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CHINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
No. 1.
[December 27.]
SECTION 1.
RECH Red 19 JAN 05
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(No. 18.) My Lord,
Mr. Jamieson to the Marquess of Lansdowne.-(Received December 27.)
Shanghee, November 19, 1904. IN continuation of my despatch No. 17 of the 14th instant. I have now the honour to inclose the English text of the new Treaty between China and Portugal, as published in a local evening newspaper.
The Chinese text, from which my former précis was made, is not in accord with this English version. Article VIII in the Chinese text, dealing with the naturalization of Chinese in Macao, does not appear in the English text.
In Article XI of the Chinese text it is the Portuguesc Government who undertake to reform the currency of Macao, whereas, in the English text, it is China who is under the obligation to introduce a uniform system of national coinage.
Article XIII of the English text differs in one very important particular from the Chinese. Article XIV, according to the former, Portuguese and Chinese subjects conjointly may establish commercial undertakings in the interior, whereas the Chinese text explicitly debars them from so doing.
In all likelihood, by a printer's error, the word not has been left out after the word may in the reprint by the newspaper of the original English text, in the same way as the Chinese compositor in Article XI doubtless inadvertently substituted Portugal for China.
A translation of the Canton-Macao Railway Agreement has also been prepared, and will follow by the next opportunity.
I have, &c.
(Signed) J. W. JAMIESON, Commercial Attaché.
Inclosure in No. 1.
Newspaper Extract.
Commercial Treaty between China and Portugal.
ARTICLE I
THE Treaty of Amity and Commerce between China and Portugal, dated the 1st December, 1887 (17th day, 10th moon, 13th year of Kwangsu), continues in force, except in so far as modified by the present Treaty.
ARTICLE II.
Portugal accepts the increase in the import duties stipulated for in Article VI of the Peking Protocol of the 7th September, 1901, from the date of the ratification of this Treaty. Portugal will enjoy the privileges of the most favoured nation, and in no case shall Portuguese subjects pay higher or lower duties than those paid by the subjects of any other foreign nation. Article XII of the Treaty of the 1st December, 1887, is therefore rendered null and void.
ARTICLE III.
The duty and li-kin on foreign opium will continue as provided for in existing Treaties.
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