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irregular, the bearers will be allowed to proceed, and no opposition shall be offered to their hiring persons, animals, or vessels for their own conveyance or for the carriage of their personal effects or merchandize. If they be without passports, or if they commit any offence against the law, they shall be handed over to the nearest Consul for punishment, but in no case shall they be subject to ill-usage. Such passports shall remain in force for a period of thirteen China months from the date of issue. Any Japanese subject travelling in the interior without a passport shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 300 taels. Japanese subjects shall, however, have the right without passports to go on excursions from any of the ports open to trade, to a distance not exceeding 100 li and for a period not exceeding five days.
ARTICLE IX.
The Chinese authorities shall at all times afford the fullest protection to the persons and property of Japanese subjects in China whenever they are exposed to insult or violence. In all cases of incendiarism, robbery, or destruction of property, the local authorities will immediately take the necessary measures to recover the stolen property, to suppress the disorder, and to arrest and punish the guilty parties.
ARTICLE X.
Property of every kind in China, belonging to Japanese subjects, shall be considered as inviolable and shall always be respected. The Chinese authorities cannot, under any pretext, sequester Japanese vessels or forcibly employ them for any public or private use.
ARTICLE XI.
Japanese subjects residing in the open ports of China may take into their service Chinese subjects and employ them in any lawful capacity without restraint or hindrance from the Chinese Government or authorities.
ARTICLE XII.
Japanese subjects may hire whatever boats they please for the conveyance of cargo or passengers, and the sum to be paid for such boats shall be settled between the parties themselves, without the interference of the Chinese Government or officers. No limit shall be put upon the number of boats, neither shall a monopoly in respect either of the boats or of the porters or coolies engaged in carrying goods be granted to any parties.
ARTICLE XIII.
The annexed Import Tariff (A) shall be applicable to all articles therein enumerated upon importation into China, either by Japanese subjects or from Japan, and the annexed Export Tariff (B) shall likewise be applicable to all articles therein enumerated upon exportation from China, either by Japanese subjects or to Japan. The Tariffs now in force between China and the European Powers shall be applicable to all articles not enumerated in the above-mentioned Tariffs or in the Rules annexed thereto, upon importation into China by Japanese subjects or from Japan, or upon exportation from China by Japanese subjects or to Japan. It is clearly understood that all articles the importation or exportation of which is not expressly limited or prohibited by the Tariffs annexed to this Treaty, or by the Tariffs existing between China and the European Powers, may be freely imported into and exported from China, subject only to the payment of the stipulated import or export duties. But in no case shall Japanese subjects be called upon to pay in China other or higher import or export duties than are or may be paid by Chinese subjects or the subjects or citizens of the most favoured nation; nor shall any article imported into China from Japan, or exported from China to Japan, be charged upon such importation or exportation other or higher duties than are now or may hereafter be imposed in China on the like article when imported from or exported to the nation most favoured in those respects.
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ARTICLE XIV.
All articles duly imported into China either by Japanese subjects or from Japan, and all articles manufactured in China by Japanese subjects, shall, while within the defined limits of the several foreign settlements, and while being transported by land or by water from one foreign settlement to another, be wholly exempt from all taxes, imposts, duties, li-kin, charges, and exactions of every nature and kind whatsoever, irrespective of the nationality of the owner or possessor of the articles, or the nationality of the conveyance or vessel in which the transportation is made.
ARTICLE XV.
All articles enumerated in the last preceding clause, upon the payment of a com- mutation transit tax or duty equal to three-fifths of the import duty in respect of dutiable articles, and 3 per cent. upon the value in respect of duty-free articles and articles manufactured in China by Japanese subjects, shall, in every part of China, irrespective of the nationality of the owner or possessor, be exempt from all taxes, imposts, duties, li-kin, charges, and exactions of whatever nature or under whatever denomination levied, in the name or for the profit of the Government, public func- tionaries, private individuals, Corporations, or establishments of any kind."
Personal effects, gold and silver bullion, and coins of all kinds, belonging to Japanese subjects, shall enjoy a like exemption from taxation in all parts of China, without the payment of any such commutation tax or duty.
It is understood that this Article does not apply to imported opium.
ARTICLE XVI.
All Chinese goods and produce purchased by Japanese subjects in China elsewhere than at an open port thereof, and intended for export, shall in every part of China be freed from all taxes, inposts, duties, l-kin, charges, and exactions of every nature and kind whatsoever, saving only export duties when exported, upon the payment of a transit tax equal to one-half of the export duty in respect of dutiable articles, and 2 per cent. upon the original cost in respect of duty-free articles, provided such goods and produce are actually exported to a foreign country within the period of eighteen months from the date of the payment of the transit tax. All Chinese goods and produce purchased by Japanese subjects at the open ports of China, and not transported into the interior, shall be exempt from all internal taxes, imposts, duties, li-kin, charges, and exactions of every nature and kind whatsoever, saving only export duties upon exportation; and all articles purchased or manufactured by Japanese subjects in any part of China may also, for the purpose of export, bet ransported from open port to open port by land or y bwater, without the payment of any coast trade duties or any other taxes, imposts, duties, li-kin, charges, or exactions of any nature or kind whatsoever, irrespective of the vessels or conveyances in which such trans- portation is made.
ARTICLE XVII.
Japanese vessels shall have the right to convey Chinese goods and produce intended for home consumption, between the open ports or ports of call in China, and such goods and produce when so conveyed shall, upon the payment of coasting trade dues equal to one-half of the export duties in respect of dutiable goods, and 24 per cent. upon the value of the goods in respect of duty-free articles, be exempt during the whole process of such conveyance from every kind of taxation or exaction, including import and export duties.”
ARTICLE XVIII.
The Chinese Government engages to notify to the Japanese Diplomatic Agent in Peking, before this Treaty takes effect, of the number and location of the several barrier stations throughout China, and the rates of taxes such stations are respectively
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