign trade by treaty of goods brought from Russia Ly lan, the Tentsin Cus oms w ll levy on such goods one-third of the tariff duty, in addition to the two-thirds already paid. No duty shall be levied on these goods in other ports. Goo is sent from Tientsin or the other ports to the internal markets are subject to transi: dues (ie., half of the tariff duty) according to the general provisions laid dewn for foreign trade.

Art. X.-Chinese goods sent from Tientsin to Russia by Russian merchants must be forwarded to Kalgan by the rout indicated under Art. III. The entire export duty will be levied on these goods when they leave the country. Nevertheless, Temported goous bought a Tientsin, as well as those cough in another port and forwarded in transitu to Tientsin to be exported to Russia. if accompanied by a Customs receipt for the export duty, shall not pay a second time, and the half importation duty (coasting duty) paid at Tientsin will be repaid to the merchant if the goods upon which it has been paid are exported to Russia a year from

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the time of such payment. For the transport of goods in Russia the Russian Consul will issue a permit indicating in the Russian and Chinese languages the name of the owner of the goods, the number of packages, and the nature of the goods they contain. These permits will be visé by the port Custom authorities, and must accompany the goods for production when they are examined at the Custom-houses ou the road. The rules given in detail in Article III. will be observed as to the term within which the permit is to be presented to the Custom-house to be cancelled, and as to the proceedings in case of the permit being lost. Goods will follow the route indicated by Article III., and are not to be sold on the road; a breach of this rule will render the merchant liable to the penalties provided for under Article VIII. Goods will be examined at the Custom-houses on the road in accordance with the rules laid down under Article III. Chinese goods bought by Russian merchants at Sou-tcheou (Tsia-yu-kwan), or brought by them from the internal markets to be forwarded to Russia, on leaving Sou-tcheou for Russia will have to pay the duty leviable upon goods exported from Tientsin, and will be subject to the regulations established for that port.

　　　　　　Art. XI.-Goods bought at Toun-tcheou, on leaving that place for Russia by land, will have to pay the full export duty laid down by the tariff. Goods bought at Kalgan will pay in that town, on leaving for Russia, a duty equivalent to half the tariff rate. Goods bought by Russian merchants in the internal markets, and brought to Toun-tcheou and Kalgan to be forwarded to Russia, will moreover be subject to transit dues, according to the general rules established for foreign trade in the internal markets. The local Čustom-houses of the aforesaid towns after levying the duties will give the merchant a transport permit for the goods. For goods leaving Toun-tcheou this permit will be issued by the Dounba Customs authorities, to whom application is to be made for it, accompanied by payment of the duties to which the goods are liable. The permit will mention the prohibition to sell goods on the road. The rules given in detail in Article III. relative to permits, the examination of goods, &c., will apply in like manner to goods exported from the places mentioned in this Article.

Art. XII.-Goods of foreign origin sent to Russia by land from Tientsin, Toun- tcheou, Kalgan, and Sou-tcheon (Tsia-yu-kwan) will pay no duty it the merchant produces a Customs receipt acknowledging payment of the import and transit duties on those goods. If they have only paid entrance duties the competent Custom-house will call upon the merchant for the payment of the transit dues fixed by the tariff.

　　　　　　Art. XIII.-Goods imported into China by Russian merchants, or exported by them, will pay Custom duties according to the general tariff for foreign trade with China, and according to the additional tariff drawn up for Russian trade in 1862.

　　　　　　Goods not enumerated in either of those tariffs will be subject to a 5 per cent. ad valorem duty.

Art. XIV. The following articles will be admitted free of export and import duty-Gold and silver ingots, foreign coins, flour of all kinds, sago, biscuits, preserved meats and vegetables, cheese, butter, confectionery, foreign clothes, jewellery and silver plate, perfumery and soaps of all kinds, charcoal, firewood, candles of foreign manufacture, foreign tobacco and cigars, wine, beer, spirits, household stores and utensils to be used in bouses and on board ship, travellers' luggage, official stationery, tapestries, cutlery, foreign medicines, glass ware, and ornaments. The above-mentioned articles will pass free of duty on entering and on leaving by land; but if they are sent from the towns and poris mentioned in these regulations to the internal markets they will pay a transit duty of 21 per cent. ad valorem. Travellers' luggage, gold and silver ingots, and foreign coins will, however, not pay this duty.

Art. XV. The exportation and importation of the following articles is prohibited, under penalty of confiscation in case of smuggling: -Gunpowder, artillery ammuni- tion, cannon, muskets, rifles, pistols, and all firearms, engines, and ammunition of war, salt, and opium. Russian subjects going to China may, for their personal defence, have one musket or one pistol each, of which mention will be made in the

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permit they are provided with. The importation by Russian subjects of saltpetre, sulphur, and lead is allowed only under special licence from the Chinese authorities, and those articles may only be sold to Chinese subjects who hold a special purchase- permit. The exportation of rice and of Chinese copper coin is forbidden. On the other haud, the importation of rice and of all cereals may take place duty free.

　　　　　　　Art. XVI.-The transport of goods belonging to Chinese merchants is forbidden to Russian merchants attempting to pass them off as their own property.

　　　　　　　Art. XVII.-The Chinese authorities are entitled to take the necessary measures against smuggling.

Done at St. Petersburg, the 12th-24th February, 1881.

NICOLAS DE Giers. EUGENE Burzow.

(Signed) [L.S.]

[L.S.] [L.S.]

TSENG.

PROTOCOL

The undersigned Nicolas de Giers, secretary of state, actual privy councillor, directing the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Tseng, Marquess of Neyong, vice-president of the high court of justice, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of His Majesty the Emperor of China to His Majesty the Emperor of Russia, have met at the hotel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to proceed to the exchange of the acts of ratification of the Treaty between Russia and China, signed at St. Petersburg, the 12/24 February, 1881.

　　　　　　　After perusal of the respective instruments, which have been acknowledged tex- tually conformable to the original act, the exchange of the act ratified by His Majesty the Emperor of Russia the 4/16 August, 1881, against the act ratified by His Majesty the Emperor of China the 3/15 May, 1881, has taken place according to custom.

In faith of which the undersigned have drawn up the present procés-verbal, aud lave affixed to it the seal of their arms.

vue.

Done at St. Petersburg, the 7th August, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-

NICOLAS De Giers.

(Signed)

[L.8.1 [L.S.]

TSENG.

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SIGNED, IN THE ENGLISH AND CHINESE Languages, aT TIENTSIN, 18TH JUNE, 1858

Ratifications exchanged at Pehtang, 16th August, 1859

　　　　　　The United States of America and the Ta-Tsing Empire desiring to maintain firm, lasting, and sincere friendship, have resolved to renew, in a manner clear and positive, by means of a Treaty or general convention of peace, amity, and commerce, the rules which shall in future be mutually observed in the intercourse of their respective countries; for which mest desirable object the President of the United States and the August Sovereign of the Ta-Tsing Empire have named for their Plenipotentiaries, to wit: the President of the United States of America, William B. Reed, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary_to_ China; and His Majesty the Emperor of China, Kweiliang, a member of the Privy Conueil and Superintendent of the Board of Punishments, and Hwa-hana, President of the Board of Civil Office and Major-General of the Bordered Blue Banner Division of the Chinese Bannermen, both of them being Imperial Commissioners and Plenipot› ntia- ries: And the said Ministers, in virtue of the respective full powers they have received from their governm nts, have agreed upon the following articles :-

Art. I.-There shall be, as there has always been, peace and friendship between the United States of America and the Ta-Tsing Empire, and between their people respectively. They shall not insult or of press each other for any trifling cause, so as to produce an estrangement between them; and if any other nation should act unjustly or oppressively, the United States will exert their good offices, on being informed of the case, to bring about an amicable arrangement of the question, thus showing their friendly feelings.

　　　　　　Art. II.-In order to perpetuate friendship, on the exchange of ratifications by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States, and by His Majesty the Emperor of China, this Treaty shall be kept and sacredly guard d in this way, viz.: The original Treaty, as rat fiel by the President of the United States, shall be deposited at Peking, the capital of His Majesty the Emperor of China, in charge of the Privy Council; and, as ratified by His Majesty the Emperor of China, shall be deposited at Washington, the capital of the United States, in charge of the Secretary of State.

　　　　　　Art. III-In order that the people of the two countries may know and obey the provisions of this Treaty, the United States of America agree, immediat-ly on the exchange of ratifications, to proclaim the same and publish it by proclamation in the Gazettes where the laws of the United States of America are publi hel by authority; and His Majesty the Emperor of China, on the exchange of ratifications, agrees immediately to dir et the publication of the same at the capital and by the Governors of all the provinces.

　　　　　　Art. IV. In order further to perpetuate friendship, the Minister or Commis- sioner, or the highest diplomatic representative of the United States of America in China, shall at all times have the right to corre pond on terms of prfect equality and confidence with the officers of the Privy Council at the capital, or with the Governor- General of the Two Kwang, of Fohkien and Chekiang, or of the Two Kiang; and whenever he desires to have such correspondence with the Privy Council at the capital he shall have the right to send it through either of the said Gover ors-General, or by general post; and all such communications shall be most carefully respected. The Privy Council and Governors-General, as the case may be, shall in all cases consider and acknowledge such communications promptly and respectfully.

　　　　　　Art. V. The Minister of the United States of America in China, whenever he has business, shall have the right to visit and sojourn at the capital of His Majesty the

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Emperor of China and there confer with a member of the Privy Council or any other high officer of equal rank deputed for that purpose, on matters of common interest and advantage. His visits shall not exceed one in each year, and he shall complete his business without unnecessary delay. He shall be allowed to go by land or come to the mouth of the Pei-ho, in which he shall not bring ships-of-war, and he shall inform the authorities of that place in order that boats may be provided for him to go on his journey. He is not to take advantage of this stipulation to request visits to the capital on trivial occasions. Whenever he means to proceed to the capital he shall emmunicate in writing his intention to the Board of Rites at the capital, and thereupon the said Board shall give the necessary direction to facilitate his journey, and give him necessary protection and respect on his way. On his arrival at the capal he shall be furnished with a suitable residence prepared for him, and he shall defray his own expenses; and his entire suite shall not exceed twenty persons exclusive of his Chinese attendants, none of whom shall be engaged in trade.

　　　　　　　Art. VI. if at any time His Majesty the Emperor of China shall, by treaty voluntarily mate, or for any other reason, permit the representative of any frien ly nation to reside at his capital for a long or short time, then, without any further consultation or express permission, the representative of the United States in China shall have the same privilege.

　　　　　　　Art. VII.-The superior authorities of the United States and of China in corresponding together shall do so on terms of equality and in form of mutual communication (chu-hwui). The Consuls aud the local officers, civil and military, in e rresponding together shall likewise employ the style and form of mutual communication (chau-hwni). When interior officers of the one government address te sup rior officers of the other they shall do so in the style and form of memorial skin chin). Private individuals, in addressing superior officers, shal! employ the ate of etition (pin-ching). In no case shall any terms or style be used or suffered which shall be offensive or disrespectful to either party. And it is agreed that no present, under any pretext or form whatever, shall ever be demanded of the United States by China, or of China by the United Sta es.

　　　　　　　　A.t. VIII.-In all future personal intercourse between the representative of the United States of America and the Governors-Ge: eral or Governors the interviews shall be ha i at the official residence of the said officers, or at their temporary resi- deter, or at the residence of the representative of the United States of Am rica, whichever may be agreed upon between them; nor shall they make any pretext for declining these interviews. Current matters shall be discussed by correspondence, 10 as not to give the trouble of a personal meeting.

Art. IX.- Whenever national vessels of the United States of America, in cruising aling the coast and among the ports opened or trade for the prot etion of the com Keres of their country, or the advancement of science, shall arrive at or near any fue ports of China, the commanders of said ships and the superior local authorities of government shall, if it be necessary, hold intercourse on terms of equality and ourtesy, in tok n of the friendly relations of their respective nations; and the said tessels shall enjoy all suitable facilities on the part of the Chinese Government in rung provisions or other supplies, and making necessary repairs. And the Curved states of Ameri a agree that in case of the shipwreck of any American vessel and its being pillaged y pirates, or in case any American vessel shall be pillaged or aptured by pirates on the seas adjacent to the coast, without being shipwrecked, the tional vssels of the United States shall pursue the said pirates, and if captured eliver them over for tial and punis ment.

Art. X.-The United States of America shall have the right to appoint Consuls ado her commercial agents for the protection of trade, to reside at such places in the buitions of China as shall be agreed to be opened, who shall hold official intercourse and correspondence with the local officers of the Chinese Government (a Consul or a Fix-Consul in charge taking rank with an intendant of circuit or a prefect), either personally or in writing, as occasion may require, on terms of equality and reciprocal respect. And the Consuls and local officers shall employ the style of mutual

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communication. If the officers of either nation are disrespectfully treated, or aggrieved in any way by the other authorities, they have the right to make representation of the same to the superior officers of the respective Governors, who shall see that full nquiry and strict justice shall be had in the premises. And the said Consuls and agents shall carefully avoid all acts of offence to the officers and people of China. On the arrival of a Consul duly accredited at any port in China, it shall be the duty of the Minister of the United States to notify the same to the Governor-General of e province where such port is, who shall forthwith recognize the said Consul and grant him authority to act.

Art. XI.-All citizens of the United States of America in China, peaceably attending to their affairs, being placed on a common footing of amity and good will with subjects of China, shall receive and enjoy for themselves and everything appertaining to them the protection of the local authorities of Government, who shall defend them from all insult or injury of any sort. If their dwellings or property be threatened or attacked by mobs, incendiaries, or other violent or lawless persons, the local officers, on requisition of the Consul, shall immediately despatch a military force to disperse the rioters, apprehend the guilty individuals, and punish them with the utmost rigour of the law. Subjects of China guilty of any criminal act towards citizens of the United States shall be punished by the Chinese authorities according to the laws of China, and citizens of the United States, either on shore or in any merchant vessel, who may insult, trouble, or wound the persons or injure the property of Chinese, or commit any other improper act in China, shall be punished only by the Consul or other public functionary thereto authorized, according to the laws of the United States. Ar- rests in order to trial may be made by either the Chinese or United States authorities. Art. XII.-Citizens of the United States, residing or sojourning at any of the ports open to foreign commerce, shall be permitted to rent houses and places of business or hire sites on which they can themselves build houses or hospitals, churches, and cemeteries. The parties interested can fix the rents by mutual and equitable agreement; the proprietors shall not demand an exorbitant price, nor shall the local authorities interfere, unless there be some objections offered on the part of the inhabitants respecting the place. The legal fees to the officers for applying their seal shall be paid. The citizens of the United States shall not unreasonably insist on particular spots, but each party shall conduct themselves with justice and moderation. Any desecration of the cemeteries by natives of China shall be severely punished according to law. At the places where the ships of the United States anchor, or their citizens reside, the merchants, seamen, or others can freely pass and repass in the immediate neighbourhood; but in order to the preservation of the public peace, they shall not go into the country to the villages and marts to sell their goods unlawfully, in fraud of the revenue.

Art. XIII.-If any vessel of the United States be wrecked or stranded on the coast of China and be subjected to plunder or other damage, the proper officers of the Government, on receiving information of the fact, shall immediately adopt measures for its relief and security; the persons on board shall receive friendly treatment, and be enabled to repair at once to the nearest port, and shall enjoy all facilities for obtaining supplies of provisions and water. If the merchant vessels of the United States, while within the waters over which the Chinese Government exercises jurisdiction, be plundered by robbers or pirates, then the Chinese local authorities, civil and military, on receiving information thereof, shall arrest the said robbers or pirates, and punish them according to law, and shall cause all the property which can be recovered to be restored to the owners, or placed in the hands of the Consul. If by reason of the extent of territory and numerous population of China, it shall in any case happen that the robbers cannot be apprehended, and the property only in part recovered, the Chinese Government shall not make indemnity for the goods lost; but if it shall be proved that the local authorities have been in collusion with the robbers, the same shall be communicated to the superior authorities for memorializing the Throne, and these officers shall be severely punished and their property be confiscated to repay the losses.

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Art. XIV. The citizens of the United States are permitted to frequent the ports and cities of Canton and Chan-chau, or Swatow, in the province of Kwangtung; Amoy, Foochow, and Tai-wan in Formosa, in the province of Fuhkien; Niugpo in the province of Chekiang; and Shanghai in the province of Kiangsu, and any other port or place hereafter by treaty with other powers or with the United States opened to commerce; and to reside with their families and trade there, and to procced at pleasure with their vessels and merchandise from any of these ports to any other of them. But said vessels shall not carry on a clandestine or fraudulent trade at other ports of China, not declared to be legal, or along the coasts thereof; and any vessel under the American flag violating this provision shall, with her cargo, be subject to confiscation to the Chinese Govern- ment; and any citizen of the United States who shall trade in any contraband article of merchandise shall be subject to be dealt with by the Chinese Government, without being entitled to any countenance or protection from that of the United States; and the United States will take measures to prevent their flag from being abused by the subjects of other nations as a cover for the violation of the laws of the Empire.

Art. XV.-At each of the ports open to commerce, citizens of the United States shall be permitted to import from abroad, and sell, purchase, and export all merchan- dise of which the importation or exportation is not prohibited by the laws of the Empire. The tariff of duties to be paid by the citizens of the United States, on the export and import of goods from and into China, shall be the same as was agreed upon at the Treaty of Wanghia, except so far as it may be modified by treaties with other nations, it being expressly agreed that citizens of the United States shall never pay higher duties than those paid by the most favoured nation.

　　　　　　　Art. XVI.-Tonnage duties shall be paid on every merchant vessel belonging to the United States entering either of the open ports at the rate of four mace per ton of forty cubic feet, if she be over one hundred and fifty tons burden; and one mace per ton of forty cubic feet if she be of the burden of one hundred and fifty tons or under, according to the tonnage specified in the register; which, with her other papers, shall, on her arrival, be lodged with the Consul, who shall report the same to the Commis- sioner of Customs. And if any vessel, having paid tonnage duty at one port, shall go to any other port to complete the disposal of her cargo, or being in ballast, to purchase an entire or fill up an incomplete cargo, the Consul shall report the same to the Commissioner of Customs, who shall note on the port-clearance that the tonnage duties have been paid, and report the circumstance to the collectors at the other Custom-houses; in which case, the said vessel shall only pay duty on her cargo, and not be charged with tonnage duty a second time. The collectors of Custom at the open ports shall consult with the Consuls about the erection of beacons or light- houses, and where buoys and light ships should be placed.

　　　　　　　Art. XVII.-Citizens of the United States shall be allowed to engage pilots to take their vessels into port, and, when the lawful duties have all been paid, take them out of port. It shall be lawful for them to hire at pleasure servants, compradores, linguists, writers, labourers, seamen, and persons for whatever necessary service, with Jassager cargo-boats, for a reasonable compensation, to be agreed upon by the parties or determined by the Consul.

Art. XVIII-Whenever merchant vessels of the United States shall enter a port, the Collector of Customs shall, if he see fit, appoint Custom-house officers to guard said vessels, who may live on board the ship or their own boats, at their convenience. The local authorities of the Chinese Government shall cause to be apprehended all mutineers or deserters from on board the vessels of the United States in China on being informed by the Consul, and will deliver them up to the Consuls or other officers for punishment. And if criminals, subjects of China, take refuge in the houses, or on hard the vessels of citizens of the United States, they shall not be harboured, but shall be delivered up to justice on due requisition by the Chinese local officers, addressel to those of the United States. The merchants, seamen, and other citizens of the United States shall be under the superintendence of the appropriate officers of government. If individuals of either nation commit acts of violence or disorder, ae arms to the injury of others, or create disturbances endangering life, the officers of

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the two governments will exert themselves to enforce order and to maintain the public peace, by doing impartial justice in the premises.

Art. XIX.-Whenever a merchant vessel belonging to the United States shall cast anchor in either of the said ports, the supercargo, master, or consignee, sball, within forty-eight hours, deposit the ship's papers in the bands of the Consul or person charged with his functions, who shall cause to be communicated to the Super- intendent of Customs a true report of the name and tonnage of such vessel, the number of her crew, and the nature of ber cargo, which being done, he shall give a permit for her discharge, And the master, supercargo, or consignee, if he proc ed to discharge the cargo without such permit, shail incur a fine of five hundred dollars, and the goods so discharged without permit shall be subject t› forteiture to the Chinese Gvernment. But if a master of any vessel in port desire to discharge a part only of the cargo, it shall be law.ul for in t do so, paying duty on such part only, and to proceed with the remainder to any other ports. Or if the master so ce-ire, he may within forty- cight hours after he arrival of the vessel, but not later, decide to d part without breaking bulk; in which case i e shall n t be subj et to pay tonnage or other duties or charges, until, on his arrival at another port, he shall proceed to discharge cargo when he shall pay the duties on vessel and cargo, according to law. And the † nna.e duties shall b hed due after the expiration of the said forty-eight hours. In eusƏ of the absence of the Consul or person charged with his functions, th captain or superca go of the vessel may have recourse to the cousul of a friendly power; or, if he please, directly to th Superintendent of Customs, who shall do all that is required to conduct th ship's business.

Art. XX.--The Superintendent of Customs, in order to the collection of the proper duties, shall, on application made to him through th∙ Consul, appoint suitable officers, who shall proe ed, in the presence of the captain, supercargo, or consinee. to make a just and fair examination of all goods in the act of being discharged for importation, or lagen for exportation, on board any merchant vessel of the United States. And if disputes occur in regard to the value of goods subject to ad valorem duty, or m regard to the amount of tare, and the same cannot be satisfactorily arranged by the parties, the question may, within twenty-four hours, and not after- wards, be ref rred to the sa d Consul to adjust with the Superintendent of Customs.

Art. XXI.-Citizens of the United States who may have imported merchandise into any of he free ports of China, and paid the duty there n, if they desire to re-export the same in part or in whole to any other of the said ports, shall be entitled to make application, through their Consul, to the Superintendent of Customs, who, in order to prevent fraud on the revenue, shall cause examination to be made, by suitable officers, to see that the duties paid on such goods as are entered on the Custom- hous books correspon with the representation mad, and that the goods remain with their original marks unchanged, and shall then make a memorandum in the port-cleara ce of the goods and the amount of duties paid on the same, and deliver the same to the mere ant, and shall also certify the facts to the officers of Customs at the other ports; all which bing done, ou the arrival in port of the ves-el in which the goods are laden, and everything being oud, on examination there, to correspond, s e shall be permitted to break bulk, and land the said goods without being subject to the payment of any additional duty thereon. But if, on such examination, the Superintendent of Customs shall detect any fraud on the revenue in the case, then the goods shall be subject to forfeiture and confiscation o the Chinese Goverment. Foreign grain or rice "brought m'o any port of China in a ship of the United States, and not landed, may be re-exporte without hindrance.

Art. XXII. The tonnage duty on vessels of the Unit d States shall be paid on their being admitted to entry. Duties of import shall be paid on the discharge of the goods, and duties of export on the lading of the same. When all such duties shall have been paid, and not before, the Collector of Customs shall give a port-clearance, and the Consul shall return the ship's papers. The duties shall be paid to the shroffs authorized by the Chinese Government to receive the same. Duties shall be paid and received either in sycee silver or in foreign money, at the rate of the day. If the

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Consul permits a ship to leave the port before the duties and tonnage dues are paid, he shall be held responsible therefor.

Art. XXIII. When goods on board any merchant vessel of the United States in port require to be transhipped to another vessel application shall be made to the Consul, who shall certify what is the occasion therefor to the Superintendent of Customs, who may appoint officers to examine into the facts and permit the transhipment. And it any goods be transhipped without written permits, they shall be subject to be forfeitel to the Chinese Government.

Art. XXIV.-Where there are debts due by subjects of China to citizens of the Cuites? States, the latter inay seek redress in law; and on suitable representation being made to the local authorities through the Consul, they will cause due examination in the premises, and take proper steps to compel satisfaction. And if citizens of the United States be indebted to subjects of China, the latter may seek redress by representation through the Consul, or by suit in the Consular Court; but neither government will hold itself responsible for such debts.

Art. XXV.-It shall be lawful for the officers or citizens of the United States to employ scholars and people of any part of China, without distinction of persons, to tea h any of the languages of the Empire, and assist in literary labours, and the persons so employed shall not for that cause be subject to any injury on the part either of the Government or individuals; and it shall in like manner be lawful for citizens of the United States to purchase all manner of books in China.

　　　　　　　　Art. XXVI.-Relations of peace and amity between the United States and China being established by this treaty, and the vessels of the United States being adn itted to tral freely to and from the ports of China open to foreign commerce, it is further agreed that, in case at any time hereafter China should be at war with an foreign sation whatever, and should for that canse ex-lude such nation from entering her ports, still the vessels of the United States shall not the less continue to pursue their commerce in freedom and security, and to transport goods to and from the ports of the belligerent powers, full respect being paid to the neutrality of the flag of the Cnited States, provided that the said flag shall not protect vessels engaged in the transportation of officers or soldiers in the enemy's service, nor shall said flag be fraudulently used to enable the enemy's ships, with their cargoes, to enter the ports of China; but all such vessels so offending shall be subject to forfeiture and confisca- tion to the Chinese Government.

Art. XXVII-All questions in regard to rights whether of property or person, arising between citizens of the United States in China, shall be subject to the jurisdiction and be regulated by the authorities of their own government; and all controversies occurring in China between citizens of the United States and the jets of any other government shall be regulated by the treaties existing between the United States and such governments respectively, without interference on the [t of China.

Art. XXVIII.-If citizens of the United States have special occasion to address any communication to the Chinese local officers of Government, they shall submit the same to their Cnsul or other officer, to determine if the language be proper and respectful, an the matter ju-t and right, in which event he shall transmit the same the appropriate authorities for their consideratio

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　ion and action in the premises. If rubjects of China have occasion to address the Consul of the United States they may altress nim directly, at the same time they inform their own officers, representing the ase for his consideration and action in the premises; and it controversies arise between citizens of the United States and subjects of China, which cannot be amicably settled ot' erwise, the same shall be examined and decided conformably to justice and equity by the public officers of the two nations, acting in conjunction. The extortion of legal fees is expressly prohibited. Any peaceable persons are allowed to enter the Court in order to interpret, lest injustice be done.

Art. XXIX -The principles of the Christian Religion, as professed by the Protestant and Roman Catholic Churches, are recognised as teaching men to do good, and to do to others as they would have others to do to them. Hereafter those who

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quietly profess and teach these doctrines shall not be harassed or persecuted on account of their faith. Any person, whether citizen of the United States or Chinese convert, who, according to those tenets, peaceably teaches and practises the principles of Christianity, shall in no case be interfered with or molested.

Art. XXX. The contracting parties hereby agree that should at any time the Ta-Tsing Empire grant to any nation, or the merchants or citizens of any nation, any right, privilege, or favour, connected either with navigation, commerce, political or other intercourse, which is not conferred by this Treaty, such right, privilege, and favour shall at once freely enure to the benefit of the United States, its public officers, merchants, and citizens.

The present Treaty of peace, amity, and commerce shall be ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, within one year, or sooner, if possible, and by the August Sovereign of the Ta-Tsing Empire forthwith; and the ratifications shall be exchanged within one year from the date of the signature thereof.

In faith whereof we, the respective plenipotentiaries of the United States of America and of the Ta-Tsing Empire, as aforesaid, have signed and sealed these presents.

　　　　　Done at Tientsin, this eighteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, and the Independence of the United States of America the eighty-second, and in the eighth year of Hien Fung, fifth moon, and eighth day.

L.S. [L.S.

[L.8.]

WILLIAM B. Reed.

KWEILIANG.

HWASHANA.

[Appended to the foregoing Treaty are Tariff and Rules identical with those annexed to the British Treaty of Tientsin.]

ADDITIONAL ARTICLES TO THE TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND CHINA OF 18TH JUNE, 1858

SIGNED, IN THE ENGLISH AND CHINESE Languages, at WASHINGTON, 28TH JULY, 1868

Ratifications Exchanged at Peking, 23rd November, 1869

Whereas, since the conclusion of the Treaty between the United States of America and the Ta-Tsing Empire (China) of the 18th June, 1858, circumstances have arisen showing the necessity of additional articles thereto : the President of the United States and the August Sovereign of the Ta-Tsing Empire have named for their Plenipotentiaries: to wit, the President of the United States of America, William R. Seward, Secretary of State; and His Majesty the Emperor of China,. Anson Burlingame, accredited as his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo- tentiary, and Chih-kang and Sun-chia-ku, cf the second Chinese rank, associated high Envoys and Ministers of his said Majesty; and the said Plenipotentiaries, after having exchanged their full powers, found to be in due and proper form, have agreed upon the following articles :~~~-~

　　　　　Art. I.-His Majesty the Emperor of China, being of the opinion that in making concessions to the citizens or subjects of foreign powers, of the privilege of residing on certain tracts of land, or resorting to certain waters of that Empire, for purposes of trade, he has by no means relinquished his right of eminent domain or dominion over the said lands and waters, hereby agrees that no such concession or grant shall ' be construed to give to any power or party which may be at war with or hostile to

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the United States, the right to attack the citizens of the United States, or their property, within the said lands or waters: And the United States, for themselves, hereby agree to abstain from offensively attacking the citizens or subjects of any power or party, or their property, with which they may be at war, on any such tract of land or water of the said Empire. But nothing in this article shall be construed to prevent the United States from resisting an attack by any hostile power or party upon their citizens or their property.

It is further agreed that if any right or interest in any tract of land in China, has been, or shall hereafter be, granted by the Government of China to the United States or their citizens for purposes of trade or commerce, that grant shall in no event be construed to divest the Chinese Authorities of their right of jurisdiction over persons and property within said tract of land except so far as the right may have been expressly relinquished by treaty.

Art. II. The United States of America and His Majesty the Emperor of China, Jelieving that the safety and prosperity of commerce will thereby best be promoted, ree that any privilege or immunity in respect to trade or navigation within the Cainese dominions which may not have been stipulated for by treaty, shall be subject to the discretion of the Chinese Government, and may be regulated by it accordingly, but not in a manner or spirit incompatible with the Treaty stipulations of the parties. Art. III.-The Emperor of China shall have the right to appoint Consuls at ports of the United States, who shall enjoy the same privileges and immunities as these which are enjoyed by public law and treaty in the United States by the Consuls of Great Britain and Russia or either of them.

Art. IV.--The 29th article of the Treaty of the 18th June, 1858, having stipulated for the exemption of the Christian citizens of the United States and Chinese converts from persecution in China on account of their faith; it is further agreed that citizens of the United States in China of every religious persuasion, and Chinese subjects in be United States, shall enjoy entire liberty of conscience, and shall be exempt from ail disability or persecution on account of their religious faith or worship in either untry. Čemeteries for sepulture of the dead, of whatever nativity or nationality, shall be held in respect and free from disturbance or profanation.

　　　　　　　Art. V.-The United States of America and the Emperor of China cordially recognize the inherent and inalienable right of man to change his home and allegiance, and also the mutual advantage of the free migration and emigration of their citizens and subjects respectively from the one country to the other for the purposes of curiosity, of trade, or as permanent residents. The High Contracting Parties, therefore, join in reprobating any other than an entirely voluntary emigration for these purposes. They consequently agree to pass laws, making it a penal offence for a citizen of the United States, or a Chinese subject, to take Chinese subjects either to the United States or to any other foreign country; or for a Chinese subject or citizen of the United States to take citizens of the United States to China, or to any other foreign Country, without their free and voluntary consent respectively.

Art. VI.-Citizens of the United States visiting or residing in China shall enjoy the same privileges, immunities, or exemptious, in respect to travel or residence as may there be enjoyed by the citizens or subjects of the most favoured nation. And reiprocally, Chinese subjects visiting or residing in the United States shall enjoy the same privileges, immunities, and exemptions in respect to travel or residence as may there be enjoyed by the citizens or subjects of the most favoured nation. But nothing herein contained shall be held to confer naturalization upon citizens of the United States in China, nor upon the subjects of China in the United States.

Art. VII-Citizens of the United States shall enjoy all the privileges of the public educational institutions under the control of the Government of China; and reciprocally Chinese subjects shall enjoy all the privileges of the public educational mstitutions under the control of the Government of the United States, which are enjoyed in the respective countries by the citizens or subjects of the most favoured nation. The citizens of the United States may freely establish and maintain schools within the Empire of China at those places where foreigners are by treaty permitted

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to reside; and reciprocally, Chinese subjects may enjoy the same privileges and immunities in the United States.

Art. VIII.-The United States, always disclaiming and discouraging all prac- tices of unnecessary dictation and intervention by one nation in the affairs or domestic administration of another, do hereby freely disclaim and disavow any intention or right to intervene in the domestic administration of China in regard to the construc- tion of railroads, telegraphs, or other material internal improvements. On the other hand, His Majesty the Emp ror of China reserves to himself the right to decide the time and manner and circumstances of introducing sue improvements within his dominions. With this mutual understanding it is agreed by the contracting parties that, if at any time hereafter his Imperial Mjesty shall determine to construct, or cause to be constructed, works of the character mentioned within the Empire, and shall make application to the United States or any ofner West ru Power or facilities to carry out that policy, the United States will in that case designate or authorize suitable engineers to be employed by the Chinese Government, and will recommend to other nations an equal compliance with such applications; the Chinese Government in that case protecting such engineers in their persons and property, and paying them a reasonable compensation for their services.

In faith whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed this treaty and thereto affixed the seals of their arms.

　　　　　　Done at Washington, the 28th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

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(Signed)

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WILLIAM H. SEWARD. ANSON BURLINGAME. CHIH KANG.

SUN CHIA-KU.

IMMIGRATION AND COMMERCIAL TREATIES BETWEEN

THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA

SIGNED AT PEKING, IN THE ENGLISH AND CHINESE LANGUAGES ON THE 17TH NOVEMBER, 1880

The Immigration Treaty.

　　　　　　Whereas, in the eighth year of Hien Fung, Anno Domini 1858, a treaty of peace and friendship was conclu led between the United States of America and China and to which were added in the seventh year of Tung Chi, Anno Domini 1568, certain supple entary articles to the advantage of both parties, which supplementary articles were to be perpetual y observed and obved; an i

　　　　　　Whereas the Government of the United States, because of the constantly in- creasing immigration of Chinese labourers to the territ ry of the United States, and the embarrassinents consequent upon such immigration, now desires to negotiate a modification of the existing treaties which will not be in direct contravention of their spirit; now, therefore, the Presi lent of the United States of America appoints James B. Angell, of Michigau; John F. Swift, of California; and William H. Trescott, of South Carolina, as his Commissioners Pl nipotentiary; and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China has appointed Pao Chon, a member of His Imper al Majesty's Privy Council and Superintendent of the Board of Civil Office, and Li Hung Tsao, a member of His Imperial Majesty's Privy Council, as his Commissioners Plenipo- tentiary; and the said Commissioners Plenipotentiary, having conjointly examined their full powers, and having discussed the points of possible modifications in existing treaties, have agreed upon the following articles in modification:-

Art. I.-Whenever, in the opinion of the Government of the United States, the coming of Chinese labourers to the United States, or their residence therein, affects,

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or threatens to affect, the interests of that country, or to endanger the good order of any locality within the territory thereof, the Government of China agrees that the Government of the United States may regulate, limit, or suspend such coming or residence, but may not absolutely prohibit it. The limitation or suspension shall be reasonable, and shall apply only to Chinese who may go to the United States as labourers, other classes not being included in the limitation. Legislation in regard to Chinese labourers will be of such a character only as is necessary to enforce the regulation, limitation, or suspension, of immigration, and immigrants shall not be subject to personal maltreatment or abuse.

Art. IL-Chinese subjects, whether proceeding to the United States as traders or students, merchants, or from curiosity, together with their body and household servants, and Chinese labourers who are now in the United States, shall be allowed to go and come of their own free will and accord and shall be accorded all the rights, privileges, immunities, and exemptions which are accorded to the citizens and subjects of the most favoured nations.

Art. III-If Chinese labourers, or Chinese of any other class, now either permanently or temporarily residing in the territory of the United States, meet with ill-treatment at the hands of any other persons, the Government of the United States will exert all its power to devise measures for their protection, and secure to them the same rights, privileges, immunities, and exemptions as may be enjoyed by the eitizens or subjects of the most favoured nation, and to which they are entited by

treaty.

　　　　　　Art. IV. The high contracting Powers, having agreed upon the foregoing Articles, whenever the Government of the United States shall adopt legislative measures in accordance therewith, such measures will be communicated to the Government of China, and if the measures, as effected, are found to work hardship upon the subjects of China, the Chinese Minister at Washington may bring the matter to the notice of the Secretary of State of the United States, who will consider the subject with him, and the Chinese Foreign Office may also bring the matter to the notice of the U.S. Minister at Peking and consider the subject with him, to the end that mutual and unqualified benefit may result. In faith whereof, the Plenipo- tentiaries have signed and sealed the foregoing at Peking, in English and Chinese, there being three original; of each text of even tenor and date, the ratifications of which shall be exchanged at Peking within one year from the date of its execution.

Done at Peking, this 17th day of November, in the year of our Lord 1880, Kuang Su sixth year, tenth moon, fifteenth day. Signed and sealed by the above- Damned Commissioners of both Governments.

The Commercial_Treaty

The following is the text of the commercial treaty signed at the same place and time

　　　　　　　The President of the United States of America and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China, because of certain points of incompletenes in the existing treaties between the two Governments, have named as their Commissioners Plenipotentiary: The President of the United States of America, James B. Augell, of Michigan; John F. Swift, of California; and William H. Treecott, of South Carolina, as his Com- miss oners Plenipotentiary; and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China has app inted. Pao Chun, a member of His Imperial Majesty's Privy Council and Super- intensen of the Board of Civil Office; and Di Hung Tsao, a member of His Imperial Majesty's Privy Council, as his Commissioners Plenipotentiary; and the said Com- Tissuers Plenipotentiary, having conjointly examined their full powers, and having discussed the points of possible modification in existing treaties, have agreed upon the following additional articles :--

Art. I. -The Governments of the United States and China, recognizing the benents of their past commercial relations, and in order to still further promote such riations between the citizens and subjects of the two Powers, mutually agree to give the most careful and favourable attention to the representations of either as to much special extension of commercial intercourse as either may desire.

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Art. II.-The Governments of China and of the United States mutually agree and undertake that Chinese subjects shall not be permitted to import opium in any of the ports of the United States, and citizens of the United States shall not be permitted to import opium into any of the open ports of China, or transport from one open port to any other open port, or to buy and sell opium in any of the open ports of China. This absolute prohibition, which extends to vessels owned by the citizens or subjects of either Power, to foreign vessels employed by them, or to vessels owned by the citizens or subjects of either Power and employed by other persons for the transportation of opium, shall be enforced by appropriate legislation on the part of China and the United States, and the benefits of the favoured nation clauses in existing treaties shall not be claimed by the citizens or subjects of either Power as against the provisions of this article.

Art. III.-His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China hereby promises and agrees that no other kind or higher rate of tonnage dues or duties for imports or ex- ports or coast wise trade sha 1 be imposed or levied in the open ports of China upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States, or upon the produce, manu- factures, or merchandise imported in the same from the United States or from any foreign country, or upon the produce, manufactures, or merchandise exported in the same to the United States, or any foreign country, or transported in the same from one open port of China to another, than are imposed or levied on vessels or cargoes o any other nati n, or on those of Chinese subjects. The United States hereby pro- mis-s and agrees that no other kind or higher rate of tonnage duties and dus for imports shall be imposed or levied in the ports of the United States upon vessels wholly belonging to the subjects of his Imperial Majesty, coming either directly or by way of any foreign port from any of the ports of China which are open to foreign trade to the ports of the United States, or returning therefrom either directly or by way of any foreign port to any of the open ports of China. or upon the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in the same from China, or from any foreign country, than are imposed or 'evied on vessels of any other nations which make no discrimination against the United States in tonnage dues or duties on imports, exports, or coastwise trade, or than are imposed or levied on vessels and cargoes of citizens of the United States.

