TREATY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND JAPAN.
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ing their departure. In like manner, if starting from Peking, a day's notice shall be given to the Board of War.
Art. XIV.-Should any of the arrangements in respect of land commerce here- after prove inconvenient to both parties, the Governor General of Eastern Siberia and the Chinese High officer of the Frontiers shall consult together and determine the matter in accordance with the articles of this Convention; but new demands must not be preferred. There shall be no further departure from the provisions of the Twelfth article of the Tien-tsin Treaty.
Art. XV.—On the termination of the present conference, the Chinese Minister Plenipotentiary shall translate the original text of this convention into the Chinese language, and shall furnish the Russian Minister Plenipotentiary with a copy of the Chinese translation, duly authenticated by signature and seal, who, on his side, shall likewise translate into Chinese the original text of the convention, and shall supply the Chinese Minister Plenipotentiary with a copy of the same, in like manner duly Authenticated by seal and signature.
The Articles of the present convention, without waiting for the ratification of the same by their Imperial Majesties, the Emperors of the two countries, shall be in force, and for ever observed, from the day on which the translatious into Chinese of the Original text shall have been interchanged by the Ministers Plenipotentiary, who shall each forthwith issue whatever commands may be necessary for the carrying into the effect of the provisions of the convention.
Signed and sealed by His Imperial Highness the Prince of Kung, Chinese Min- ister Plenipotentiary, and His Excellency the Privy Councillor, the Russian Minister Plenipotentiary, on the 2d day of the 10th month of the 10th year of Hien Fung, i.e. the 2d day of the month No-ya-poo-urb, in the year 1860, [14th November, 1860.]
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TREATY OF PEACE, FRIENDSHIP, AND COMMERCE BETWEEN HER MAJESTY AND THE TYCOON OF JAPAN.
SIGNED, IN THE ENGLISH, JAPANESE, AND DUTCH LANGUAGES,
AT YEDO, 26TH AUGUST, 1858.
RATIFICATIONS EXCHANGED at Yedo, 11TH JULY, 1859.
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the Tycoon of Japan, being desirous to place the relations between the two countries on a permanent and friendly footing, and to facilitate commercial intercourse between their respective subjects, and having for that purpose resolved to enter into a Treaty of Peace, Amity, and Commerce, have named as their Plenipoten- tiaries, that is to say:-
Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, a Peer of the United Kingdom, and Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle.
And His Majesty the Tycoon of Japan, Midzuo Tsikfogono Kami; Nagai Gem- bano Kami; Inouwye Sinano no Kami; Hori Oribeno Kami; Iwase Higono Kami; and Isuda Hauzabro.
Art. I.-There shall be perpetual peace and friendship between Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, her heirs and successors, and His Majesty the Tycoon of Japan, and between their respective dominions and subjects.
Art. II.-Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, may appoint a Diplomatic Agent to reside at the city of Yedo, and Consuls or Consular Agents to reside at any or all the ports of Japan which are opened for British commerce by the Treaty.
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