XXXVIII
TREATY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND JAPAN.
The Diplomatic Agent and Consul General of Great Britain shall have the right to travel freely to any part of the Empire of Japan.
His Majesty the Tycoon of Japan may appoint a Diplomatic Agent to reside in London, and Consuls, or Consular Agents, at any or all the ports of Great Britain.
The Diplomatic Agent and Consul-General of Japan shall have the right to travel freely to any part of Great Britain.
Art. III.-The ports and towns of Hakodadi, Kanagawa, and Nagasaki shall be opened to British subjects on the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine. In addition to which, the following ports and towns shall be opened to them at the dates hereinafter specified
Nee-e-gata, or if Nee-e-gata be found to be unsuitable as a harbour, another convenient port on the west coast of Nipon, on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty.
Hiogo on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. In all the foregoing ports and towns British subjects may permanently reside. They shall have the right to lease ground, and purchase the buildings thereon, and may erect dwellings and warehouses; but no fortification, or place of military strength, shall be erected under pretence of buildings dwellings or warehouses; and to see that this Article is observed, the Japanese authorities shall have the right to inspect, from time to time, any buildings which are being erected, altered, or required.
The place which British subjects shall occupy for their buildings and the harbour regulations, shall be arranged by the British Consul and the Japanese authorities of each place, and, if they cannot agree, the matter shall be referred to and settled by the British Diplomatic Agent and the Japanese Government. No wall, fence, or gate shall be erected by the Japanese around the place where British subjects reside, or any thing done which may prevent a free egress or ingress to the same.
British subjects shall be free to go where they please, within the following limits at the open ports of Japan.
At Kanagawa to the River Logo (which empties into the Bay of Yedo, between Kawasaki and Sinagawa), and ten ri in any other direction.
Hakodadi ten ri in any direction.
At Hiogo ten rẻ in any direction, that of Kioto excepted, which city shall not be approached nearer than ten ri. The crews of vessels resorting to Hiogo shall not cross the River Engawa, which empties into the bay between Hiogo and Osaca.
The distance shall be measured by land from the goyoso, or town hall of each of the foregoing ports, the ri being equal to four thousand two hundred and seventy-five yards English measure.
At Nagasaki, British subjects may go into any part of the Imperial domain in its vicinity.
The boundaries of Nee-e-gata, or the place that may be substituted for it, shall be settled by the British Diplomatic Agent and the Government of Japan.
From the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, Bri- tish subjects shall be allowed to reside in the city of Yedo, and from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the city of Osaca, for the purposes of trade only. In each of these two cities a suitable place, within which they may hire houses, and the distance they may go, shall be arranged by the British Diplomatic Agent and the Government of Japun.
Art. IV. All questions in regard to rights, whether of property or person, aris- ing between British subjects in the dominions of His Majesty the Tycoon of Japan, shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the British authorities.
Art. V. Japanese subjects, who may be guilty of any criminal act towards British subjects, shall be arrested and punished by the Japanese authorities according to the laws of Japan.