TREATY OF NANKING (1842).
ARTICLE X.
His Majesty the Emperor of China agrees to
establish at all the Ports which are by the 2nd Article of this Treaty to ho 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 Duos agrocable to the Tariff, to be hereafter fixed,
such Merchandise may be conveyed by Chinese Mer- chants, to any Province or City in the interior of the Empire of China on paying a further amount as
Transit Duties which shall not exceed
on the tariff value of such goods.
per cent.
ARTICLE 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 term “Communication "照食 The Subordinato British Officers and Chinese High Officers in the Provinces under the terms "State- ment" fi on the part of the former, and on the part of the latter “Declaration ”劄行, and the Sub- ordinates of both Countries on a footing of perfect equality. Merchants and others not holding official situations and, therefore, not included in the above, on both sides, to use the torin ·Representation
in all Papers addressed to, or intended for the
notice of the respective Governments.
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ARTICLE XII.
On the assent of the Emperor of China to this Treaty being received and the discharge of the first justalment of money, Her Britannic Majesty's Forces will retire from Nanking and the Grand Canal, aud will no longer molest or stop the Trade of China. The Military Post at Chinhai will also be withdrawn, but the Islands of Koolangsoo and that of Chusan will continue to be held by Her Majesty's Forces until the money payments, and the arrangements for opening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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