　　　　　　Art. IV. When controversies ari-e in the Chinese Empire between citizens of the United States and subjects of His Imperial Majesty, which need to be examined and decided by the public officer of the two nations, it is agree between the Gvernments of the United States and China that such cases shall be tried by the proper official of the nationality of the defendant. The properly authorized official of the plaintiff's nati nality shall be freely permitted to attend the trial, and shall be treated with the courtesy due to bis position. He shall be granted all proper facilities for watching the proceedings in the interest of justice, and if he so desire, he shall have the right to be present and to examine and to cross-examine witnesses. If he is distisfied with the proceedings, he shall be permitted to protest against them in date. The law administered will be the law of the nationality of the officer trying the case.

　　　　　　In faith whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed and sealed the foregoing, at Peking, in English and Chinese, there being three originals of each text, of even tenor and date, the ratifications of which shall be exchanged at Poking within one year from the date of its execution.

　　　　　　Done at Peking, this 17th day of November, in the year of our Lord 1880, Kuang Sü sixth year, tenth moon, fifteenth day.

(Signed)

JAMES B. ANGELL.

JOHN F. SWIFT.

WILLIAM H. TRESCOTT.

PAO CHUN.

LI HUNG-TSAO.

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IMMIGRATION PROHIBITION TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED

STATES OF AMERICA AND CHINA, 1894

RATIFICATIONs Exchanged at Washington, 7th December, 1894

　　　　　　　Whereas, on the 17th of November, A. D. 1880, and of Kwauhsui, the sixth year, the tenth month, and the 15 h day, a treaty was concluded between the United States and China for the purpose of regulating, limiting, or suspending the coming of Chinese labourers to and their residence in the United States, and, whereas, the Government of China, in view of the antagonism and much depreciated and serious disorders to which the presence of Chines- labourers has given rise in certain parts of the United States, desires to pr.hibit the emigration of such labourers from Cuina to the United States; and, whereas, the two Governments desire to co-operate in prohibiting such emigration and to strengthen in many other ways the bounds of relationship between the two countries; and, whereas, the two Governments are desirous of adopting reciprocal measures for the better protection of the citizens or subjects of ach within the jurisdiction of the other; now, ther fore, the President of the United States has appointed Walter Q. Gresham, Secretary of State, as his Pimpotentiary, and his Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of China, has appointed Yang Yui, Officer of the Secon Bank, sub-director of the Court of Sacrificial Worship and Envoy Extraordinary and Min ster Plenipotentiary, and the said Plenipotentiaries having exhibited their respective full powers, found to be in due form and good faith, have agreed upon the following articles :-

　　　　　Art. I.--The high contracting parties agree that for a period of ten years, beginning with the date of the ratifications of this convention, the coming,xcept under the conditions hereinafter specified, of Chinese labourers to the United States, shall be absolutely prohibited.

　　　　　　Art. II. The preceding article shall not apply to the return to the United States of any registered Chinese labourer who has a lawful wife, child, or parent in the United States or property therein of the value of $1,000, or debts of like amount due to him and pending settlement. Nevertheles, every such Chinese labourer shall, before leaving the United States, depo-it, as a condition of his return, with the collector of customs of the district from which he depart, a full description in writing of his family or pro, erty or debts as aforesaid, and shall be furnished by the said collector with such certificate of his right to r turn under this treaty as the laws of the United States may now or hereafter prescribe, and not inconsistent with the provisions of the treaty; and, should the written description aforesaid be proved to be false, the rights of return thereunder, or of continued residence after return, shall in each case be forfeited. And such right of return to the United States shall e exercised within one year from the date of leaving the United States; but such right of return to the United States may be extended for an additional period, not to exceed one year, in cases where, by reason of sickness or other course of disability beyond his control, such Chin se labourer shall be rendered unable sooner to return, which facts shall be fully reported to the Chinese Consul at the port of departure, and by him cerified to the satisfaction of the collector of the port at whics such Chinese subject shall land in the United States. And no such Chinese labourer shall be permitted to enter the United States by land or sea without producing to the proper officer of the Customs the return certificate here.n required.

Art. III.-The provisions of the convention shall not affect the right at present enjoyed of Chinese subjects, being officials, teachers, students, merchants, or travellers for curiosity or pleasure, but not labourers, of coming to the United States and residing therein. To entitle such Chinese subjects as are above described to admission into the United States they may produce a certificate either from their Government or from the Government of the country where they last resided, viséd by the diplomatic or consular representative of the United States in the country or

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port whence they depart. It is also agreed that Chinese labourers shall continue to enjoy the privilege of transit across the territory of the United States in the course of their journey to or from other countries, subject to such regulations by the Government of the United States as may be necessary to prevent the said privilege of transit from being abused.

Art. IV. In pursuance of Article 3 of the Immigration Treaty between the United States and China, signed at Peking on the 17th day of November, 1880, it is hereby understood and agreed, that Chinese labourers or Chinese of any other class, either permanently or temporarily residing in the United States, shall have for the protection of their persons and property all rights that are given by the laws of the United States to citizens of the more favoured nations, excepting the right to become naturalized citizens. And the Government of the United States reaffirms its obligations, as stated in the said Article 3, to exert all its power to secure the protection to the person and property of all Chinese subjects in the United States.

Art. V.-The Government of the United States having, by an Act of Congress, approved May 5th, 1892, as amended and approved November 3rd, 1893, required all Chinese labour rs lawfully within the United States, before the passage of the first-named Act, to be registered, as in the said Acts provided, with a view of affording them better protection, the Chinese Government will not object to the enforcement of the said Acts, and reciprocally the Government of the United States recognises the right of the Government of China to enact and enforce similar laws and regulations, for the registration, free of charge, of all labourers, skilted or unskilled (not merchants, as defined by the said Acts of Cougress), citizens of the United States in China whether residing within or without the treaty ports. And the Government of the United States agrees that within twelve months from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of this convention, and annually thereafter, it will furnish to the Government of China registers or reports showing the full name, age, occupation, and number or place of residence of all other citizens of the United States, including missionaries residing both within and without the treaty ports of China, not including, however, liplomatic and other officers of the United States residing or traveling in China upon official business, together with their body and household servants.

Art. VI. This convention shall remain in force for a period of ten years, beginning with the date of the exchange of ratifications, and, if six months before the expiration of the said period of ten years neither Government shall have formally given notice of its final termination to the other, it shall remain in full force for another like period of ten years.

In faith whereof, we, the respective plenipotentiaries, have signed this Convention and have hereunto affixed our seals.

Done, in duplicate, at Washington, the 17th day of March, A.D. 1894.

WALTER Q. GRESHAM,

YANG YUI,

Secretary of State.

Chinese Minister to the United States.

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PROTOCOL

Art. 1st.-A Treaty of friendship and commerce with the most favoured nation clause will be concluded and signed at Peking.

　　　　　　Art. 2nd.-China confirms perpetual occupation and government of Macao and its dependencies by Portugal, as any other Portuguese possession.

Art. 3rd.-Portugal engages never to alienate Macao and its dependencies without agreement with China.

Art. 4th.-Portugal engages to co-operate in opium revenue work at Macao in the same way as England in Hongkong.

Done at Lisbon, the 26th March, 1887.

HENRIQUE DE BARROS GOMES. JAMES DUNCAN CAMPBELL.

THE TREATY

Ratifications Exchanged at Peking 28th April. 1888

His Most Faithful Majesty the King of Portugal and the Algarves, and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China, desiring to draw closer and to consolidate the ties of friendship which have subsisted for more than three hundred years between Portugal and China, and having agreed in Lisbon on the 26th day of March, 1887, 2nd day of 3rd moon of the 13th year of the reign of the Emperor Kwang-sü, through their representatives, on a Protocol of four Articles, have now resolved to conclude a Treaty of Amity and Commerce to regulate the relations between the two States; for this end they have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:

His Most Faithful Majesty the King of Portugal and the Algarves, Thomas de Souza Roza, His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in special mission to the Court of Peking, Knight of the Order of Nossa Senhora de Conc icao de Villa Ficosa, Grand Cross of the Order of the Rising Sun of Japan and of the Crown of Siam, Commander of the Order of Charles III. and of Isabella the Catholic of Spain, and Knight of the Iron Crown of Austria:

His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China, His Highness Prince Ch'ing, Pre- sident of the Tsung-li Yamén, and Suo, Minister of the Tsung-li Yamên and Senior Vice-President of the Board of Public Works ;

Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers and found them to be in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles :-

Art. I.-There shall continue to exist constant peace a: damity between His Most Faithful Majesty the King of Portugal and the Algarves and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China, whose respective subjects shall equally enjoy in the dominions of the High Contracting Parties the most complete and decided protection for their persons and property.

Art. IL China confirms in its entirety the second article of the protocol of Lisbon, relating to the perpetual occupation and government of Macao by Portugal. It is stipulated that Commissioners appointed by both Governments shall proceed, to the delimitation of the boundaries, which shall be determined by a special con- vention; but so long as the delimitation of the boundaries is not concluded, every- bing in respect to them shall continue as at present, without addition, diminution, or alteration by either of the parties.

Art. III.-Portugal confirms, in its entirety, the third article of the protocol of isbon, relating to the engagement never to alienate Macao without previous agree- ment with China.

Art, IV.-Portugal agrees to co-operate with China in the collection of duties on opium exported from Macao into China ports, in the same way, and as long as, England co-operates with China in the collection of duties on opium exported from Hongkong into Chinese ports.

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The basis of this co-operation will be established by a convention appended to this treaty, which shall be as valid and binding to both the High Contracting Parties as the present treaty.

　　　　　　Art. V.-His Most Faithful Majesty the King of Portugal and the Algarves may appoint an Ambassador, Minister, or other diplomatic agent to the Court of His Im- perial Majesty the Emperor of China, and this agent, as well as the persons of his suite and their families, will be permitted, at the option of the Portuguese Govern- ment, to reside permanently in Peking, to visit that Court, or to reside at any other place where such residence is equally accorded to the diplomatic representative of other nations. The Chinese Government may also, it it thinks fit, app in: an Ambassador, Minister, or other diplomatic agent to reside at Lisbon, or to visit that Court when his Government shall order.

Art. VI. The d plomatic agents of Portugal and China shall reciprocally enjoy in the place of their residence all the prerogatives and immunities accorded by the laws of nations; their persons, families, and houses, as well as their correspondence shall be inviolate.

Art. VII. The official correspondence addressed by Portuguese authorities to the Chinese authorities shall be written in the Portuguese language accompanied by a translation in Chinese, and each nation shall regard as author ta ive the document written in its own language.

　　　　　　Art. VIII-The form of correspondence between the Portuguese and the Chi- nese authorities will be regulated by their respective rank and position, based upon complete reciprocity. Between the high Portuguese and Chinese functionaries at the capital or elsewhere, such correspondence will take the form of dispatch (Chau-hoei); between the subordinate functionaries of Po.tugal and the chief au horities of the provinces, the former shall make use of the form of exposition (Xen-chen) and the latter that of declaration (Cha-hsing); and the subordinate officers of both nations shall correspond together on terms of perfect equality. Merchants and generally all others who are not invested with an official characte: shall adopt, in addressing the authorities, the form of representation or petition (l'in-ching).

Art. IX. His Most Faithful Majesty the King of Portugal and the Algarves may appoint Consuls-general, Consuls, Vice-consuls, or Consular agents in the ports or other places where it is allowed to other nations to have them. These functionaries will have powers and attributes similar to those of the Cousuls of other nations, and will enjoy all the exemptions, privileges, and immunites which at any time the consular functionaries of the most favoured nation may enjoy.

　　　　　　The Consuls and the local authorities will show to each other reciĮ rocal civilities and correspond with each other on terms of perfect equality.

The Consuls and acting Consuls will rank with Tao-tais, Vice-Consuls, acting Vice-Consuls, Consular agents and interpreters-translators, with Prefects. I he Consuls must be officials of the Portuguese Government and not merchants. The Chinese Government will make no objection in case the Portuguese Government should deem it unnecessary to appoint an official Consul at any port and choose to entrust a Consul of some other nation, for the time being, with the duties of Portu- guese Consul at that port.

Art. X.-All the immunities and privileges, as well as all the advantages con- cerning commerce and navigation, such as any reduct on in the duties of navigation, importation, exportation, transit or any other, which may have been or may be here- after granted by China to any other State or to its subjects, will be immediately extended to Portugal and its subjects. If any concession is granted by the ChiLese Government to any foreign Government under special conditions, Portugal, on claim- ing the same concession for herselt and for her own subjects, will equally assent to the conditions attached to it.

　　　　　　Art XI-Portuguese subjects are allowed to reside at, or frequent, the ports of China opened to foreign commerce and there carry on trade or employ themselves freely. Their boats may navigate without hindrance between the ports open to foreign

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commerce, and they may import and export their merchandise, enjoying all the rights and privileges enjoyed by the subjects of the most favoured nation.

Art. XII.-Portuguese subjects shall pay import and export duties on all mer- handi-e according to the rates specified in the tariff of 1858, adopted for all the other nat ons; and in no instance shall higher duties be exacted from them than those aid by the subjects of an other foreign nation.

Art. XIII.-P. rtuguese subjects are permitted to hire any descri∙ tion of boats ther mas require for the conveyance of cargo or passengers, and the price of said hire will be fixed by the contracting parties alone, without interference of the Chinese Government. No limit shall be put to the number of boats, neither will it be per- mitted to any one to establish a monopoly of such boats or of the service of coolies

ploved in the carriage of merchandise.

Should contraband articles be on board any such boats, the guilty parties shall immediately be unished according to law.

　　　　　　Art. XIV.-Portuguese subjects residing in the open ports may take into their service Chinese subjects, and employ them in any lawful capacity in China, without restraint or hindrance from the Chinese Government; but shall not engage them for foreign countries in contravention of the laws o. China.

Art. XV.-The Chinese authorities are bound to grant the fullest | rotection to the persons and to the prope t of Portuguese subjects in China, whenever they may bexposed to insult or wrong. In case of robber、 or incend ar.sm, the local autho- rities will mmediatel take the necessary mea ures to recover the stolen pro erty, to terminate the disorder, to seize the guilty, and punish them according to the law. Similar·rotection will be given by Portuguese authorities to Chinese subjects in the Joss ssion of Portugal.

Art. XVI-Whenever a Portuguese subject intends to build or o en houses, sho s or warehouses, churches, hospitals, or cemeteries, at the Treaty ports, or at other places, the purchase, rent, or lease of these properties shall be made out accord- ing to the current terms of he place, with equity, with ut exaction on either size, without offending against the usiges of the people, and after due notice given by the pro rietors to the local authority. It is un lerstood, however, t' at the sho:s or ware- houses above mentioned shall only be allowed at the ports open to trade, and not in any lace in the interior.

Art. XVII.-Portuguese subjects conveying merchandise between open ports shall 1 required to take certificates from the Superintendent of the Customs-house, such as are s ecified in the regulations in force with reference to other nationalīties. But Portuguese subjects, who, without carrying merchandise, would like to go to the interior of China, must have passports issued by their Consuls and counter- signed by the local authorities. The hearer of the pss ort must produce the same when demanded, and the pass: ort not being irregular, he will be al owed to proceed and no o osition shall be offered, especially to his hiring persons or vessels for the carriage of his bagg ge or merchandise.

If he be without a passiort, or if he commits any offence against the law, he shall be handed over to the nearest Consul of Portugal to be punished, but he must not be subjected to an oppressive measure. No passport need be applied for by persons g i: g ou excursions from the ports open to trade to a distance not exceeding 100 li and for a period not exceeding five days.

　　　　　　　The provisions of this article do not appl⋅ to crews of ships, for the due restraint ★ whom regulations will be drawn up by the Consul and the local authorities.

Art. XVIII.-In the event of a l'ortuguese merchant vessel being lundered by pirates or thieves within Chinese waters, the Chinese authorities are to employ their utmost exerti ns to seize and punish the said robbers and to recover the stolen goods, which, through the Consul, shall be restored to whom they belong.

Art. XIX.-If a Portuguese vessel be shi wrecked on the coast of China, or be com. elled to take refuge in any of the ports of the Empire, the Chinese authorities, receiving notice of the fact, shall provide the necessary protection, affording

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prompt assistance and kind treatment to the crews and, if necessary, furnishing them the means to reach the nearest Consulate.

　　　　　　Art. XX.-Portuguese merchant vessels of more than one hundred and fifty tons burden will pay tonnage dues at the rate of four mace per ton; if of one hundred and fifty tons and under they shall be charged at the rate of one mace per ton. The Superintendent of Customs shall grant a certificate declaring that the tonnage dues have been paid.

Art. XXI.-Import duties shall be paid on the landing of goods; and export duties upon the shipment of the saine.

　　　　　　Art. XXII.-The captain of a Portuguese ship may, when he deems convenient, land only a part of his cargo at one of the open ports, paying the duties due on the portion landed, the duties on the remainder not being payable until they are lauded at some other port.

Art. XXIII. The master of a Portuguese ship has the option, within forty- eight hours of his arrival at any of the open ports of China, but not later, to decide whether he will leave port without opening the hatches, and in such case he will not have to pay tonnage dues. He is bound, however, to give notice of his arrival for the legal registering as soon as he comes into port, under penalty of being fined in case of non-compliance within the term of two days.

The ship will be subject to tonnage dues forty-eight hours after her arrival in port, but neither then nor at her departure shall any other impost whatsoever be exacted.

Art. XXIV.-All small vessels employed by Portuguese subjects in carrying passengers, baggage, letters, provisions or any other cargo which is free of duty, between the open ports of China, shall be free from tonnage dues; but all such vessels carrying merchandise subject to duty shall pay tonnage dnes every four months at the rate of one mace per ton.

　　　　　Art. XXV.-Portuguese merchant vessels approaching any of the open ports will be at linerty to take a pilot to reach the harbour; and likewise to take a pilot to leave it, in case the said ship shall have paid all the duties due by her.

Art. XXVI.-Whenever a Portuguese merchant ship shall arrive at any of the open ports of China, the Superintendent of Customs will send off one or more Custom-house officers, who may stay on board of their boat or on board of the ship as best sunts their convenience. These officers will get their food and all necessaries from the Custom-house, and will not be allowed to accept any fee from the captain of the ship or from the consignee, being liable to a penalty propertionate to the amount received by them.

　　　　　　Art. XXVII.-Twenty-four hours after the arrival of a Portuguese merchant ship at any of the open ports, the papers of the ship, manifest, and other documents, shall be handed over to the Consul, whose duty it will be also to report to the Superintendent of Customs within twenty-four hours, the name, the registered tonnage, and the cargo brought by the said vessel. If, through negligence or for any other motive, this stipulation be not complied with within forty-eight hurs after the arrival of the ship, the captain shall be subject to a fine of fity taels for each day's delay over and above that period, but the total amount of the fine shall not exc ed two hundred taels.

The captain of the ship is responsible for the correctness of the manifest, in which the cargo shall be minutely and truthfully described, subject to a fine of five hundred tacks as penalty in case the manifest should be found incorrect. This fine, however, will not be incurred if, within twenty-four hours after the delivery of the manifest to the Custom-house officers, the captain expressed the wish to rectify any error which may have been discovered in the said manifest.

Art. XXVIII.-The Superintendent of Customs will permit the discharging of the ship as soon as he shall have received from the Consul the report drawn in due If the captain of the ship should take upo: himself to commence discharging without permission, he shall be fined five hundred taels, and the goods so discharged

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Art. XXIX.-Portuguese merchants having goods to ship or to land will have to obtain a special permission from the Superintendent of Customs to that effect, vithout which all goods shipped or landed shall be liable to confiscation.

　　　　　　　Art. XXX.-No transhipment of goods is allowed from ship to ship without special permission, under penalty of confiscation of all the goods so transhipped.

Art. XXXI.-When a ship shall have paid all her duties, the Superintendent of Customs will grant her a certificate and the Consul will return the papers, in order that she may proceed on her voyage.

Art. XXXII.-When any doubt may arise as to the value of goods which by the tariff ar- liable to an ad valorem duty, and the Portuguese merchant disagrees with the Custom-house officers as regards the value of said goods, both parties will call two or three merchants to examine them, and the highest offer made by any of the said merchants to buy the goods will be considered as their just value.

Art. XXXIII.-Duties will be paid on the net weight of every kind of merchandise. Should there be any difference of opinion between the Portuguese merchant and the Custom-house officer as to the mode by which the tare is to be fixed, each party will choose a certain number of boxes or bales from among every hundred packages of the goods in question, taking the gross weight of said packages, then the tare of each of the packages separately, and the average tare resulting there rom will be adopted for the whole parcel.

In case of any doubt or dispute not mentioned herein, the Portuguese merchant may appeal to the Consul, who will refer the case to the Superintendent of Customs; this officer will act in such a manner as to settle the question amicably. The appeal, however, will only be entertained if mide within the term of twenty-four hours ; and in such a case no entry is to be made in th› Custom-house books in relation to the said goods until the question shall have been settled.

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　　　　　　　Art. XXXIV.-Damaged goods will pay a reduced duty proportionate to their deterioration; any doubt on this point will be solved in the way indicated in the clause of this Treaty with respect to duties payable on merchandise ad valorem.

　　　　　　　Art. XXXV.-Auy Portuguese merchant who, having imported foreign goods into one of the open ports of China and paid the proper duties thereon, may wish to re-export them to another of the said ports, will have to send to the Superintendent of Customs an account of them, who, to avoid fraud, will direct his officers to examine whether or not the duties have been paid, whether the same have been entered on the books of the Customs, whether they retain their original markets, and whether the en- tries agree with the account sent in. Should everything be found correct, the same will be stated in the export permit together with the total amount of duties paid, and all these particulars will be communicated to the Custom-house officers at other ports.

　　　　　　　Upon arrival of the ship at the port to which the goods are carried, permission will be granted to land without any new payment of duties whatsoever if, upon examination, they are found to be the identical goods; but if during the ex- amination any fraud be detecte 1, the goods may be confiscated by the Chinese Govern-

ment.

　　　　　　　Should any Portuguese merchant wish to re-export to a foreign country any goods imported, and upon which duties have been already paid, he will have to make his application in the same form as required for the re-exportation of goods to another port in China, in which case a certificate of drawback or of restitution of duties will be granted, which will be accepted by any of the Chinese Custom-houses in payment of import or export duties.

Foreign cereals imported by Portuguese ships into the ports of China may be re-exported without hindrance, if no portion of them has been discharged.

Art. XXXVI.-The Chinese authorities will adopt at the ports the measures which

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　　　　　　Art. XXXVII.-The proceeds of fines and confiscations inflicted on Portuguese subjects, in conformity to this Treaty, shall belong exclusively to the Chinese Government.

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Art. XXXVIII.-Portuguese subjects carrying goods to a market in the interior of the country, on which the lawful import duties have already been paid at any of the open ports, or those who buy native produce in interior to bring to the ports on the Yang-sze-kiang, or to send to foreign ports, shall follow the regulations. adopted towards the other nations.

Custom-house officers who do not comply with the regulations, or who may exact more duties than are due, shall be punished according to the Chinese law.

Art. XXXIX.-The Consuls and local authorities shall consult together, when necessary, as to the construction of Light-houses and the placing of Buoys and Light- ships.

Art. XL.-Duties shall be paid to the bankers authorized by the Chinese Govern- ment to receive them in sycee or in oreign coin, according to the official assay made at Canton on the 15th July, 1843.

Art. XLI.-In order to secure the regularity of weights and measures and to avoid confusion, the Superintendent of Customs will hand over to the Portuguese Consul at each of the open ports standards similar to those given by the Treasury Department for collection of public dues to the Customs at Canton.

Art. XLII.-Portuguese merchant ships may resort only to those ports of China which are declared open to commerce. It is forbidden to them, except in the case of force majeure provided for in Article XIX., to enter into other ports, or to carry on a clandestine trade on the coast of China, and the transgressor of this order shall be subject to confiscation of his ship and cargo by the Chinese Government.

Art. XLIII.-All Portuguese vessels despatched from one of the open ports of China to another, or to Macao, are entitled to a certificate of the Custom-house, which will exempt them from paying new tonnage dues, during the period of four months reckone 1 from the date of clearance.

Art. XLIV.-If any Portuguese merchant ship is found smuggling, the goods smuggled, no matter of what nature or value, will be subject to confiscation by the Chines authorities, who may send the ships away from the port, after settlement of all her accounts, and prohibit her to continue to trade.

Art. XLV. As regards the delivery of Portuguese and Chinese criminals, with the exception of the Chinese criminals who take refuge in Macao, and for whose extradition the Governor of Macao will continue to follow the existing practice, after the receipt of a due requisition from the Viceroy of the Kwangs, it is agreed that, in the Chinese ports open to foreign trade, the Chinese criminals who take refuge at the houses or on board ships of Portuguese subjects, shall be arrested and delivered to the Chinese authorities on their applying to the Portuguese Consul; and likewise the Portuguese criminals who take refuge in China shall be arrested and delivered to the Portuguese authorities on their applying to the Chinese authorities; and by neither of the parties shall the criminals be harboured nor shall there be delay in delivering them.

Art. XLVI.-It is agreed that either of the High Contracting Parties to this Treaty may demand a revision of the Tariff, and of the commercial articles of this Treaty, at the end of ten years; but if no demand be made on either side within six months alter the end of the first ten years, then the tariff shall remain in force for ten years more, reckoned from the end of the preceding ten years; and so it shall be, at the end of each successive ten years.

　　　　Art. XLVII.-All disputes arising between Portuguese subjects in China, with regard to rights, either of property or person, shall be submitted to the jurisdiction of the Portuguese authorities.

Art. XLVIII.-Whenever Chinese subjects become guilty of any criminal act towards Portuguese subjects, the Portuguese authorities must report such acts to the Chinese authorities in order that the guilty be tried according to the laws of China.

If Portuguese subjects become guilty of any criminal act towards Chinese subjects, the Chinese authorities must report such acts to the Portuguese Consul in order that the guilty may be tried according to the laws of Portugal.

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Art. XLIX.-If any Chinese subject shall have Lecome indebted to a Portuguese subject and withholds payment, or fraudulently absconds from his creditors, the Chinese authorities shall use all their efforts to apprehend him and to compel bim to pas, the debt being previously proved and the possibility of its payment ascertained. The Portuguese authorities will likewise use their efforts to enforce the payment of any debt due by any Portuguese subject to a Chinese subject.

But in no case will the Portuguese Government or the Chinese Government be considered responsible for the debts of their subjects.

Art. L.-Whenever any Portuguese subject shall have to petition the Chinese authority of a district, he is to submit his statement beforehand to the Consul, who will cause the same to be forwarded should he see no impropriety in so doing, otherwise he will have it written out in other terms, or decline to forward it. Likewise, when a Chinese subject shall have occasion to petition the Portuguese Consul he will only be allowed to do so through the Chinese authority, who shall proceed in the same manner.

Art. LI.-Portuguese subjects who may have any complaint or claim against any Chinese subject, shall lay the same before the Consul, who will take due cognizance of the case and will use all his efforts to settle it amicably. Likewise, when a Chinese subject shall have occasion to complain of a Portuguese subject, the Consul will listen to his complaint and will do what he possibly can to re-establish harmony between the two parties.

If, however, the dispute be of such a nature that it cannot be settled in that conciliatory way, the Portuguese Consul and Chinese authorities will hold a joint investigation of the case, and decide it with equity, applying each the laws of his own country according to the nationality of the defendant.

　　　　　　　Art. LII.-The Catholic religion has for its essential object the leading of men to virtue. Persus teaching it and professing it shall alike be entitled to efficacious protection from the Chinese authorities; nor shall such persons pursuing peaceably their calling and not offending against the laws be prosecuted or interfered with.

Art. LIII.-In order to prevent for the future any discussion, and considering that the English language, among all foreign language, is the most generally known in China, this Treaty, with the Convention appended to it, is written in Por- tuguese, Chinese, and English, and signed in six copies, two in each language. All these versions have the same sense and meaning, but if there should happen to be any divergence in the interpretation of the Portuguese and Chinese versions, the English text will be made use of to resolve the doubts that may have arisen.

Art. LIV. The present Treaty, with the Convention appended to it, shall be ratified by His Most Faithful Majesty the King of Portugal and the Algarves and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China. The exchange of the ratifications shall be marle, within the shortest possible time, at Tientsin, after which the Treaty, with the Convention appended, shall be printed and published in order that the functionaries and subjects of the two countries may have full knowledge of their stipulations and may fulfil them.

In faith whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty and have affixed their seals thereto.

　　　　　　　Done in Peking, this first day of the month of December in the year of Our Lord Jesus Christ one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, corresponding with the Chinese date the 17th day of 10th moon of 13th year of Kwang-Sü.

[L.S.] (Signed) [Chinese Seal]

Signatures of the Chinese Plenipotentiaries.

THOMAS DE SOUZA Roza.

Prince CH'ING.

SUN-IU-UEN.

CONVENTION

It having been stipulated in the Art. IV. of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce, concluded between Portugal and China on the 1st day of the month of December,

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1887, that a Convention shall be arranged between the two High Contracting Parties in order to establish a basis of co-operation in collecting the revenue on opium ex- ported from Macao to Chinese ports, the undersigned Thomas de Souza Roza, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His Most Faithful Majesty the King of Portugal and the Algarves, in special mission to the Court of Peking, and His Highness the Prince Ching, President of the Tsung-li Yamen, and Sun, Minister of the Tsung-li Yamen and Senior Vice-President of the Board of Public Works, Min- isters Plenipotentiaries of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China, have agreed on the following Convention in three articles:-

Art. I.--Portugal will enact a law su jecting the opium trade of Macao to the following provisions:-

1.-No opium shall be imported into Macao in quantities less than one chest. 2.-All opium imported into Macao must, forthwith on arrival, be reported to the competent department under a public functionary appointed by the Portuguese Government, to superintend the importation and exportation of opium in Macao.

3.-No opium imported into Macao shall be transhipped, landed, stored, removed from one store to another, or exported, without a permit issued by the Superintendent. 4.--The importers and exporters of opium in Macao must keep a register, accord- ing to the form furnished by the Government, showing with exactness and clearness the quantity of opium they have imported, the number of chests they bave sold, to whom and to what place they were disposed of, and the quantity in stock.

5.-Only the Macao opiuni farmer, and persons licensed to sell opium at retail, will be permitted to keep in their custody raw opium in quantities inferior to one chest. 6.-Regulations framed to enforce in Macao the execution of this law will be equivalent to those adopted in Hongkong for similar purposes.

　　　　　　Art. II.-Permits for the exportation of opium from Macao into Chinese ports, after being issued, shall be communicated by the Superintendent of Opium to the Commissioner of Customs at Kung-pac-uan.

Art. III. By mutual consent of both the High Contracting Parties the stipula- tions of this Convention may be altered at any time.

　　　　　　In faith whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed and sealed this Convention.

Done in Peking this first day of December in the year of Our Lord Jesus Christ one thousand eight hundred and eighty seven, corresponding with the Chinese date the 17th day of 10th moon of the 13th year of Kwang-Sü.

[L.S.] (Signed) THOMAS DE Souza Roza. [Chinese Seal]

Signature of the Chinese Plenipotentiaries.

Prince CH'ING.

SUN-IU-UEN.

AGREEMENT

　　　　　　The basis of the co-operation to be given to China by Portugal in the collection of duties on opium conveyed from Macao to Chinese ports, having been fixed by a Convention appended to the Treaty of Amity and Commerce, concluded between China and Portugal on the 1st December, 1887, and it being now convenient to come to an understanding upon some points relating to the said co-operation as well as to fix rules for the treatment of Chinese junks trading with Macao, Bernardo Pinheiro Correa de Mello, Secretary of the Special Mission of His Most Faithful Majesty in Peking, duly authorized by His Excellency Thomas de Sonza Roza, Chief of the said Mission, and Sir Robert Hart, K.C.M G., Inspector-General of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, provided with the necessary instructions from the Chinese Government, have agreed on the following:

　　　　　　1. An office under a Commissioner, appointed by the Foreign Inspectorate of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, shall be established at a convenient spot on Chinese territory, for the sale of opium duty certificates, to be freely sold to merchants

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and for such quantities of opium as they may require. The said Commissioner will also administer the Customs stations near Macao.

2. Opium accompanied by such certificates, at the rate of not more than 110 Taels per picul, shall be free from all other imposts of every sort, and have all the benefits stipulated for by the Additional Article of the Chefoo Convention between China and Great Britain on behalf of opium on which duty has been paid at one of the ports of China, and may be made up in sealed parcels at the option of the purchaser. 3. The Commissioner of Customs responsible for the management of the Customs stations shall investigate and settle any complaint made by Chinese merchants of Macao against the Customs stations or revenue cruisers.

　　　　　　　The Governor of Macao, if he deems it advisable, shall be entitled to send an officer of Macao to be present and assist in the investigation and decision. If, how- ever, they do not agree a reference may be made to the Authorities at Peking for a

oint decision.

　　　　　　4.-Junks trading between Chinese ports and Macao, and their cargoes, shall not be subject to any dues or duties in excess of those leviable on junks aud their cargoes trading between Chinese ports aud Hongkong, and no dues whatsoever shall be de- manded from junks proceeding to Macao from ports of China, or coming from Macao to ports in China, over and above the dues paid, or payable, at the ports of clearance or destination. Chinese produce which has paid Customs duties and Likin tax before entering Macao may be re-exported from Macao to Chinese ports without paying Customs duties and Likin tax again, and will be only subject to the payment of the tax named Siao-hao.

　　　　　　　In witness whereof, this agreement has been written in Portuguese and English and signed in duplicate at Peking this the first day of December, 1887.

(Signed) BERNARDO PINHEIRO CORRea de Mello.

(Signed)

Secretary of the Special Mission of His Most Faithful Majesty.

SIR ROBERT HART,

Inspector-General of Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs.

JAPAN

TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN JAPAN AND CHINA

SIGNED AT Shimonoseki (Bakan), Japan, on THE 17TH April, 1895 Ratifications Exchanged at Chefoo, China, on the 8th May, 1895

His Majesty the Emperor of Japan and His Majesty the Emperor of China, desiring to restore the blessings of peace to their countries, and subjects, and to remove all cause for future complications, have named as their Plenipotentiaries for the purpose of concluding a Treaty of Peace, that is to say:-

His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, Count Ito Hirobumi, Junii, Grand Cross of the Imperial Order of Paullownia, Minister-Presi·lent of State, and Viscount Mutsu Munemitsu, Junii, First Class of the Imperial Order of the Sacred Treasure, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs;

And His Majesty the Emperor of China, Li Hung-chang, Senior Tutor to the Heir Apparent, Senior Grand Secretary of State, Minister Superintendent of Trade for the Northern Ports of China, Viceroy of the Province of Chihli, and Earl of the First Bank, and Li Ching fong, ex-Minister of the Diplomatic Service of the Second Official Bank;

　　　　　　Who, after having exchanged their full powers, which were found to be in good and proper form, have agreed to the following Articles:7

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　　　　　　　Art. I.-China recognizes definitely the full and complete independence and autonomy of Corea, and, in consequence, the payment of tribute and the perform- ance of ceremonies and formalities by Corea to China in derogation of such independ- ence and autonomy shall wholly cease for the future.

Art. II.-China cedes to Japan in perpetuity and full sovereignty the follow- ing territories, together with all fortifications, arsenals, and public property thereon:- (a.) The southern portion of the Province of Feng-tien, within the following boundaries-

　　　　　　　The line of demarcation begins at the mouth of the River Yalu, and ascends that stream to the mouth of the River An-ping; from thence the live runs to Fêng Huang; from thence to Haicheng; from thence to Ying Kow, forming a line which describes the southern portion of the territory. The places above named are included in the ceded territory. When the line reaches the River Liao at Ying Kow it follows the course of that stream to its mouth, where it terminates. The mid-cha:nel of the River Liao shall be taken as the line of demarcation.

This cession also includes all islands appertaining or belonging to the Province of Fên: Tieu situated in the eastern portion of the Bay of Liao Tung, and in the northern part of the Yellow Sea.

(b.) The Island of Formosa, together with all islands appertaining or belonging to the said Island of Formosa.

(c.) The Pescadores Group, that is to say, all islands lying between the 119th and 120th degrees of longitude east of Greenwich and the 23rd and 24th degrees of north latitude.

Art. III.-The alignments of the fro tiers described in the preceding Article, and shown on the annexed map, shall be subject to verification and demarcation on the spot by a Joint Commission of Delimitation, consisting of two or more Japanese and two or more Chinese Delegates, to be appointed immediately after the exchange of the ratifications of this Act. In case the boundaries laid down in this Act are found to be defective at any point, either on account of topography or in ensideration of good administration, it shall also be the duty of the Delimitation Commission to rectify the same.

The Delimitation Commission will enter upon its duties as soon as possible, and will bring its labours to a conclusion within the period of one year fter appointment. The aligninents laid down in this Act shall, however, be maintained until the rectifications of the Delimitation Commission, if any are made, shall have received the approval of the Governments of Japan and China.

Art. IV.--China agrees to pay to Japan as a war imdemnity the sum 200,000,000 Kuping taels. The said sum to be paid in eight instalm: nts. The first instalment of 50,000,000 taels to be paid within six months, and the second instalment of 50,000,000 taels to be paid within twelve months after the exchange of the ratifications of this Act. The remaining sum to be paid in six equal annual instalments as follows: the first of such equal annual instalments to be paid within two years, the second with- in three years, the third within four years, the fourth within five years, the fifth within six years, and the sixth within seven years after the exchange of the ratifications of this Act. Interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum shall begin to run on all unpaid portions of the said indemnity from the date the first instalment falls due.

China shall, however, lave the right to pay by anticipation at any time any or all of said instalments. In case the who e amountf the said indeninity is paid within three years after the exchange of the ratifications of the pre-ent Act, all interest shall be waived, and the interest for two years and a-half, or for any less period if then already paid, shall be included as a partf the principal amount of the indemnity

Art. V. The inhabitants of the territories ceded to Japan who wish to take up their re-idence outside the ceded districts -hall be at liberty to sell their real property and retire. For this purpose a period of two years from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the present Act shall be granted. At the expiration of that

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perod those of the inhabitants who shall not have left such territories shall, at the option of Japan, be deemed to be Japanese subj. cts.

Each of the two Governments shall, immediately upon the exchange of the ratifications of the present Act, send one or more Commissioners to Formosa to effect a fimal transfer of that province, and within the space of two months after the exchange of the ratifications of this Act such transfer shall be completed.

　　　　　　　Art. VI. -All Treati s between Japan and China having come to an end in consequence of war, Cuina engages, immediately upon the exchange of the ratitica- tions of this Act, to app int Plenipotentiaries to conclude with the Japanese Pleni- potentiaries a Treaty of Commerce and Navigation, and a Convention to regulate frontier intercourse and trade. The Treaties, Conventions, and Regulations, now subsisting between China and European Powers shall serve as a basis for the sid Treaty and Convention between Japan and China. From the date of the exch‹nge of the ratifications of this Act until the said Treaty and Convention are brought into actual operation the Japanese Government, its officials, commerce, navigation, frontier intercourse and trade, industries, ships and subjects, shall in every respect be acorded by China most favoured-nation treatment.

