TREATY BETWEEN FRANCE AND ANNAM.
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Art. IX-A telegraph line shall be established from Saigon to Hanoi and worked by French employés.
A part of the receipts shall be assigned in the Annamite Government, who, in return, shall concede the land necessary for the stations.
Art. X.-In Annam and Tonquin foreigners of every nationality shall be placed under French jurisdiction,
The French Authority shall decide disputes of every kind which may arise between Aunamites and foreigners, the same as between foreignere.
Art. XI. In Annam proper the Quan-Bo shall collect the established taxes under the control of French functionaries and for the account of the Court of Hué.
In Tonquin the Residents shall centralise, with the concurrence of the Quan-Bo the service of the same taxes, and shall supervise the collection and employment of the taxes. A commission composed of Frenchmen and Annamites shall deter.nine the sums to be applied to the various branches of the administration and the public
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The surplus shall be paid into the treasury of the Court of Hué.
Art. XII. Throughout the kingdom the reorganised Customs shall be entir`7 confided to French Administrators. There shall only be maritime and frontier Custom stations, placed wherever the need thereof shall make itself felt.
No claim in respect to the Customs on account of the measures taken up to the present time by the military authorities shall be admitted.
The laws and regulations concerning indirect taxes, the Customs tariff and rules, and the sanitary regulations of Cochin-China shall be applicable in the territories of Annam and Tonquin.
Art. XIII. French citizens and protégés may, throughout the whole extent of Tonquin and in the open ports of Aunam, freely travel, trade, and acquire and dispose of property, moveable and immoveable.
His Majesty the King of Annam expressly confirms the guarantees given by the treaty of the 1st March, 1874, in favour of missionar.s aud Christians,
Art. XIV. Persons wishing to travel in the interior of Annam can only do so on obtaining authorisation therefor through the Resident-General at Hué or the Governor of Cochin-China.
The authorities shall furnish them with passports, which shall be presented for the visa of the Annamite Government.
Art. XV. France engages to guarantee henceforth the integrity of the states of the King of Annam, and to defend this sovereign from aggressions from without and rebellions within.
With this object the French Authority may cauend to be militarily occupied such places on the territory of Annam and Tonquin as 'nay ng deemed necessary to assure the exercise of the protectorate.
Art. XVI. --His Majesty the King of Annam shali continue, as in the past, to direct the internal administration of his states, saving the restrictions which result from the present convention.
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Art. XVII. The actual debts of Annam to France shall be discharged by means payments to be made in manner to be hereafter determined upon. His Majesty the King of Annam shall contract no foreign loan without the authorisation of the French Government.
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Art. XVIII. Further conferences shall regulate the limits of the open ports and of the French Concessions in each of them, the establishment of lighthouses on the coasts of Annen und Tonquin, the regulations for the working of mines, coinage regulations, and the aunt to be allotted to the King of Annam from the receipts from Customs, exire, telegraph rates, and other revenues not mentioned in Article II. of the present tresty
The present Crevention shall be submitted for the approval of the Government of the French Republic and of His Majesty the King of Annam, and the ratifications shall be exchanged as soon as possible.