232
SUPPLEMENTARY TREATY BETWEEN GERMANY AND CHINA.
Art. II. In addition to a treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, concluded between Prussia, the other States of the German Customs Union, the grand Duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin aud Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and the Hanseatic towns of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburg on the one part, and China on the other part.
It has been separately agreed that the Senates of the Hanseatic towns shall have the right to nominate for themselves a Consul of their own at each of the Chinese ports open for commerce and navigation.
This separate article shall have the same force and validity as if included word for word in the above-mentioned treaty.
In faith whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed this present sparate article, and affixed their seals.
Done in four copies at Tientsin, the second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, corresponding to the Chinese date of the twenty-eighth day of the seventh mo、n of the eleventh year of the reign of Hien Fung.
(Signed) [L.S.
L.S.
"}
[L.S.]
COUNT EULENBURG. CHONG MEEN. CHONG HEE.
SUPPLEMENTARY TREATY BETWEEN GERMANY AND CHINA.
SIGNED AT FEKING, IN THE GERMAN AND CHINESE LANGUAGES, ON THE 31ST MARCH, 1880.
[Not yet ratified.]
His Majesty the Emperor of Germany, King of Prussia, &c., in the name of the German Empire, and His Majesty the Emperor of China, actuated by the desire to secure the better performance of the treaty of friendship, navigation, and commerce, of the 2nd September, 1861, in fulfilment of the stipulation contained in the 41st clause of this treaty, by which the High Contracting German States shall, on the expiry of ten years, have a right to demand a revision of the treaty, have determined to conclude a supplementary Convention to this treaty. For this purpose they have nominated as their Plenipotentiaries, viz. :-
His Majesty the Emperor of Germany, King of Prussia, &c., his Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the Emperor of China, Max August Scipio von Brandt.
And His Majesty the Emperor of China, the Secretary of State, Assistant Member of the Grand Secretariat and President of the Board of War, Shen Kue-f.n, and the Secretary of State and President of the Board of Finance, Ching-lien.
Who, after having communicated their powers to each other and having found the same in good and due form, have agreed to the following articles :-
Art. I.-Chinese Concession.-The ports of Ich'ang in Hupeh, Wahu in Anhui, Wenchow in Chekiang, and Pakhoi in Kwangtang, and the landing places Tatung and Anking in Aului, Hukow in Kiangsi, Wusieh, Luchikow and Shashih in Hukuang, being already opened, German vessels shall also further be permitted to stop for a while in the port of Woosung in the province of Kiangsu to embark or discharge merchandise. The necessary regulations for this purpose shall be prepared by the Tuotai of Shangai and other compet nt officials.
German Concession.-In the case of concessions made by the Chinese Government to another Government with which special joint stipulations of execution are con- nected, Germany, while claiming these concessions for itself and subjects, will also give its consent to the stipulations of execution combined with them. Article 40 of the treaty of 2nd Sptember, 1861, is not affected by this stipulation and is hereby