　　　　　　　China makes, in addition, the following concessions, to take effect six months after the date of the present Act:-

　　　　　　　1. The following cities, towns, and ports, in addition to those already opened shall be opened to the trade, residence, industries, and manufactures of Japanese subjects under the same cond tions, and with the same privileges and facilities as exist at the present open cities, towns, and ports of China.

(1.) Shashih, in the Province of Hupeh.

(2.) Chung King, in the Prov.nce of Szechuan, (3.) Suchow, in the Province of Kiang Su.

(4) Hangchow, in the Province of Chekiang.

The Japanese Government shall have the right to station Consuls at any or all of the al ove-uamed places

2. Steam navigation for vessels under the Japanese flag for the conveyance of passengers and cargo shall be extended to the following places:-

(1.) On the Upper Yangtsze River, from Ichang to Chung King.

　　　　　　(2.) On the Woosung River, and the Canal, from Shanghai to Suchow and Hangchow.

The Rules and Regulations which now govern the navigation of the inland waters of China by foreign vessels, shall, so far as applicable, be enforced in respect of the above-named routes, until new Rules and Regulations are conjointly agreed to.

3. Japanese subjects purchasing goods or produce in the int rior of China or transporting imported merchandize into the interior of China, shall have the right temporarily to rent or hire warehouses for the storage of the articles so purchased or tran-ported, without the payment of any taxes or exactions whatever.

4. Japanese subjects shall be free to engage in all kinds of manufacturing industries in all the open cities, towns, and ports of China, and shall be at liberty to import into China all kinds of machinery, paying only the stipulated import duties

thereon.

　　　　　　All articles manufactured by Japanese subjects in China, shall in respect of icland trans t and internal taxes, duties, charges, and exactions of all kinds and also in respect of war, housing and storage facilities in the interior of China, stand upon the same footing and enjoy the same privileges and exemptions as merchandize imported by Japanese subjects into China.

In the event additional Rules and Regulations are necessary in connection with these concessions, they shall be embodied in the Treaty of Commerce and Naviga- tion provided for by this Article.

Art. VII.-Subject to the provisions of the next succeeding Article, the evacua tion of China by the armies of Japan, shall be completely effected within three

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　　　　　　Art. VIIL-As a guarantee of the faithful performance of the stipulations of this Act, China consents to the temporary occupation by the military forces of Japan, of Wei-hai-wei, in the Province of Shantung.

　　　　　　Upon the payment of the first two instalments of the war indemnity herein stipulated for and the exchange of the ratifications of the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation, the said place shall be evacuated by the Japanese forces, provided the Chinese Government consents to pledge, under suitable and sufficient arrangements, the Customs Revenue of China as security for the payment of the principal and interest of the remaining instalments of said indemnity. In the event no such arrangements are concluded, such evacuation shall only take place upon the payment of the final instalment of said indemnity.

　　　　　　It is, however, expressly understood that no such evacuation shall take place until after the exchange of the ratifications of the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation.

　　　　　　Art. IX.-Immediately upon the exchange of the ratifications of this Act, all prisoners of war then held shall be restored, and China undertakes not to ill-treat or punish prisoners of war so restored to her by Japan. China also engages to at once release all Japanese subjects accused of being military spies or charged with any other military offences. China further engages not to punish in any manner, nor to allow to be punished, those Chinese subjects who have in any manner been compromised in their relations with the Japanese army during the war.

　　　　　　Art. X.-All offensive military operations shall cease upon the exchange of the ratifications of this Act.

　　　　　　Art. XI. The present Act shall be ratified by their Majesties the Emperor of Japan and the Emperor of China, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Chefoo on the 8th day of the 5th month of the 28th year of Meiji, corresponding to 14th day of the 4th month of 21st year of Kuang Hsü.

　　　　　　In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms.

　　　　　　Done at Shimonoseki, in duplicate, this 17th day of the 4th mouth of the 28th year of Meiji, corresponding to 23rd of the 2rd month of the 21st year of Kuang Hsü.

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Count Iro HIROBUMI, Junii, Grand Cross of the Imperial Order of Paullownia, Minister-President of State, Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan.

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MUTSU MUNEMITSU, Junii, First Class of the Imperial Order of the Sacred Treasure, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan. LI HUNG-CHANG, Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the Emperor of China, Senior Tutor to the Heir Ap- parent, Senior Grand Secretary of Northern Ports of China, Viceroy of the Province of Chihli, and Farl of the First Rank

LI CHING-FONG, Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the Emperor of China, Ex-Minister of the Diplomatic Service, of the Second Official lank.

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THE LIAOTUNG CONVENTION

SIGNED AT PEKING, 8TH NOVEMBER, 1895

His Majesty the Emperor of China and His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, desiring to conclude a Convention for the retrocession by Japan of all of the Southern portion of the province of Feng-tien to the Sovereignty of China, hive for that purpose na:ned as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say :-

Hs Majesty the Emperor of China, Li Hung-chang, Minister Plenipotentiary, Senior Pator of the Heir Apparent, Senior Grand Secretary of State and Earl of the First Bank, and His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, Baron Hayashi Tadasu, Shoshü Grand Cross of the Imperial Order of the Sacred Treasure, Grand Officer of the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun, Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary; who, after caving communicated to each other their Full Powers, which were found to be in good and proper form, have agreed upon the following Articles:--

At. I.-Japan retrocedes to China in perpetuity and full sovereignty the Southern portion of the province of Feng-tien, which was ceded to Japan under Article II. of the Treaty of Shimonoseki on the 23rd day of the 3rd month of the 21st year of Kuang Hsü, corresponding to the 17th day of the 4th month of the th year of Meiji, together with all fortifications, arsenals, and public property thereon at the time the retroceded territory is completely evacuated by the Japanese forces in accordance with the provisions of Article III. of this Convention, that is to say, the Southern portion of the province of Feng Tien from the mouth of the River Fala to the mouth of the River An-ping, thence to Feng Huang Ch'ên, thence to Hai Ch'êng and thence to Ying K'ou'; also all cities and towns to the south of this boundary and all islands appertaining or belonging to the province of Feng Tien situated in the Eastern portion of the Bay of Liao Tung and in the Northern part of the Yellow Sea.

　　　　　　　Article III. of the said Treaty of Shimonoseki is in consequence suppressed, as are also the provisions in the same Treaty with reference to the conclusion of a Convention to regulate frontier intercourse and trade.

　　　　　　　Art. II.-As compensation for the retrocession of the Southern portion of the province of Feng Tien, the Chinese Government engage to pay to the Japanese Government 30,000,000 Kuping Taels on or before the 30th day of the 9th month of the 21st year of Kuang Hsu, corresponding to the 16th day of the 11th month of the 28th year of Meiji (November 16th, 1895).

　　　　　　　Art. III.-Within three months from the day on which China shall have paid to Japan the compensatory indemnity of 30,000,000 Kuping Tals provided for in Article II. of this Convention, the retroceded territory shall be completely evacuated by the Japanese forces.

　　　　　　　Art. IV.-China engages not to punish in any manner nor to allow to be punished those Chinese subjects who have in any manner been compromised in connection with the occupation by the Japanese forces of the retroceded territory.

　　　　　　　Art. V. The present Convention is signed in duplicate in the Chinese, Japanese, and English languages. All these texts have the same meaning and intention, but in case of any differences of interpretation between the Chinese and Japanese texts, such differences shall be decided by reference to the English text.

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　　　　　　　Art. VI. The present Convention shall be ratified by His Majesty the Emperor of China and His Majesty the Emperor of Japan and the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged at Peking within twenty-one days from the present date.

　　　　　　In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms.

　　　　　　　Done at Peking this 22nd day of the 9th month of the 21st year of Kuang Hsü, corresponding to the 8th day of the 11th month of the 28th year of Meiji (November

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TREATY OF COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION

MADE AT PEking, July 21st, 1896

His Majesty the Emperor of Japan and His Majesty the Emperor of China, having resolved, in pursuance o. the provisions of Article V. of the Treaty signed at Shimonoseki on the 17th day of the 4th month of the 23h year of Meiji, corresponding to the 23rd day of the 3rd month of the 21st year of Kwang-hsu, to conclude a Treaty of Commerce and Navigation, have for that purpose, named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:-

His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, Baron Hayashi Tadasu, Shoshii, Grand Cross of the Imperial Order o: the Sacred Treasure, Grand Officer of the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun, Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary; and His Majesty the Emperor of China, Chang Yin-hoon, Minister of the Tsung-li Yamên, holding the rank of the President of a Board and Senior Vice President of the Board of Revenue.

　　　　　　Who, after having communicated to each other their Full Powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles.

Art. I.-There shall be perpetual peace and friendship between His Majesty the Emperor of Japan and His Majesty the Emperor of China, and between their respective subjects who shall enjoy equally in the respective countries of the High Contracting Parties full an entire protection for their persons and property.

Art. II. It is agreed by the High Contracting Parties that His Majesty the Emperor of Japan may, if he see fit, accredit a Diplomatic Agent to the Court of Peking and His Majesty the Emperor of China may, if he see fit, accredit a Diplomatic Agent to the Court of Tokyo.

The Diplomatic Agents thus accredited shall respectively enjoy all the pre- rogatives, privileges and immunities accorded by international law to such Agents and they shall also in all respec s be entitled to the treatment extended to similar Agents of the most favoured nation.

　　　　　　Their persons, families, suites, establishments, residences and correspondence shall be held inviolable. They shall be at liberty to select and appoint their own officers, couriers, interpreters, servants, and atten lants without any kind of molestation.

Art. III.-His Majesty the Emperor of Japan may appoint Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, and Consular Agents to reside at such of the ports, cities, and towns of China which are now or may hereafter be opened to foreign residence and trade, as the interests of the Emire of Japan may require.

　　　　　These officers shall be treated with due respect by the Chinese Authorities, and they shall enjoy all the attributes, authority, jurisdiction, privileges and immunities which are or may hereafter be extended to similar officers of the nation most favoured in these respects.

His Majesty the Emperor of China may likewise appoint Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, and Consu ar Agents to reside at any or all of those places in Japan where Consular Officers of other nations are now or may hereafter be admitted, and, saving in the matter of jurisdiction in respect of Chinese subjects and property in Japan which is reserved to the Japanese Judicial Courts, they shall enjoy the rights and privileg s that are usually accorded to such officers.

　　　　　Art. IV. Japanese subjects may, with their families, employés and servants, frequent, reside and carry on trade, industries and manufactures or pursue any other lawful avocations, in all the ports, cities and towns of China, which are now or may

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　　　　　hereafter be opened to foreign residence and trade. They are at liberty to proceed to or fron any of the open ports with their merchandise and effects, and within the localites at those places which have already been or may hereafter be set apart for the use and occupation of foreigners, they are allowed to rent or purchase houses, rent or lease land and to build churches, cemeteries and hospitals, enjoying in all respects the same privileges and immunities as are now or may hereafter be granted to the subjects or citizens of the most favoured nation.

Ar. V-Japanese vessels may touch for the purpose of landing and shipping passengers and merchandise, in accordance with the existing Rules and Regulations concern ng foreign tale there, at all those places in China which are now ports of all, namely, Ngan-ching, Ta-tung, Hu-kow; Wu-such, Lu-chi-kow and Woosung an ì such other places as may hereafter be made ports of call also. If any vessel should unlawfully enter ports other than opeu ports and ports of call in China or carry on clandestine trade along the coast or rivers, the vessel with her cargo shail be subject to confiscation by the Chinese Government.

Art. VI.-Japanese subjects may travel, for their pleasure or for purposes of trale, to all parts of the interior of China, under passports issued by Japanese Consuls and countersigned by the Local Authorities. These passports, if deman ed, mus: be produced for examination in the localities passed through. If the passports be not irregular, the bearers will be allowed to proceed and no opposition shall be offered to their hiring of persons, animals, carts or vessels for their own conveyance or for the carrige of their personal effects or merchandise. If they be without passports or if they commit any offence against the law, they shall be handed over to the nearest Consul tor punishment but they shall only be subject to necessary restraint and in no case to ill-usage. Such passports shall remain in force for a period of 13 Chinese months from the date of issue. Any Japanese subject travelling in the interior without a passport shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 300 Taels. Japanese sub- jets may, however, without passports go on excursion- from any of the ports open to trade, to a distance not exceeding 100 Chinese li and for a period not exceeding five days. The provisions of this Article do not apply to crews of ships.

Art. VII.-Japanese subjects residing in the open ports of China may take into their service Chinese subjects and employ them in any lawful capacity without restraint or hindrance from the Chinese Government or Authorities.

Art. VIII.-Japanese subjects may hire whatever boats they please for the conveyance of cargo or passengers and the sum to be paid for such boats shall be settled between the parties themselves, without the interference of the Chinese Government or Officers. No limit shall be put upon the number of boa's, nei her shall a mono ly, in respect either of the boats or of the porters or coolies engaged in carrying goods, be granted to any parties. If any smuggling takes place in them the offenders will of course be punished according to law.

Art. IX.-The Tariffs and Tariff Rules now in force between China and the Western Powers shall be applicable to all articles upon importation into China by Japanese subjects or from Japan or upon exportation from China by Japanese subjects or to Japan. It is clearly understood that all articles, the importation or exportation of which is not expressly limited or prohibited by the Tariffs and Tariff Rules existing be' ween China and the Western Powers, may be freely imported into and export d from China, subject only to tie payment of the stipulated import or export duties. But in no case shall Japanese subje ts be called sjon to pay in China other or higher import or export duties than are or may be paid by the subjects or citizens of the most favoured nation; nor shall any article imported i to China from Japan or exported from China to Japan, be targed upon such importation or exportation, other or higher duties than are now or may hereafter be imposed in China on the like article when imported from or exported to the sation most favoured in those respects.

Art. X.-All articles duly imported into China by Japanese subjects or from Japan shall while being transported, subject to the existing Regulations, from one en port to another, be wholly exempt from all taxes, imposts, duties, lekin, charges

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and exactions of every nature and kind whatsoever, irrespective of the nationality of the owner or possessor of the articles, or the nationality of the conveyance or vessel in which the transportation is made.

Art. XI.-It shall be at the option of any Japanese subject desiring to convey duly imported articles to an inland market, to clear his goods of all transit duties by payment of a commutation transit tax or duty, equal to one-half of the import duty in respect of dutiable articles, and two and half per cent upon the value in respect of duty free articles; and on payment thereof a certificate shall be issued which shall exempt the goods from all further inland charges whatsoever.

It is understood that this Article does not apply to imported Opium. Art. XII.-All Chinese goods and produce purchased by Japanese subjects in China elsewhere than at an open port thereof and intended for export abroad. shall in every part of China be freed from all taxes, imposts, duties, lekin, charges and exactions of every nature and kind whatsoever, saving only export duties when exported, upon the payment of a commutation transit tax or duty calculated at the rate mentioned in the last preceding Article, substituting export duty for import duty, provided such goods and produce are actually exported to a foreign country within the period of 12 months from the date of the payment of the transit tax. All Chinese goods and produce purchased by Japanese subjects at the open ports of China and of which export to foreign countries is not prohibited, shall be exempt from all internal taxes, imposts, duties, lekin, charges and exactions of every nature and kind whatsoever, saving only export duties upon exportation, and all articles purchased by Japanese subjects in any part of China, may also, for the purposes of export abroad, be transported from open port to open port subject to the existing Rules and Regulations.

Art. XIII.-Merchandise of a bona fide foreign origin, in respect of which full import duty shall have been paid, may at any time within three years from the date of importation, be re-exported from China by Japanese subjects to any foreign country, without the payment of any export duty, and the re-exporters shall, in addition, be entitled forthwith to receive from the Chinese Customs drawback certi- ficates for the amount of import duty paid thereon, provided that the merchandise remains intact and unchanged in its original packages. Such drawback certificates shall be immediately redeemable in ready money by the Chinese Customs Authorities at the option of the holders thereof.

　　　　　　　Art. XIV. The Chinese Government consents to the establishment of Bonded Warehouses at the several open ports of China. Regulations on the subject shall be made hereafter,

　　　　　　Art. XV.-Japanese merchant vessels of more than 150 tons burden, entering the open ports of China, shall be charged tonnage dues at the rate of 4 mace per registered ton; if of 150 tons and under, they shall be charged at the rate of 1 mace per registered ton. But any such vessel taking its departure within 48 hours after arrival, without breaking bulk, shall be exempt from the payment of tonnage dues.

Japanese vessels having paid the above specified tonnage dues shall thereafter be exempt from all tonnage dues in all the open ports and ports of call of China, for the period of four months from the date of clearance from the port where the pay- ment of such tonnage dues is made. Japanese vessels shall not, however, be required to pay tonnage dues for the period during which they are actually undergoing repairs in China.

　　　　　　No tonnage dues shall be payable on small vessels and boats employed by Japanese subjects in the conveyance of passengers, baggage, letters, or duty-free articles between any of the open ports of China. All small vessels and cargo boats, however, conveying merchandise which is, at the time of such conveying, subject to duty, shall pay tonnage dues once in 4 months at the rate of 1 mace per ton.

No fee or charges, other than tonnage dues, shall be levied upon Japanese vessels and boats, and it is also understood that such vessels and boats shall not be required to pay other or higher tonnage ducs than the vessels and boats of the most favoured nation.

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　　　　　　Art. XVI.-Any Japanese Merchant vessel arriving at an open port of China shall be at liberty to engage the services of a pilot to take her into port. In like manner, after she has discharged all legal dues and duties and is ready to take her departure, she shall be allowed to employ a pilot to take her out of port.

　　　　　　Art. XVII.-Japanese merchant vessels compelled on account of injury sustained or any other cause, to seek a place of refuge, shall be permitted to enter any nearest port of China, without being subject to the payment of tonnage dues or duties upon goods landed in order that repairs to the vessel may be effected, provided the goods so landed remain under the supervision of the Customs Authorities. Should any such vessel be stranded or wrecked on the coast of China, the Chinese Authorities shall immediately adopt measures for rescuing the passengers and crew and for sevuring the vessel and cargo. The persons thus saved shall receive friendly treatment, and, if necessary, shall be furnished with means of conveyance to the nearest Consular Station. Should any Chinese merchant vessel be compelled on acount of injury sustained or any other cause to seek a place of refuge in the nearest port of Japan, she shall likewise be treated in the same way by the Japanese Authorities.

　　　　　　　Art. XVII.-The Chinese Authorities at the several open ports shall adopt such means as they judge most proper to prevent the revenue suffering from fraud or smuggling.

Art. XIX.-If any Japanese vessel be plundered by Chinese robbers or pirates, it shall be the duty of the Chinese Authorities to use every endeavour to capture and punish the said robbers or pirates and to recover an I restore the stolen property.

Art. XX.-Jurisdiction over the persons and property of Japanese subjects in China is reserved exclusively to the duly authorized Japanese Authorities, who shall hear and determine all cases brought against Japanese subjects or property by Jap- anese subjects or by the subjects or citizens of any other Power, without the interven- tion of the Chinese Authorities.

　　　　　　　Art. XXI.-If the Chinese Authorities or a Chinese subject make any charge or complaint of a civil nature against Japanese subjects or in respect of Japanese property in China, the case shall be heard and decided by the Japanese Authorities. In like manner all charges and complaints of a civil nature brought by Japanese Authorities or subjects in China against Chinese subjects or in respect of Chinese property, shall be heard and determined by the Chinese Authorities.

Art. XXII.-Japanese subjects, charged with the commission of any crimes or offences in China, shall be tried and, if found guilty, punished by the Japanese Authorities according to the laws of Japan.

In like manner Chinese subjects charged with the commission of any crimes or offences against Japanese subjects in China, shall be tried and, if found guilty, punished by the Chinese Authorities according to the laws of Chiua.

　　　　　　　Art. XXIII.-Should any Chinese subject fail to discharge debts incurred to a Japanese subject or should he fraudulently abscond, the Chinese Authorities will do their utmost to effect his arrest, and enforce recovery of the debts. The Japanese Authorities will likewise do their utmost to bring to justice any Japanese subject who fraudulently absconds or fails to discharge debts incurred by him to a Chinese mubject.

Art. XXIV.-If Japanese subjects in China who have committed offences or have failed to discharge debts and fraudulently abscond, should flee to the interior of China or take refuge in houses occupied by Chinese subjects or on board of Chinese hips, the Chinese Authorities shall, at the request of the Japanese Consul, deliver them to the Japanese Authorities.

In like manner if Chinese subjects in China who have committed offences or have failed to discharge debts and fraudulently abscond, should take refuge in houses acupied by Japanese subjects in China or on board of Japanese ships in Chinese waters, they shall be delivered up at the request of the Chinese Authorities made to the Japanese Authorities.

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Art. XXV.-The Japanese Government and its subjects are hereby confirmed in all privileges, immunities and advantages conferred on them by the Treaty stipulations between Japan and China which are now in force; and it is hereby expressly stipu lated that the Japan se Government and its subjects will be allowed free and equal participation in all privileges, immunities and advantages that may have been or may be hereafter granted by His Majesty the Emperor of China to the government or subjects of any other nation.

　　　　　　Art. XXVI.-It is agred that either of the High Contracting Parties may demand a r vision of the Tariffs and of the Commercial Articles of this Treaty at the end of ten years from th date of the exchange of the ratifications; but if no such demand be mide on either side and no such revision be effected within six months after the end of the first ten years then the Treaty and Tariffs, in their present f ›rm, shall remain in force for ten years more, reckoned from the en 1 of the prece ling ten y ars, and so it shall be at the end of each sac essive period of ten years.

Art. XXVII.-The High Contracting Parties will agree upon Rules and Regulations necessary to give full effect to this Treaty. Un'il such Rules and Regulations are brought intact al operation the Arrangements, Rules and Regulations subsisting between China and the Western Powers, so far as they are aplicable and not inconsistent with the provisions of this Treaty, shall be binding between the Contracting Parties.

Art. XXVIII. The present Treaty is signed in the Japanese, Cainese and English languages. In order, however, to prevent future discussions, the Pleni- potentiaries of the High Contracting Parties have agreed upon that in case of any divergencies in the interpretation between the Japanese and Chinese Texts of the Treaty, the difference shall be settled by reference to th· En zlish Text.

　　　　　　Art. XXIX. The present Treaty shall be rat:fied by His Majesty th→ Emperor of China and His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, and the ratification thereof shall be exchanged at Peking not later than three months from the present date.

In Witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same and have affixed theret the seal of the r arms.

　　　　　　　Done at Peking this 21st day of the 7th month of the 29th year of Meiji, corresponding to the 11th day of the 6th month of the 22.d year of Kuang Hsü

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HAYASHI Tadasu.

PROTOCOL REGARDING NEW PORTS

MADE AT PEKING, 19TH OCTOBER, 1896

Baron Hayashi Tadasu, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, and the Min-ster of Foreign Affairs of His Majesty the Emperor of China have agreed upon the following stipulations supple- mentary to the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation :--

Art. I. It is hereby greed that special Japanese settlements shall be formed at the places newly opened to commerce, and that affairs relating to roads and police sall be under the control of the Japanese Consul.

　　　　　　Art. II.-Regulations with respect to steamers or ships owned or chartered by Japanese subjects at Suchow, Hangchow, and Shanghai shall be determined after conference with Japan, on the basis of the Provisional Regulations for the conduct of business by foreign merchants at those places, issued by the Shanghai Customs on August 3rd of the 22nd year of Kwangsü.

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　　　　　　　Art. III.-The Government of Japan concedes the right of the Chinese Govern- ment to impose upon articles manufactured by Japanese subjects in China such a tax as may seem expedient, provided that the said tax shall not differ from, or exceed, the tax paid by Chinese subjects; and provided that the Chinese Govern- ment shall, when the Japanese Government so desires, immediately provide sites for the formation of special Japanese Settlements in Shanghai, Tientsin, Amoy, and Hankow.

Art. IV.-Instructions shall be issued in Sunfu, in Shantung, that no Chinese troops shall approach, or take possession of any position, w thin 5 Japanes ri, that is to say, about 40 Chinese li, of the limits of any positions held by Japanese forces in accordance with treaty stipulations.

The above Protocol shall be drawn up in the Chinese and Japanese languages and after comparison, the two copies shall be signed and sealed, each side taking one of the copies.

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HAYASHI Tadasu. PRINCE KING. YIN LU.

CHANG YIN-WHAN,

19th day, 10th month, 29th year of Meiji; 13th day, 9th month, 22nd year of Kwang-sü.

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TREATIES WITH COREA

GREAT BRITAIN

TREATY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND COREA

SIGNED, IN THE ENGLISH AND CHINESE LANGuages, at Hanyang (Seoul) ON THE 26TH NOVEMBER, 1883

Ratifications exchanged at Hanyang on the 28th April, 1884

　　　　　　Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Empress of India, and His Majesty the King of Corea, being sincerely desirous of establishing permanent relations of Friendship and Commerce between their re- spective domin:ons, have resolved to conclude a Treaty for that purpose, and have therefore named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:

　　　　　　Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, Sir Harry Smith Parkes, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of The Bath, Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the Emperor of China;

His Majesty the King of Corea, Min Yöng-mok, President of His Majesty's Foreign Office, a Dignitary of the First Rank, Senior Vice President of the Council of State, Member of His Majesty's Privy Council, Junior Guardian of the Crown Prince;

　　　　　　Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles:-

　　　　　　Art. 1.-There shall be perpetual peace and friendship between Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, her heirs and successors, and His Majesty the King of Corea, his heirs and succes- sors, and between their respective dominions and subjects, who shall enjoy full securit and protections for their persons and property within the dominions of the

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2.-In case of difference arising between one of the High Contracting Parties and a third Power, the other High Contracting Party, if requested to do so, shall exert its good ofhces to bring about an amicable arrangement.

Art. II.-The High Contracting Parties may each appoint a Diplomatic Re- presentative to reside permanently or temporarily at the Capital of the other, and may appoint a Consul-General, Consuls or Vice-Consuls, to reside at any or all of the ports or places of the other which are open to foreign commerce. 'The Diplo- matic Representatives and Consular functionaries of both countries shall freely enjoy the same facilities for communication personally or in writing with the Authorities of the country where they respectively reside, together with all other privileges and immunities, as are enjoyed by Diplomatic or Consular functionaries in other

countries.

2. The Diplomatic Representative and the Consular functionaries of each Power and the members of their official establishments shall have the right to travel freely in any part of the dominions of the other, and the Corean Authorities shall furnish passports to such British officers travelling in Corea, and shall provide such escort for their protection as may be necessary.

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The Consular officers of both countries shall exercise their functions on receipt of due authorisation from the Sovereign or Government of the country in which they respectively reside, and shall not be permitted to engage in trade.

Art. III-Jurisdiction over the persons and property of British subjects in Corea shall be vested exclusively in the duly authorised British Judicial Authorities, who shall hear and determine all cases brought against British subjects by any British or other foreign subject or citizen without the intervention of the Corean Authorities.

2.-If the Corian Authorities or a Corean subject make any charge or complaint against a British subject in Corea, the case shall be heard and decided by the British Judicial Authorities.

3.--I the British Authorities or a British subject make any charge or complaint against a Corean subject in Corea, the case shall be heard and decided by the Corean Authorities.

4.- A British subject who commits any offence in Core shall be tried and punished by the British Judicial Authorities according to the laws of Great Britain. 5.-A Corean subject who commits in Corea any offence against a British sub- ject shall be tried and punished by the Corean Authorities according to the laws of

Corea.

　　　　　　　6.-Auy complaint against a British subject involving a penalty or confiscation, by reason of any breach either of this Treaty or of any Regulation annexed thereto, or of any Regulation that may hereafter be made in virtue of its provisions, shall be brought before the British Judicial Authorities for decision, and any penalty imposed, and all property confiscated in such cases, shall belong to the Corean Government.

　　　　　　　7.-British goods, when seized by the Corean Authorities at an open port, shall be put under the seals of the Corean and the British Consular Authorities and shall be detained by the former until the British Judicial Authorities shall have given their derision. If this decision is in favour of the owner of the goods, they shall be imme- diately placed at the Consul's disposal. But the owner shall be allowed to receive them at once on depositing their value with the Corean Authorities pending the decision of the British Judicial Authorities.

8. In all cases, whether civil or criminal, tried either in Corean or British Courts in Corea, a properly authorised official of the nationality of the plaintiff or prosecutor shall be allowed to attend the hearing, and shall be treated with the courtesy due to his position. He shall be allowed, whenever he thinks it necessary, to call, examine, and cross-examine witnesses, and to protest against the proceedings or decision.

9.--If a Corean subject who is charged with an offence against the laws of his country takes refuge on premises occupied by a British subject or on board a British merchant vessel, the British Consular Authorities, on receiving an application from the Corean Authorities, shall take steps to have such person arrested and handed over to the latter for trial. But without the consent of the proper British Consular Authority no Corean officer shall enter the premises of any British subject without bis consent, or go ou board any British ship without the consent of the officer in charge.

10.-On the demand of any competent British Consular Authority, the Corean Authorities shall arrest and deliver to the former any British subject charged with u criminal offence, and any deserter from a British ship of war or merchant vessel.

Art. IV. The port of Chemulpo (Jenchuan), Wonsan (Gensan), and Pusan (Fusan), or, if the latter port should not be approved, then such other port as way be elected in its neighbourhood, together with the city of Hanyang and the town of Yangawa Chin, or such other place in that neighbourhood as may be deemed desirable, stall, from the day on which this Treaty comes into operation, be opened to British

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2.-At the above-named places British subjects shall have the right to rent or to purchase land or houses, and to erect dwellings, warehouses, and factories. They shall be allowed the free exercise of their religion. All arrangements for the selection, determination of the limits, and laying out of the sites of the Foreign settlements,

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and for the sale of land at the various ports and places in Corea open to foreign trade, shall be made by the Corean Authorities in conjunction with the competent Foreign Authorities.

　　　　　　3.-These sites shall be purchased from the owners and prepared for occupation by the Corean Government, and the expenses thus incurred shall be a first charge on the proceeds of the sale of the land. The yearly rental agreed upon by the Corean Authorities in conjunction with the Foreign Authorities shall be paid to the former, who shall retain a fixed amount thereof us a fair equivalent for the land tax, and the remainder, together with any balance left from the proceeds of land sales, shall belong to a Municipal fund to be administered by a Council, the constitution of which shall be determined hereafter by the Corean Authorities in conjunction with the competent Foreign Authorities.

　　　　　　4.-British subjects may rent or purchase land or houses beyond the limits of the foreign settlements, and within a distance of ton Corean li from the same But all land so occupied shall be subject to such conditions as to the observance of Corean local regulations and payment of land tax as the Corean Authorities may see fit to impose.

　　　　　　5.-The Corean Authorities will set apart, free of cost, at each of the places open to trade, a suitable piece of ground as a foreign cemetery, upon which no rent, land tax, or other charges shall be payable, and the management of which shall be left to the Municipal Council above mentioned.

　　　　　　6. British 8 bjects shall be allowed to go where they please without passports within a distance of one hundred Corean li from any of the ports and places open to trade, or within such limits as may be agreed upon between the competent authorities of both countries. British subjects are also authorised to travel in Corea for pleasure or for purposes of trade, to transport and sell goods of all kinds, except books and other printed atter disapproved of by the Corean Government, and to purchase native produce in all parts of the country, under passports which will be issued by their Consuls and countersigned or scaled by the Corean local authorities. These passports, if demanded, must be produced for examination in the districts passed through. If the passport be not irregular, the bearer wil; be allowed to proceed, and he shall be at liberty to procure such means of transport as he may require. Any British subject travelling beyond the limits above named without a passport, or com- mitting when in the interior any offence, shall be artested and handed over to the nearest British C n-ul for puni-hment Travelling without a passport beyond the said limits will sender the offender liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred Mexican dollars, with or without imprisonment for a term not exe eding one month.

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　　　　　　7.-British subjects in Corea shall be amena le to such municipal, police, and other regulations for the maintenance of peace, order, and good government as ma be agreed upon by the competent authores of the two countries.

　　　　　　Art. V.-At ench of the ports or places open to Foreign trade, British subjects shall be at ull liberty to import from any Foreign port, or from any Corean open port, to sell or to buy from any Corean subjects or others, and to export to any Foreign or Coren open port, all kinds of merchandise not prohibited by the Treaty, on paying the duties of the Tariff annexed thereto. They may freely transact their business with Corean subjects or others without the interve. tion of Corean officials or other persons, and they may freely engage in any industrial occupation.

　　　　　　2.-The owners or consignees of all goods imported from any Foreign port upon which the duty of the aforesaid Tariff shall have been paid shall be entitled on re-exporting the same to any foreign port at any time within thirteen Corean months from the date of importation, to receive a drawback certificate for the amount of such import duty, provided that the original packages containing such goods remain intact. These drawback certifica es shall either be redeemed by the Corean Customs on demand, or they shall be received in payment of duty at any Corean open port.

　　　　　　3. The duty paid on Corean goods, when carried from one Corean open port to another, shall be refunded at the port of shipment on production of a Customs

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certificate shewing that the goods have arrived at the port of destination, or on satisfactory proof being produced of the loss of the goods by shipwreck.

4-All goods imported into Corea by British subjects, and on which the duty of the Tariff annexed to this Treaty shall have been paid, may be conveyed to any Corean open port free of duty, and, when transported into the interior, shall not be subject to any additional tax, excise, or transit duty whatsoever in any part of the country. In like manner, freedom shall be allowed for the transport to the open ports of all Corean commodities intended for exportation, and such commodities shall But, either at the place of production, or whe being conveyed from any part of Corea to any of the open ports, be subject to the payment of any tax, excise, or transit duty whatsoever.

5.-The Corean Government may charter British merchant vessels for the con- rerance of goods or passengers to unopened ports in Corea, and Corean subjects shall have the same right, subject to the approval of their own authorities.

6.-Whenever the Government of Corea shall have reason to apprehend a scarcity of food within the kingdom, His Majesty the King of Corea may, by Decree, temporarily prohibit the export of grain to foreign countries from any or all of the Corean open ports, and such prohibition shall become binding on British subjects in Corea on the expiration of one month from the date on which it shall have been officially communicated by the Corean Authorities to the British Consul at the port concerned, but shall not remain longer in force than is absolutely necessary.

　　　　　　　7.-All Brit sh ships shall pay tonnage dues at the rate of thirty cents (Mexican) per register ton. One such payment will entitle a vessel to visit any or all of the open ports in Corea during a period of four months without further charge. All tonnage dues shall be appropriated for the purposes of erecting lighthouses and beacons and placing buoys on the Corean coast, more especially at the approaches to the open ports, and in deepening or otherwise improving the anchorages No tonnage dues shall be charged on boats employed at the open ports in landing or shipping cargo.

3. -In order to carry into effect and secure the observance of the provisions of th's Treaty, it is hereby agreed that the Tariff and Trade Regulations hereto annexed shall come into operation simultaneously with this Treaty. The competent authorities of the two countries may, from time to time, revise the said Regulations wb a view to the insertion therein, by mutual consent, of such modifications or additions as experience shall prove to be expedient.

Art. VI. Any British subject who smuggles, or attempts to smuggle, goods into any Corean port or place not open to foreign trade shall forfeit twice the value of such goods, and the goods shall be confiscated. The Corean local authorities may seize such goods, and may arrest any British subject concerned in such smuggling or attempt to smuggle. They shall immediately forward any person so arrested to the nearest British Con-ui for trial by the proper British Judicial authority, and may detain such goods until the case shall have been finally adjudicated.

Art. VII.-If a British ship be wrecked or stranded on the coast of Corea, the cal authorities shall immediately take such steps to protect the ship and her cargo from plunder, and all the persons belonging to her from ill-treatment, and to render such other ass stance as may be required. They shall at once inform the nearest British Consul of the occurren e, and shall furnish the shipwrecked persons, if neces- sar, with means of conveyance to the nearest open port.

2-All expenses incurred by the Government of Corea for the rescue, clothing, maintenance, and travelling of shipwrecked British subjects, for the recovery of the Lodes of the drowned, for the medical treatment of the sick and injured, and for the burial of the dead, shall be repaid by the British Government to that of Corea.

　　　　　　3.-The British Government shall not be responsible for the repayment of the expenses incurred in recovery or preservation of a wrecked vessel, or the property belonging to her. All such expenses shall be a charge upon the property saved, and shall be paid by the parties interested therein upon receiving delivery of the

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4.-No charge shall be made by the Government of Cores for the expenses of the Government officers, local functionaries, or police who shall proceed to the wreck, for the travelling expenses of officers escorting the shipwrecked men, nor for the expenses of official correspondence. Such expenses shall be borne by the Corean Government.

　　　　　　5.- Any British merchant ship compelled by stress of weather or by want of fuel or provisions to enter an unopened port in Corea shall be allowed to execute repairs, and to obtain necessary supplies. All such expenses shall be defrayed by the master of the vessel.

　　　　　　Art. VIII. The ships of war of each country shall be at liberty to visit a'l the ports of the cther. They shall enjoy every facility for procuring supplies of all kinds or for making repairs, and shall not be subject to trade or harbour regulations, nor be liable to the payment of duties or port charges of any kind.

　　　　　　2.-When British ships of war visit unopened ports in Corea, the officers and men may land, but shall not proceed into the interior unless they are provided with passports.

3.-Supplies of all kinds for the use of the British Navy may be landed at the open ports of Corea, and stored in the custody of a British officer, without the pay- ment of any duty. But if any such supplies are sold, the purchaser shall pay the proper duty to the Corean Authorities,

　　　　　4.-The Corean Government will afford all the facilities in their power to ships belonging to the British Government which may be engaged in making surveys in Corean waters.

　　　　　　Art. IX.-The British Authorities and British subjects in Corea shall be allowed to employ Corean subjects as teachers, int rpreters, servants, or in any other lawful capacity, without any restriction on the part of the Corean Authorities; and, in like manner, no restrictions shall be placed upon the employment of British subjects by Corean Authorities and subjects in any lawful capacity.

　　　　　2. Subjects of either nationality who may proceed to the country of the other to study its language, literature, laws, arts, or industries, or for the purpose of scien- tific research, shall be afforded every reasonable facility for doing so.

　　　　　Art. X.-It is hereby stipulated that the Government, public officers, and subjects of Her Britannic Majesty shall, from the day on which this Treaty comes into operation, participate in all privileges, immunities, and advantages, especially in relation to import or export duties on goods and manufactures, which shall then have been granted or may thereafter be granted by His Majesty the King of Corea or the Government, public officers, or subjects of any other power.

　　　　　　Art. XI.-Ten years from the date on which this Treaty shall come into opera- tion, either of the High Contracting Parties may, on giving one year's previous notice to the other, demand a revision of the Treaty or of the Tariff annexed thereto, with a view to the insertion therein, by mutual consent, of such modifications as experience shall prove to be desirable.

　　　　　　Art. XII.-This Treaty is drawn up in the English and Chinese languages, both of which versions have the same meaning, but it is hereby agreed that any difference which may arise as to interpretation shall be determined by reference to the English

text.

2.--For the present all official communications addressed by the British Antho- rities to those of Ĉorea shall be accompanied by a translation into Chinese.

　　　　　　Art. XIII.-The present Treaty shall be ratified by Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, and by His Majesty the King of Cores, under their hands and seals; the ratifications shall be exchanged at Hanyang (Soul) as soon as possible, or at latest within one year from the date of signature, and the Treaty, which shall be published by both Governments, shall come into operation on the day on which the ratifications are exchang.

