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MACKAY COMMERCIAL TREATY.
XVI. The English and Chinese texts of the present Treaty have been carefully compared, but in the event of there being any difference of meaning between them, the sense as expressed in the English text shall be held to be the correct sense.
Ratifications.
The ratifications of this Treaty, under the hand of His Majesty the King of Great Britain and Ireland, and of His Majesty the Emperor of China respectively, shall be exchanged at Peking within a year from this day of signature.
Done at Shanghai this 5th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two; corresponding with the Chinese date, the 4th day of the 8th moon of the 28th year of Kwang Hsü.
6.—LABOUR CONVENTION.
CONVENTION between Great Britain and China respecting the Employment of Chinese Labour in British Colonies and Protectorates. Signed at London, 13th May, 1904.
WHEREAS a Convention between Her Majesty Queen Victoria and His Majesty the Emperor of China was signed at Peking on the 24th October, 1860, by Article V of which His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China consented to allow Chinese subjects, wishing to take service in British Colonies or other parts beyond the seas, to enter into engagements with British subjects, and to ship themselves and their families on board of British vessels at the open ports of China in conformity with Regulations to be drawn up between the two Governments for the protection of such emigrants;
§ TREATY OF PEKING, 24th October, 1860.
Article V. Chinese Coolie Emigration.—As soon as the ratifications of the Treaty of 1858 shall have been exchanged, His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China will, by Decree, command the high authorities of every province to proclaim throughout their jurisdictions, that Chinese choosing to take service in the British Colonies or other parts beyond the seas are at perfect liberty to enter into engagements with British subjects for that purpose, and to ship themselves and their families on board any British vessel at any of the open ports of China; also that the high authorities aforesaid shall, in concert with Her Britannic Majesty's Representative in China, frame such regulations for the protection of Chinese emigrating as above, as the circumstances of the different open ports may demand.