TREATY BETWEEN FRANCE AND THE KINGDOM OF ANNAM.
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effect only as between Franco and Annam, and the former stipulations concerning Spain shall continue in force. France, in this case, will charge herself with the reimbursement of the Spanish indemnity and will substitute herself for Spain as creditor of Annam to be reimbursed according to the provisions of Article VII. of the present treaty.
Art. XII.-The present treaty is made in perpetuity. It shall be ratified and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Hué within the space of one year, or sooner if possible. It shall be published and put in force as soon as the exchange of ratifica- tions shall have taken place.
In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the present treaty and affixed their seals thereto.
Made at Saigon, at the Palace of the Government of French Cochin-China, in four copies, on the 15th day of March of the year of Grace 1874, corresponding to the twenty-seventh day of the first month of the twenty-seventh year of Tu-Duc.
(Signed) (Signed)
CONTRE-AMIRAL DUPRE.
LE-TUAN.
(Signed)
NGUYEN-VAN-TUONG.
TREATY OF COMMERCE BETWEEN FRANCE AND ANNAM.
SIGNED AT SAIGON, 31st August, 1874.
Art. I. In accordance with the stipulations of Art. XI. of the treaty of the 15th March, 1874, the King of Annam opens to foreign commerce, without distinction of flag or nationality, his ports of Th-nai in the province of Binh-dinh, of Ninh-hai in the province of Hai-duong, the town of Hanoi, and the river Nhi-ha from the sea to the Chinese frontier.
Art. II.-In the open ports commerce shall be free after the payment of a tax of five per cent. on the value of merchandise entering or leaving. This tax shall be ten per cent. on salt.
Notwithstanding, arms and munitions of war shall neither be imported nor exported by way of trade. Trade in opium shall be subject to special regulations established by the Annamese Government.
cent.
The importation of grain shall always be ́prmitted subject to a tax of five per
Exportation of grain shall only be permitted in virtue of temporary authorisation by the Government of Annam. Such authorisation shall be communicated to the French resident at Hué. Grain shall, in this case, be subject to a duty of ten per
cent.
The importation of silk and of go-liem shall always be permitted.
The exportation of silk and of go-liem wood shall be permitted each year only after the villages which pay their imposts in these two commodities shall have fully paid their imposts, and after the Annamese Government shall have purchased such quantities as are indispensable to its own use.
The import and export tariff on these articles shall be, as on all other merchan- dise, five per cent.