　　　　　In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries above named have signed the present Treaty, and have thereto affixed their seals.

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　　　　　　　Done in triplicate at Hanyang, this twenty-sixth day of November, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, corresponding to the twenty-seventh day of the tenth month of the four hundred and ninety-second year of the Corean era, being the ninth year of the Chinese reign Kuang Hsu.

[L.8.] [L.S.]

HARRY S. PARKES. MIN YONG-MOK.

REGULATIONS UNDER WHICH BRITISH TRADE IS TO BE

CONDUCTED IN COREA

I.-Entrance and Clearance of Vessels

　　　　　　　1.-Within forty-eight hours (exclusive of Sundays and holidays) after the arrival of a British ship in a Corean port, the master shall deliver to the Corean Cn-toms authorities the receipt of the British Consul showing that he has deposited the ship's papers at the British Consulate, and he shall then make an entry of this ship by handing in a written paper stating the name of the ship, of the port from which she comes, of her master, the number, and, if required, the names of her passengers, her tonnage, and the number of her crew, which paper shall be certified by the master to be a true statement, and shall be signed by him. He shall, at the same time, deposit a written manifest of his cargo, setting forth the marks and numbers of the packages and their contents as they are described in the bills of lading, with the names of the persons to whom they are consigned. The master shall certify that this description is correct, and shall sign his name to the same. When a vessel has been duly entered, the Customs authorities will issue a permit to open Latches, which shall be exhibited to the Customs officer on board Breaking bulk without having obtained such permission will render the master liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred Mexican dollars.

2. If any error is discovered in the manifest, it may be corrected within twenty- four hours (exclusive of Sundays and holidays) of its being handed in, without the payment of any fee, but for alteration or post entry to the manifest made after that time a fee of five Mexican dollars shall be paid.

3.-Any master who shall neglect to enter his vessel at the Corean Custom-house within the time fixed by this Regulation shall pay a penalty not exceeding fifty Mercan dollars for every twenty-four hours that he shall so neglect to enter his ship.

4-Any British vessel which remains in port for less than forty-eight hours (exclusive of Sundays and holidays) and does not open her hatches, also any vessel driven into port by stress of weather, or only in want of supplies, sball not be required to enter or pay tonnage dues so long as such vessel does not engage in trade.

t. When the master of a vessel wishes to clear, he shall hand in to the Customs authorities an export manifest containing similar particulars to those given in the import manifest. The Customs authorities will then issue a clearance certificate and return the Consul's receipt for the ship's papers. These documents must be handed into the Consulate before the ship's papers are returned to the master.

6.-Should an ship leave the port without clearing ou'wards in the manner above prescribed, the master shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred Mexican dollars.

7.-British steamers may enter and clear on the same day, and they shall not be required to hand in a manifest except for such goods as are to be landed or transhipped at the port of entry.

II-Landing and Shipping Cargo and Payment of Duties

1.-The importer of any goods who desires to land them shall make and sign an application to that effect at the Custom-house, stating his own name, the name of the hip in which the goods have been imported, the marks, numbers, and contents of the packages and their values, and declaring that this statement is correct. The Customs authorities may demand the production of the invoice of each consignment of mer-

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chandise. If it is not produced, or if its absence is not satisfactorily accounted for, the owner shall be allowed to land his goods on payment of double the Tariff duty, but the surplus duty so levied shall be refunded on the prod ction of the invoice.

　　　　　2.- Ali goods so entered may be examined by the Customs officers of the places appointed for the purpose. Such examination shall be made wi hout delay or injury to the merchandize, and the packages shall be at once resorted by tlie Customs authorities to their original condition, in so far as may be practicable.

3.-Should the Customs authorities consider the value of any goods paying an ad valorem duty as declared by the importer or exporter insufficient, they shall call upon him to pay duty on the value determined by an appraisement to be made by the Customs appraiser. Bt should the importer or exporter te dissatisfied with that appraisement, he shall within twenty-four hours (exclusive of S...ndays and holidays) st.te his reasons or such dissatisfaction to the Commissioner of C stoms, and shall appoint an appraiser of his own to make a re-appraisement. He shall then declare the vale of the goods as determined by such re-apprais ment. The Commissioner of Customs will thereupon, at his option, either assess the duty on th· value deter- mined by this re-appraisement, or will purchase the gcods from the importer or exporter at the price thus determined, with the addition of five per cent. In the latter case the purchas money shall be paid to the importer or exporter within five days from the date on which he has declared the value determined by his own appraiser.

　　　　　4.-Upou all goods damaged on the voyage of importation a fair reduction of duty shall be allowed, proportionate to their deterioration. If any disputes a ise as to the amount of such reduction, they shall be settled in the manner pointed out in the preceding clause.

5.-All goods intended to be ·xporte i shall be entered at the Corean Custom- house before they are shipped. The application to ship shall be made in writing, and shall state the name of the vessel by which the goods are to be exported, the marks and number of the packag s, and the quantity, description, and value of the contents. The exporter shall certify in writing that the application gives a true account of all the goods cutained herein, and shall sign his name hereto.

　　　　　6.-No goods shall be landed on shipped at other places than those fixed by the Corean Cu tous authorities, or beteen the hours of sunset and sunrise, or on Sundays or holidays, without the special permission of the Customs authorities, who wili be entitled to reasonable ees for the extra duty thus performed.

　　　　　7.--Claims by importers ore porters for duties paid in excess, or by the Customs authorities for duties ahion have not been fully paid, shall be entertained only when mad within thirty days from the date of payment.

8.-No entry will be required in the case of provisions for the use of British ships, their crews and passengers, nor for the baggage of the latter which may be lauded or shipped at any time after examination by the Customs officers.

　　　　　9. Vessels needing repairs may land their cargo for that purpose without the payment of d ty. All goods so landed shall remain in charge of the Corean Autho- rities, and all just charges for storage, labour, and supervision shall be paid by the master. But if any portion of such cargo be sold, the duties of the Tariff shall be paid on the portion so disposed of.

　　　　　10.-Any person desiring to tranship cargo shall obtain a permit from the Customs authorities beiore doing so.

III.-Protection of the Revenue

1.-The Customs authorities shall have the right to place Customs officers o board any British merchant vessel in their ports. All such Customs officers shall have access to all parts of the snip in which cargo is stowed. They shall be treated with civility, and such reasonable accommodation shall be allowed to them as the ship affords.

　　　　　2.-The hatches and all other places of entrance into that part of the ship wher cargo is stowed may be secured by the Corean Customs officers between the hours o sunset and sunrise, and on Sundays and holidays, by affixing seals, locks, or othe

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fastenings, and if any person shall, without due permission, wilfully open any entrance that has been so secured, or break any seal, lock, or other fastening that has been affixed by the Corean Customs officers, not only the person so offending, but the master of th ship also, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred Mexican dollars.

　　　　　　　3.--Any British subject who ships, or attempts to ship, or discharges, or attempts to discharge, goods which have not been duly entered at the Cust m-house in the manner above provided, or packages containing goods different from those described o the import or export permit application, or prohibited goods, shall forfeit twice the ralue of such goods, and the goods shall be confiscated.

　　　　　　　4.-Any person signing a false declaration or certificate with the intent to defraud The revenue of Corea shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred Mexican dollars.

　　　　　　　5.-Any violation of any provision of these Regulations, to which no penalty is specially attached therein, my be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred Mexican

lars.

　　　　　　　Note. All documents required by these Regulations, and all other communications addressed to the Corean Customs authorities, may be written in the English language.

[L.S.] [L.S.]

HARRY S. PARKES.

MIN YONG-MOK,

PROTOCOL

　　　　　　　The above-named Plenipotentiaries hereby make and append to this Treaty the fell wing three Declarations:-

　　　　　　　I.---With referenc: to Article III. of this Treaty, it is hereby declared that the right of extra-territorial jurisdiction over British subjects in Corea granted by this Treat shall be retinquished when, in the judgment of the British Government, the laas an i legal procedure of Corea shall have been so tar modified and reformed us to remove the objection which now exist to British subjects being placed under Corean jur s liction, and Corean Judges shall have attained similar legal qualifications and a sm ar independent position to those of British Judges.

II.-With reference to Article IV. of this Treaty, it is hereby declared that if the Chines· Government shall hereafter surrender the right of opening commercial suhshments in the city of Hanyang, which was granted last year to Chinese subjects, the same rig t shall not be claimed for British subjects, provided that it be not granted by the Corean Government to the su jects of any other Power.

　　　　　　　　III-It is hereby declar d that the provisions of this Treaty shall apply to all British Colonies, unless any exception shall be notifie by Her Majesty's Government to that of Corea within one year from the date on which the Ratificatious of this Treaty shall be exchanged.

And it is hereby further stipulated that this Protocol shall be laid before the High Contracting Parti s simultaneously with this Treaty, and that the ratification of this Treaty s all include the confirmation of the above three declarations, for which, therefore, no separate act of ratification will he req ired.

　　　　　　　In faith of which the above-named Plenipotentiaries have this day signed this Protocol, and have hereto affixed their seals.

　　　　　　　　Done at Hanyang this twenty-sixth day of November, in the year eighte‹ n hundred and eighty-three, corresponding to the twenty seventh day of the tenth month of the four hundred and ninety-second year of the Corean era, being the ninth year of the Chinese reign Kuang Hsü.

[L.S.] [L.8.]

HARRY S. Parkes. MIN YONG-MOK.

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IMPORTS

No.

...

Free

refined

21 Candles

22 Canvas

23 Carmine

Ad valorem

ARTICLE.

Rate of Duty.

No.

ARTICLE.

Per cent

Alum

Amber

Anchors aud chains

Agricultural implements

Free

Fans, all kinds

Feathers, all kinds

2054

Felt

Fire engines

Fireworks

Fish, freslt

dried and salted

Arms, ammunition, fire-arms, fowling- pieces, or sidearms imported under special permit of the Corean Govern- ment for sporting purposes or for self- defence

6 Artificial flowers

***

7 Bamboo, split or not

8 Bark for tanning

Beans, peus, and pulse, all kinds

Beer, porter, and cider

11 Beverages, such as lemonade, ginger

beer, soda und mineral waters

Birds' nests

Blankets and rugs

14 Bones

15 Books, maps, and charts

16 Bricks and tiles

17 Bullion, being gold or silver refined

　　　　18 Buttons, buckles, hooks and eyes, &c. 19 Camphor, crude

2060

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Flax, hemp, and jute... Flints

61 Floor rugs, all kinds 62 Flour and meal, all kinds

63 Foil, gold and silver

tin, copper, and all other kinds... Fruit, fresh, ali kinda

dried, salted, or preserved

Furs, suberior, us sable, sea otter, seal,

Ad valorem Rate of Duty.

Per cent.

Free

71 67

Furniture of all kinds

offer, beaver, &c.

Gamboge

Free 70

Ginsong, red, white, crude, and clarified Glass, window, plain and coloured, all

qualities

71 72

Glass, plate, silvered

or unsilvered,

framed or unframed...

1073

Glassware, all kinds...

774

Glue

7175

Grain and corn, all kin:ls

| 76

24 Carpets of jute, hemp, or felt, patent

tapestry

Grasscloth, and all textiles in hemp.

jute, &c.

***

777

Guano and manures, all kinds

25 Carpets, superior quality, as Brussels, Kidderminster, and other kinds not enumerated

26 Carpets, velvet

27 Carriages...

28 Cement, as Portland and other kinds

Charcoal...

30 Chemicals, all kinds...

Clocks and parts thereof

32 Clothing and wearing apparel, all kinds,

hats, boots and shoes, &c.

33 Clothing and wearing apparel made

wholly of silk...

Hair, all kinds except human

human...

20 81

24 82

7} 83

provided for

784

Incense sticks

•

Indm-rubber, manufactured or not

Isinglass, all kinds

787

Ivory, manufactured or not

Jade-ware

Jewellery, real or imitation

34 Coal and coke

5 90

Cochineal

Kerosine, or petroleum, and other

mineral oila

Cocoons

7 91

Lacquered-ware, common

37 Coins, gold and silver

Free

superior

38 Confectioneries and sweetmeats, all kinds

Lamps, all kinds

39 Coral, manufactured or not

Lanterns, paper...

***

40 Cordage and rope, all kinds and sizes... 41 Cotton, raw

796

Leather, all ordinary kinds, plain.......

7年

　　　　　42 Cotton manufacture, all kinds... 43 Cutton and woolen mixtures, all kinds 44 Cotton and silk mixtures, all kinds 45 Cutlery, all kinds

7497

Lime

46 Drugs, all kinds

47 Dyes, colours, and paints, paint oils, and materials used for mixing paints Earthenware

***

49 Embroideries in gold, silver, or silk

74 100

50 Enamel-ware

...

2285

51 Explosives used for mining, &c., and imported under special permit

superior kinds, and stamped, figured, or coloured...

Linen, linen and cotton, linen and wool- len mixtures, linen and silk mixtures, all kinds

Matches

74101 Matting, floor, Chinese, Japanese, coir,

&c., common qualities

102 Matting, superior qualities, Japanese

** tatamis," &c.

103 Meat, fresh...

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...

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ornaments, gold and silver

Hides and skins, raw and undressed

tanned and dressed

Horns and hoofs all kinds not otherwise

No.

COREAN TARIFF

ARTICLE.

Ad valorem Rate of Duty. Per cent.

No.

104 Meat, dried and salted...

...

105 Medicines, all kinds not otherwise

　　　　　　　　provided for 105 Metals, all kinds, in pig, block, ingot, slab, bar, rod, plate, sheet, hoop, strip, band and flat, T and angle-iron, old and scrap iron...

107 Metals, all kinds, pipe or tube, cor- rugated or galvanized, wire, steel, tin- pistes, quicksilver, nickel, platina, German silver, yellow metal, tuten- agne, or white copper, unrefined gold and silver

ARTICLE.

129

Ad valorem Rate of Duty.

Per cent.

152 Silk manufactures, as gauze, crape, Japanese amber lustrings, satius, satin damaske, figured satins, Japanese white silk ("habutai")

153 Silk manufactures not otherwise pro-

vided for

154

Silk thread and floss silk in skein...

155 Soap, common qualities

156 Soap, superior qualities

157 Soy, Chinese and Japanese

158 Spectacles

སྱཱŠཨཙཨ༧s

159 Spices, all kinds

160

Spirits, in jars

106 Metal manufactures, all kinds, as nails, screws, tools, machinery, railway plant,

161

Spirits and liqueurs, in wood or bottle,

all kinds

***

100 Models of inventions

...

and hardware...

110 Mosquito netting, not made of silk...

111

112 Musical boxes

113 Musical instruments, all kinds

11: Musk

115 Needies and pins

116 Oil-ake

***

162

Stationery and writing materials, all

Free

kinds, blank books, &c.

163

Stones and slate, cut and dressed...

made of silk

164

Sugar, brown and white, all qualities,

molasses, and syrups...

165

Sugar candy

166

Sulphur

167

Table stores, all kinds, and preserved

provisions

117 Oils, vegetable, all kinds ...

168

Tallow

118 thi, wood (Tung-yu).....

169

Ten

119 Oil, and floor-cloth, all kinds...

170

Telescopes and binocular glasses

120 Packing bags, packing matting, tea-

171

Tobacco, all kinds and forms...

kad, and ropes for packing goods Free

121 Paper, common qualities

all kinds. not otherwise provided

for

Perfumes and scents

123 Paper, coloured, fancy, wall and hanging 10

1:1 Pearls

12 Pepper, unground......

127 Photographic apparatus

1 Petures, prints, photographs, engrar-

ings, all kinds framed or unframed

ཚཚོའཚོཚག་པའོ

172

Tortoise shell, manufactured or not

173

Tooth powder...

***

174

Travellers' baggage...

Free

175

Trunks and portmanteaux

176

Twine and thread, all kinds, excepting

in silk

177

Types, new and old

Free

178

Umbrellas, paper

179

cotton

180

silk

181

Umbrella frames

123 Fitch and tar

182

Varuish

19) Planks, soft

183

Vegetables, fresh, dried, and salted

131

hard

184 Velvet, silk...

132 Plants, trees and shrubs, all kinds

Free

185

Vermicelli

13 Plate, gold and silver

186

Vermilion

154 Plate ware,

all kinds

187

Watches, and parts thereof in common

135 Porcelain, common qualities

metal, nickel, or silver

136

superior qualities

188

Watches, in goiti or gilt

137 Precious stones, all kinds, set or unset 20

189

Wax, bees' or vegetable

134 Rattans, slit or not

190

cloth...

13 Khinoceros horns

140 Rosin

191

Wines in wood or bottle, all kinds

104

192

Wood or timber, soft

141 Saddlery and harness

193

hard

•

12 Salt

•

194

Wool, sheep's, raw...

143 Simples in reasonable quantities

Free

195

Woollen manufactures, all kinds

144 Spinwood

7} 196

145 Scales and balances

Woollen and silk mixtures, all

kinds

146 Sented wood, all kinds

197 Works of art

147 Scientific instruments, as physical, ma- thematical, meteorological, and sur-

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149 Seals, materials for...

150 Seeds, all kinds

149 Sea products, as seaweed, bêche-de-mer,

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15 Silk, raw, reeled, thrown, floss or waste

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　　　　　　　Foreign ships, when sold in Cores, will pay a duty of 25 cents per ton on sailing vessels, and 50 cents per ton on steamers.

Prohibited Goods.

Adulterated drugs or medicines.

　　　　　　　　Arms, munitions, and implements of war, as ordnance or cannon, shot and shell, firearms of all kinds, cartridges, side-arms, spears or pikes,

CLASS I.

Duty-Free Export Goods.

　Bullion, being gold and silver refined. Coins, gold and silver, all kinds. Plants, trees, and shrubs, all kinds. Samples, in reasonable quautity, Travellers' baggage.

saltpetre, gunpowder, guucotton, dynamite, and other explosive substances.

The Corean authorities will grant special permits for the importation of arms, firearms, and ammunition for purposes of sport or self-defence on satisfactory proof being furnished to them of the bona fide character of the application.

EXPORTS.

Counterfeit coins, all kinds.

Opium, except medicinal opium,

CLASS II.

All other native goods or productions not enumerated in Class I. will pay an ad valorem duty of five per cent.

bited.

RULES.

The exportation of red ginseng is prohi

　　　　　　I.-In the case of imported articles the ad valorem duties of this Tariff will be calculated on the actual cost of the goods at the place of production or fabrication, with the addition of freight, insurance, etc. In the case of export artic.es the ad valorem duties will be calculated on market values in Corea.

II.-Duties may be paid in Mexican dollars or Japanese silver yen.

　　　　　　III.-The above Tariff of import and export duties shall be converted, as soon as possible and as far as may be deemed desirable, into specific rates by agreement between the competent authorities of the two countries.

[LS.] [L.S.]

HARRY S. PARKES. MIN YONG-MOK.

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TREATY OF PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE KINGDOM OF COREA (CHOSEN)

SIGNED AT RENSAN, 22nd May, 1882

Ratifications Exchanged at Hanyang, 19th May, 1883

　　　　　　　Art. I.-There shall be perpetual peace and friendship between the President of the United States and the King of Chosen and the citizens and subjects of their respective Governinents. If other Powers deal unjustly or oppressively with either government the other will exert their good offices, on being informed of the case, to bring about an amicable arrangement, thus showing their friendly feelings.

　　　　　　　Art. II.-After the conclusion of this treaty of amnity and commerce the high contracting Powers may each appoint diplomatic representatives to reside at the Court o: the other, and may each appoint consular representatives at the ports of the other which are open to foreign commerce, at their own convenience.

The officials shall have relations with the corresponding local authorities of equal rank upon a basis of mutual equality. The Diplomatic and Consular repre- sentatives of the two Governments shall receive mutually all the privileges, rights,and immunities, without discrimination, which are accorded to the saine classes of repre- sentatives from the most favoured nations.

Consuls shall exercise their functions only on receipt of an exequatur from the Government to which they are accredited. Consular authorities shall be bond fide officials. No merchants shall be permitted to exercise the duties of the office, nor stall consular officers be allowed to engage in trade.

At ports to which no consular representatives have been appointed the consuls of other Powers may be invited to act, provided that no merch int shall be allowed to assume consular functions, or the provisions of this treaty may be, in such case, enforced by the local authorities.

If consular representatives of the United States in Chosen conduct their bu-iness in an improper manner their exequaturs may be revoked, subject to the approval, previously obtained, of the diplomatic representative of the United States.

Art. III-Whenever United States vessels, either because of weather or by want of fuel or provisions, cannot reach the nearest open port in Chosen, they may enter any port or harbour either to take refuge therein or to get wood, coal, and other Decessaries or to make repairs; the expenses incurred thereby being defrayed by the ship's master. In such event the officers and people of the locality shall display their sympathy by rendering full assistance, and their liberality by furnishing the necessities required.

If a United States vessel carries on a clandestine trade at a port not open to foreign commerce, such vessel with her cargo shall be seized and confiscated.

If a United States vessel be wrecked on the coast of Chosen, the coast authorities, on being informed of the occurrence, shall immediately render assistance to the crew, provide for their present necessities, and take the measures necessary for the salvage of the ship and the preservation of the cargo. They shall also bring the matter to the knowledge of the nearest consular representative of the United States, in order

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that steps may be taken to send the crew home and save the ship and cargo. The necessary expenses shall be defrayed either by the ship's master or by the United States.

Art. IV.-All citizens of the United States of America in Chosen, peaceably attending to their own affairs, shall receive and enjoy for themselves and everything appertaining to them the protection of the local authorities of the Government of Chosen, who shall defend them from all insult and injury of any sort. If their dwellings or property be threatened or attacked by mobs, incendiaries, or other violent or lawless persons, the local officers, on requisition of the Consul, shall immediately dispatch a military force to disperse the rioters, apprehend the guilty individuals, and punish them with the utmost rigour of the law,

Subjects of Chosen, guilty of any criminal act towards citizens of the United S'ates, shall be punished by the authorities of Chosen according to the laws of Chosen; and citizens of the United States, either on shore or in any merchant vessel, who may insult, trouble, or wound the persons or injure the property of the people of Chosen shall be arrested and punished only by the Consul or other publie functionary of the United States thereto authorized, according to the laws of the United States.

When controversies arise in the kingdon of Chosen, betw en citizens of the United States and subjects of His Majesty, which need to be examined and decided by the public officers of the two nations, it is agreed between the two governments of the United States and Chosen that such case shall be tried by the proper official of the nationality of the defendant according to the law of that nation. The properly authorized official of the plaintiff's nationality shall be freely permitted to attend the trial and shall be treated with the courtes: due to his position. He's all le grantei all Proper facilities for watching the proceedings in the interests of justice. If he so desire he shall have the right to be present, to examine and cross-examine witnesses. It he is dissatisticd with the proceedings he shall be permitted to protest against

them in detail.

It is, however, mutually agreed and understood between the high contracting Powers ha: whenever the King of Choseu shall have so far modified and reformed the statutes and the jud cial procedure of his kingdom that, in the judgment of the United States, they conform to the laws and course of justice in the United States, the right of exterritorial jurisdiction over United States citizens in Chosen shall be abandoned, and thereafter United States citizens, when within the limits of the kingdom of Chosen, shall be subject to the jurisdiction o; the native authorities.

Art. V.--M rchants and merchant vessels. f Chosen visiting the United States for the purpose of traffic shall pay duries and tounage dues and fees according to the customs regulations of the United States, but no higher or other rates of duties and t nnage dues shall be exac ́ed of them 'han are levied upon citizens of the United States or run citizens or subjects of the most favour diation.

Merchants and merchant vessels of the United States visiting Chosen for purposes of trade-mail pay duties upon all merchan-lise imported and expor' ed. The authority to levy duties is of rig t vested in the Government of Chosen. The tarif of duties upon exports and imports, toget er with the customs regulations for the prevention of smuggling and other irregularities, will be fixed by te aut orities of Chosen anl communicated to the proper officials of the United States, to be by the latter notified to their citizens and duly observed.

It is, however, agreed in the first instance, as a general measure, that the tariff upon such imports as are articles of daily use shall not exceed an ad valorem duty of ten per cent; that the tariff upon such imports as are luxmies- as for instance for ign wines, or ign tobacco, clocks and watches-shall not exceed an ad valorem uty of thirty per cent, and that native produce export d shall pay a duty not to exceed five per cent. ad valorem. And it is further agreed that the duty upon foreign imports shall be paid once for all at the port of entry, and that no other dues, duties, fees, taxes, or charges of any sort shall be levied upon such imports either in the interior of Chosen or at the ports.

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　　　　　　United States merchant vessels entering the ports of Chosen shall pay tonnage dues at the rate of five mace per ton, payable once in three months on each vessel, according to the Chinese calendar.

Art. VI. Subjects of Chosen who may visit the United States shall be per- mitted to reside and to rent premises, purchase land, or to construct residences or warehouses in all parts of the country. They shall be freely permitted to pursue their various callings and avocations, and to traffic in all merchandise, raw and manufactured, that is not declared contraband by law. Citizens of the United States who may resort to the ports of Chosen which are open to foreign commerce shall be permitted to reside at such open ports within the limits of the concession and to lease buildings or land, or to construct residences or warehouses therein. They shall be freely permitted to pursue their various callings and avocations within the limits of the ports and to traffic in all merchandise, raw and manufactured, that is not declared contraband by law.

No coercion or intimidation in the acquisition of land or buildings shall be permitted, and the land rent as fixed by the authorities of Chosen shall be paid. And it is expressly agreed that land so acquired in the open ports of Chos n still remains an integral part of the kingdom, and that all rights of jurisdiction over persons and property within such areas remain vested in the anthorities of Chosen, except in so far as such rights have been expressly relinquished by this treaty.

American citizens are not permitted either to transport foreign imports to the interior for sale or to proceed thither to purchase native produce, nor are they per- mitted to transport native produce from one open port to another open port.

Violation of this rule will subject such merchandise to confiscation, and the merchants offending, will be handed over to the consular authorities to be dealt with.

Art. VII.-The Governm. uts of the United States and of Chosen mutually agree and undertake that subjects of Chosen shall not be permitted to import opi m into any of the ports of the United States, and citizens of the United States shall not be permitted to import opium into any of the open ports of Chosen, to transport it from one open port to another open port, or traffic in it in Chosen. This absolute prohibition, which exten is to vessels owned by the citizens or subjects of either Power, to foreign vessels employed by them, and to vessels owned by the citizens or subjects of either Power and emploed by other persons for the transportation of opium, shall be enforce, by appropriate legislation on the part of the United States and of Chosen, and offenders against it shall be severely puni-hed.

　　　　　　　Art. VII. Whenever the Governme: t of Chosen shall have reason to appre. bnd a scarcity of food within the limits of the kingdom, His Majesty may by d-cree temporarily prohibit the export of all breadstuffs, and such decree shall be bending upon all citizens of the United Stat s in Chosen upon due notice having been given thin by the authorities of Chosen through the proper officers of the United States; but it is to be understood that the exportation of rice and breadstuffs of ever description is prohibited from the open port of Yin-Chuen.

Chosen having of old prohibite the exportation of red ginseng, if citizens o the United States clandestinely purchase it for export it shall be confiscated and the offen lers punished.

　　　　　　　Art. IX.-Purchase of cannon, small arms, swords, gunpowde, shot, and all munitions of war is permitted only to officials of the Government o: Chosen, and ther may be imported by citizens of the United States only under written permit from the authorities of Chosen. If these articles are clandestinely imported they shall be confiscated and the offending party shall be punished.

　　　　　　　Art. X.-The officers and people of either nation residing in the other shall have the right to employ natives for all kinds of lawful work.

　　　　　　　Should, however, subjects of Chosen, guilty of violation of the laws of the king. dom, or against whom any action has been brought, conceal themselves in the residences or warehouses of United States citizens or on board United States merchant Vessels, the Consular authorities of the United States, on being notified of the fact by the local authorities, will either permit the latter to despatch constables to make

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the arrests, or the persons will be arrested by the Consular authorities and handed over to the local constables.

Officials or citizens of the United States shall not harbour such persons.

　　　　　　Art. XI-Students of either nationality who may proceed to the country of the other in order to study the language, literature, laws, or arts shall be given all possible protection and assistance, in evidence of cordial goodwill.

　　　　　　Art. XII.-This being the first treaty negotiated by Chosen, and hence being general and incomplete in its provisions, shall, in the first instance, be put into opera- tion in all things stipulated herein. As to stipulations not contained herein, after an interval of five years, when the officers and people of the two Powers shall have become more familiar with each other's language, a further negotiation of commercial provisions and regulations in detail, in conformity with international law and without unequal discriminations on either part, shall be had.

Art. XIII.-This Treaty and future official correspondence between the two contracting governments shall be made on the part of Chosen in the Chinese language.

The United States shall either use the Chinese language, or if English be used it shall be accompanied with a Chinese version in order to avoid misunderstanding Art. XIV. The high contracting Powers hereby agree that should at any time the King of Chosen grant to any nation or to the merchants or citizens of any nation any right, privilege, or favour connected either with navigation, commerce, political or other intercourse, which is not conferred by this treaty, such right, privilege, and favour shall freely enure to the benefit of the United States, its public officers, merchants, and citizens; provided always, that whenever such right, privilege, or favour is accompanied by any condition or equivalent concession granted by the other nation interested, the United States, its officers and people, shall only be entitled to the benefit of such right, privilege, or favour upon complying with the conditions or concessions connected therewith.

　　　　　　In faith whereof the respective Commissioners Plenipotentiary have signed and sealed the foregoing at Yin-Chuen, in English and Chinese, being three originals of each text of even tenor and date, the ratifications of which shall be exchanged at Yin-Chuen within one year from the date of its execution, and immediately hereafter this treaty shall be, in all its provisions, publicly proclaimed and made known by both governments in their respective countries in order that it may be obeyed by their citizens and subjects respectively.

R. W. SHUFEldt,

Commodore United States Navy, Envoy of the United States to Chosen.

SHIN CHEN,

CHIN HONG CHI,

Members of the Royal Cabinet of Chosen.

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TREATY OF PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN THE EMPIRE OF

JAPAN AND THE KINGDOM OF COREA (CHOSEN)

SIGNED AT KOKWA, 26TH FEBruary, 1876

The Governments of Japan and Chosen being desirous to resume the amicable relations that of yore existed between them and to promote the friendly feelings of both nations to a still firmer basis have, for this purpose, appointed their Pleni- potentiaries, that is to say:-The Government of Japan, Kuroda Kiyotaka, High Commissioner Extraordinary to Chosen, Lieutenant-General and Member of the Privy Council, Minister of the Colonization Department, and Inouyè Kaoru, Associate High Commissioner Extraordinary to Chosen, Member of the Genro In; and the Government of Chosen, Shin Ken, Han-Choo-Su-Fu, and In-Jishô, Fu-So-Fu, Fuku-86-Kwan, who, according to the powers received from their respective Govern- ments, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articl ́s :-----

Art. I.-Cosen being an independent state enjoys the same sovereign rights as does Japan.

In order to prove the sincerity of the friendship existing between the two nations, their intercourse shall henceforward be carried on in terms of equality and courtesy, each avoiding the giving of offence by arrogance or manifestations of suspicion.

In the first instance, all rules and precedents that are apt to obstruct friendly intercourse shall be totally abrogated, and, in their stead, rules, liberal and in general usage fit to secure a firm and perpetual peace, shall be established.

　　　　　　　Art. II.-The Government of Japan, at any time within fifteen months from the date of signature of this Treaty, shall have the right to send an Envoy to the capital of Chosen, where he shall be admitted to confer with the Rei-sohan-sho on matters of a diplomatic nature. He may either reside at the capital or return to his country on the completion of his mission.

　　　　　　　The Government of Chosen in like manner shall have the right to send an Envoy to Tokyo, Japan, where he shall be admitted to confer with the Minister for Foreign Affairs on matters of a diplomatic nature. He may either reside at Tokyo or return home on the completion of his mission.

Art. III.--All official communications addressed by the Government of Japan to that of Chosen shall be written in the Japanese language, and for a period of ten years from the present date they shall be accompanied by a Chinese translation. The Government of Chosen will use the Chinese language.

Art. IV.-Sorio in Fusan, Chosen, where an official establishment of Japan is situated, is a place originally opened for commercial intercourse with Japan, and trade shall henceforward be carried on at that place in accordance with the provisions of this Treaty, whereby are abolished all former usages, such as the practice of Sai- ken-sen (junk annually sent to Chosen by the late Prince of Tsushima to exchange a certain quantity of articles between each other).

In addition to the above place, the Government of Chosen agrees to open two ports, as mentioned in Article V. of this Treaty, for commercial intercourse with Japanese subjects.

In the foregoing places Japanese subjects shall be free to lease land and to erect buildings thereon, and to rent buildings the property of subjects of Chosen.

　　　　　　Art. V. On the coast of five provinces, viz: Keikin, Chiusei, Jenra Keisho, and Kankio, two ports, suitable for commercial purposes, shall be selected, and the time for opening these two ports shall be in the twentieth month from the second month of the ninth year of Meiji, corresponding with the date of Chosen, the first moon of the year Hei-shi.

　　　　　　　Art. VI.-Whenever Japanese vessels either by stress of weather or by want of fuel and provisions cannot reach one or the other of the open ports in Chosen, they may enter any port or harbour either to take refuge therein, or to get supplies of

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wood, coal, and other necessaries, or to make repairs; the expenses incurred thereby are to be defrayed by the ship's master. In such events both the officers and the people of the locality shall display their sympathy by rendering full assistance, and their liberality in supplying the necessaries required.

If any vessel of either country be at any time wrecked or stranded on the coasts of Japan or of Chosen, the people of the vicinity shall immediately use every exertion to rescue her crew, and shall inform the local authorities of the disaster, who will either send the wrecked persons to their native country or hand them over to the officer of their country residing at the nearest port,

　　　　　　Art. VII.-The coasts of Chosen, having hitherto been left unsurveyed, are very dangerous for vessels approaching them, and in order to prepare charts showing the positions of islands, rocks, and reefs, as well as the depth of water, whereby all navigators may be enabled safely to pass between the two countries, any Japanese mariners may freely survey said coasts,

　　　　　　Art. VIII.-There shall be appointed by the Government of Japan an officer to reside at the open ports in Chosen for the protection of Japanese merchants resorting there, provided that such arrangement be deemed necessary. Should any question inter sting both nations arise, the said officer shall confer with the local auth, rities of Chosen and settle it.

Art. IX.-Friendly relations having been established between the two contract- ing parties, their re-pective subjects may freely carry on their business without any interference from the officers of either Government, and neither limitation nor pro- hibition shall be made on trade.

In case any fraud be committed, or payment of debt be refused by any merchant of either country, the officer of either one or of the other Government shall do their utmost to bring the delinquent to justice and to enforce recovery of the debt.

Neither the Japanese nor the Chosen Government shall be held responsible for the paym nt of such debt.

　　　　　　Art. X.-Should a Japanese subject residing at either of the open ports of Chosen commit any offence against a subject of Chosen, he shall be tried by the Japanese authorities. Should a subject of Chosen commit any offence against a Japanese subject, he shall be tried by the authorities of Chosen. The offenders shall be punished according to the laws of their respective countries. Justice shall be equitably and impartially a ministered on both sides.

　　　　　　Art. XI.-Friendly relations having been established between the two contract- ing parties, it is necessary to prescribe trade relations for the benefit of the merchants of the respective countries.

　　　　　　Such trade regulations, together with detailed provisions, to be added to the Articles of the present Treaty, to develop its meaning, and facilitate its observance, shall be agreed upon at the capital of Chosen or at Kokwa Fu m the country, within six months from the present date, by Special Commissioners appointed by the two counties.

Art. XII. The foregoing eleven articles are binding from the date of the signing hereof, and shall be obs rved by the two contracting parties, faithfully aud invariably, whereby perpetual friendship shall be secured to the two countries.

　　　　　　The present Treaty is executed in duplicate and copies will be exchanged between the two contracting parties.

　　　　　　In faith whereof we, the respective Plenipotentiaries of Japan and Chosen, have affixed our seals hereunto this twenty-sixth day of the second month of the ninth year of Meiji, and the two thousand five hundred and thirty-sixth since the accession of Jimmu Tenno; and, in the era of Chosen, the second day of the second moon of the year Heishi, and of the founding of Chosen the four hundred and eighty-fifth.

(Signed)

KURODA KIYOTAKA. INOUYE KAoru. SHIN KEN. IN JI-SHO.

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Whereas, on the twnty-sixth day of the second month of the ninth year Meiji, corresponding with the Corean date of the second day of the second month of the year Heishi, a treaty of Amity and Friendship was signed and concluded between Kuroda Kiyotaka, High Commissioner Extraordinary, Lieutenant-General of H.I.J.M. Aray, Member of the Privy Council, and Minister of the Colonization Department, and Inouvé Karu, Ass ciate High Commissioner Extraordinary and Member of the Genrô-In, both of whom had been dir cted to proceed to the city of Kokwa in Corea by the Government of Ja an; and Shin Ken, Dai Kwan. Han-Choo-Su-Fu, and In- jishò, Fu-So-Fu, Fuku-s -Kwan, both of whom has been duly commissioned for that purpose by the Government of Corea:-

Now therefore, in pursuance of Article XI. of the above Treaty, Miyamoto Okudzu, Commissioner despatched to the capital of Corea, Daijô of the Foreign Department, and duly empowered thereto by the Government of Japan, and Chio Inki, Koshoo Kwan, Gisheifudôshô, duly empowered thereto by the Government of Corea, have negotiated and concluded the following articles :-

　　　　　　　Art. I.-Agents of the Japanese Government stationed at any of the open ports si all hereafter, whenever a Japanese vessel has been stranded on the Corean coasts and has need of their presence at the spot, have the right to proceed there on their informing the local authorities of the facts.

　　　　　　　Art. II.-Envoys or Agents of the Japanese Government shall hereafter be at full liberty to despatch letters or other ommunications to any place or places in Corea, either by post at their own expense, or by hiring inhabitants of the locality wherein they reside as -pecial couriers.

Art. III-Japanese subjects may, at the ports of Corea open to them, lease land for the purpose of erecting residences thereon, the rent to be fixed by mutual agreement btw en the lessee and the owner.

Any lands b longing to the Corean Government may be rented by a Japanese on his paying the same rent thereon as a Corean subject would pay to his Goverment. It is agreed that the Sumon (watch-gate) and the Shotsumon (barrier) erected by the Corean Government near the Kokwa (Japanese official establish'uent) in Sorioko, Fusan, shall be entirely removed, and that a new boundary line shall be establishe l according to the limits hereinafter provided. In the other two open ports the same steps shall be taken.

　　　　　　　Art. IV.-The limits within which Japanese subjects may travel from the port of Fusan shall be comprised within a radius of ten ri, Coreau measurement, the landing place in that port being taken as a centre.

　　　　　　Japanese subjects shall be free to go where they please within the above limits, and shall be therein at full liberty either to buy articles of local production or t› sell articles of Japanese production.

　　　　　　　The town of Torai lies outside of the above limits, but Japanese shall have the same privileges as in those places within them.

　　　　　　　Art. V.-Japanese subjects shall at each of the open ports of Corea be at liberty to ein loy Corean subjects.

　　　　　　Corvan subjects, on obtaining permission from their Government, may vi-it the Japanes Empire.

