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It has now been agreed that the following places, viz., Wuchow-fu, in Kwangsi, and Samshui City and Kong Kun Market, in Kwangtung, shall be opened as Treaty ports and Consular stations, with free navigation for steamers between Samshui and Wuchow and Hong Kong and Canton, by a route from each of these latter places to be selected and notified in advance by the Imperial Maritime Customs, and that the following four places shall be established as ports of call for goods and passengers, under the same Regulations as the ports of call on the Yang-tsze River, namely, Kongmoon, Komchuk, Shinhing, and Takhing.
It is agreed that the present Agreement, together with the Special Article, shall come into force within four months of the date of signature, and that the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged at Peking as soon as possible, in witness whereof the Undersigned, duly authorized thereto by their respective Governments, have signed the present Agreement.
Done at Peking in triplicate—three copies in English, and three in Chinese—the 4th day of February in the year of our Lord 1897.
(Signed) CLAUDE M. MACDONALD.
(Chinese signature of his Excellency Li.)
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Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India, &c., &c., &c. To all and singular to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting!
WHEREAS an Agreement between Us and His Majesty the Emperor of China was concluded and signed at Peking on the fourth day of February, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, by the Plenipotentiaries of Us and of His said Imperial Majesty, duly and respectively authorized for that purpose, which Agreement is, word for word, as follows:-
IN consideration of the Government of Great Britain consenting to waive its objections to the alienation by China, by the Convention with France of the 20th June, 1895, of territory forming a portion of Kiang Hung, in derogation of the provisions of the Convention between Great Britain and China of the 1st March, 1894, it has been agreed between the Governments of Great Britain and China that the following additions and alterations shall be made in the last-named Convention, hereinafter referred to as the original Convention.
ARTICLE I.
It is agreed that the frontier between the two Empires from latitude 25° 35′ north shall run as follows:
Commencing at the high peak situated approximately in that latitude and in longitude 98° 14' east of Greenwich and 18° 16' west of Peking, the line shall follow, as far as possible, the crest of the hills running in a south-westerly direction to Warung Peak (Kanlyang), and shall extend thence to Sabu Pum,
From Sabu Pum the frontier shall run in a line along the watershed slightly to the south of west through Shatrung Pum to Namienku Pum.
Thence it shall follow a line to be fixed after local investigation, dividing the Szia and the Kunsas as far as the Tabak Kha; thence the Tabak Kha to the Namtabet; thence the Namtabet to the Paknoi Kha; thence the Paknoi Kha to its source near Talang Pum; thence the Talang Pum ridge to Bura Shikong.
From Bura Shikong the frontier shall follow a line running in a south-west direction to the Laisa Kha; thence the Laisa Kha