PROTOCOL TO TREATY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND COREA
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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
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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 n the import or export permit application, or prohibited goods, shall forfeit twice the value 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 dulars.
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:-
1. With referenc: to Article III. of this Trenty, it is hereby declared that the right of extra-territorial jurisdiction over British subjects in Corea granted by this Treat shall be relinquished when, in the judgment of the British Government, the as an i legal procedure of Corea shall have been so lar modified and reformed as to remove the ojection which now exist to British subjects being placed under Corean jur s liction, and Corean Judges shall have attained similar legal qualifications and a
mar independent position to those of British Judges.
II. With reference to Article IV. of this Trenty, it is hereby declared that if the Chines · Government shall hereafter surrender the sight of opening commercial sulishments in the city of Hanyang, which was granted last year to Chinese subjects, the ame ng t shall not be claimed for Brit.sh 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 Ratifications of this Treaty shall be exchanged.
And it is hereby further stipulted 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 toe 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 eighteen hundred and eighty-thre, 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.B.] [L.8.]
HARRY S. PARKES. MIN YONG-MOK.
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