CONVENTION OF CHEFOO.
2. CONVENTION OF CHEFOO.
AGREEMENT between Great Britain and China for the Settlement of the Yunnan Case, Official Intercourse, and Trade between the two Countries.
[Signed at Chefoo, 13th September, 1876.]
Agreement negotiated between Sir Thomas Wade, K.C.B., Her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of China, and Li, Minister Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the Emperor of China, Senior Grand Secretary, Governor-General of the Province of Chih-li, of the First Class of the Third Order of Nobility.
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Section III.—Trade.
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VII. The Governor of Hongkong having long complained of the interference of the Canton Customs Revenue cruisers with the junk trade of that Colony, the Chinese Government agrees to the appointment of a Commission, to consist of a British Consul, an officer of the Hongkong Government and a Chinese official of equal rank, in order to the establishment of some system that shall enable the Chinese Government to protect its revenue without prejudice to the interests of the Colony.
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3.—ADDITIONAL ARTICLE (LONDON.)
ADDITIONAL ARTICLE to the Agreement between Great Britain and China, signed at Chefoo on the 13th September, 1876. Signed at London, 18th July, 1885.
[Ratifications exchanged at London, May 6, 1886.]
The Governments of Great Britain and of China, considering that the arrangements proposed in clauses 1 and 2 of Section III of the Agreement between Great Britain and China, signed at Chefoo on the 13th September, 1876 (hereinafter referred to as the "Chefoo Agreement") in relation to the area within which li-kin ought not to be collected on foreign goods at the open ports, and to the definition of the foreign Settlement area, require further consideration;
Also that the terms of clause 3 of the same section are not sufficiently explicit to serve as an efficient regulation for the traffic in Opium, and recognizing the desirability of placing restrictions on the consumption of Opium, have agreed to the present Additional Article.