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hereater 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 inmunities 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 coscerning foreign tale there, at all those places in Chica which are now ports of all, namely, Ngan-ching, Ta-tung, Hu-kow; Wu-such, Lu-chi-kow and Woosung an i such other places as may hereafter be made ports of call also. If any vessel should unlawfully enter ports other than open ports and ports of call in China or carry on clan·lestine trade along the coast or rivers, the vessel with her cargo shail be subject to confiscation by the Chinese Government.
Art. VI.-Japane-e 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 for 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 vonths 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- j-ets 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.-Japan se subjects residing in the open ports of China may take into their service Chinese subjects and employ them in any lawful capacity withont restraint or hindrance from the Chinese Government or Authorities.
Art. VIII.—Japanese subjects may hire whatever boats they please for the onveyance 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 boas, 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 t: t 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 the payment of the stipulated import or export duties. But in no case shall Ja anese subje ts be called son 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 tban are now or may hereafter be imposed in China on the like article when imported from or
Iported to the Lation most favoured in those respects.
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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 jen port to another, be wholly exempt from all taxes, imposts, duties, lekin, charges
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