Art. VI. In case of the death of any Japanese subject residing at the open ports of Corea, a suitable spot of ground shall be selected wherein 10 inter his remains. As to the localities to be select d for cemeteries in the two open ports other than port of Fusan, in determining them regard shall be had as to the distance there is to the cemetery already established at Fusan.

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　　　　　　　Art. VII.-Japanese subjects shall be at liberty to traffic in any article owned by Corean subjects, paying therefor in Japanese coin. Corean subjects, for purposes of trade, may freely circulate among themselves at the open ports of Corea such Japanese coin as they may have possession of in business transactions.

　　　　　　Japanese subjects shall be at liberty to use in trade or to carry away with them the copper coin of Corea.

In case any subject of either of the two countries counterfeit the coin of either of them, he shall be punished according to the laws of his own country.

　　　　　　　Art. VIII.-Corean subjects shall have the full fruition of all and every article which they have become possessed of either by purchase or gift from Japanese subjects.

　　　　　　　Art. IX.-In case a boat despatched by a Japanese surveying vessel to take soundings along the Corean coasts, as provided for in article VII of the Treaty of Amity and Friendship, should be prevented from returning to the vessel, on account either of bad weather or the ebb tide, the headman of the locality shall accommodate the boat party in a suitable house in the neighbourhood. Articles required by them for their comfort shall be furnished to them by the local authorities, and the outlay thus incurred shall afterwards be refunded to the latter.

　　　　　　　Art. X.-Although no relations as yet exist between Corea and foreign countries, yet Japan has for many years back maintained friendly relations with them; it is therefore natural that in case a vessel of any of the countries of which Japan thus cultivates the friendship should be stranded by stress of weather or otherwise on the coasts of Corea, those on board sha 1 be treated with kindness by Corean subjects, and should such persons ask to be sent back to their homes they shall be delivered over by the Coreau Government to an Agent of the Japanese Government residing at one of the open ports of Corea, requesting him to send them back to their native countries, which request the Agent shall never fail to comply with.

　　　　　　　Art. XI.-The foregoing ten articles, together with the Regulations for Trade annexed hereto, shall be of equal effect with the Treaty of Amity and Friendship, and therefore shall be faithfully observed by the Governments of the two countries, Should it, however, be found that any of the above articles actually cause embarrass- ment to the commercial intercourse of the two nations and that it is necessary to modify them, then either Government, submitting its propositions to the other, shall negotiate the modification of such articles on giving one year's previous notice of their intention.

　　　　　　　Signed and sealed this twenty-fourth day of the eighth month of the ninth year Meiji, and two thousand five hundred and thirty-sixth since the accession of H. M. Jinimu Tenno; and of the Corean era, the sixth day of the seventh month of the year Heishi, and the founding of Corea the four hundred and eighty-fifth.

(Signed)

MIYAMOTO ОKADZU, Commissioner and Dajio of the

Foreign Department.

CHO INKI,

(Signed)

Kòshoo Kwan, Gisheifudosho.

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GREAT BRITAIN

TREATY OF PEACE, FRIENDSHIP, AND COMMERCE BETWEEN

HER MAJESTY AND THE TYCOON OF JAPAN

SIGNED, IN THE English, Japanese, and DUTCH LANGUAGES, at Tokio, 26th August, 1858

Ratifications Exchanged at Tokio, 11th July, 1859

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the Tycoon of Japan, being desirous to place the relations between the two countries on a permanent and friendly footing, and to facilitate commercial intercourse between their respective subjects, and having for that purpose resolved to enter into a Treaty of Peace, Amity, and Commerce, have named as their Pleni- potentiaries, that is to say:

Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, The Right Honourable the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, a Peer of the United Kingdom, and Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle

And His Majesty the Tycoon of Japan, Midzuo Tisikfogono Kami; Nagai Gembano Kami; Inouwye Sinano no Kami; Kori Oribeno Kami; Iwase Higono Kami; and Isuda Hanzabro.

Art. I.-There shall be perpetual peace and friendship between Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, her heirs and successors, and His Majesty the Tycoon of Japan, and between their respective dominions and subjects.

Art. II.-Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland may appoint a Diplomatic Agent to reside at the city of Tokio, and Consuls or Consular Agents to reside at any or all the ports of Japan which are opened for British commerce by this Treaty.

The Diplomatic Agent and Consul-General of Great Britain shall have the right to travel freely to any part of the Empire of Japan.

His Majesty the Tycoon of Japan may appoint a Diplomatic Agent to reside in London, and Consuls or Consular Agents at any or all the ports of Great Britain.

　　　　　　The Diplomatic Agent and Consul-General of Japan shall have the right to travel freely to any part of Great Britain.

Art. III-The ports and towns of Hakodate, Kanagawa, and Nagasaki shall be opened to British subjects on the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine. In addition to which, the following ports and towns shall be opened to them at the dates hereinafter specified

Niigata, or, if Niigata be found to be unsuitable as a harbour, another convenient port on the west coast of Nipon, on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

Hiogo on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. In all the foregoing ports and towns British subjects may permanently reside. They shall have the right to lease ground and purchase the buildings thereon, and

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may er et dwellings and warehouses; but no fortification, or place of military strength, shall be erected under pretence of building dwellings or warehouses; and to see that this Article is observed, the Japanese authorities shall have the right to inspect, from time to time, any buildings which are being erected, altered, or repaired.

The place which British subjects shall occupy for their buildings, and the harbour regulations, shall be arranged by the British Consul and the Japanese authorities of each place, and if they cannot agree the matter shall be referred to and settled by the British Diplomatic Agent and the Japanese Government. No wall, fence, or gate shall be erected by the Japanese around the place where British subjects reside, or anything done which may prevent a free egress on ingress to the same.

　　　　　　British subjects shall be free to go where they please, within the following limits, at the opened ports of Japan.

　　　　　　　At Kanagawa to the River Loge (which empties into the Bay of Ye lo, Kawasaki, and Sinogaw) and ten rẻ in any direction.

At Hakodat ten ri in any direction.

　　　　　　　At Hiogo teu ri in any direction, that of Kioto excepted, which city shall not be approached nearer than ten ri. The crews of ves-els resorting shall not cross the River Engawa, which empties into the Bay between Hiogo and Osaka.

　　　　　　　The distance shall be measured by land from the goyoso, or town hall of each of the foregoing ports, ten ri being equal to four thousand two hundred and seventy-five yards English measure.

　　　　　　At Nagasaki British subjects may go into any part of the Imperial domain in its vicuity.

The boundaries of Niigata, or the place that may be substituted for it, shall be settled by the British Diplomatic Agent and the Government of Japan.

From the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, British subjects shall be allowed to reside in the city of Yedo, and from t ́e first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the city of Osaka, for the purposes of trade only. In each of these two cities a suitable place, within which they may hire houses, and the distance they may go, shall be arranged by the British Diplomatic Agent and the Government of Japan.

Art. IV. All questions in regard to rights whether of property or person arising between British subjects in the dominions of His Majesty the Tycoon of Japan shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the British authorities.

Art. V.-Japanese subjects who may be guilty of any criminal act towards British subjects shall be arrested and punished by the Japanese authorities, according to the laws of Japan.

British subjects who may commit any crime against Japanese subjects, or the subjects or citizens of any other country, shall be tried and punished by the Consul or other public functionary authorized thereto, according to the laws of Great Britain.

Justice shall be equitably and impartially administered on both sides.

Art. VI.-A British subject having reason to complain of a Japanese must proceed to the Consulate and state his grievance,

The Consul will inquire into the merits of the case, and do his utmost to arrange it amicably. In like manner, if a Japanese have reason to compain of a British subject, the Consul shall no less listen to his complaint, and endeavour to settle it in a friendly manner. If disputes take place of such a nature tha the Consul cannot arrange them amicab y, then he shall request the assistance of the Japanese authorities, that they may together examine into the merits of the case, and "ecide it equitably.

　　　　　　Art. VII.-Should any Japanese subject fail to discharge debts incurred to a British subject, or should he fraudulently abscond, the Japanese aut: orities will do their utmost to bring tim to justice, and to enforce recovery of the debts; an i should any British subject fraudulently abscond or fil to discharge debts incurred by him to a Japanese subject, the British authorities will, in like manner, do their utmost to bring him to justice and to enforce recovery of the debts.

　　　　　　Neither the British nor Japanese Government are to be held responsible for the payment of any debts contracted by British or Japanese subjects.

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Art. VIII.-The Japanese Government will place no restrictions whatever upon employment of Japanese, by British subjects, in any lawful capacity.

Art. IX.-British subjects in Japan shall be allowed free exercise of their religion, and for this purpose shall have the right to erec: suitable places of worship.

Art. X.-All foreign coin shall be current in Japan, and shall pass for its corresponding weight in Japanese coin of the same description.

Bri.ish and Japanese subjects may freely use foreign or Japanese coin in making payments to each other.

　　　　　　　As some time will elipse before the Japanese will become acqua nted with the value of foreign coin, the Japanese Government will, for the period of one year after the opening of each port, furnish British subjects with Japanese coin in exchange for theirs, equal weights being given, and n › disco int taken for recoinage.

Coins of all descriptions (with the exception of Japanese copper coin), as well as foreign gold and silver u.coined, may be expo ted from Japan.

Art. XI-Supplies for the use of the British navy may be landed at Kanagawa, Hakodate, and Nagasaki, and stored in warehouses, in the custody of an officer of the British Government, without the payment of any duty; if any such supplies are sold in Japan, the purchasers shall pay the proper duty to the Japanese anthorities.

　　　　　　　Art. XII.-If any Bri ish vessel be at any time wrecked or stranded on the coast of Japan, or be compelled to take refuze in any port within the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan, the Japanese authorities, on being apprised of the fact, shall imardiately render all the assistance in their power; the persons on board shall receive friendly treatment, and be furnished, if necessary, with the means of conveyance to the nearest Consular station.

Art. XIII-Any British merchant vessel arriving off one of the open ports of Japan shall be a liberty to hire a pilot to take her into port. In like manner, after ste nas discharged all legal dues, and is ready to take her departure, she shall be allowed to hire a pilot to conduct her out of port.

Art. XIV.-At each of the ports open to trade British subj. cts shall be fully at liberty to import from their own or any other ports. and sell there and purchase therein, and export to their own or any other ports, all manner of merchandize not entraband, paying the duties thereon as laid down in the Tariff annexed to the present Treaty, and no other charges whatsoever. With the exception of munitions of war, which shall only be sold to the Japanese Government and foreigners, they may treely buy from Japanese and sell to them any articles that either may have for sale, with at the intervention of any Japanese officer in such purchase or sale, o in receiving payment for the same, and all classes of Japanese may purchase, sell, keep, or use any articles sold to them by British subjects.

Art. XV.-If the Japanese Custom House officers are dissatisfied with the value placed on any goods by the owner, they may place a value thereon, and offer to take the goods at that valuation. If the owner refuses to accept the offer, he shall pay duty on such valuation. If the offer be accepted by the owner, the purchase money shall be paid to him without delay, and without any abatement or discount.

Art. XVI-All goods imported into Japan by British subjects, and which have paid the duty fixed by this Treaty, may be transported by the Japanese into any part of the Empire, without the payment of any tax, excise, or transit duty whatever.

Art. XVII.--British merchants who may have imported merchandize into any gea port in Japan, and paid duty thereon, shall be entitled, on obtaining from th Jinatiese Custom House authorities a certificate stating that such payment has been made, to re-export the same, and land it in any other of the open ports, without the payment of any additional duty whatever.

Art. XVIII.-The Japanese authorities at each port will adopt the means that they may judge most proper for the prevention of frand or smuggling.

　　　　　　Art XIX.-All penalties enforced, or confiscations made under this Treaty, shall belong to, and be appropriated by, the Government of His Majesty the Tycoon of Ja ›

　　　　　　Art. XX.-The Articles for the regulation of trade, which are appended to the. Treaty, shall be considered as forming part of the same, and shall be equally binding

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　　　　on both the Contracting Parties to the Treaty, and on their subjects. The Diplomatic Agent of Great Britain in Japan, in conjunction with such person or persons as may be appointed for that purpose by the Japanese Government, shall have power to make such rules as may be required to carry into full and complete effect the provisions of this Treaty, and the provisions of the Articles regulating trade appended thereto.

Art. XXI.This treaty being written in the English, Japanese, and Dutch languages, and all the versions having the same meaning and intention, the Dutch version shall be considered the original; but it is understood that all official communications addressed by the Diplomatic and Consular agents of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain to the Japanese authorities shall henceforward be written in English. In order, however, to facilitate the transaction of business, they will, for a period of five years from the signature of this Treaty, be accompanied by a Dutch or Japanese version.

　　　　　　Art. XXII.-It is agreed that either of the High Contracting Parties to this Treaty, on giving one year's previous notice to the other, may demand a revision thereof on or after the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, with a view to the insertion therein of such amendments as experience shall prove to be desirable.

　　　　　　Art. XXIII-It is hereby expressly stipulated that the British Government and its subjects will be allowed free and equal participation in all privileges, immunities, and advantages that may have been or may be hereafter granted by His Majesty the Tycoon of Japan to the Government or subjects of any other nation.

Art. XXIV. The ratifications of this Treaty, under the hand of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and under the name and seal of His Majesty the Tycoon of Japan, respectively, shall be exchanged at Yedo, within a year from this day of signature. In token whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed and sealed this Treaty.

　　　　　　　Done at Yedo, this twenty-sixth day of August, one thousand right hundred and fifty-eight, corresponding to the Japanese date the eighteenth day of the seventh month of the fifth year of Ausel Tsusinon yemma.

ELGIN AND KINCARDINE. MIDZO TSIKFOGONO KAMI. NAGAI GEMBANO KAMI.

INOUWYE SINANO NO KAMI. KORI ORIBENO KAMI.

IWASE HIGOno Kami. ISUDA HAUZABRO.

TREATY OF COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND JAPAN

SIGNED AT LONDON, 16TH JULY, 1894

Ratifications Exchanged at Tokyo, 25th August, 1894

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, and His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, being equally desirous of maintaining the relations of good understanding which happily exist between them, by extending and increasing the intercourse between their respective States, and being convinced that this object cannot better be accomplished than by revising

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the Treaties hitherto existing between the two countries, have resolved to complete such a revision, based upon principles of equity and mutual benefit, and, for that purpose, have named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, the Right Honourable John, Earl of Kimberley, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, &c., &c., Her Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs;

And His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, Viscount Aoki Siuzo, Junii, First Class of the Imperial Order of the Sacred Treasure, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of St. James'

　　　　　　　Who, after having communicated to each other their Full Powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles :-

　　　　　　　Article I.-The subjects of each of the two High Contracting Parties shall have full liberty to enter, travel, or reside in any part of the dominions and possessions of the other Contracting Party, and shall enjoy full and perfect protection for their persons and property.

They shall have free and easy access to the Courts of Justice in pursuit and defence of their rights; they shall be at liberty equally with native subjects to choose and employ lawyers, advocates, and representatives to pursue and defend their rights before such Courts, and in all other matters connected with the administration of justice they shall enjoy all the rights and privileges enjoyed by native subjects.

In whatever relates to rights of residence and travel; to the possession of goods and effects of any kind; to the succession to personal estate, by will or otherwise, and the disposal of property of any sort in any manner whatsoever which they may lawfully acquire, the subjects of each Contracting Party shall enjoy in the dominions and possessions of the other the same privileges, liberties, and rights, and shall be subject to no higher imposts, or charges in these respects than native subjects, or subjects or citizens of the most favoured nation. The subjects of each of the Contracting Parties shall enjoy in the dominions and possessions of the other entire liberty of conscience, and, subject to the Law, Ordinances, and Regulations, shall enjoy the right of private or public exercise of their worship, and also the right of burying their respective countrymen, according to their religious customs, in such suitable and convenient places as may be established and maintained for that purpose.

They shall not be compelled, under any pretext whatsoever, to pay any charges or taxes other or higher than those that are, or may be, paid by native subjects, or sabjects or citizens of the most favoured nation.

　　　　　　　Article II-The subjects of either of the Contracting Parties residing in the dominions and possessions of the other shall be exempted from all compulsory military service whatsoever, whether in the army, navy, National Guards, or militia; from all contributions imposed in lieu of personal service; and from all forced loans or military exactions or contributions.

Article III.-There shall be reciprocal freedom of commerce and navigation between the dominions and possessions of the two High Contracting Parties.

　　　　　　　The subjects of each of the High Contracting Parties may trade in any part of the dominions and possessious of the other by wholesale or retail in all kinds of produce, manufactures, and merchandize of lawful commerce, either in person or by agents, singly, or in partnerships with foreigners or native subjects: and they may there own or hire and occupy the houses, manufactories, warehouses, shops, and premises which may be necessary for them, and lease land for residential and commercial purposes, conforming themselves to the Laws, Police, and Customs Regulations of the country like native subjects.

They shall have liberty to come with their ships and cargoes to all places, ports, and rivers in the dominions and possessions of the other which are or may be opened to foreign commerce, and shall enjoy, respectively, the same treatment, in matters of commerce and navigation as native subjects, or subjects or citizens of the

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most favoured nation, without having to pay taxes, imposts, or duties, of whatever nature or under whatever denomination levied in the name or for the profit of the Government, public functionaries, private individuals, Corporations, or establish- ments of any kind, other or greater than those paid by native subjects, or subjects or citizens of the most favoured nation, subject always to the Laws, Ordinances, and Regulations of each country.

Article IV.-Th dwellings, manufactories, warehouses, and shops of the subjects of each of the High Contracting Parties in the dominions and possessions of the other, and all premises appertaining thereto destined for purposes of residence of commerce, s' all be respected.

It shall not be allowable to proceed to make a search of, or a domiciliary visit to such dwellings and premises, or to examine or inspect books, papers, or accounts except under the conditions and with the forms prescribed by the Laws, Ordinances, and Regulations for subjects of the country.

Article V.-N other or higher duties shall be imposed on the importation into the dominions and possessions of Her Britannic Majesty of any article, the produce or manufacture of dominious and possessions of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, from what ver pla e arriv ng; and no other or higher duties shall be imposed on the importation into the dominions and possessions of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan of any article, the produce or manufacture of the dominions and possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, from whatever place arriving than on the like article produced or manufactured in any other foreign country; nor shall any prohibition be maintained or imposed on the importation of any article, the produce or manufacture of the dominions and possessions of either of the High Contracting Parties, into the dominions and possessions of the other, from whatever place arriving, which shall not equally extend to the importition of the like article, being the produce manufacture of any other country. This last provision is not applicable to the sanitary and other prohibitions occasioned by the necessity of protecting the safety of persons, or of cattle, or of plants useful to agriculture.

Article VI.-No other or higher duties or charges shall be imposed in the dominions and possessions of either of the High Contracting Parties on the exporta- tion of any article to the dominions and possessions of the other than such as are, or may be, payable on the exportation of the like article to any other foreign country; nor shall any prohibition be impose 1 on the exportation of any article from the dominions and possessions of either of the two Contracting Parties to the dominions and possessions of the other which shall not equally extend to the expo-tation of the like article to any other country.

Article VIL-The subjects of each of the High Contracting Parties shall enjoy in the dominions and possessions of the other exemption from all transit duties and a perf et equality of treatment with native subjects in all that relates to warehousing, bounties, facilities, and drawbacks.

　　　　　　Article VIII-All articles which are or may be legally imported into the ports of the dominions and po sessions of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan in Japanese vessels may likewise be imported into those ports in British vessels, without being fiable to any other or higher uties or charges of whatever denomination than if such articles were importe li· Japanese vessels; and, reciproca`ly, a'l articles which are or may be legally imported into the por's of the dominions and poss ssions of Her Britannic Majesty in British vessels may likewise be imported into those orts in Japanese vessels, without being liable to any other or higher duties or charges of whatever denomination ·han if such articles were imported in British vessels. Such reciprocal · qualit of treatment s all take effect without distinction, whether such articles come directly from the place of origin or from any other places.

In the same manner there shall be perfect equality of treatment in regard to exportat on, so that the same export duties shall be paid and the same bounties and drawbacks allowed in the dominions and possessions of either of the High Contract- ing Parties on the exportation of any article which is or may be legally exported therefrom, whether such exportation shall take place in Japanese or in British

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ressels, and whatever may be the place of destination, whether a port of either of the Contracting Parties or of any third Power.

Article IX-No duties of tonnage, harbour, pilotage, lighthouse, quarantine, or other similar or corresponding duties of whatever nature or under whatever denomination, levied in the name or for the profits of the Government, public functionaries, private individuals, Corporations, or establishments of any kind, shall be imposed in the ports of the dominions and possessions of either country upon the vessels of the other country which shall not equally and under the same conditions be imposed in the like cases on national vessels in general or vessels of the most favoured nation. Such equality of treatment shall apply reciprocally to the respective vessels, from whatever port or place they may arrive, and whatever may be their place of destination.

Article X.-In all that regards the stationing, loading, and unloading of vessels in the ports, basins, docks, roadsteads, harbours, or rivers of the dom nions and possessions of the two countries, no privilege shall be granted to national vessels which shall not be equally granted to vessels of the other country; the intention of the High Contracting Parties being that in this respect also the respective vessels shall be treated on the footing of perfect equality.

Article XI.-The coasting trade of both the High Contracting Parties is excepted from the provisions of the present Treaty, and shall be regulated according to the Laws, Ordinances, and Regulations of Japan and of Great Britain respec- tively. It is, however, understood that Japanese subjects in the dominions and possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, and British subjects in the dominions and possessions of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, shall enjoy in this respect the rights which are or may be granted under such Laws, Ordinances, and Regulations to the subjects or citizens of any other country.

A Japanese vessel la en in a foreign country with cargo destined for two or more ports in the dominions and possessions of Her Br tannic Majesty, and a British vessel laden in a foreign country with cargo destined for two or more ports in the dominions and possessions of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, may discharge a portion of her cargo at one port, and continue her voyage to the other port or ports of d stination where foreign trade is permitted, for the purpose of landing the remainder of her ori inal cargo there, subject always to the Laws and Custom House Regulations of the two countries.

　　　　　　　The Japanese Government, however, agrees to allow British vessels to continue, as heretofore, for the period of the duration of the pres nt Treaty, to carry cargo between the existing open ports of the Empire, excepting to or from the ports of Osaka, Niigata, and Ebisu minato.

Article XII.-Auy ship of war or merchant vessel of either of the High Contracting Parties which may be compelled by stress of weather, or by reason of any other distress, to take shelter in a port of the other, shall be at liberty to refit therein, to procure all nece sary supplies, an to put to sea again, without paying any dues other than such as would be payable by national vessels. In case, how- ever, the master of a merchant vessel should be under the necessity of disposing of a part of his cargo in order to defray th expenses, he shall be bound to conform to the Regulations and Tariffs of the place to which he may have come.

If any ship of war or merchant-vessel of one of the Contractin: Parties should run aground or be wrecked upon the coast of the other, the local authorities shall inform the Consul-General, Consul, Vice-Consul, or Consular Agent of the district of the occurrence, or if there be no such Consular officer, they shall inform the Consul-Gen ral, Consul, Vice-Consul, or Consular Agent of the nearest district.

　　　　　　　All proceedings relative to the salvage of Japanese vessels wrecked or cast on shore in the territorial waters of Her Britannic Majesty shall take place in accordance with the Laws. Ordinances, and Regulations of Great Britain, anl, reciprocally, all measures of salvage relative to British vessels wrecke or cast on shore in the territorial waters of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan shall take place in accordance with the Laws, Ordinances, and Regulations of Japan.

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　　　　　　Such stranded or wrecked ship or vessel, and all parts thereof, and all furniture, and appurtenances belonging thereunto, and all goods and merchandize saved therefrom, including those which may have been cast into the sea, or the proceeds thereof, if sold, as well as all papers found on board such stranded or wrecked ship or vessel, shall be given up to the owners or their agents, when claimed by them. If such owners or agents are not on the spot, the same shall be delivered to the respective Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, or Consular Agents upon being claimed by them within the period fixed by the laws of the country, and such Consular officers, owners, or agents shall pay only tae expenses incurred in the preservation of the property, together with the salvage or other expenses which would have been payable in the case of a wreck of a national vessel.

　　　　　　The goods and merchandize saved from the wreck shall be exempt from all the duties of Customs unless cleared for consumption, in which case they shall pay the ordinary duties.

When a ship or vessel belonging to the subjects of one of the Contracting Parties is stranded or wrecked in the territories of the other, the respective Consuls- General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, aud Consular Agents shall be authorized, in case the owner or master, or other agent of the owner, is not present, to lend their official assistance in order to afford the necessary assistance to the subjects of the respective states. The same rule small apply in case the owner, master, or other agent is present, but requires such assistance to be given.

Article XIII.-All vessels which, according to Japanese law, are to be deemed Japanese vessels, an all vessels which, according to British law, are to be deemed British vessels, shall, for the purposes of this Treaty, be deemed Japanese and British vessels respectively.

Article XIV. The Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, and Consular Agents of each of the Contracting Parties, residing in the dominions and possessions of the other, shall receive from the local authorities such assistance as can by law be given to them for the recovery of deserters from the vessels of their respective countries. It is understood that this stipulation shall not apply to the subjects of the country where the desertion takes place.

　　　　　　Article XV.-The High Contracting Parties agree that, in all that concerns commerce and navigation, any privilege, favour, or immunity which either Contract- ing Party has actually granted, or may hereafter grant to the Government, ships, subjects, or citizens of any other State, shall be extended immediately and uncondi- tionally to the Government, ships, subjects, or citizens of the other Contracting Party, it being their intention that the trade and navigation of each country shall be placed, in all respects, by the other on the footing of the most favoured nation.

Article XVI.--Each of the High Contracting Parties may appoint Consuls- General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, Pro-Consuls, and Consular Agents in all the ports, cities, and places of the other, except in those where it may not be convenient to recognize such officers.

This exception, however, shall not be made in regard to one of the Contracting Parties without being made likewise in regard to every other Power.

　　　　　　The Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, Pro-Consuls, and Consular Agents may exercise all functions, and shall enjoy all privileges, exemptions, and immunities which are or may hereafter be granted to Consular officers of the most favoured nation.

　　　　　　Article XVII.---The subjects of each of the High Contracting Parties shall enjoy in the dominions and possessions of the other the same protection as native subjects in regard to patents, trade marks, and designs, upon fulfilment of the formalities prescribed by law.

　　　　　　Article XVIII.-Her Britannic Majesty's Government, so far as they are concerned, give their consent to the following arrangement :---

　　　　　　The several foreign Settlements in Japan shall be incorporated with the respective Japanese Communes, and shall thenceforth form part of the general municipal system of Japan.

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　　　　　　The competent Japanese authorities shall thereupon assume all municipal obligations and duties in respect thereof, and the common funds and property, if any, belonging to such Settlements, shall at the same time be transferred to the said Japanese authorities.

When such incorporation takes place existing leases in perpetuity under which property is now held in the said Settlements shall be confirmed, and no conditions whatsoever other than those contained in such existing leases shall be imposed in respect of such property. It is, however, understood that the Consular authorities mentioned in the same are in all cases to be replaced by the Japanese authorities.

All lands which may previously have been granted by the Japanese Government free of rent for the public purposes of the said Settlements shall, subject to the right of eminent domain, be permanently reserved free of all taxes and charges for the public purposes for which they were originally set apart.

Article XIX.-The stipulations of the present Treaty shall be applicable, so far as the laws permit, to all the Colonies and foreign possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, excepting to those hereinafter named, that is to say, except to-

India.

Newfoundland.

Natal.

Victoria.

Tasmania.

Western Australia.

The Dominion of Canada. The Cape.

New South Wales.

Queensland.

South Australia.

New Zealand.

　　　　　　　Provided always that the stipulations of the present Treaty shall be made applicable to any of the above-named Colonies or foreign possessions on whose behalf notice to that effect shall have been given to the Japanese Government by Her Britannic Majesty's Representative at Tokyo within two years from the date of the exchange of ratifications of the present Treaty.

　　　　　　Article XX. The present Treaty shall, from the date it comes into force, be substituted in place of the Conventions respectively, of the 23rd day of the 8th month of the 7th year of Kayai, corresponding to the 14th day of October, 1854, and of the 13th day of the 5th month of the 2nd year of Keiou, corresponding to the 25th day of June, 1866, the Treaty of the 18th day of the 7th month of the 5th year of Ansei, corresponding to the 26th day of August, 1858, and all Arrangements and Agreements subsidiary thereto concluded or existing between the High Con- tracting Parties; and from the same date such Conventions, Treaty, Arrangements, and Agreements shall cease to be binding, and, in consequence, the jurisdiction then exercised by British Courts in Japan, and all the exceptional privileges, exemp- tions, and immunities then enjoyed by British subjects, as a part of or appurtenant to such jurisdiction, shall absolutely and without notice cease and determine, and thereafter all such jurisdiction shall be assumed and exercised by Japanese Courts.

　　　　　　　Article XXI.-The present Treaty shall not take effect until at least five years after its signature. It shall come into force one year after His Imperial Japanese Majesty's Government shall have given notice to Her Britannic Majesty's Govern- ment of its wish to have the same brought into operation. Such notice may be given at any time after the expiration of four years from the date hereof. The Treaty shall remain in force for the period of twelve years from the date it goes into operation.

Either High Contracting Party shall have the right, at any time after eleven years shall have elapsed from the date this Treaty takes effect, to give notice to the other of its intention to terminate the same, and at the expiration of twelve months after such notice is given this Treaty shall wholly cease and determine.

Article XXII.-The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications thereof stall be exchanged at Tokyo as soon as possible, and not later than six months from the present date.

In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms.

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　　　　　Done at London, m duplicate, this sixteenth day of the seventh month of the twenty-seventh year of Meiji.

[L.S.] [L.S.]

KIMBERLEY

AOKI.

PROTOCOL

　　　　　The Government of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India and the Governinent of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, deeming it advisable in the interests of both countries to regulate certam special matters of mutual concern, apart from the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation signed this day have, through their respective Plenipotentiaries, agre d upon the following stipula-

tions:-

But

　　　　　1.It is agreed by the Contracting Parties that one month after the exchange of the ratifications of the Treaty of Commerce an i Navigation signed this day, the Import Tariff her unto annexed shall, subject to the provisions of Article XXIII. of the Treaty of 1858 at present subsisting between the Contracting l'arties, as long as the said Treaty remains in force and thereafter, subject to the provisions of Articles V. and XV. of the Treaty signed this day, be applicable to the articles therein enumerated, being the growth, produce, or manufacture of the dominions and possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, upon importation into Japan. nothing contained in this Protocol, or the Tariff hereunto annexed, shall be he'd to limit or qualify the right of the Japanese Government to restrict or to prohibit the importation of adulterated drugs, medicines, food, or beverages; ind cent or obscene prints; paintings, books, cards, lithographic or other engravings, photographs, or any other indecent or obscene articles; articles in violation of patent, trade-mark, or copy-right laws of Japan; or any other article which for sanitary reasons, or in view of public security or morals, might offer any danger.

　　　　　The ad valorem duties established by the said Tariff shall, so far as may be deemed practicable, be converted into specific duties by a supplementary Convention, which shall be conclu le i between the two Governments within six months from the date of this Protocol; the medium prices, as shown by the Japanese Customs Returns during the six calendar months preceding the date of the present Protocol, with the addition of the cost of insurance and transportation from the place of purchase, production or fabrication, to the port of discharge, as well as commission, if any, shall be taken as the basis for such conversion. In the event of the Supplementary Convention not having come into fore at the expiration of the period for the said Tariff to take effect, ad valorem duties in conformity with the rule recited at the end of the said Tariff shall, in the meantime, be levied.

　　　　　In respect of ar icles not enumerated in the said Tariff, the General Statutory Tariff of Japan for the time being in force shall, from the same time, apply, subject, as aforesaid, to the provisions of Article XXIII. of the Treaty of 1858 and Articles V. and XV. of the Treaty signed this day resp etively,

　　　　　From the date the Tarias aforesaid take effect, the Import tariff now in opera- tion in Japan in respect of goods and merchandize imported into Japan by British subjects shall cease to be binding.

　　　　　In all other respects the stipulations of the existing Treaties and Conventions shall be maintaine l ́unconditionally until th· time when the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation sigued this day comes into force.

2.-The Japanese Government, pending the opening of the country to British subjects, agres to extend the existing passport system in such a manner as to allow British subjects, on the production of a certificate of recommendation from the British Representative in Tokyo, or from any of Her Majesty's Consuls at the open ports in Japan, to obtain upon application passports available for any part of the

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country, and for any period not exceeding twelve months, from the Imperial Japanese Foreign Office in Tokyo, or from the chief authorities in the Prefecture in which an open port is situated; it being understood that the existing Rules and Regulations governing British subjects who visit the interior of the Empire are to be maintained.

　　　　　　　3.-The Japanese Government undertakes, before the cessation of Bri ish Consular jurisdiction in Japan, to join the International Conventions for the Pro- tection of Industrial Property and Copyright.

　　　　　　　　4.-It is understood between the two High Contracting Parties that, if Japan thinks it necessary at any time to levy an alditional duty on the production or manufacture of refine sugar in Japan, an increased customs duty equivalent in amount may be levied on British refined sugar when imported into Japan, so long as such additional excise tax or inland duty continues to be raised.

　　　　　　　　Provided always that Britis refined sugar shall in this respect be entitled to the treatment accorded to refined sugar being the produce or manufacture of the most favoured nation.

　　　　　　　　5.-The undersigned Plenipotentiaries have agreed that this Protoco! shall be submitted to the two High Contracting Parties at the same time as the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation signed this day, and that when the said Treaty is ratified the agreements contained in the Protocel shall also equally be considered as approved, without the necessity of a further formal ratification.

　　　　　　　　It is agreed that this Protocol shall terminate at the same time the said Treaty cases to be binding.

　　　　　　　In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seal of their arths.

　　　　　　　　Done at London, in duplicate, this sixteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one tho isand eight hundred and ninety four.

[L.S.] ¿L.S.]

KIMBERLEY.

AOKI.

SUPPLEMENTARY CONVENTION BETWEEN GREAT

BRITAIN AND

JAPAN RESPECTING THE DUTIES TO BE CHARGED ON BRITISH GOODS IMPORTED INTO JAPAN

SIGNED AT TOKYO, 16TH July, 1895

Ratifications exchanged at Tokyo, 21st November, 1895

　　　　　　　　Whereas, by the Protocol signed at London on the 16th of July, 1894, it was agned between the Government of Her Britannic Majesty and the Government of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan that the ad valorem duties of the Tariff annexed to the aforesaid Protocol should, so far as might be deemed practicable, be converted into specific duties by means of a Supplementary Convention, to be cone uded between the two Governments within six months from the date of that Protocol; and

Whereas this period was extended by subsequent arrangement:

　　　　　　　The High Contracting Parties have appointed as their Plenipotentaries to conclude a Convention for this purpose, that is to say:

　　　　　　　Her Britannic Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of Irdia, Gerard Augustus Lowther, Her Britannic Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires;

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And His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, Marquis Saionzi Kimmochi, Junii, first class of the Order of the Sacred Treasure, His Imperial Majesty's Minister of State for Education, and Acting Minister of State for Foreign Affairs;

Who, having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles :-

1. The Tariff annexed to this Convention shall be substituted for the ad valorem Tariff annexed to the aforesaid Protocol of the 16th of July, 1894; it shall be subject to all the stipulations contained in Article 1 of the Protocol, in so far as these are applicable, and it shall come into force one month after the exchange of the ratifications of this Convontion.

2. The specific duties established by this Convention shall be subject to triennial readjustment. Such readjustment shall be based on the difference between the average of the two quarterly rates of exchange adopted by the Japanese Customs during the six months ending June 30th, 1894, and the average of the rates of exchange adopted by the Japanese Customs for the four quarters preceding that in which each successive period of three years expires.

　　　　　　The Schedule of readjusted duties shall be published by the Japanese Govern- ment three months in advance, and shall take effect immediately upon the expiration of the said period.

It is understood between the High Contracting Parties that the operation of this stipulation shall be subject to the acceptance of a similar arrangement by the other Powers with whom Conventional Tariffs are now being negotiated by Japan.

3. The quarterly rates of exchange mentioned in the preceding Article are the rates determining the comparative values, as entered in the quarterly Tables published by the Japanese Department of Finance, of the present Japanese silver yen on the one hand, and of the English pound sterling on the other.

　　　　　　4. The present Convention shall have the same duration as the Treaty and Protocol concluded on the 16th of July, 1894, of which it is a complement.

　　　　　5. The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Tokyo as soon as possible, and not later than six months from the present date.

Done at Tokyo, in duplicate, this 16th day of July, 1895.

(Signed) [L.8.] GERARD AUGUSTUS LOWTHER.

[L.8.] MARQUIS SAIONZI.

TARIFF.

No.

Articles.

Duty.

Yen.

1423

Caontchone, manufactures of...

Cement, Portland

ad valorem 100 cattics

10 per cent.

0085

Cotton yarns, plain or dyed

4.180

Cotton tiss1¡05-

Drills

Bquare yard

0.016

Duck

0·053

Handkerchiefs in the piece

0.011

Prints

0.012

Sateens, plain, figured or printed, brocades,

Italians and figur d shirtings

0:017

DO-24-44

Shirtings, dyed

0013

grey

0.006

twilled

0:011

white or bleached

0:010

T-cloths

0.009

Turkey Red Cambrics..

0.012

Velveta or Velveteens.

0.041

Victoria Lawns

0.006

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Articles.

Duty.

161

Cotton Tissues (continued)-

All other sorts of pure cotton tissues, and all tissues of cotto- mixed with flax, hemp, or other fibre, including wool, the cotton, however, predominating in weight, not specially provided for in this Tariff

NOTE.-It is expressly understo d that realy-made clothing and other ma e-up articles are not included under the healing of Cotton Tissuer.

Glass, window, ordinary -

(a) Uncoloured and unstained

(b) Col ared, stained, and ground

Hate, including also ha ́s of felt

Indigo, dry

Iron and Mild Steel--

2018

Pig and Ingot

Bar and Bod exceeding f-inch in diameter.

(0.) Plain

(b.) Galvanized..

Nails, including spikes, sprigs. tacks, and brads ;-

Pipes and Tubes

Yeu.

ad valorem

10 per cent.

100 sq. ft. ad valorem

0.362 10 per cent. 10

100 catties

12-953

0.083

0.261

0:673

ad valorem

10 per cent.

**EKSO

Plate and sheet....

Rails......

Screws, Bolts, and Nats, plain and galvanized

Sheet, galvaniz d, both plain and corrugated.

Tinned plates-

(a) Or. inary.

(b) Crystallized

Wire, and Small Red not exceeding 4-inch in diameter Wire telegraph or galvanized.

NOTE.-By the term "mild steel" as uzel in this Tariff is understood mild steel manufactare i by the Siemens, Bes. semer, Bssic, r similar processes, and approximating in value to iron of the same class in this Tariff.

Lead. pig, ingot, and slab

Leather--

100 catties

ad valorem 100 cutties

ad valorem 100 cat:ies

0996 0:120 10 per cent. 0.749

0 601 10 per cent.

0.503

0*56

(a.) Sole

(b.) Other kinds

Linen yarns, plain or dyed

Linen Tissues-

Cinvas

All other sorts

0.316

ad valorem 100 catties

5.690 10 per cent.

6.527

square yard ad valorem

0.017 10 per cent.

NOTE.-it is expre-sly understood that ready.inade clothing and o her made-un ar iclos are not included under the beading of Linen Tissues.

Mercury or quicksilver

Milk, oaden-ed or desiccate:

Oil, paraffin.....

