TREATY BETWEEN JAPAN AND RUSSIA
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The forces of the two countries occupying the front positions shall be first withdrawn.
The High Contracting Parties reserve to themselves the right to maintain guards to protect their respective railway lines in Manchuria. The number of such guards. shall not exceed fifteen per kilomètre, and within that maximum number the Com- manders of the Japanese and Russian armies shall, by common accord, fix the number of such guards to be employed, as small as possible having in view the actual requirements.
The Commanders of the Japanese and Russian forces in Manchuria shall agree upon the details of the evacuation in conformity with the above principles, and shall take by common accord the measures necessary to carry out the evacuation as soon as possible and in any case not later than the period of eighteen months.
II. To Art. IX.-As soon as possible after the present Treaty comes into force, a Commission of Delimitation, composed of an equal number of members to be appointed respectively by the two High Contracting Parties, shall on the spot mark in a permanent manner the exact boundary between the Japanese and Russian possessions on the Island of Saghalien. The Commission shall be bound, so far as topographical considerations permit, to follow the fiftieth parallel of North latitude as the boundary line, and in case any deflections from that line at any points are found to be necessary, compensation will be made by correlative deflections at other points. It shall also be the duty of the said Commission to prepare a list and de- scription of the adjacent islands included in the cession, and finally the Commission shall prepare and sign maps showing the boundaries of the ceded territory. The work of the Commission shall be subject to the approval of the High Contracting Parties.
The foregoing additional Articles are to be considered as ratified with the ratification of the Treaty of Peace to which they are annexed.
Portsmouth, the 5th day, 9th month, 33th year of Meiji, corresponding to the 23rd August (5th September N.S.) 1905.
SERGE WITTE.
ROSEN.
JUTARO KOMura.
K. TAKAHIRA.
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