BRAZIL.
TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP, COMMERCE, AND NAVIGATION BETWEEN
BRAZIL AND CHINA.
SIGNED, IN THE PORTUGUESE, FRENCH, AND CHINESE Languages, at TIENTSIN, ON THE SED OCTOBER, 1881.
Ratifications exchanged at Shanghai., 3rd June, 1882.
His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil and His Majesty the Emperor of China, being sincerely desirous of affirming their mutual sentiments of friendship and concord and of establishing relations of reciprocal utility between the two countries, have resolved to conclude a treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation, and have for that purpose named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say: His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, Senhor Eduardo Callado, gentleman of the Imperial Household, Knight of the Order of the Rose and of the Imperial Turkish Order of the Medjidić, His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary on a special Mission to China. His Majesty the Emperor of China, Li, Minister Plenipotentiary, Imperial Commissioner, Grand Preceptor to the Heir Presumptive. First Grand Secretary of State, President of the Board of War, Governor-General of the province of Chihli, and Earl Sou-yi of the first rank, with the hereditary degree of Ki-tou-yi :
Who, after having exchanged their plenary powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles:
Art. There shall be perpetual peace and friendship between the Empire of Brazil and the Empire of China, as well as between their respective subjects. These can repair freely to the respective States of the High Contracting Parties and reside there. They shall obtain there full and complete protection for their persons, their families, and their property, and shall enjoy all the rights, advantages, and privileges accorded to the subjects of the most favoured nation.
Art. II. In order to facilitate the amicable relations between the two States, His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil can, if he thinks fit, appoint a diplomatic agent to the Court of Peking, and his Majesty the Emperor of China can equally, if he thinks fit, appoint a diplomatic agent to the Court of Rio de Janeiro.
The diplomatic agents of each of the High Contracting Parties can, with their families and the members of their suite, reside permanently in the capital of the other, or repair there temporarily, according to the desire of the respective Govern-
ments.
The diplomatic agents of each of the High Contracting Parties shall enjoy, in their respective residences, all the prerogatives, exemptions, immunities, and privileges accorded to the agents of the same category of the most favoured nation.
Art. III. Each of the High Contracting Parties can nominate, in the ports and towns of the other open to trade, where its interests require, a Consul-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, and Consular Agents.
These shall not enter upon their functions before receiving the exequatur of the Government of the country where they are to reside. This exequatur shall be given gratuitously.
Merchants shall not be appointed to exercise Consular functions. Consuls should be true functionaries, and they shall be prohibited from trading.
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