Paint in oil

Paper, printing

Saltpetre (nitrate of potash)

160 catties doz 1 lb. tins.

5:018 0·1:3

and proportionately for

tins of other weights

ad valorem 100 catties

10 per cent.

1:304

1.163

0.490

15 per cent.

Silk-faced cotton stins

NOTE. It is expressly understood that all other mixad tisanes of cotton and silk, and of wool and silk, where he cotton or wool predominates in weiht, are to be classed for duty under Nos. 17 and 61 of this Tariff respectively.

Steel (other than mild steel)-

a rabarers

Ingot

Bar, rod, plate, and sheet

Wire, and small rod not exceeding 4-ın ·h in diameter

Sugar, refined

(a.) No. lo to No. 2), inclusive, Dutch standard in colour (b) Above No. 20 Datch standard in colour

100 cattics

1-819

0.748

0.827

Tin

Block, Pig, and Slab

Plates

Wax, paraffin

Woollen an I Worsted Yarns, plain or dyed

ad valorem 100 catties

1.992 10 per cent.

0.544 9.169

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Articles.

Woollen and Worsted Tissues, pure or mixed with other ma

erial

2813

A pacis

Blanketing and whipped blankets in plain weave Buntings

Cloth --

(a.) Wholly of woollen or worsted yarn, or f woollen and worsted yarns, such as broad, narrow, and army cloth, cassimeres, twee is and worste i coat- ings

(5.) In part of woollen or worstel yarn and in part of co ton yarn, such as pilot. president, and union cloth

Flanne's

Duty.

square yard 100 catties

0:075

7:458

square yard

0:031

0:093

0:639

BABA3

044

It lian loth

0:029

Long eils

0:036

Mousseline de baino.

0:021

~er.es-

(a) Where the warp is worsted and the woft woollen (b.) All other kinds

0:056

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ad valorem

10 per cent.

Alt other sorts, pure or mi ol with other material, the wool, hwover, predominating in weight, not aecially provided for in this Tariff

NOTE. -It is expressly understood that ready. made clothing and other made-up articles are not included under the heading of Woil n and Worst d Tissues. Yarns, all sorts, not spec:ally provided for in this Tariff Zinc-

Block pig, and slab Sheet

100 catties

0:451

0928

Weights, MEASURES, AND COINS.

　　　　　　The catty mentioned in this Tariff is the Japanese weight. It is equal to 600 grammes of the metric systeía of weight, or 132277 lbs. Euglis › avoirdup is weight.

The pound is the English avoirdupois weight

The square yard and square foot ar theng ish I uperial surface measures.

The yon is the pres at Japanese -ilver yen of 900 finoness and 116 grans in weight.

RULE FOR CALCULATING ad valorem DUTIES,

　　　　　　Import da ies payable ad valorem under this Tariff shall be calculated on the actual cost of the art cles it the place of purchase, production, or fabricit.on, with the addition of the cost of insurance and transportation from the ice of purchase, production, or f›brication, to the port of discharge, as well as commission, if any exists.

RULE FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF TISSUES.

　　　　　　In de ermining the dutiable width of any tisses the Customs shill discard all fractions of an inch not exce "ling half-an-inch, and shall count as a full inch all frictions exce-ding half-an-inch

NOTE. It is understood that selvedges shall not be included in the measurement of tissues.

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CONVENTION BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, THE UNITED

STATES OF AMERICA, AND HOLLAND, WITH JAPAN

SIGNED, IN THE ENGLISH, FRENCH, Dutch, AND JAPANESE Languages,

AT TOKYO, 25TH JUNE, 1866

　　　　　　The Representatives of Great Britain, France, the United States of America, and Hollaud, having received from their respective Governments identical instruc- tions for the modification of the Tariff of Import and Export duties contained in the Trade Regulations annexed to the Treaties concluded by the aforesaid Powers with the Japanese Government in 1858, which modification is provided for by the Seventh of the Regulations:--

　　　　　　And the Japanese Government having given the said Representatives, during their visit to Osaka, in November, 1865, a written engagement to proceed imme- daly to the Revision of the Tariff in question, on the general basis of a duty of five percent. on the value of all articles imported and exported:

And the Government of Japan being desirous of affording a fresh proof of their wish to promote trade, and to cement the friendly relations which exist between their country and foreign nations :-

His Excellency Mizuno Idsumi no Kami, a member of the Gorojin and a Minister of Foreign Affairs, has been furnished by the Government of Japan with the re-sary powers to conclude with the Representatives of the above-named four Powers, that is to say :

0 Great Britain,

Sir Harry S. Parkes, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Japan:

Of France,

　　　　　　Monsieur Leon Roches, Commander of the Imperial Order of the Legion of Homer, Ministr Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the Emperor of the Freuch in Japan;

Of the United States of America,

4. L. C. Portman, Esquire, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim;

And of Holland,

Monsieur Dirk de Graeff van Polsbroek, Kni ht of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, Political Agent and Consul-General of His Majesty the King of the Netherlands

The following Convention, comprising Twelve Articles.

　　　　　　Art. I.-The contracting parties declare in the names of their respective Govern- Dents that they accept, and they hereby do formally accept, as binding upon the sects of their respective Sovereigns, and the citizens of their respective countries, the Tariff hereby established annexed to the present convention.

The Tariff is substituted not only for the original Tariff attached to the Treaties conclu ted with the above-named four Powers, but also for the special Conventions and arrangements relative to the same Tariff, which have been entered into at different up to this time between the Governments of Great Britain, France, and tae United States on the one side, and the Japanese Government on the other.

Jas

The New Tariff shail e me into effect in the Port of Kanagawa (Yokohama) on the first day of July next, and in the ports of Nagasaki and Hakodate on the first day of the following month.

Art. II.-The Tariff attached to this convention, being incorporated from the date of its signature in the Treaties conclude i between Japan and the above-named four Powers, is subject to revision on the first day of July, 1872.

Two years, however, after the sig.ing of the present convention, any of the ontracting parties, on giving six months' notice to the others, may claim a re-adjust- ment of the duties on Tea and Silk, on the basis of five per cent. on the average value of these articles during the three years last preceding. On the demand also of any of the contracting parties, the duty on timber may be changed from an ad valorem to a specific rate six months after the signature of this convention.

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　　　　　Art. III. The permit fee hitherto levied under the Seventh Regulation attached to the above-named Treaties is hereby abolished. Permits for the landing or ship- ment of cargo will be required as formerly, but will hereafter be issued free of charge.

　　　　　Art. IV. On and from the first day of July next, at the Port of Kanagawa (Yokohama), and on and from the first day of October next, at the Ports of Nagasaki and Hakodate, the Japanese Government will be prepared to warehouse imported goods on the application of the importer or owner without payment of duty. The Japanese Government will be responsible for the safe custody of the goods so long as they remain in their charge, and will adopt all the precautions necessary to render them insurable against fire. When the importer or the owner wishes to remove the goods from the warehouses, he must pay the duties fixed by the Tariff, but if he should wish to re-export them, he may do so without payment of duty. Storage charges will in either case be paid on delivery of the goods. The amount of these charges, together with the regulations necessary for the management of the said warehouses, will be established by the common consent of the contracting parties.

　　　　　Art. V. All articles of Japanese production may be conveyed from any place in Japan to any of the Ports open to foreign trade, free of any tax or tran-it duty other than the usual tolls levied equally on all traffic for the maintenance of roads or navigation.

　　　　　　Art. VI.-In conformity with those articles of the Treaties concluded between Japan and For ign Powers which stipulate for the circulation of foreign coin at its corresponding weight in native coin of the same description, dollars have hitherto been received at the Japanese Custom-House in payment of duties at their weight in Boos (commonly called Ichiboos), that is to say, a rate of three hundred and eleven Boos per hundred dollars. The Japanese Government being, however, desirous to alter this practice, and to abstain from all interference in the exchange of native for foreign coin, and being also anxious to meet the wants both of native and foreign commerce by securing an adequate issue of native coin, have already determined to enlarge the Japanese Mint, so as to admit of the Japanese Government exchanging into native coin of the same intrinsic value, less only the cost of coinage, at places named for this purpose, all foreign coin or bullion, in gold or silver, that may at any time be tendered to them by foreigners or Japanese. It being essential, however, to the execution of this measure, that the various Powers with whom Japan has concluded Treaties should first consent to modify the stipulations in those Treaties which relate to the currency, the Japanese Government will at once propose to these Powers the adoption of the necessary modification in the said stipulation, and on receiving their concurrence will be prepared from the first of January, 1868, to carry the above measure into effect.

　　　　　The rate to be charged as the cost of coinage shall be determined hereafter by the common consent of the contracting parties.

　　　　　　Art. VII.-In order to put a stop to certain abuses and inconveniences complained of at the open Ports, relative to the transaction of business at the Custom-House, the landing and shipping of cargoes and the hiring of boats, coolies, servants, &c., the contracting parties have agreed that the Governor at each open port shall at once enter into negotiations with the foreign Consuls with a view to the establishment, by mutual consent, of such regulations as shall effectually put an end to those abuses and inconveniences, and afford all possible facility and security both to the operations of trade and to the transactions of individuals.

It is hereby stipulated that in order to protect merchandise from exposure to weather, these regulations shall include the covering in at each port of one or more of the landing places used by foreigners for landing or shipping cargo.

Art. VIII-Any Japanese subject shall be free to purchase, either in the Ports of Japan cr abroad, every description of sailing or steam vessel intended to carry either passengers or cargo; but ships-of-war may only be obtained under the authorization of the Japanese Government.

All foreign vessels purchased by Japanese subjects shall be registered as Japanese vessels on payment of a fixed duty of three Boos per ton for steamers, and one Boo

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per ton for sailing vessels. The tonnage of each vessel shall be proved by the foreign register of the ship, which shall be exhibited through the Consul of the party interested, on the demand of the Japanese authorities, and shall be certified by the Consul as authentic.

　　　　　　　Art. IX.-In conformity with the Treaties concluded between Japan and the aforesaid Powers, and with the special arrangements made by the Envoys of the Japanese Government in their note to the British Government of the sixth of June, 1862, and in their note to the French Government of the sixth of October of the same year. all the restrictions on trade and intercourse between foreigners and Japanese, alluded to in the said notes, have been entirely removed, and proclamations to this effect have already been published by the Government of Japan.

　　　　　　　The atter, however, do not hesitate to declare that Japanese merchants and trulers of all classes are at liberty to trade directly, and without the interference of Government officers, with foreign merchants, not only at the open ports of Japan, but also in all Foreign countries on being authorized to leave their country in the manner provided for in Article X. of the present convention, without being subject to higher taxation by the Japanese Government than that levied on the native trading classes of Japan in their ordinary transactions with each other.

　　　　　　　And they further declare that all Daimios or persons in the employ of Daimios, are free to visit, on the same condition, any foreign country, as well as all the open ports of Japan, and to trade there with foreigners as they please, without the inter- ference of any Japanese officer, provide l always they submit to the existing Police regulations and to the payment of the established duties.

　　　　　　　Art. X.-All Japanese subjects may ship goods to and from any open Port in Japan, or to and from the Ports of any Foreign Powers, either in vessels owned by Japanese, or in the vessels of any nation having a Treaty with Japan. Furthermore, on being provided with passports through the proper Department of the Government in the manner specified in the Proclamation of the Japanese Government, dated the twenty-third day of May, 1863, all Japanese subjects may travel to any foreign country for purposes of study or trade. They may also accept employment in any capacity on board the vessels of any nation having a Treaty with Japan.

　　　　　　　Japanese in the employ of foreigners may obtain Government passports to go abroad on application to the Governor of any open Port.

Art. XI.-The Government of Japan will provide all the Ports open to Foreign trade with such lights, buoys, or beacons as may be necessary to render secure the navigation of the approaches to the said Ports.

　　　　　　　Art. XII.-The undersigned being of opinion that it is unnecessary that this Convention should be submitted to their respective Governments for ratification before it comes into operation, it will take effect on and from the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

Each of the Contracting Parties having obtained the approval of his Government to the Convention shall make known the same to the other, and the communication in writing of this approval shall take the place of a formal exchange of ratifications. In witness whereof the above-named Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention, and have affixed thereto their seals.

　　　　　　　Done at Tokyo, in the English, French, Dutch, and Japanese languages, this twenty-fifth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

[L.S.] HARRY S. PARKES,

Her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Japan.

[L.S.] LEON ROCHES,

Ministre Plenipotentiare de S. M. L'Empereur des Francais au Japan.

[L.8.] A. L. C. Portman,

Chargé d'Affaires a. i. of the United States in Japan.

[L.8.] D. DE GRAEFF van Polsbroek,

Politiek Agent en Consul-General der Nederlanden in Japan,

[L.S.]

MIDZUMO IDZUMI NO KAMI.

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The following is the tariff in force in Japan under the Convention with Great Britain, France, the United States of America, and Holland concluded on the 25th June, 1866-

No.

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CLASS I-SPECIFIC DUTIES

ARTICLES

Alum

2 Petel Nut

Brass Buttous

+ and a ..

Canvas and Cotton Dure ...

8 Vicars

7 Cloves and Mother Cloves

Cochineal

9 Corluge

10 Cotton, Raw

COTTON MANUFACTURES

11 Shirtings, Grev, White, and Twillen; White, Spotted, or Figured Drills, and Je ns; White fr cades, T-Cloths, Can brics, Muslins, Lows, Dimiti " Q ilting, Cotton ts; all the above Go ds Dyed, Printed Cottons, Chintzes and Furnitures:-

A not exceeding 34 inches wide

D. exceeding

修

12 Taffichelass, not exceed ng 31 inches...

exceeding 31 ineles and not exceeding 43 inches 13 Fustina, as Co ton V. lv. t". Velveteens, atins, Satinets,

and Fetton Dama-ks, not exceding 40 inches 14 Ginghams, not excreding 31 inches...

II vdkerchiefs...*

18 Sing'ets a d Drawers

100 catties

CENTS 15

gross 100 catti-s

1 yorda catty 100 catties

COONOO---

10 yards

17 Table Clotha

18 Cth Theend, plain or dyed, in reel or ball... 19 Ctton Yarn, plin or dyed...

dozen

each 100 catties

2o Cu'ch

10 catties

Fe thers (Ki gfisher, Pese: ck, &c., Fints

23 Gambier

24 Gamboge

26 Gla-s, Window

28 G'ue

27 Gum l'enjamin and Oil of Ditto

Dingons' Blod, Myrrh, Olibanum

Gypsum...

30 Hides, Pufalo and Cow..

31 Horn, Buffalo and Deer

33 Hoofs

Rhinoceros..

34 Indigo, liquid

dry

100 in No.

100 catties

box of 100 square feet 100 estti. 8

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IMPORT TARIFF

36 Ivory-Elephant's Teeth, all qualities...

37 Paint as Red, White, and Yellow Lead (Minium, Ceruse,

and Massicot)-and Paint Oils

38 Leather

39 Linen, all qualities

41 Mangrove bark

Il Matting, floor...

METALS, &c.

42 Copper and Brass in Slabs, Sheets, Rods, Nails

43 Yellow Met 1, Montz's Metal Sheathing and Nails 44 Iron, Men::factured, as in Rods, B.rs, Nails ..

Lead. Piz

Sheet

Pigs Ketledge Wire

PER 100 catties

BOOB

CENTS

10 yards 100 catties roll of 40 yds

100 catties

军事

====

269-2

Spelter and Zinc .....

31 St-el

5. Tin

Plates

box of not ex- c'di g 90 cat. 10 yards

100 catt es

~ CO-01 5 - - -O-ONNIS-COXHO

-8.*$*8~2.28MN.&%c No52 7 898-82.TSES

34 Oil Cloth for ¤ oring

or Leather Cloth for Furniture...

58 Pep er, Bl ck and White

67 Pute uk

#8 Quicksi ver.....

54 Quisine...

80 Kartins

Rhuba: b

62 Salt Fish

63 Sandal Wood

& Sapin Wod

35 Sa Horse Teeth

16 Narwal or

67 Sh rk, Fins

es 8 uff

Mp.

Bir

79 Stick Lac

Unicon" Teeth ..

71 Sugar, Brown and Black

ca'ty 100 catties

་་

carty

100 calties

cal y

10 catties

White

Candy and Loaf

74 Tobicn

75 Ve milion

10 yards

WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES

78 Broad, "abit. Mɛd um, and Norr. w Cloth:-

not exceeding 31 inches

10ceding 55

77 Spani h Stipes

7< Cassimeres, i lannel, Long Ells, and Serges

79 Bunting

* Camlets Du'ch

English

$2 Lastings, Cr pe Lastings, and Worsted Crapes, Merinos,

ad all ther Wo llen Goods not classed under No. 78:- 4. not exceeding 34 inches

1. exceding 31

83 Wollen and Cotton Mixtures, as Imitation Camlets. Imita- ton Las ings, Orlean- (pl in and fi ured), Lustres (plain and fi ured), Alpacas, Baretheas, Damasks. I alian Cloth,{ Taffachelass, Tassel Cords, Cassandras. Woollen Fancles, Caulet Cords, and a'lothe Cotton a. d Woollen Mixtures:- A. not exceeding 34 inches

B. excr d ng

84 Elinket and flore Cloths

65 Travelling Rug, Plaids, and Shawls

8 Figured Woollen Table Cloths...

87 Woollen Sing ets a d Drawers

and Cotton Singlets and Drawers Yarn, plain and dyed

***

OHHOCO==

STARKS

100 catties each

dozen

100 catties

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CLASS II-DUTY FREE GOODS

　　　　　　All animals used for food or draught; Anchor and chain cables; Coal; Clothing, not being articles named in this Tariff; Gold and Silver, coined and uncoined; Grain, including rice, paddy, wheat, barley, oats, rye, peas, beans, millet, Indian corn; Flour and meal prepared from above; Oil cake; Packing matting; Printed books; Salt; Salted meats in casks; Saltpetre; Soider; Tar and pitch; Tea-firing paus and bas- kets; Tea Lead; Travelling Baggage.

Opium.

CLASS III-PROHIBITED GOODS

CLASS IV.-GOODS SUBJECT TO AN AD VALOREM DUTY OF FIVE

PER CENT. ON ORIGINAL VALUE

　　　　　　Arms and munitions of war; Articles de Paris; Boots and shoes; Clocks, watches, and musical boxes; Coral; Cutlery; Drugs and medicines, such as ginseng, &c.; Dyes; European porcelain and earthenware; Furniture of all kinds, new and second-hand; Giass and crystal ware; Gold and silver lace and thread; Gums and spices not named in Tariff; Lamps; Looking glasses; Jewellery; Machinery and manufactures in iron or steel; Manufactures of all kinds in silk, silk and cotton, or silk and wool, as velvets, damasks, brocades, &c.; Paintings and engravings; Perfumery, scented soap; Plated ware; Skins and furs; Telescopes and scientific instruments; Timber; Wines, malt and spirituous liquors, table stores of all kinds.

NOTE.

AND ALL OTHER UNENUMERATED GOODS

According to the VIIIth Article of the Convention of Yedo, a duty will be charged on the sale of Foreign Vessels to Jupan of 3 Boos per ton for Steamers and 1 Boo per ton for Sailing Vessels.

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Boos

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2 Awabi Shells

2 Camphor

4 China Root (Burri )

Cassia

6 Cassia Buds

7 Coal...

8 Cotton (Raw) ...

Coir

10 Fish, dried or salted, Salmon and Cod

Fish, Cuttle

12 Gallnuts

13 Chinang or Icio

14 Hemp

15 Honey

16 Horns, Deers', Old

17 Irico or Beche de Mer

18 Iron, Japanese

19 Isinglass

20 Lead

21 Mushrooms, all qualities ...

22 Oil, Fish

23 d., Seed

21 Paper, Writing

25 Paper, Inferior

28 Peas, Beaus, and Pulse of all kinds

27 Perny Bark (Botanpi)

28 Potatoes

29 Rags

30 Saké or Japanese Wines or Spirits...

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31 Seaweed, Uneut

22 Seaweed, Cut

33 Seeds, Rape

31 Seeds, Sesamum

36 Sharks' Fine

36 Shrimps and Prawns, Dried Salt

37 Silk-Raw and Turown

$ Tam or Dupioni

39 Noshi or Skin Silk

# Floss Silk

41 Cocoons, Pierced

12 Cocoons, Unpierced

43 Waste Silk and Waste Cocoons...

44 Silkworms' Eggs

45 Soy ..

46 Sulphur

47 Tea...

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49 T hacco, Leaf

Tobacco. cut or prepared

51 Vermicelli

32 Wax, Vegetable

Wax, Bees'...

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CLASS II.-DUTY FREE GOODS

Gold and silver, coined, silver and copper uneoined, of Japanese produc- tion, to be sold only by the Japanese Government at Public Auction.

CLASS III.-PROHIBITED GOODS

Rice, paldy, wheat, barley; Flours made from the above; Saltpetre.

CLASS IV.-GOODS SUBJECT TO AN AD VALOREM DUTY OF FIVE

PER CENT. TO BE CALCULATED ON THEIR MARKET VALUE Bamboo ware; Copper utensils of all kinds; Charcoal; Ginseng and unenume- rated drugs; Horns, deer, young or soft; Mats and mattings; Silk dresses, manufac- tures or embroideries; Timber.

AND ALL OTHER UNENUMERATED GOODS

RULES

RULE L-Unenumerated Imports if mentioned in the Export list shall not pay Duty under that list, but shall be passed ad valorem; and the same rule shall apply to any unenumerated Exports that may be named in the Import list. RULE II-Foreigners resident in Japan, and the crews or passengers of foreign ships, shall be allowed to purchase such supplies of the grain or flour named in the list of Exports as they may require for their own consumption, but the usual shipping permit must be obtained from the Custom House before any of the aforesaid grain or flour can be shipped to a foreign vessel. RULE III.-The catty mentioned in this Tariff is equal to one pound and a third English avoirdupois weight. The yard is the English measure of three feet, the English foot being one-eighth of an inch longer than the Japanese kaneshaku. The Boo is a silver coin weighing not less than 134 grains troy weight, and containing not less than nine parts of pure silver, and not more than one of alloy. The cent is the one-hundredth part of the Boo.

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

EXTRADITION TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES

OF AMERICA AND JAPAN

SIGNED AT TOKYO, ON THE 29TH APRIL, 1886 Ratified at Tokyo, on the 27th September, 1886

　　　　　　His Majesty the Emperor of Japan and the President of the United States of America having judged it expedient, with a view to the better administration of justice, and to the prevention of crime within the two countries and their jurisdictions, that persons charged with or convicted of the crimes or offences hereinafter named, and eing fugitives from justice, should, un ler certain circumstances, be reciprocally delivered up, they have named as their Plenipotentiaries to conclude a Treaty for this purpose, that is to say:

His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, Count Inouye Karu, Jiusammi, His Imperial Majesty's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, First Class of the order of the Rising Sun, &c., &c., &c, and the President of the United States of America, Richard B. Hubbard, their Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary near His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Japan, who, after having communicated to each other thir respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles:

　　　　　　Art. 1.-Th High Contracting Parties engage to deliver up to each other, under the circumstances and conditious stated in the present Treaty, all persons who, being accused or convicted of one of the crimes or offences nam d below in Ar icle II. and committed within the jurisdiction of the one party, shall be found within the jurisdic- tion of the other party.

Art. II.-1.- Murder and assault with intent to commit mader.

　　　　　　2. -Counterfesting or altering money, or uttering or bringing int› circulation counterfeit or altered money, counterfeiting certificates or coupons of public inde ted- ness, bank notes, or other instruments of public ere lit of either of the parties, and the utterance or circulation of the same.

3.-Forgery, or altering, and uttering what is forged or altered.

　　　　　　4.-Embezzle nent or criminal malversation of the public funds committed within the jurisdiction of either party, by the public officers or depositaries.

5.-Robbery.

　　　　　　6.-Burglary, defined to be the breaking and entering by night-time into the house of another person with the intent to commit a felony therein; and the act of breaking and entering the house of another, whether in the day or night time, with

the intent to commit a felony therein.

　　　　　　7.-The net of entering, or of breaking and entering, the offices of the Govern ment and public authorities, or the offices of banks, banking-houses, savings-banks, trust companies, insurance or other companies, with the intent to commit a felony

therein.

8.- Perjury or the subornation of perjury. 9.-Rape.

10.-Arson.

11.-Piracy by the law of nations.

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　　　　　　　12.-Murder, assault with intent to kill, and manslaughter committed on the high seas, on board a ship bearing the flag of the demanding country.

13. Malicious destruction of, or attempt to destroy, railways, trams, vessels, bridges, dwellings, public edifices, or other buildings, when the act endangers human life.

Art. III-If the person demanded be held for trial in the country on which the demand is made, it shall be optional with the latter to grant extradition or to proceed with the trial: Provided that, unless the trial shall be for the crime for which the fugitive is claimed, the delay shall not prevent ultimate extradition.

Art. IV. If it be made to appear that extradition is sought with a view to try or punish the person demanded for an offence of a political character, surrender shall not take place, nor shall any person surrendered be tried or punished for any political offence committed previously to his extradition, or for any offence other than that in respect of which the extradition is granted.

Art. V.-The requisition for extradition shall be made through the diplomatic agents of the contracting parties, or in the event of the absence of these from the country or its seat of Government, by superior consular officers.

　　　　　　　If the person whose extradition is requested shall have been convicted of a crime, a copy of the sentence of the Court in which he was convicted, authenticated under its seal, and an attestation of the official character of the judge by the proper executive authority, and of the latter by the Minister or Consul of Japan or of the United States, as the case may be, shall accompany the requisition.

　　　　　　When the fugitive is merely charged with crime, a duly authenticated copy of the warrant of arrest in the country making the demand and of depositions on which suca warrant may have been issued, must accompany the requisition.

　　　　　　　The fugitive shall be surrendered only on such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial if the crime had been there committed.

　　　　　　　Art. VI.-On being informed by telegraph, or other written communication, through the diplomatic channel that a lawful warrant has been issued by competent authority upon probable cause, for the arrest of a fugitive criminal charged with any of the crimes enumerated in Article II. of this Treaty, and on being assured from the same source that a request for the surrender of such criminal is about to be made in accordance with the provisions of this Treaty, each Government will endeavour to procure, so far as it lawfully may, the provisional arrest of such criminal, and keep him in safe custody for a reasonable time, not exceeding two months, to await the production of the documents upon which claim for extradition is founded.

　　　　　　　Art VII.-Neiter of the contracting parties shall be bound to deliver up its own subjects or citizens under the stipulations of this convention, but they shall have the power to deliver them up if in their discretion it he de med proper to do so.

At. VIII-The expenses of the arrest, detention, examination, and transporta- tia of the accused shall be paid by the Government which has requested the extradi-

tion.

Art. IX. The present treaty shall come into force sixty days after the exchange of the ratifications thereof. It may be terminated by either of them, but shall remain in force for six months after notice has been given of its termination.

The treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible.

In witness whereof the respective Plenipotenti ries have signed the present Treaty

in duplicate and have thereunto affixed their seals.

Dene at the city of Tokyo, the twenty-ninth day of the fourth month of the nineteenth year of Meiji, corresponding to the twenty-ninth day of April in the eighteen hundred and eighty-sixth year of the Christian era.

INOUTE KAoru. RICHARD B. Hubbard;

(Signed)

[L.8.] [L.8.]

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RUSSIA

AGREEMENT AS TO KOREA.

PROTOCOL.

[Translation]

　　　　　　The Secretary of State, Prince Lobanow Rostovsky, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia, and the Marshal Marquis Yamigata, Ambassador Extraordinary of his Majesty the Emperor of Japan, having exchanged views on the situation of Korea, have concluded the following articles :-

Art. I.-The_Russian and Japanese Goverments, with the view of remedying the financial embarrassment of Korea, will advise the Korean Government to suppress all useless expenditure and to establish an equilibrium between the expenses and the revenue. If, as the result of admittedly in-lispensable reforms, it should become necessary to have recourse to foreign loans, the two Governments will lend by mutual accord their assistance to Korea.

Art. II.-The Russian and Japanese Governments will endeavour to leave to Korea, as soon as the financial and economical situation of th it country will permit them to do so, the creation and maintenance of an armed forc and of a native police in sufficient proportions to maintain internal order without foreign aid.

Art. III.-With the view of faciating communications with Korea the Japanese Government will continue to ad unister the telegraph lines, which are at the present moment in its hands. Russia reserves the right to establish a telegraph line from Seoul to her own frontier. The different lines may be bought back by the Korean Government as soon as it has the means of doing so.

　　　　　Art. IV.In th event of any of the principles herein set forth requiring a more precise and more detailed definition, or if other points should aris- on which it would be necessary for the two Governments to agree, their representatives shall be charged to consider the matter in a friendly sense. Done at Moscow, May 28th (June 9th), 1896.

LOBANOW. YAMAGATA.

　　　　　　The following Memorandum, drawn up in English, is attached to the Moscow Convention :-

MEMORANDUM.

　　　　　　The Representatives of Russia and Japan at Seoul, having conferred under the identical instructions from their respective Governments, have arrived at the follow- ing conclusions:

Art. I.-While leaving the matter of his Majesty the King of Korea's return to the palace entirely to his own discretion and judgment, the Representatives of Russia and Japan will friendly advise his Majesty to return to that place, when no doubts concerning his safety could b entertained.

The Japanese Representative on his part gives the assurance that the most complete and elective measures will be taken for the control of Japanese soshi.

Art. II.-The present Cabinet Ministers have been appointed by his Majesty from his own free will, and most of them held Ministerial or other high offices during the last two years, and are known to be liberal and moderate men.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　The two Representa- tives will always aim at recommending to his Majesty to appoint liberal and moderate men as Ministers and to show clemency to his subjects.

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Art. III.-The Representative of Russia quite agrees with the Representative of Japan that at the present state of affairs in Korea it may be necessary to have Japan se guards stationed at some places for the protection of the Japanese telegraph line between Fusan and Seoul, and that these guards, now consisting of three com- panies of soldiers, should be withdrawn as soon as possible and replaced by gen larmes, who will be distributed as follows:-Fifty men at Taiku, fifty men at Kaheung, and ten men each at ten intermediate posts between Fusan and Seoul. This distribution may be liable to some changes, but the total number of the gendarmes force shall never exceed 200 men, who will afterwards gradually be with- drawn from such places where peace and order have been restored by the Korean Government.

Art. IV. For the protection of the Japanese settlements at Seoul and the open ports against possible attacks by the Korean populace two companies of Japanese troops may be stationed at Seoul, one company at Fusan and one at Gensan, each company not to excee:l 200 men. These troops will be quartered near the settle- ments, and shall be withdrawu as soon as no apprehensions of such attack could be entertained.

For the protection of the Russian Legation and Consulates the Russian Govern- ment may also keep guards not exceeling the number of Japanese troops at those places, and which will be withdrawn as soon as tranquillity in the interior is completely restored.

Seoul, May 14th, 1896.

C. WAEBER, Representative of Russia.

J. KOMURA, Representative of Japan.

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TREATIES WITH SIAM

GREAT BRITAIN

TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP AND COMMERCE BETWEEN HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE KINGS OF SIAM

Ratifications Exchanged at Bangkok, 15th April, 1856

Art. I.-There shall henceforward be perpetual peace and friendship between Her Majesty and her successors, and Their Majesties the Kings of Sin and their successors, All British subjects coming to Siam shall receive from the Siamese Government full protection and assistance to enable them to reside in Siam in all security, and trade with every facility, free from oppression or injury on the part of the Siamese, and all Siamese subjects going to an English country shall receive from the British Government the same complete protect on and assistance that shall be granted to British subjects by the Government of Siam.

　　　　　　Art. II. The interests of all Britishbjects coming to Siam shall be placed under the regulation and control of a Consul, who will be appointed to reside at Bangkok: be will himself conform to, and will enforce the observance by British subjects of all the provisions of this treaty, and such portions of the former treaty negotiated by Cap- tain Burney, in 1826, as shall still remain in operation. He shall also give effect to all rules or regulations that are now or may hereafter be enacted for the government of British subjects in Sam, and conduct of their trade, and for the prevention of viola- tions of the laws of Siam. Any dis; utes arising between British and Siamese subjects shall be heard and determined by the Consul, in conjunction with the proper Siamese officers; and criminal offences will be punished, in the case of English offenders, by their own laws, through the Siamese authorities. But the Consul shall not interfere in any matters referring solely to Siamese, neither wit the Siamese authorities interfere in questions whic only concern the subjects of Her Britannic Majesty.

　　　　　　It is understood, however, that the arrival of the British Consul at Bangkok shall not take place before the ratification of this treaty, nor until ten vessels owned by British subjets sailing under British colours and with British papers shall have entered the port of B.ngkok for the purposes of trade, subsequent to the signing of this treaty.

Art. III.-If Siamese in the employ of British subjects offend against the law of their country, or if any Siamese having so offended, or desiring to desert, take refuge with a British subject in Sian, they shall be searched for, and upon proof of their guilt or desertion, shall be delivered up by the Cousal to the Siamese authorities. like manne any British offenders re si lent or trading in Siam, who may desert, escape to, or hide them selves in Siamese territory, shall be apprehended and delivered over to the British Consul on his requisition. Chinese not able to prove themselves to be British subjects, shall not be considered as such by the British Consul, uor be entitled to his protection.

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Art. IV.--British subjects are permitted to trade freely in all the seaports of Siam, but may reside permanently only at Bangkok, or within the limits assigned by this Treaty. British subjects coming to reside at Bangkok may rent land, buy or build houses, but cannot purchase land within a circuit of 200 sen (not more than 4 miles English) from the city walls, until they shall have lived in Siam for ten years, or shall obtain special authority from the Siamese Government to enable them to do so. But with the exception of this limitation, British residents in Siam may at any tim›› buy or rent houses, lands, or plantations, situated anywhere within a distance of twenty-four hours' journey from the city of Bangkok, to be computed by the rate at which boats of the country can travel. In order to obtain possession of such land or houses, it will be necessary that the British subject shall, in the first place, make application through the Consul to the proper Siamese officers; and the Consul having satisfied himself of the honest intention of the applicant, will assist him in settling, upon equitable terms, the amount of the purchase money, will mark out and fix the boundaries of the property, and will convey the same to the British purchaser under sealed deeds. Whereupon he and his property shall be placed under the protection of the Governor of the district and that of the particular local authorities; he shall conform, in ordinary mat'ers, to any just directions given him by them, and will be subject to the same t(xation that is levied on Siamese subjects. But if through negligence aul want of capital or other caus, a British subject should fail to commence the cultiva ion or improvement of the land so acquired within a term of three years from the date of receiving pos-ession thereof, the Siamese Government shall have the power of resuming the property, upon returning to the British subject the purchase-money paid by him for the same.

Art. V. All British subjects intending to reside in Siam shall be registered at the British Consulate. They shall not go out to sea, nor proceed beyond the Imits assigned by this treaty for the resilence of British subjects, without a passport from the Siamese authorities, to be applied for by the British Consul; nor shall they leave Siam, if the Siamese authorities show to the British Consul that legit note objections exist to their quitting the country. But within the limi's appointed under the preceding article, British subjects are at liberty to travel to and fro under protection of a pass, to be furnished them by the British Consul and counter-sealed by the proper Siamese officer, stating, in the Siamese character, their names, calling, and description. The Siamese officers of the Government stations in the interior may, at any time, call for the production of this pass, and immediately on its being exhibited, they must allow he parties to proceed; but it will be their duty to detain those persons who, by travelling without a pass from the Consul, render thems Ives liable to the suspicion of their being deserters; and such detention shall be i∙ mediatly repor ed to th Consul. Art. VI.-All British subjects visiting or residing in Siani shall be allowed the free exercise of the Christian religion and liberty to bui'd churches in such localities as shall be consented to by the Siamese authorities. The Siamese Government will place no restriction upon the employment by the English of Siamese sui jects as servants, or in any other capacity. But whenever a Siamese subject lelongs to or oves service to some particular master, the servant who engages himself t› a British subject without the consent of his master may be reclaimed by him; and the Siamese Government will not enforce an agreement between a British subject and any Siamese in his employ, unless made with the knowledge and consent of the master who has a right to dispose of the services of the person engaged.

Art. VII.-British ships of war may enter the river and anchor at Paknam, but they shall not procced above Paknam, unless with the consent of the Siamese autorties, which sl all te given when it is ; ecessary that a slip shall go in to dock for Any Fritish ship of war conveying to Siam a public functionary accredited by Her Majesty's Governm nt to the Court of Bangkok shall be allowed to come up to Bangkok, but shall not pass the forts called Pig Phrachamit and Pit-patel-nuck, unless expressly permitted to do so by the Siamese Government; but in the absence of a British ship of war, the Siamese authorities engage to furnish the Consul with a forre sufficient to enable him to give ffect to his authority over British subject-, and to enforce discipline among British shipping.

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Art. VIII.-The measurement duty hitherto paid by British vessels trading to Bangkok under the Treaty of 1826 shall be abolished from the date of this Treaty coming into operation, and British shipping and trade will henceforth be only subject to the payment of import and export duti 's on the goods landed or shipped. On all articles of import the duties shall be three per cent., payable at the option of the importer, either in kind or money, calculated upon the market value of the goods. Drawback of the full amount of duty shall be allowed upon goods found unsa leable and re-exported. Should the British merchant and the Custom-hous officers dis- agree as to the valac to be set upon imported artic.es, such dispites shall be referred to the Consul an! proper Siamese officer, who shall each have the power to call in an equal number of merchants as assessors, not exceeding two on either side, to assist them in coming to an equitable decision.

　　　　　　Opium may be imported free of duty, but can only be sold to the opium farmer or his agents. In the event of no arrangem nt being effected with them for the sale of the opium, it shall be re-exported, and no impost or duty shall be levied thereon. Any infringement of this regulation shall subject the opium to seizure and confisca-

tion.

　　　　　　Articles of export from the time of production to the date of shipment shall pay one import duty, whether this be levied under the name of inland tax, transit duty, or duty on exportation. The tax or duty to be paid on each article of Siamese produce previous to or upon exportation is specified in the tariff attached to this freaty; and it is distinctly agreed that goo 's or produce which pay any description of tax in the interior shall be exempted from any further payment of the duty ou exportation.

　　　　　　English merchants are to be allowed to purchase directly from the producer the articles in which they trade, and in like manner to sell their goods directly to the parties wishing to purchase the sam, without the interference, in either case, of any other person.

The rates of duty laid down in the tariff attached to this Treaty are those that are now paid upon goods or produce shipped in Siam se or Chinese vess Is or junks; and it is agreed that British shipping shall enjoy all the pr vileges now exercised by, or which hereafter may be grante I to, Siamese or Chinese vessels or junks.

　　　　　　British subjects will be allowed to build ships in Siam, on obtaining permission to do so from the Siamese authoriti s.

　　　　　　Whenever a scarcity may be apprehended of salt, rice, or fish, the Siames, Government reserve to themselves the right of prohibiting, by public proclamatione the exportation of these articles.

Bullion or personal effects may be imported free of charge.

Art. IX.-The code of regulations appended to this Treaty shall be enforced by the Consul, with the co-operation of the Siamese authorities; and they, the said authorities and Consul, shall be enabled to introduce any further regulations which may be necessary in order to give effect to the objects of this Treaty.

All fines and penalties inflicted for infraction of the provisions and regulations

of this Treaty shall be paid to the Siamese Government.

　　　　　　Until the British Consul shall arrive at Bangkok, and enter upon his functions, the consignees of British vessels shall be at liberty to settle with the Siamese authorities all questions relating to their trade.

