ADDITIONAL CONVENTION BETWEEN FRANCE AND CHINA.
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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 Tonquinese vessels other than 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 be sold at Lungchow 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 Chi- nese 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 thereto.
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 this Convention shall be exchanged at Peking when the assent of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China and His Excellency the President of the French Republic shall have been signified.
Signed at Peking on the 26th June, 1887.
E. CONSTANS. PRINCE CH⚫ING. SUN YU-WEN.
Whereas on the 9th day of June, 1885, His Majesty the Emperor of China and the President of the French Republic despatched Commissioners personally to fix the boundary of China and Tonquin, and these Commissioners having returned on the completion of their labour, and His Majesty the Emperor of China having deputed Ching, Prince of the second order, President of the Tsung-li Yamen, Senior Vice- President of the Board of Works; and the President of the French Republic M. Constans, Member of the Chamber of Deputies, several times Minister for the In- terior, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Peking, to be plenipotentiaries to effect a permanent settlement of the boundary question, the arrangement arrived at by these er potentiaries is as follows:
I.-The reports of the Deumitation Commissioners of the two countries and the maps of the frontier constructed by them, under their respective hands and seals, having been duly compared, are hereby approved.
II.-Those points regarding which the Delimitation Commissioners are not in accord' and those points contained in the final clauses of Article III. of the Treaty of the 9th of June, 1885, which require alteration have been settled in the three follow- ing Articles :-
(1.)-It is agreed, in reference to the boundary of the province of Kwangtung, as the Commissioners decided, that those places to the east of Mongkai and in a north- easterly direction which have been under discussion shall fall under the jurisdiction of China; that those islands which lie to the east of the red line laid down by the Delimitation Commissioners [such red line in a southerly direction directly crossing the hill top to the south of Cha-kuo-hsieh and representing boundary line] shall fall to China; and that the island of Chiu-tou-shan, called in Annamese Gotto, and the other smaller islands shall fall to Annam. Should Chinese criminals escape to Gotto or other islands, the French Authorities shall, in accordance with Article XVII. of the Treaty of the 25th April, 1886, search for, arrest, and deliver them up.
Cha-kuo-hzieh is called in Chinese Wan-chu and Hes to the south of Mong-kai, and to the south-west of Chu-shan.