　　　　　　Art. X.-The British Goverment and its subjects will be allowed free and equal participation in any privileges that may have been, or may hereafter be, granted by the Siamese Government to the government or subject of any other nation.

Art. XI.-After the lapse of ten years from the date of the ratification of this Treaty, upon the desire of either the British or Siamese Government, and on twelve months' notice being given by eithr party, the present and such portions of the Treaty of 1826 as remain unrevoked by this Treaty, together with the Tariff and the Regulations hereunto annexed, or those that may hereafter be introduced, shall be subject to revision by Commissioners appointed on both sides for this purpose, who will be empowered to decide on and insert therein such amendments as experience shall prove to be desirable.

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IS TO BE CONDUCTED IN SIAM

　　　　　　　Art. I.-The master of any English ship coming to Bangkok to trade must, either before or after entering the river, as may be found convenient, report the arrival of his vessel at the Custom-house at Paknam, together with the number of his crew and guns, and the port from whence he comes. Upon anchoring his vessel at Paknam, he will deliver into the custody of the Custom-house officers all his guns and ammunition; and a Custom-house officer will then be appointed to the vessel, and will proceed in her to Bangkok.

　　　　　　　Art. II.-A vessel passing Paknam without discharging her guns and ammuni- tion as directed in the foregoing regulation will be sent back to Paknam to comply with its provisions, and will be fined eight hundred ticals for having so disobeyed. After delivery of her guns and ammunition she will be permitted to return to Bangkok to trade.

　　　　　　　Art. III--When a British vessel shall have cast anchor at Bangkok, the master, unless a Sunday should intervene, will within four and twenty hours after arrival proceed to the British Consulate, and deposit there his ship's papers, bills of lading, &c., together with a true manifest of his import cargo; and upon the Consul's reporting these particulars to the Custom-house, permission to break bulk will at once be given by the latter.

　　　　　　　For neglecting so to report his arrival or for presenting a false manifest, the master will subject himself, in each instance, to a penalty of four hundred ticals; but he will be allowed to correct, within twenty-four hours after delivery of it to the Consul, any mistake he may discover in his manifest, without incurring the above- mentioned penalty.

Art. IV.-A British vessel breaking bulk, and commencing to discharge, before due permission shall be obtained, or smuggling, either when in the river or outside the bar, shall be subject to the penalty of eight hundred ticals and confiscation of the goods so smuggled or discharged.

Art. V.-As soon as a British vessel shall have discharged her cargo, and completed her outward lading, paid all her duties and delivered a true manifest of her outward cargo to the British Consul, a Siamese port-clearance shall be granted her on application from the Consul, who in the absence of any legal impediment to ber departure, will then return to the master his ship's papers, and allow the vessel to leave. A Custom-house officer will accompany the vessel to Pakaam; and on arriving there she will be inspected by the Custom-house officers of that station, and will receive from them the guns and ammunition previously delivered into their charge. The above regulations, numbered from 1 to 5, are obligatory under the treaty concluded between Great Britain and Siam; those which follow, numbered from 6 to 14, are equally to be observed by masters of British vessels and their crews. Art. VI.-Masters of British vessels, when reporting their arrival at Her Majesty's Consulate at the port of Bangkok, as directed by the fourth regulation above quoted, shall notify in writing the names of all passengers and persons not forming part of the registered crew.

Notice must likewise be given of the number and names of persons, who, as passengers or in any oth r capacity (seamen borne on the muster-roll excepted), in- tend to leave Siam in a British vessel.

Art. VII.-Setmen, lascars, and others belonging to British vessels in the port are strictly prohibited to wear side knives and other weapons while on shore.

　　　　　　　Art. VIII.-Should any seaman or apprentice absent himself without leave, the master will report his absence, if such exceeds twenty-four hours, at the Consulate

offices.

Art. IX-Any British subject who entices a seaman or apprentice to desert, in urs, according to the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, paragraph 257, a penalty not exceeding ten pounds; or any such subject who wilfully harbours or secretes a person deserted from his ship incurs a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, if it be proved that he had knowledge of his being a deserter.

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In default of the payment of such fines, the offender is to be imprisoned in the Consular gaol for any term not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour,

Art. X-All cases of death, and especially of sudden death, occurring on board of British vessels in the port of Bangkok must be immediately reported at the Consulate.

　　　　　　　Art. XI.-The discharge of guns from vessels anchored in the port of Bangkok, without notice having been previously given, and permission obtained through H.M. Consul from the proper Siamese authority, is forbidden, under a penalty not exceed- ing ten pounds.

　　　　　　　Act. XII.-It is strictly prohibited to shoot birds within the precincts of the Wats or Temples, either in Bangkok or elsewhere within the Siamese dominious, or to injure or damage any of the statues or figures, the trees or shrubs in such localities of Siamese worship; any British subject or seaman of a British vessel guilty of such an act renders oimself liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, or in default thereof to an imprisonment in the Consular gaol for a period of not more than one month.

　　　　　　Art. XIII.-When a vessel under the British flag is ready to leave the port of Bangkok, the master will give notice at the Consulate office, and boist a blue peter twenty-four hours before departure, which is to fly until she breaks anchorage.

　　　　　　Art. XIV. Should any vessel take in or discharge cargo subsequent to the issue of the Simese port clearance, as directed by the fifth regulation above quoted, the master, as in a case of smuggling, subjects himself to a penalty of 600 ticals (equal to £100), and goods so taken or discharged will be liable to confiscation.

　　　　　　　Art. XV.-Every fine or penalty levied under these regulations is (if not paid in sterling money) at the rate of eight ticals Siamese currency for one pound.

Tariff of Export and Inland Duties to be levied on Articles of Trade

　　　　　　I. The undermentioned Articles shall be entirely free from Inland or other taxes, on production of transit pass, and shall pay Export Duty as follows:-

1 Ivory

2 Gimboge

3 Rhinoceros' horna

4 Cardamons best.

5 Cardamons, bastard

G Dried mussels

7 Pelicans' quills

Betel nut, dried

9 Krachi wood..

10 Sharks' fins, white.....

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HUN

per picul

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Sharks' fins. black......

Jukkraban seed

Peacocks' tails

14 Buffalo and cow bʊnes

Rhinoceros' hides

per

100 tails

per picul

Hide cut inga

17 Turtle shell

18 Soft ditto

19 Beche-de-mer

20 Fish inawa

21 Birds' nests, uncleaned

Kingfishers' feathers.

Cutch

21 Beyche seed (Nux Vomica)

25 Pungtarai send

26 Gum Benjamin

Angrai bark

28 Agilla wood

29 Ray skins

30 Old deers' horns

31 Soft, or young ditto

32 Deer hides, fine

33 Deer hides, common

34 Deer sinewa

35 Buffalo and cow hides

20 per cent

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per 100

per picul

per 100 hides

per pi cul

Elephants' boues

37 Tigers' bones

33 Buffalo horus

19 Eephants' hides.. 40 Tigers' skin

Armadillo skina Stickiac

Hem

44 Dried Fish, Plaheng

Dried Fish, Plusalit

46 Sapanwood

Salt meat

48 Mangrove bark

Rosewood

TARIFF OF DUTIES-SIAM

TICAL

SALUNG FUANG

HUN

0 per picul

per skin per pioul

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Ebony

51 Rice.

0 per koyan

　　　　　　　II.-The undermentioned Articles being subject to the Inland or Transit duties herein named, and which shall not be increased, shall be exempt from export duty.

52 Sugar, White

53 Sugar. Red

4 Cotton, clean and uncleaned

Paper

Salt fish, Plat

Beans and Peas

Dried Prawns

Til-eed

S:lk, raw

Bees' wax

T.. wool

Salt

Tobacco

TICAL

SALUNG FUANG

per cent

HUN

per picul

0 p.

. 1,000 fish

one twelfth

oue twelfth

one fifteenth

0 per picn!

per koyan p. 1,000 bdles

　　　　　　　III.-All goods or produce unenumerated in this Tariff shall be free of Export Duty, and shall only be subject to one Inland Tax or Transit Duty, not exceeding the rate now paid.

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TREATY AND CONVENTION BETWEEN FRANCE AND SIAM

SIGNED AT BANGKOK, 3RD OCTOBER, 1893

Treaty

　　　　　　Article 1.-The Siamese Government renounces all pretension to the whole of the territories on the left bank of the Mekong and to the islands in the river.

　　　　　　Article 2.-The Siamese Government undertakes not to place or navigate any armed boats or vessels on the waters of the great Tonle Sap Lake, the Mekong, or their tributarics situated in the territory indicated in the next article.

Article 3.-The Siamese Government will construct no fortified post or military establishment in the provinces of Battambang and Siem-Reap or within a radius of 15 miles from the right bank of the Mekong.

Article 4-In the zones mentioned in Article 3 the police service will be car- ried on as usual by the local authorities with the contingent forces that are strictly necessary. No regular or irregular armed force is to be maintained.

　　　　　　Article 5.-The Siamese Government binds itself to open negotiations with the French Government, within six months, with a view to regulating the customs and commercial system of the territories mentioned in Article 3, and to the revision of the Treaty of 1865. Until the conclusion of that agreement no customs duties will be established in the zone referred to in Article 3. Reciprocity will continue to be granted by the French Government to the products of the said zone.

Article 6.As the development of the navigation of the Mekong may render necessary certain works on the right bank or the establishment of relay stations for boats for wood and coal depôts, the Siamese Government binds itself to give, on the request of the French Government, all the necessary facilities for this purpose.

　　　　　　Article 7.-French citizens, whether actual subjects or political dependents, may travel about freely and carry on their business in the territories mentioned in Article 3, on being provided with a pass from the French authorities. Reciprocity will be accorded to the inhabitants of the said zone.

Article 8.-The French Government reserves the right of establishing Con- sulates where it shall think proper in the interest of its citizens, su jects, or depen- dents, and particularly at Khorat and at Muang Nam. The Siamese Government will grant the sites necessary for the erection of the said Consulates.

Article 9.-In case of difficulties, the French text will be the sole authority. Article 10.-The present treaty must be ratified within four months from the date of its signature.

Convention

The Siamese military posts established on the left bank of the Mekong and on the islands in the river must be evacuated within a month from the date of the signing of the present Convention. Those situated in the province of Angkor and Battambang, or on the right bank of the river within 15 miles thereof, must be evacuated at the same time and the fortifications razed.

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The authors of the incidents of Tong-Kieng-Khan and Cammon will be judged by the Siamese authorities. A representative of France will be present at the trial, and will see that the sentences pronounced are carried out. The French Govern- ment reserves the right of judging whether the penalties are sufficient, and, if necessary, of demanding a fresh trial before a mixed tribunal, the composition of which it will itself determine.

The Siamese Government will deliver up to the French Minister at Bangkok or to the French authorities on the frontier all French subjects, whether Annamites, Cambodians, or Loatians of the left bank, now detained for any cause whatever. It will throw no obstacle in the way of the return to the left bank of the former inhabit- ants of that region.

　　　　　　The Bang-Bien of Tong-Kieng-Khan and his suite will be taken by a delegate of the Minister of Foreign Affairs to the French Legation, and also the arms and the French flag seized by the Siamese authorities.

　　　　　　The French Government will continue to occupy Chantaboon until the execu tion of the stipulations o the present Convention, and particularly until the complete and pacific evacuation of the Siamese posts established both on the left bank of the Mekong and on the islands in the river, as well as those in the provinces of Battam- hang and Siem Reap, and within 15 miles of the right bank of th: Mekong.

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GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE

DECLARATION SIGNED BY GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE RESPECTING SPHERES OF INFLUENCE

SIGNED AT London, 15th January, 1896

The undersigned, duly authorised by their respective Governments, have signed the following Declaration:-

·--

I.-The Governments of Great Britain and France engage to one another that neither of them will, without the consent of the other, in any case, or under any pretext, advance their armed forces into the region which is comprised in the basins of the Petcha Bouri, Meiklong, Menam, and Bang Pa Kong (Petri. u) rivers and their respective tributaries, together with the extent of coast from Muong Bang Tapan to Muong Pase, the basins of the rivers on which those two places are situated, and the basins of the other rivers, the estuaries of which are included in that coast; and including also the territory lying to the north of the basin of the Menam and situated between the Anglo-Siamese frontier, the Mekong River, and the Eastern watershed of the Me Ing. They further engage not to acquire within this region any special privilege or advantage which shall not be enjoyed in common by, or equally open to, Great Britain and France and their nationals and dependents. These stipulations, however, shall not be interpreted as derogating from the special clauses which, in virtue of the Treaty concluded on Oct. 3, 1893, between France and Siam, apply to a zone of 25 kilom. on the right bank of the Mekong and to the navigation of that river.

　　　　　　IL-Nothi g in the foregoing clause shall hinder any action on which the two Powers may agree, and which they shall think necessary in order to uphold the independence of the Kingdom of Siam. But they engage not to enter into any separate agreement permitting a third Power to take any action from which they are bound by the present declaration themselves to abstaiù.

III. From the mouth of the Nam Huok northwards as far as the Chinese frontier the thalweg of the Mekong shall form the limit of the possessions or spheres of influence of Great Britain and France. It is agreed that the nationals and dependents of each of the two countries shall not exercise any jurisdiction or authority within the possessions or sphere of influence of the other.

　　　　　　The police of the islands in this part of the river, which are separated from the British shore by a branch of the river, shall, so long as they are thus separated, be entrusted to the French authorities. The fishery shall be open to the inhabitants of both banks.

IV. The two Governments agree that all commercial and other privileges and advantages conceded in the two Chinese provinces of Yunnan and Szechuen either to Great Britain or Frauce, in virtue of their respective Conventions with China of March 1, 1894, and June 20, 1895, and all privileges and advantages of any nature which may in the future be conceded in these two Chinese provinces, either to Great Britain or France, shall, as far as rests with them, be extended and rendered common to both Powers and to their nationals and dependents, and they engage to use their influence and good offices with the Chinese Government for this purpose.

Done at London 15th January, 1896.

Salisbury.

ALPH. DE Courcel.

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THE MALAY STATES FEDERATION AGREEMENT, 1896

　　　　　　Agreement between the Governor of the Straits Settlements, acting on behalf of the Gov rnment of Her Majesty the Queen, Empress of India, and the Rulers of the following Malay States, that is to say, Perak, Selangor, Pahang, and Negri Sembilan.

　　　　　　Art. L-In confirmation of various previous Agreements, the Sultan of Perak, the Sultan of Selangor, the Sultan of Pahang, and the Chiefs of the States which form the territory known as the Negri Sembilan, hereby severally place themselves and their States under the protection of the British Government.

　　　　　　Art. II. The above-named Rulers and Chiefs of the respective States hereby agree to constitute their countries a Federation, to be known as the Protected Malay States, to be administered under the advice of the British Government.

　　　　　　Art. III.-It is to be understood that the arrangement hereby agreed upon does not imply that any one Ruler or Cuief shall exercise any power or authority in respect of any State other than that which he now possesses in the State of which be is the recognised Ruler or Chief.

　　　　　　Art. IV. The above-named Rulers agree to accept a British Officer, to be styled the Resident-General, as the agent and representative of the British Government under the Governor of the Straits Settlements. They undertake to provide him with suitable accommodation, with such salary as is determined by Her Majesty's Government, and to follow his advice in all matters of administration other than those touching the Mohammedan religion. The appointment of the Resident-General will not affect the obligations of the Malay Rulers towards the British Residents now existing or to be hereafter appointed to offices in the above- mentioned Protected States.

Art. V.-The above-named Rulers also agree to give to those States in the Federation which require it such assistance in men, money, or other respects as the British Government, through its duly appointed officers, may advise; and they further undertake, should war break out between Her Majesty's Government and that of any other Power, to send, on the requisition of the Governor, a body of armed and equipped Indian troops for service in the Straits Settlements.

　　　　　　Art. VI.-Nothing in this Agreement is intended to curtail any of the powers or authority now held by any of the above-named Rulers in their respective States, nor does it alter the relations now existing between any of the States named and the British Empire.

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THE FOREIGN JURISDICTION ACT, 1890

53 AND 54 VICTORIA, CHAPter 37

AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE THE FOREIGN JURISDICTION ACTS [4th AUGUST, 1890]

Exercise of

jurisdiction in

WHEREAS by treaty, capitulation, grant, usage, sufferance, and other lawful means, Her Majesty the Queen has jurisdiction within divers fore go countries, and it is expedient to consolidate the Acts re ating to the exercise of Her Majesty's jurisdiction out of Her doy in ons :

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. It is and shall be lawful for Her Majesty the Queen to hold, foreign country. exercise, and enjoy any jurisdiction w ich Her Majesty now has or may at any time hereafter have within a foreign country in the same and as ample a manner as if Her Majesty had acquired that jurisdiction by the cession or conquest of territory.

Exercise of jurisdiction over

2.- Where a foreign country is not subject to any government from British subjects whom Her Majesty the Queen might obtain jurisdiction in the manner in countries with- recited by this Act, Her Majesty shall by virtue of this Act have jurisdic- out regular go. tion over Her Majesty's subjects for the time being resident in or resort- in to that country, and that jurisdiction shall be jurisdiction of Her Majesty in a foreign country within the meaning of the other provisions

vernments.

done in pursuance

existence or ex-

of this Act.

Validity of acts 3.-Every act and thing done in pursuance of any jurisdiction of Her of jurisdiction. Majesty in a foreign country shall be as valid as if it had been done

　　　　　　　　　accoring to the local law then in force in that country. Evidence as to 4.--(1.) If in any proceeding, civil or criminal, in a court in Her tent of juris. Majesty's dominions or held under the authority of Her Majesty any diction in foreign question arises as to the existence or extent of any jurisdiction of Her Majesty in a foreign country, a Secretary of State shall, on the application of the court, send to the court within a reasonable time his decision on the question, and his decision shall for the purposes of the proceeding be final.

country.

　　　　　　Power to extend enactments in

(2.) The court shall send to the Secretary of State, in a document under the seal of the court, or signed by a judge of the court, questions framed so as properly to raise the question, and sufficient answers to those questions shall be returned by the Secretary of State to th⋅ court, and those answers shall, on production thereof, be conclusive evidence of the matters therein contained.

5.-(..) It shall be lawful for Her Majesty the Queen in Council, First Schedule, if She thinks fit, by Order to direct that all or any of the enactments described in the First Schedule to this Act, or any enactments for the time being in force amending or substituted for the same, shall extend, with or without any exceptions, adaptations, or modifications in the Order mentioned, to any foreign country in which for the time being Her Majesty has jurisdiction.

(2) Thereupon those enactments shall, to the extent of that jurisdiction, operate as if that country were a British possession, and as if Her Majesty in Council were the Legislature of that possession.

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with offences for

possession.

　　　　　　　6.-(1.) Where a person is charged with an offence cognizable by Power to send a British court in a foreign country, any person having authority derived persons charged from Her Majesty in that behalf may, by warrant, cause the person so trial to a British charged to be sent for trial to any British possession for the time being appointed in that behalf by Order in Council, and upon the arrival of the person so charged in that British possession, such criminal court of that possession as is authorised in that behalf by Order in Council, or, if no court is 8 authorised, the supreme criminal court of that possession, may cause him to be kept in safe and proper custody, and so soon as con- veniently may be may inquire of, try, and determine the offence, and on conviction punish the offender according to the laws in force in that behalf within that possession in the same manner as if the offence had been committed within the jurisdiction of that criminal court.

Provided that-

(a.) A person so charged may, before being so sent for trial, tender for examination to a British court in the foreign country where the off nce is alleged to have been committed any competent witness whose evidence he deems material for his defence and whom he alleges himself unable to produce at the trial in the British possession:

(b.) In such case the British court in the foreign country shall proceed in the examination and cross-examination of the witness as though he had been tendered at a trial before that court, and shall cause the evidence so taken to be reduced into writing, and shall transmit to the criminal court of the British possession by which the person charged is to be tried a copy of the evidence, certified as correct under the seal of the court before which the evidence was taken, or the signature of a judge of that court: (c.) Thereupon the court of the British possession before which the trial takes place shall allow so much of the evidence so taken as would have been admissible according to the law and practice of that court, had the witness been produced and examin d at the trial, to be read and received as legal evidence at the trial: (d) The court of the British possession shall admit and give effect to the law by which the alleged offender would have been tried by the British court in the foreign country in which his offence is alleged to have been committed, as far as that law relates to the criminality of the act alleged to have been committed, or the nature or degree of the offence, or the punishment thereof, if the law differs in those respects from the law in force in that British possession.

(2.) Nothing in this section shall alter or repeal any law, statute, or usage by virtue of which any offence committed out of Her Majesty's dominions may, irrespectively of this Act, be inquired of, tried, determined and punished within Her Majesty's dominions, or any part thereof.

ment of persons

7. Where an offender convicted before a British court in a foreign Provision as to Country has been sentenced by that court to suffer death, penal servitude, place of punish. imprisonment, or any other punishment, the sentence shall be carried convicted. into effect in such place as may be directed by Order in Council or he determined in accordance with directions given by Order in Council, and the conviction and sentence shall be of the same force in the place in which the sentence is so carried into effect as if the conviction had been male and the sentence passed by a competent court in that place.

done under Order

8. Where, by Order in Council made in pursuance of this Act, any Validity of acts British court in a foreign country is authorised to order the removal or in Council. deportation of any person from that country, that removal or deportation, and any detention for the purposes thereof, according to the provisions

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of the Orler in Council, shall be as lawful as if the order of the court were to have effect wholly within that country.

9. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty the Queen in Council, by British courts in Order, to assign to or confer on any court in any British possession, or held under the authority of Her Majesty, any jurisdiction, civil or criminal, Jurisdiction Act original or appellate, which may lawfully by Order in Council be assigned to or conferred on any British court in any foreign country, and to make such provisions and regulations as to Her Majesty in Council seem meet respecting the exercise of the jurisdiction so assigned or conferred, and respecting the enforcement and execution of the judgments, decrees, orders, and sentences of any such court, and respecting appeals therefrom.

Power to amend Orders in Council.

Laying before Parliament, and effect of Orders in Council.

In what caBOS Orders in

repugnancy.

10. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty the Queen in Council to revoke or vary any Order in Council made in pursuance of this Act.

　11. Every Order in Council made in pursuance of this Act shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament forthwith after it is made, if Parliament be then in session, and if not, forthwith after the commence- ment of the then next session of Parliament, and shall have effect as if it were enacted in this Act.

12.-(1.) If any Order in Council made in pursuance of this Act as Council void for respects any foreign country is in any respect repugnant to the provisions of any Act of Parliament extending to Her Majesty's subjects in that country, or repugnant to any order or regulation made under the authority of any such Act of Parliament, or having in that country the force and effect of any such Act, it shall be read subject to that Act, order, or regulation, and shall, to the extent of such repugnancy, but not otherwise, be void.

Provisions for protection of persons acting under

Foreign Jurisdio- tion Acts.

　(2.) An Order in Council made in pursuance of this Act shall not be or be deemed to have been, void on th ground of repugnancy to the law of England unless it is repugnant to the provisions of some such Act of Parliament, order, or regulation as aforesaid.

　13. (1.) An action, suit, prosecution, or proceeding against any person for any act done in pursuance or execution or intended execution of this Act, or of any enactment repealed by this Act, or of any Order in Council made under this Act, or of any such jurisdiction of Her Majesty as is mentioned in this Act, or in respect of any alleged neglect or default in the execution of this Act, or of any such enactment, Order in Council, or jurisdiction as aforesaid, shall not lie or be instituted-

(a.) in any court within Her Majesty's dominions, unless it is commenced within six months next after the act, neglect, or default complained of, or in case of a continuance of injury or damage within six months next after the ceasing thereof, or where the cause of action arose out of Her Majesty's dominions within six months after the parties to the action, suit, prosecu- tion, or proceeding have been within the jurisdiction of the court in which the same is instituted; nor

(b.) in any of Her Majesty's cour's without Her Majesty's dominions unless the cause of action arose within the jurisdiction of that court, and the action is commenced within six months next after the act, neglect or default complained of, or, in case of a continuance of injury, or damage, within six months next after the ceasing thereof.

　(2.)-In any such action, suit, or proceeding, tender of amends before the same was commenced may be pleaded in lieu of or in addition to any other plea. If the action, suit, or proceeding was commenced after such tenler, or is proceeded with after payment into court of any money in satisfaction of the plaintiff's claim, and the plaintiff does not recover more than the sum tendered or paid, he shall not recover any costs in-

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curred after such tender or payment, and the defendant shall be entitled to costs, to be taxed as between solicitor and client, as from the time of such tender or payment; but this provision shall not affect costs on any injunction in the action, suit, or proceeding.

over ships in cer-

　　　　　　　14.-It shall be lawful for Her Majesty the Queen in Council to Jurisdiction make any law that may seem meet for the government of Her Majesty's tain Eastern seas. subjects being in any vessel at a distance of not more than one hundred miles from the coast of China or of Japan, as fully and effectually as any such law might be made by Her Majesty in Council for the Government of Her Majesty's subjects being in China or in Japan.

15. Where any Order in Council made in pursuance of this Act Provision as to extends to persons enjoying Her Majesty's protection, that expression subjects of Indian shall include all subjects of the several princes and states in India.

16.

In this Act,

princes.

The expression "foreign country

foreign country" means any country or place out Definitions, of Her Majesty's dominions: The expression "British court in a foreign country' means any British court having jurisdiction out of Her Majesty's dominions in pursuance of an Order in Council whether made under any Act or otherwise:

The expression "jurisdiction" includes power.

17.-The Acts mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Act may

be revoked or varied by Her Majesty by Order in Council.

Power to repeal

or vary Acts in Second Schedule.

18. The Acts mentioned in the Third Schedule to this Act are Bapeal. hereby repealed to the extent in the third column of that schedule mentioned: Provided that,-

1890.

(1) Any Order in Council, commission, or instructions made or issued in pursuance of any enactment repealed by this Act, shall, if in force at the passing of this Act, continue in force, until altered or revoked by Her Majesty as if made in pursuance of this Act; and shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to have been made or issued under and in pursuance of this Act; and

(2) Any enactment, Order in Council, or document referring to any enactment repealed by this Act shall be construed to refer to the corresponding enactment of this Act.

19.-(1.) This Act may be cited as the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, Short title.

　　　　　　　(2.) The Acts whereof the short titles are given in the First Schedule to this Act may be cited by the respective short titles given in that

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SCHEDULES

SESSION AND CHAPTER.

FIRST SCHEDULE (Sections 5 and 19)

TITLE.

ENACTMENTS WHICH

MAY BE EXTENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL.

12 & 13 Vict. c. 96. An Act to provide for the Pro- The whole Act.

14 & 15 Vict. c. 99.

17 & 18 Vict.c.104. |

19 & 20 Vict. c. 113.

22 Vict. c. 20.

secution and Trial in Her Majesty's Colonies of Offences committed within the juris- diction of the Admiralty.

| An Act to amend the law of

evidence.

SHORT TITle.

Admiralty Offences (Colonial) Act,

1849.

Sections seven and Evidence Act, 1851.

eleven.

The Merchant Shipping Act, | Part X.

1854.

An Act to provide for taking The whole Act.

evidence in Her Majesty's Dominions in relation to civil and commercial matters pend- ing before Foreign tribunals.

An Act to provide for taking The whole Act.

evidence in Suits and Proceed- ings pending before Tribunals in Her Majesty's Dominions, in places out of the jurisdic- tion of such tribunals.

22 & 23 Vict. c. 63. An Act to afford Facilities for The whole Act.

23 & 24 Vict. c.

122.

the more certain Ascertain- ment of the Law administered in one Part of Her Majesty's Dominions, when pleaded in the Courts of another Part thereof.

An Act to enable the Legisla. The whole Act.

tures of Her Majesty's Posses- sions Abroad to make Enact-

Foreign Tribunals Evidence Act, 1856.

Evidence by Com- mission Act, 1859

British Law Ascer- tainment Act. 1859.

Admiralty Offences (Colonial) Act,

1860.

ments similar to the Enact-

Foreign Law Ascer-

taiument 1861.

Act,

ment of the Act ninth George

the Fourth, chapter thirty- one, section eight.

24 & 25 Vict. c. 11. An Act to afford facilities for The whole Act.

30 & 31 Vict. c.

124.

87 & 38 Vict. c. 94.

44 & 45 Vict. c. 69.

48 & 49 Vict. c. 74.

the better Ascertainment of the Law of Foreign Countries when pleaded in Courts with- in Her Majesty's Dominions. The Merchant Shipping Act,

1867.

The Conveyancing (Scotland)

Act, 1874.

The Fugitive Offenders Act,

1881.

The Evidence by Commission

Act, 1885.

Section eleven.

Section fifty-one.

The whole Act.

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SECOND SCHEDULE (Section 17)

Acts which may be revoked or varied by Order in Council

SESSION AND CHAPTER.

24 & 25 Vict. c. 31.

6 & 27 Viet. c. 35.

TITLE.

EXTENT OF REPEAL.

An Act for the prevention and punishment | The whole Act.

of offences committed by Her Majesty's subjects within certain territories adja- cent to the colony of Sierra Leone.

An Act for the prevention and punishment The whole Act.

of offences committed by Her Majesty's subjects in South Africa.

THIRD SCHEDULE (Section 18)

Enactments repealed

SESSION AND CHAPTER.

　　　　　　　　　6&7 Vict. c. 94 20 & 21 Vict. c. 75

28 & 29 Vict. c. 116

2&30 Vict. c. 87

33 & 34 Vict. c. 55

35 & 39 Vict. c. 85 39 & 40 Vict. c. 46

41 & 42 Vict. c. 67

TITLE OR SHORT TITLE.

The Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1843

EXTENT OF REPEAL.

The whole Act.

An Act to confirm an ''rder in Council con- | The whole Act.

cerning the exercise of jurisdiction in matters arising within the kingdom of Siam.

The Foreign Jurisdiction Act Amendment The whole Act.

Act. 1865.

The Foreign Jurisdiction Act Amendment | The whole Act.

Act. 1866.

The Siam and Straits Settlements Juris- The whole Act.

diction Act, 1870.

The Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1875. An Act for more effectually punishing offences against the laws relating to the slave trade.

The Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1878.

The whole Act. Sections four and six.

The whole Act,

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Preamble.

6 and 7 Vict *. 80.

6 and 7 Vict. e. 94.

ORDERS IN COUNCIL

ORDER OF HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN IN COUNCIL,

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF HER MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS IN CHINA AND JAPAN

AT THE COURT AT WINDSor, the 9th DAY OF MARch, 1865

PRESENT:

　THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL. WHEREAS an Act of Parliament was passed in the Session of the sixth and seventh years of Her Majesty's reign (chapter eighty) "for the better government of Her Majesty's subjects resorting to China":

And whereas, by the Act it was enacted (among other things) that it should be lawful for Her Majes y, by any Order or Orders made with the advice of Her Privy Council, to ordain for the government of Her Majesty's subjects being within the dominions of the Emperor of China, or being within any ship or vessel at a distance of no more than one hundred miles from the coast of China, any law or ordinance which to Her Majesty in Council might seem meet, as fully an effectually as any such law or ordinance could be made by Her Majesty in Council for the government of Her Majesty's subjects being within Her Majesty's Island of Hongkong:

And whereas, another Act of Parliament was passed in the same Session (chapter vinety-four) "to remove doubts as to the exercise of power and jurisdiction by Her Majesty within divers countries and places out of Her Majesty's dominions, and to render the same more effectual" (to which Act the expression "The Foreign Jurisdiction Act hereafter used in this Örder refers):

when

And whereas, by the Foreign Jurisdiction Act it was enacted (among other things) that it was and should be lawul for Her Majesty to hold, exercise, and enjoy any power or jurisdiction which Her Majesty then had, or might at any time hereaiter have, within any country or place out of Her Majesty's dominions, in the same and as ample a manner as if Her Majesty had acquired such power or jurisdiction by the cession or con- quest of territory:

And whereas, Her Majesty has had and now has power and jurisdic- tion in the dominions of the Emperor of China, and in the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan:

And whereas, Her Majesty was pleased from time to time, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, by Orders in Council of the several dates in the Schedule to this Order specified, to ordain laws and ordinances for the better government of Her Majesty's subjects being within the dominions of the Emperor of China, or being within certain ships or vessels at a distance of not more than one hundred miles from the coast of China and to make provision for the exercise of Her Majesty's power and jurisdiction aforesaid in the dominions of the Emperor of China and of the Tycoon of Japan respectively:

And whereas, it has seemed to Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to be expedient at the present time to revise the provisions of the said Orders, and to ordain further and other laws and ordinances for the better government of Her Majesty's subjects being

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within the dominions of the Emperor of China, or being within such ships or vessels as aforesaid, and to make further and other provision for the due exercise of Her Majesty's power and jurisdiction aforesaid, and par- ticularly for the more regular and efficient administration of justice among Her Majesty's subjects resident in or resorting to the dominions of the Emperor of China or of the Tycoon of Japan:

　　　　　　　And whereas, under the authority of provisions in this behalf in the first-recited Act contained, ordinances for the peace, order, and good government of Her Majesty's subjects within the dominions of the Em- peror of China, or being within certain ships or vessels at a distance of not more than one hundred miles from the coast of China, have been from time to time made by the Superintendent of the Trade of Her Majesty's subjects in China (such Superintendent being also the Governor of Hong- kong), with the advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong, which ordinances are known as Consular Ordinances:

And whereas such of those Consular Ordinances as are descri! ed in the Schedule to this Order are now in force, wholly or in part, but they are liable to repeal by order of Her Majesty in Council, and it is expedient that they be repealed, such of their provisions as are not intended to be abrogated being consolidated with this Order :

　　　　　　　Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue of the powers in this behalf by the first-recited Act and The Foreign Jurisdiction Act, or either of them, or otherwise in Her vested, is pleased by and with the advice of Her Privy Council to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

I. PRELIMINARY

　　　　　　　1. This Order may be cited as The China and Japan Order in Coun- Short Title. cil, 1865.

2. In this Order-

　　　　The term "China means the dominions of the Emperor of China: The term "Japan

means the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan: The term "Minister" means the superior diplomatic representative of Her Majesty for the time being, whether Ambassador, Envoy, Minister Plenipotentiary, or Chargé d'Affaires.

The term "Chief Superintendent of Trade" means the Superintendent of the trade of Her Majesty's subjects in China for the time being, or any person for the time being authorized to act as such: The terin " Consular Officer" includes every offi er in Her Majesty's Consular Service, whether Consul-General, Consui, Vice-Consul, or Consular Agent, or person authorized to act in any such capacity in China or Japan:

The term 66

British vessel" includes every vessel being a British ship within the meaning of The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, or any other Act of Parliament for the time being in force for the regulation of merchan: shipping,-and any vessel owned wholly or in part by any person entitled to be the owner of a British ship in the sense aforesaid,-and any vessel provided with sailing- letters from the Governor or Officer administering the Govern- meut of Hongkong, or from the Chie Superintendent of Trade: The term "Treaty" includes Convention, and any Agreement, Regula- tions, Rules, Article, Tariff, or other instrument annexed to a Treaty, or agreed on in pursuance of any stipulation thereof: The term "month" means calendar month: Words importing the plural or the singular may be construed as referring to one person or thing or more than one person or thing, and words importing the masculine as referring to females (as the case may require).

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British subjects,

Foreigners.

Her Majesty's jurisdiction to be exercised

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3. The provisions of this Order relating to British subjects apply to all subjects of Her Majesty, whether by birth or by naturalization.

The provisions of this Order relating to foreigners apply to subjects of the Emperor of China and of the Tycoon of Japan respectively, and subjects or citizens of any State other than China or Japan (not being enemies of Her Majesty).

II-GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING HER MAJESTY'S

JURISDICTION

4. All Her Majesty's jurisdiction exercisable in China or in Japan for the judicial hearing and determination of matters in difference between according to this British subjects, or between foreigners and British subjects, -or for the administration or control of the property or persons of British subjects.-or for the repressi n or punishment of crimes or offences committed by British subjects.- or for the maintenance of order among British subjects,-shall be exercised under and according to the provisions of this Order, and not otherwise.

Law of England

tered.

5. Subject to the other provisions of this Order, the civil and criminal to be adminis- jurisdiction aforesaid shall, as far as circumstances admit, be exercised upon the principles of and in conformity with the Common Law, the Rules of Equity, the Statute Law, and other Law for the time being in force in and for England, and with the powers vested in and according to the course of procedure and practice observed by and before Courts of Justice and Justices of the Peace in England, according to their respective jurisdictions and authorities.

What to be deemed criminal sota.

Style and seal of Supreme Court.

Place of sitting.

Tenure of office of Judge,

6. Except as to offences made or declared such by this Order, or by any Regulation or Rule made under it-

Any act other than an act that would by a Court of Justice having criminal jurisdiction in England be deemed a crime or offence making the person doing such act liable to punishment in England, shall not, in the exercise of criminal jurisdiction under this Order, be deemed a crime or offence making the person doing such act liable to punishment.

III.-CONSTITUTION OF HER MAJESTY'S COURT

1.-The Supreme Court at Shanghai

7. There shall be a Court styled Her Britannic Majesty's Supreme Court for China and Japan.

The Supreme Court shall have a seal bearing its style and such device as one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State from time to time directs.

8. The Supreme Court shall hold its ordinary sittings at Shanghai, or, on emergency, at any other place within the district of the Consulate of Shang ai; but may at any time transfer its ordinary sittings to any such place in China as one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State or Her Majesty's Minister in China approves.

9.-22. Revoked.

23. The Judge, Assistant Judge, and Law Secretary shall hold office Assistant Judge, during the pleasure of Her Majesty, but any warrant of appointment to the office of Judge, Assistant Judge, or Law Secretary shall not be vacated by reason only of a demise of the Crown.

and Law

Secretary.

In case at any time Her Majesty thinks fit by warrant under Her Royal sign manual to revoke the warrant appointing any person to be Judge, Assistant Judge, or Law Secretary, or while there is a Judge, Assistant Judge, or Law Secretary in offic?, thinks fit by warraut under Her Royal sign manual to appoint another person to be Judge, Assistant Judge, or Law Secretary (as he case may be),---then and in every such case, until the warrant of revocation or of new appointment is notified

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by Her Majesty's Minister in China to the person holding office, all powers and authorities vested in that person shall continue and be deemed to have continued in as full force, and he shall continue and be deemed to have continued entitled to all the privileges and emoluments of the office as fully, and all things done by him shall be and be deemed to have been as valid in law,-

　　　　　　　　-s if such warrant of revocation or new appointment had not been made.

24. One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State may, and Her Consular officers

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　temporarily Majesty's Ministers in China and Japan respectively, wit the approval attached. of the Judge of the Supreme Court in each instance first obtained, from time to tim temporarily attach to the Supreme Court any persons holding appointments as Consuls or Vice-Consuls.

　　　　　　　Every person so attached shall discharge such duties in connexion with the Court as the Judge from time to time, with the approval of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, directs, and shall have the like power and authority as the Assistant Julge or Law Secretary has, according as in each case the nature of the duties directed to be discharged by the person so attached may require.

2.-The Provincial Courts

held by Consuls

(commissioned), or by acting

Vice-Consuls.

　　　　　　　25. Each of Her Majesty's Consuls-General, Consuls, and Vice- Provincial Consuls (holding a commission as such from Her Majesty) resident in Courts to be China or in Japan with the exception of Her Majesty's Consuls at Shanghai, or Vice-Consuls and with such other exceptions as one of Her Majesty's Principal Secre- taries of State at any time thinks fit to make),- -or any person acting Consuls or temporarily, with the approval of one of Her Maj sty's Principal Secre- taries of State or of Her Majesty's Minister in China or in Jap in, as and for a Consul-General, Consul, or Vice-Consul, so commissioned as afore- said,-shall, for and in his own Consular district. hold and form a Court styl Her Britannic Majesty's Court. at [Canton or as the case may be], hereafter in the Or·ler called a Provincial Court.

　　　　　　　　Each Provincial Court shall have a seal bearing its style and such seal. device as one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State from time to time directs.

IV. JURIES.-ASSESSORS

　　　　　　　26. Every male British subject resident in China or in Japau,-being qualifications of of the age of 21 years or upwar is,-being able to speak and read English, Jurors. -having or earning a gross income at the rate of not less than 250 dollars a var,-uot having been attained of treason or felony or convicted of any erime that is infamous (unless he has obtained a free pardon) and not being under outlawry,-shall be qualified to serve on a jury,

　　　　　　　27. All persons so qualified shall be liable so to serve, except the following:-

Persons in Her Majesty's Diplomatic, Consular, or other Civil service

iu actual employment;

Officers, clerks, keepers of prisons, messengers, and other persons

attached to or in the service of any of Her Majesty's Courts; Officers and others on full pay in Her Majesty's Navy or Army, or in actual employment in the service of any Department connected therewith;

Persons holling appointments in the Civil service, and Commissioned Officers in the Naval or Military service of the Emperor of China or of the Tycoon of Japan;

Clergymen and ministers in the actual discharge of professional duties; Advocates and attorneys in actual practice;

　　　　Physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries in actual practice; And except persons disabled by mental or bodily infirmity.

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　　　　　Making of jury list.

　　　　　Summoning and attendance of jurors.

Penalty.

Number of jury. Challenges.

Unanimity.

Provincial

Consular

Court,- Assessors,

their number; qualifications

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28. On or before the 14th day of September, in the year 1865, and on or before the 14th day of January in every subsequent year, each Court shall make out a list of the persons so qualified and liable, resident within its district.

The list shall, on or before the 21st day of the same respective month, be affixel in some conspicuous place in the Court, and shall be there exhibited until the end of that month, with a notice annexed that on a day specified, no: being sooner than the 7th nor later than the 14th day of the then next month, the Court will hold a special sitting for the revision of the list.

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The Court shall hold such special sitting accordingly, and at such sitting, or at some adjournment thereof (of which public notice shall be given), shall revise the list by striking ut the name of any person appearing to be not qualified or not liable to serve, and by inserting the name of any person omitted and appearing to be so qualified and liable, either on the application of the person omitted, or on such notice to him as the Court thinks fit.

The list shall be finally revised and settled not later than the 21st day of October in the year 1865, and not later than the 21st day of February in every subsequent year, and when settled shall be affixed in some conspicuous place in the Court, and be there exhibited during not less than two months.

Such list as settled shall be brought into use in the year 1865, on the 1st day of November, and in every subsequent year on the 1st day of March, and in every case shall be used as the jury list of the Court until the 1st day of March next aft r the time of its being brought into use.

29. Where, in pursuance of this Order, a jury is ordered, the Court shall summon so many of the persons comprised in the Jury list, not fewer than fifteen, as seem requisite.

Any person fa ling to attend according to such summons shall be liable to such fine, not exceeding 50 dollars, as the Court thinks fit to impose.

Any such fine s'all not be levied until after the expiration of 14 days. The proper officer of the Court shall forthwith give to the person fined notice in writing of the imposition of the fine, an require him within six days after receipt of the notice to file an affidavit excusing his non-attendance (if he desires to do so). The Court shall consider the affidavit, and may, if it deem proper, remit the fine.

30. A jury shall cousist of five jurors.

31. In civil and in criminal cases the like challenges shall be allowed as in England, with this addition, that in civil cases each party may challenge three jurors peremptorily.

32. A jury shall be required to give an unanimous verdict.

33. Where a Provincial Court proceeds, in pursuance of this Order, to hear and determine anv case, civil or criminal, with Assessors, the Court shall nominate and summon as Assessors, not less than two and not more than four indifferent British subjects of good repute, resident in the district of the Court.

Where, however, by reason of local circumstances, the Court is able to obtain the presence of one fit person only as Assessor, the Court may · sit with him alone as Assessor; and where for like reason the Court is not able to obtain the presence of any fit person as Assessor, the Court may (notwithstanding anything in this Order) sit without an Assessor; but in every such case the Court shall record in the minutes of proceedings. its reasons for sitting with one Assessor only, or without an Åssessor.

34. An Assessor shall not have voice or vote in the decision of the Court in any case, civil or criminal; but an Assessor dissenting in a civil

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case from any decision of the Court, or in a criminal case from any decision of the Court, or the conviction, or the amount of punishment. awarded, may record in the minutes of proceedings his dissent and the grounds thereof; and an Assessor dissenting shall be entitled to receive gratis a certified copy of the minutes.

V. JURISDICTION AND AUTHORITIES OF HER MAJESTY'S COURTS

1.-In General

　　　　　　35. All Her Majesty's jurisdiction, civil and criminal, exercisable in ordinary China, shall, for and within the district of the Consulate of Shanghai, original be vested exclusively in the Supreme Court as its ordinary original Supreme Court. jurisdiction.

shall to

jurisdiction of

Court.

　　　　　　36. All Her Majesty's jurisdiction, civil and criminal, exercisable in Jurisdiction of Chiua. leyond the district of the Consulate of Shanghai and not under Provincial this Order vested exclusively in the Supreme Court, the extent and in the manner provided by this Order be rested in the Provincial Courts, each for and within its own district.

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and Concurrent jurisdiction

of Supreme with

37. The Supreme Cour shall have, in all matters civil criminal, an extr. ordinary original jurisdiction throughout China, concurrent with the jurisdiction of the several Provincial Courts, such Provincial extraordinary jurisdiction to be exercised subject and according to the provisions of this Order.

Courta.

Courts.

38. The Judge of the Supreme Court may, from time to time, visit Visits to in a magisterial or judicial capacity any Provincial Court, and there Provincial inquire of, or hear and determine, any case, civil or criminal, pending in that Court, or arising within its district,-or, from time to time, may appoint the Assistant Judge or the Law Secretary of the Supreme Court to visit in the like capacity and for the like purpose any Provincial Court.

39. A Provincial Court may, of its own motion, or on the application Reference of case of any person concerned, report to the Supreme Court the pendency of by Provincial to any case, civil or criminal, which appears to the Provincial Court fit to

be heard and determined by the Supreme Court.

　　　　　　　The Supreme Court shall thereupon direct in what mode and where the case shall be heard and determined, and (notwithstanding anything in this Order) the same shall be so heard and determined accordingly.

Supreme Court.

40. Every Court shall, in the exercise of every part of its respective Cour of jurisdiction, be a Court of Record.

ilecord.

41. The Judge of the Supreme Court may from time to time admit Barristers, persons to practice in the Supreme Court as barristers, attorneys, and attorneys, solie:tors, or in any of those capacities.

The Judge of the Supreme Court may from time to time, subject 10 the approval of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, make Rules for regulating the admission of persons to practise as aforesaid in Provincial Courts.

and solicitors.

to be sheriff.

　　　　　　　42. Her Majesty's Consul at Shanghai shall have all the powers and Consul at authorities of the Sheriff of a county in England, with all the privileges Shanghai sad immunities of the office, and as such Sheriff shall be charged with the execution of all decrees, orders, and sentences inade and passed by the Supreme Court, on the requisition in that behalf of the Supreme Court.

of writs, &c.,

Conrt.

　　　　　　　43. Each Provincial Court shall execute any writ, order, or warrant Execution by issuing from the Supreme Court and directed to the Provincial Court, Provincial Court and may take security from any person named therein for his appearance from Supreme personally, or by attorney, according to the writ, order, or warrant; or may cau-e such person to be taken, in custody or otherwise, to the Supreme Court, or elsewhere in China or Japan, according to the writ, order, or warrant.

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44. Any of Her Majesty's Courts in China or in Japan may execute writs, &c., from any writ, order, or warrant issuing from the Supreme Court of Hongkong and accompanied by a request for such execution in writing under the seal of that Court; and may take security from any person named in any such writ, order, or warrant for his appearance personally, or by attorney, at Hongkong; or may cause any such person to be taken in custody, or other- wise, to Hongkong, according to the writ, order, or warrant.

Protection of

Consular Officers.

Courts to be auxiliary.

Report by Provincial to Supreme Court.

Settlement of litigation.

Reference to

arbitration by Court.

Reference to

rule of Court.

45. Any of Her Majesty's judicial or Consular Officers shall not be liable to action for the escape of any person taken under any writ, order, or warrant of the Supreme Court of Hongkong.

46. Her Majesty's several Courts in China and Japan shall be auxiliary to one another in all particulars relative to the aministration of justice, civil or criminal.

47. Each Provincial Court shall every six months furnish to the Supreme Court for China and Japan a report respecting every case, civil and criminal, brought before it, in such form as the Judge of the Supreme Court from time to time directs.

II.-In Civil Matters

RECONCILIATION AND ÅRBITRATION

48. Every Court may promote reconciliation, and encourage and facilitate the settlement in any amicable way of any suit or proceeding pending before it.

49. A Court may, with the consent of the parties, refer to arbitration the fival determination of any suit or proceeding pending before it, or of all matters in reference between the parties, on such terms and with such directions as to appointment of an arbitrator and other things as may seem fit, and may, if it think fit, take from the parties, or any of them, security to abide by the result of the reference.

In any such case the award shall be final and conclusive.

On the application of any party a decree of the Court may be entered in conformity with the award, and such decree shall not be open to any appeal or re-hearing whatever.

50. Every agreement for reference to arbitration, or submission to arbitration made arbitration, by consent, may, on the application of any party, be made a rule of a Court having jurisdiction in the matter of the reference or submission, which Court shall thereupon have power and authority to enforce the agreement or submission and the award made thereunder, and to control and regulate the proceeding before and after the award in such manner and on such terms as may be just.

Law and Equity.

Bankruptcy.

Coroner.

General Authorities of Courts

51. The Supreme and every other Court shall be a Court of Law and Equity.

Special Authorities of Courts

52. The Supreme an every other Court shall be a Court of Bank- ruptey, and as such shall, as far as circumstances admit, have (as to a Provincial Court, for and within its own district), with respect to British subjects and to their debtors and creditors, being either British subjects or foreigners submitting to the jurisdiction of the Court, all such juris. diction as for the time being belongs to the Court of Bankruptcy and the County Courts in England, or to any other jud cial authority having for the time being jurisdiction in Bankruptcy in England.

53. The Supreme and every other Court shall (as to a Provincial Court, for and within its own district) have and discharge all the powers. rights, and duties appertaining to the office of Coroner in England,- summoning when necessary a jury of not less than three persons com prised in the jury list of the Court.

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　　　　　　　Any person failing to attend according to such summons shall be liable to the like fine, to be levied in the like manner, as in this Order provided with reference to juries in civil and criminal proceedings.

　　　　　　　54. The Supreme Court shall be a Vice-Admiralty Court, and as such shall, for and within China or Japan, and for vessels and persons coming to and within China or Japan, have all such jurisdiction as for the time being ordinarily belongs to Vice Admiralty Counts in Her Majesty's possessious abroad.

Admiralty.

55. The Supreme Court shall, as far as circumstances admit, have in Lunacy, itself exclusively, for and within China and Japan, with respect to British subjects, all such jurisdiction relative to the custody and management of the pers us and estates of persons of unsound mind, as for the time being belags to the Lord Chancellor or other person or persons in England intrusted by virtue of Her Majesty's sign manual with the care and com- mitment or the custody of the persons and es ates of } ersons found by inquisition in England, idiot, lunatic, or of uns und mind.

　　　　　　　56. The Supreme Court shall be a Court for Matrimonial Cause, and Matrimonial as such shall, as far as circumstances admit, bave in itself exclu-ively, fr Causes. and within China and Japan, with respect to British subjects, all such juris fiction, except the jurisdiction relative to dissolution or nullity or jactitation of marriage, as for the time being belongs to the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes in England.

　　　　　　　57. The Supreme Court shall be a Court of Probate, and as such shall, Probate and as far as circumstances admit, have for and within China and Japan, with Administration. respect to the property of British subjects, having at the time of death Weir fixed places of abode in China or Japan, all such jurisdic ion as for the time being belongs to Her Majesty's Court of Probate in England.

　　　　　　　　A Provincial Court shall, however, also have power to grant probate or a ministration where there is no contention respecting the right to the grant, and it is proved on oath that the deceased had at the time of his death his fixed place of abode within the jurisdiction of the Provincial Court.

　　　　　　　　Probate or administra ion granted by a Provincial Court shall have effect over all the property of the deceased within China and Japan, and shall effectually discharge persons dealing with an executor or ad- ministrator thereunder, and that notwithstanding any defect afterwards

tears in the grani.

　　　　　　　Such a grant shall not be impeachable by reason only that the de- Cased had not at the time of his death his fixed place of abode within the particular jurisdiction.

　　　　　　　58. Any person having in his possession or under his control any paper Testamentary or writing of a deceased British subject, being or purporting to be testa- papers to be

deposited in mentary, shall fortLwith bring the original to the Court within the district Court.

ereof such person is a the time of his first knowledge of the death of the de eased, and deposit it there.

　　　　　　　Any person neglecting to do so for fourt en days after having know- Penalty. kige of the death of the deceased shall be liable to such penalty, not "Moeding 250 dollars, as the Court thinks fit to impose.

intestate until

　　　　　　　　59. From the death of a British subject, having at the time of death Property of no fived pace of abode in China or Japan, intestate, until administration administration. is granted, his personal property within China and Japan shall be vested

In the Judge of the Supreme Court, as the personal property of an intestate England is vested in the Judge of Her Majesty's Court of Probate there.

administration

60. If any person, other than one of Her Majesty's Consular Officers, Penalty on takes possession of and in any manner administers any part of the personal without probate. property of any person deceased, without obtaining probate or administra-

on within three months after the death of the deceased,

or within one

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Cases for trial with Jury.

Provincial Consular Court,-CASES

for Assessors.

　　　　　　　Powers of apprehension over British subjects.

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month after the termination of any suit or dispute respecting probate or administration (if there is any such which is not ended within two months after the death of deceased), he shall be liable to such penalty not ex- ceeding 500 dollars, as the Court having jurisdiction in the matter of the property of the deceased thinks fit to impose; and in every such case the same fees shall be payable by the person so administering as would have been payable by him if he had obtained probate or administration.

61. When a British subject, not having at the time of death his fixed place of abode in China or Japan, dies there, the Court within whose dis- trict he dies shall, where the circumstances of the case appear to the Court so to require, forthwith on the death of the deceased, or as soon after as may be, take possession of his personal property within the particular jurisdiction, or put it under the sea of thể Court (in either case, if the nature of the property or other circumstance so require, making an inven- tory) and so keep the property until it can be dealt with according to law. Trial with a Jury

62. Where a suit originally instituted in the Supreme Court relates to money, goods, or other property, or any matter at issue of the amount or value of 1,500 dollars or upwards,- -or is brought for recovery of dam- ages of the amount of 1,500 dollars or upwards, the suit shall, on the demand of either party, be, under order of the Court, tried with a Jury.

In any case (except where, acconding to the Rules of the Court, the suit is to le heard and determined in summary way) a suit so instituted may be tried with a jury, if the Court of its own motion, or on the application of either party, thinks fit so to order.

One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State may, by order under his hand, extend the present provision to any Provincial Court where it appears to him there is a sufficient Jury list.

Trial with Assessors

63. Where a suit institut d in a Provincial Court relates to money, goods, or other property of a less amount or value than 1,500 dollars, -or does not relate to or involve, directly or indirectly, a question respecting any matter at issue of the amount or value of 1,500 dollars or upwards,-or is brought for recovery of damages of a less amount than 1,500 dollars,- the Court way hear and determine the case without Assessors.

In all other cases the Court (subject to the provisions of the Order respe ting inability to obtain an Assessor) shall hear and determine the cases with Assessors.

III.-In Criminal Matters

64. Every Court may cause to be apprehended and brought before it any British subject being within the district of the Court and charged with having committed a crime or offence in China or in Japan, and may deal with the accused according to the jurisdiction of the Court and in conformity with the provisions of this Order; or where the crime or offence is triable, and is to be tried, in Her Majesty's dominions, may take the preliminary examination, and commit the accused for trial, and cause or allow him to be taken to the place of intended trial.

65. Where a person charged with having committed a crime or offence in the district of one Court escapes or removes from that district, and is found within the district of another Court, the Court within the district o: which he is found may proceed in the case to examination, indictment, trial, and punishment, or in a summary way (as the case may require) in the same manner as if the eime or offence had been committed in its own district:- -or may, on the requisition or with the consent of the Court of the district in which the crime or offence is charged to have been committed, send him in custody to that Court, or require him to give security for his

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　　　　　　surrender to that Court, there to answer the charge, and be dealt with according to law.

　　　　　　　Where any person is to be so sent in custody, a warrant shall be issued by the Court within the district of which he is found, and such warrant shall be sufficient authority to any person to whom it is directed to receive and detain the person therein named, and carry him to and deliver him up to the Court of the district within which the crime or offence was committed according to the warrant.

in British

　　　　　　　　66. Where a warrant or order of arrest is issued by a competent Backing of authority in Her Majesty's dominions for the apprehension of a British warrant issued subject, who is charged with having committed a crime or offence within domirions. the jurisdiction of the authority issuing the warrant or order, and who is, or is supposed to be, in China, or Japan, and the warrant or order is produced to any Court, the Court may back the warrant or order; and the same, when so backed, shall be sufficient authority to any person to whom the warrant or order was originally directed and also to any constable or other officer of the Court by which it is backed, to apprehend the arcused at any place where the Court by which the warrant or order is backed has jurisdiction, and to carry him to and deliver him up in Her Majesty's dominions according to the warrant or order.

67. Where any person is charged with the commission of a crime or sending of offence, the cognizance whereof appertains to any of Her Majesty's Courts prisoner to

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Hongkong for in China or Japan, and it is expedient that the crime or offence be enquired trial. of, tri d, determined, and punished within Her Majesty's dominions, the accused may (under the Foreigu Jurisdiction Act, section 4) be sent for rnal to Hongkong.

　　　　　　　The Judge of the Supreme Court may, where it appears expedient, by *arrant under his hand and the seal of the Supreme Court, cause the accused to be taken for trial to Hongkong accordingly.

　　　　　　　Where any person is to be so taken to Hongkong, the Court before which he is charged shall take the preliminary examination, and shall send the depositions to Hongkong, and (if it seems ne:essary or proper) may bind over such of t e proper witnesses as are British subjects in their own recognizances to appear and give evidence on the trial.

　　　　　　　68. All crimes which in England are capital shall be tried by the Judge of the Supreme Court with a jury.

　　　　　　　　Other crimes and offences above the degree of misdemeanour, tried before the Judge, Assistant Judge, or Law Secretary of the Supreme Court, and not heard and determined in a summary way, shall be tried with a jury.

　　　　　　　　Any crime or offence tried before the Judge, Assistant Judge, or Law Secretary of the Supreme Court may be tried with a Jury, where the Judge, Assistant Judge, or Law Secretary so directs.

Subject to the foregoing provision, such classes of criminal cases tried before the Judge, Assistant Judge, or Law Secretary of the Supreme Curt, as the Judge, having regard to the law and practice existing in England, from time to time directs, shall be heard and determined in a

40mmary way.

Supreme Corst,-Jury.

Summary jurisdiction.

Sentence of

　　　　　　　69. Where any person is sentenced to suffer the punishment of death, death. the Judge of the Supreme Court shall forthwith send a report of the atence, with a copy of the minutes of proceedings and notes of evidence in the case and with any observations the Judge thinks fit, to Her Majesty's Minister in China or in Japan, according as the crime is com- mited in China or in Japan.

The sentence shall not be carried into execution without the direction Her Majesty's Minister in Cuiua or in Japan (as the case may be) in nting under his band.

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In any such case, if Her Majesty's Minister in China or in Japan (as the case may be) does not direct that the sentence of death be carried into execution, he shall direct what punishment in lieu of the punishment of death is to be inflicted on the person convicted, and the person convicted shall be liable to be so punish-d accordingly.

70. Where the crime or offence with which any person is charged before a Provincial Court is any crime or offence other than assault endangering life, cutting, maiming, arson, or house-breaking, and appears to the Court to be such that, if proved, it would be adequately punished by imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding three months, or by a fine not exceeding 200 dollars. the Court shall hear and determine the case in a summary way, and without Assessors.

In other cases the Court shall hear and determine the case on indict- ment and with Assessors (subject to the provisions of this Order respect- ing inability to obtain an Assessor).

71. A provincial Court may impose the punishment of imprisonment for any term not exceeding twelve months, with or without hard labour, and with or without a fine not exceeding 1,000 dollars, or the punishment of a fine not exceeding 1,000 dollars without imprisonment.

72. Where the crime or offence with which any person is charged before a Provincial Court appears to the Court to be such that, it proved, Supreme Court, it would not be adequately punished by such punishment as the Court has power to impose, and the accused is not to be sent for trial to Her Majesty's dominions, the Court shall reserve the case to be heard and determined by or under the special authority of the Supreme Court.

Punishment in England to be regarded.

　　　　　　Payment of expenses by offender;

or by sccuser.

　　　　　　Recovery of expenses.

　　　　　　Mitigation or remission of punishment.

The Provincial Court shall take the depositions, and forthwith send them, with a minute of other evidence, if any, and report on the case, to the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court shall direct in what mode and where the case shall be heard and determined, and (notwithstanding any hing in this Order) the same shall be so heard and determined accordingly.

73. Every Court and authority in imposing and inflicting punish- ments, and Her Majesty's Ministers in China and Japan in directing what punishment is to be inflicted in lieu of the punishment of death. shall have regard, as far as circumstances admit, and subject to the other provisions of this Order, to the punishments imposed by the law of Eng land in like cases, and to the mode in which the same, are inflicted in England.

74. Any Court (but, in the case of a Provincial Court, subject to the approval of the Supreme Court) may order any person convicted before it of any crime or offence to pay all or any part of the expenses of, preliminary to, his trial and of his imrisonment or other punishment.

75. Where it appears to any Court that any charge made before it i malicious, or is frivolous and vexations, the Court may order all or an part of the expenses of the prosecution to be paid by the person makin the charge.

76. In either of the two last-mentioned cases, the amount ordered t be paid shall be deemed a debt due to the Crown, and may by virtu of the order, without further proceedings, he levied on the property of tl pers n convicted or making the charge, as the case may be.

77. Where any punishment has been awarded by the Supreme any other Court, then, if the circumstances of the case make it just expedient, the Judge of the Supreme Court may at any time, and fro time to time, report to one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries State, or to Her Majesty's Minister in China or in Japan (according the crime or offence was committed in China or Japan) recommending mitigation or remission of the punishment; and on such recommendati

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any such punishment may be mitigated or remitted by direction of the authority to whom the report is made.

But no such recommendation shall be made with respect to any punishment awarded by a Provincial Court, except on the recommendation of that Court, or on the dissent of an Assessor (if any) from the conviction, or from the amount of punishment awarded.

78. The Judge of the Supreme Court may, where it seems expedient, Place of

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　imprisonment by warrant under his hand and the seal of the Supreme Court, cause any in China or offender convicted before any Court and sentenced to imprisonment, to be Japan. taken to and imprisoned at any place in China or in Japan, from time to time, approved by one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State as a place of imprisonment for offenders.

A warrant of the Supreme Court shall be sufficient authority to the Governor or keeper of such place of imprisonment, or other persons to whom it is directed, to receive and detain there the person therein named, according to the warrant.

in British

79. Where any offender convicted before a Court in China or in Japan Imprisonment is sentenced to suffer imprisonment in respect of the crime or offence of dominions, which he is convicted, and it is expedient that the sentence be carried into effect within Her Majesty's dominions, the offender may (under the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, section 5) be sent for imprisonment to Hongkong.

The Judze of the Supreme Court may, where it seems expedient, by warrant under his hand and the scal of the Supreme Court, cause the offender to be taken to Hongkong, in order that the sentence passed on him may be there carriel into effect accordingly.

　　　　　　80. The Judge of the Supreme Court shall, when required by one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, send the Secretary of State a report of the sentence passed by the Judge, Assistant Judge, or Law Sretary of the Court in every case not heard and determined in a sum- mary way, with a copy of the minutes of proceedings and notes of evidence, and the Judge may send with such report any observations he thinks fit.

　　　　　　　Every Provincial Court shall forthwith send to the Judge of the Supreme Court a report of the sentence passed by it in every case not heard and determined in a summary way, with a copy of the minutes of proceedings and notes of evidence, and with any observations the Court thinks fit. The Judge of the Supreme Court shall, when required by one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, transmit the same to the Secretary of State, and may send therewith any observations he thinks fit.

81.

VI.-WAR, INSURRECTION, OR REBELLION

in criminal to Secretary

cases, reports

of State.

levying war, &c.

any British subject commits any of the following offences, that Punishment for is to say:-

(1.) In China, while Her Majesty is at peace with the Emperor of China, levies war or takes part in any operation of war against the Emperor of China, or aids or abets any person in carrying on war, insurrection, or rebellion against the Emperor of China. (2.) In Japan, while Her Majesty is at peace with the Tycoon of Japan, levies war or takes part in any operation of war against the Tycoon of Japan, or aids or abets any persons in carrying on war, insurrec- tion, or rebellion, against the Tycoon of Japan; every person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour, and on con- viction thereof shall be liable (in the discretion of the Court before which he is convicted) to be punished by imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour, and with or without a fine not exceeding 5,000 dollars, or by a fine not exceeding 5,000 dollars without imprisonment.

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　　　　　　　Punishment for serving with Forces of Emperor of China, without licence,

Report by Provincial Court.

　　　　　　　Penalties ter violation of Treaties.

Trade except to

open ports unlawful.

Report of Provincial Couri.

Seizure of vessel, &c.

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In addition to such punishment every such conviction shall of itself, and without further proceedings, make the person convicted liable to deportation; and the Court before which he is convicted may order that he be deported from China or Japan to such place as the Court directs.

82. If any British subject, without the licence of Her Majesty (proof whereof shall lie on the party accused) takes part in any operation of war in the service of the Emperor of China against any person engaged in carrying on war, insurrection, or rebellion against the Emperor of China, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeancur, and on conviction thereof shall be liable (in the discretion of the Court before which he is convicted) to be punished by imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour, and with or without a fine not exceeding 5,000 dollars, or by a fine not exceeding 5,000 dollars without imprison-

ment.

84. If the Court before which any person charged with having com- mitted such a misdemeanour as in the two last preceding Articles mentioned is brought is a Provincial Court, the Court shall report to the Judge of the Supreme Court the pendency of the case.

The Judge of the Supreme Court shall thereupon direct in what mode and where the case shall be heard and determined, and (notwithstanding anything in this Order) the case shall be so heard and determined accord- ingly.

VII. TREATIES AND REGULATIONS

84. If any British subject in China or in Japan violates or fails to observe any stipulation of any Treaty between Her Majesty, her heirs or successors, and the Emperor of China, or the Tycoon of Japan, for the time being in force, in respect of the violation whereof any penalty is stipulated for in the Treaty, he shall be deemed guilty of an offence against the Treaty, and on conviction thereof under this Order shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding the penalty stipulated for in the Treaty.

85. to 91.-Revoked

VIII. UNLAWFUL TRADE WITH JAPAN

92. All trade of British subjects in, to, or from any part of Japan, except such ports and towns as are for the time being open to British subjects by Treaty between Her Majesty, her heirs or successors, and the Tycoon of Japan, is hereby declared unlawful.

If any person engages in such trade as a principal, agent, ship-owner, ship-waster, or supercargo, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour, and on conviction thereof shall be liable t› be punished (in the discretion of the Court before which he is convicted) by imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years with or without hard labour, and with or without a fine not exceeding 10,000 dollars without imprisonment.

93. If the Court before which any person charged with having committed such a misdemeanour is brought is a Provincial Court, the Court shall report to tie Judge of the Supreme Court the pendency of the case.

The Judge of the Supreme Court shall thereupon direct in what mode and where the case shall be heard and determined, and (notwithstanding any thing in this Order) the case shall be so heard and determined accordingly.

　94. The Officer commanding any of Her Majesty's vessels of war, or any of Her Majesty's Naval Officers authorised in this behalf by the Officer having the Command of Her Majesty's Naval Forces in Japan, by writing under his band may seize any British vessel engaged or reasonably suspected of being or having been engaged in any trace by this Orde declared unlawful, and may either detain the vessel, with the master

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officers, supercargo, crew, and other persons engaged in navigating the vessel, or any of them, or take or cause to be taken the vessel, and the master, officers, supercargo, crew, and other persons aforesaid, or any of them, to any port or place in Japan or elsewhere, convenient for the prosecution of a charge for the misdemeanour alleged to have been committed.

　　　　　　　Any such vessel, master, officers, supercargo, crew, and persons may lawfully be detained at the place of seizure, o at the port or place to which the vessel is so taken, under the authority of any such officer, or of any of Her Majesty's Cousular Officers in China or Japan, until the conclusion of any proceedings taken in respect of such misdemeanour.

IX.-JAPANESE WATERS

waters, &c.

95. When an las often as it appears to Her Majesty's Minister in Regulations Japan that the unrestricted entrance of British vessels into, or the "s to entering unrestricted passage of British vessels through, any straits or other water in Japan may lead to acts of disturbance or violence, or may otherwise endan er te maintenance of peaceful relations and intercourse between

　　　　　　　Majesty's subjects and the subjects of the Tycoon of Japan, Her Majesty's Minister may make any regulations for prohibiting or for restricting, in such manner as seems expedient, the entrance or passage or any Bri ish vessel (other than a vessel of war of Her Majesty) into or through any such straits or other water as aforesaid, as defined in the Regulation.

Her Majesty's Minister may from time to time revoke or alter any such regulation.

96. The forgoing provisions of this Order relative to the making, Penalties and printing, publication, enforcement, and proof of Regulations to be made by proceedings. Her Majesty's Minister in China, and to the mode of proceeding in respect

　　　　　　o any charge for an offence against any such Regulations. shall extend and apply, mutatis mutaudis, to any Regulation made by Her Majesty's Minister in Japan, as last aforesaid.

　　　　　　　97. If any person navigating a British vessel wilfully violates, or Seizure of vessel. wilfully attempts to violate, any such Regulation, the officer commanding any vess I of war of Her Majesty, or in charge of any boat belonging to such vessel of war, may use force for the purpose of compelling him to desis: from the violation or attempted violation of the Regulation, and if it appars necessary or expedient may seize the vessel, and such C mmand- ing Officer may either detain her at the place of seizure, or take her, or cause he to be taken, to any port or place in Japan or elsewhere where the ofender may be more conveniently prosecnted for such offence.

Any such vessel may lawfully be defamed at the place of seizure, or at be port or place to which she is so taken, under the authority of any such Commanding Officer, or of any of Her Majesty's Consular Officers in J tan until the conclusion of any proceedings taken in respect of the

fuce.

X-PIRACY

to piracy.

　　　　　　　98. Any British subject being in China or in Japan may be proceeded Jurisdiction as wainst, tried, and punished under this Order for the crime of piracy Therever committed.

Provincial Court,

99. If the Court before which a British subject charged with the crime Report by of piracy is brought is a Provincial Court, the Court shall report to the Judge of the Supreme Court the pendency of the case.

The Judge of the Supreme Court shall thereupon direct in what mode and where the case shall be heard and determined, and (notwithstanding mything in this Order) the case shall be so heard and determined accord- ingly.

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XI.-OFFENCES AGAINST RELIGION

100. If any British subject is guilty of publicly deriding, mocking, or insulting any religion established or observed in China or in Japan-or of publicly offering any insult to any religious service, feast, or ceremony established or kept in any part of China or in Japan, or to any place for worship, tomb, or sanctuary belonging to any such religion, or to the ministers or professors thereof,-or of wilfully committing any act tending to bring any such religion or its ceremonies, mode of worship, or observances into hatred, ridicule, or contempt and thereby to provoke a breach of the public peace, he shall be liable (in the discretion of the Court before which he is convicted) to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour, and with or without a fine not exceed- ing 500 dollars, or to a fine not exceeding 500 dollars without imprisonment. Notwithstanding anything in this Order, every charge against a British subject of having committed any such offence shall be heard and deter- mined in a summary way, and any Provincial Court shall have power to im; ose the punishment aforesaid."

Her Majest's Consular Officers shall take such precautionary measures as seem to them roper and expedient for the prevention of such offences. XII-AUTHORITY WITHIN 100 MILES OF THE COAST OF CHINA

101. Where a British subject, being after the commencement of this Courts in China Order in China or in Japan, is charged with having committed, ei her before or after the commencement of this Order, any crime or offence within a British vessel at a distance of not more than 100 miles from the coast of China,- -or within a Chinese or Japanese vessel at such a distance as aforesaid,-or within a vessel not lawfully entitled to claim the protec- fion of the flag of any State, at such distance as aforesaid,· any of Her Majesty's Courts in China or in Japan within the jurisdiction whereof he is found may cause him to be apprehended and brought before it, and may take the relinary examination and commit him for trial.

102. If the Court be.ore which the accused is brought is a Provin- cial Court, the Court shall report to the Judge of the Supreme C...urt the pendency of the case.

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The Judge of the Supreme Court shall thereupon direct in what mode and where the case shall be beard and determined, and (notwithstanding anything in this Order) the case shall be so heard and determined acc...rd- ingly.

103. The provisions of this Order relative to crimes and offences, and other provisions, proceedings in criminal matters, shall in all respects, as far as may be, extend and apply to every such case, in like manner as if the crime or offence hul been committed in China or Japan.

Application of

Jurisdiction at Hongkong

Military and

104. Where a British subject, being after the commencement of this Order in Hongkong, is charged with having committed, either before or after the commencement of this Order, any crime or offence within any British, Chinese, Japanese, or other such vessel at such a distance as aforesaid, the Supreme Court at Hongkong shall have and may exe cise authority and jurisdiction with respect to the crime or offence as fully as if it had been committed in Hongkong.

105. Her Majesty's Minister in China or in Japan, the Judge or Naval Deserters. Assistant Judge of the Supreme Court, and any of Her Majesty's Consular Officers in China or in Japan, or the Governor or person administering the Government of Hongkong, on receiving satisfactory information that any soldier, sailor, marine, or other person belonging to any of Her Majesty's Military or Naval forces as deserted therefrom, and has concealed himself in any British, Chinese, Japanese, or other such vessel at such a distance as aforesaid, may, in pursuance of such information, issue his warraut for a search after and apprehension of such deserter, and on being satisfied

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　　　　　on investigtaion that any person so apprehended is such a deserter, shall cause him to be with all convenient speed taken and delivered over to the nearest military station of Her Majesty's forces or to the officer in com- mand of a vessel of war of Her Majesty serving in China or Japan, as the case may require.

XIII-DEPORTATION

what cases.

106. (i.) When it is shown on oath, to the satisfaction of any of Her Deportation, Majesty's Courts in China or in Japan, that there is reasonable ground to apprehend that any British subject in China or in Japan is about to commit a breach of the public peace, -or that the acts or conduct of any British subject in China or in Japan are or is likely to produce or excite to a breach of the public peace, the Court within the jurisdiction whereof he happens to be may cause him to be brought before it, and require him to give security, to the satisfaction of the Court, to keep the peace, or for his future good behaviour, as the case may require.

(ii.) Where any British subject is convicted, under this Order, of any crime or offence, the Court within the juris liction whereof he happens to be may require him to give security to the satisfaction of the Court for his future good behaviour.

In either of the cases, if the person required to give security fails to do so, the Court may order that he be deported from China or Japan to such place as the Court directs.

107. In any case where an order of deportation is made under this Place of Order the Court shall not, without the cons, ut of the person to be deported, Deportation. direct the deportation of any person to any place other than Hongkong or England.

Provincial

　　　　　　　108. A Provincial Court shall forthwith report to the Judge of the Report by Supreme Court any order of ceportation ma e by it, and the grounds Court. thereof.

　　　　　　　The Judge of the Supreme Court may reverse the order, or may confirm it with or without variation, and in case of confirmation, shall direct it to be carried into effect.

109. The person to be deported shall be detained in custody cutil a Time of fit time and opportunity for his deportation arrive.

The Judge of the Supreme Court shall then (and in the case of a person convicted, either after execution of the sentence or while it is in course of execution) by warrant cause him to be taken to the place of deportation.

deportation.

110. The Judge of the Supreme Court may order that the person to Order for be deported do pay all or any part of the expense of or preliminary to his expenses. deportation.

111. The Judge of the Supreme Court shall forthwith report to one Report of

deportation. of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State any order of deportation made or confirmed by him, and the grounds there: f, and shall also inform Her Majesty's Ministers in China and Japan of the same.

to and from

112. Where any person is deported to Hongkong, he shall on his Deportation arrival there be delivered, with the warrant under which he is deported, Hongkong. into the custody of the Chief Magistrate of Police of Hongkong, or other officer of Her Majesty there lawfully acting as such, who, on receipt of the person deported, with the warrant, shall detain him and shall forthwith report the case to the Governor or person administering the Government of Hongkong, who shall either by warrant (if the circumstances of the case appear to him to make it expedient) cause the person so deported to be taken to England, and in the meantime to be detained in custody (so that the period of such detention do not exceed three months), or else shall discharge him from custody.

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118. If any person deported returns to China or Japan without the permission of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, in writing under his hand (which permission the Secretary of State may give), he shall be guilty of an offence against this Order, and shall be liable on conviction thereof to punishment (in the discretion of the Court before which he is convicted) by imprisonment for any term not exceeding one month, with or without hard labour, and with or without a fine not exceeding 200 dollars, or by a fine not exceeding 200 dollars, without imprisonment, and also to be forthwith again deported in manner hereinbefore provided.

XIV. REGISTRATION OF BRITISH Subjects

114. Every British subject resident in Chma or Japan,-being of the tion of residents. age of 21 years or upwards, or being married, or a widower or widow, though under that age,--shall, in the month of January in the year 1866 and every subsequent year, register imself or herself in a register to be kept at the Consulate of the Consular district within which he or she resides-subject to this qualification, that the registration of a man shall be deemed to include the registration of his wife (unless she is living apart from him), and that the registration of the head of the family, whether male or female, shall be deemed to include the registration of all females being relatives of the head of the family (in whatever degree of relationship) living under the same roof with the head of the family at the time of his or her registration.

Registration of non-residents.

Penalty.

Fee.

Certificate.

Buits by foreigners

subjects.

Every British subject not so resident arriving at any place in China. or Japan where a Consular Officer is maintained, unless borne on the muster roll of a British vessel there arriving, shall, within one month after his or her arrival, register himself or 1 erself in a register to be kept at the Consular Office, but so that no such person shall be required to register himself or herself more than once in any year, reckoned from the 1st day of January.

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　Any person failing so register himself or herself, and not excusing his or her failure to the satisfaction of the Consular Officer, shall not be entitied to be recognized or protected as a British subject in China or Japan, and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding ten dollars for each instance of such failure.

　115. Every person shall on every registration of himself or herself pay a fee of such amount as one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State from time to time by order under his hand appoints, such amount either to be uniform for all persons, or to vary according to the circum- stances of different classes, as the Secretary of State from time to time by such order directs.

116. The Consular Officer