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TREATY BETWEEN JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES.
ment for forfeitures of penalties for violations of such existing Treaty, as well as for violations of the customs, bonded-warehouse, and harbour Regulations which may, under this Convention, from time to time, be established by that Government, shall be sued for in the consular courts of the United States, whose duty it shall be to try each and every case fairly and render judgment in accordance with the provisions of such Treaty and of such Regulations; and the amount of all forfeitures and fines shall be delivered to the Japanese authorities.
Art. V. It is understood and declared by the high Contracting Parties, that the right of controlling the coasting trade of Japan belongs solely, and shall be strictly reserved, to the Government of that Empire.
Art. VI.-It is, however, agreed that vessels of the United States arriving at any port of Japan open to foreign commerce may unload, in conformity with the customs laws of that country, such portions of their cargoes as may be desired, and that they may depart with the remainder, without paying any duties, imposts, or charges whatsoever, except for that part which shall have been landed and which shall be so noted on the manifest. The said vessels may continue their voyage to one or more other open ports of Japan, there to land the part or residue of their cargoes desired to be landed at such port or ports. It is understood, however, that all duties, imposts, or charges whatsoever, which are or may become chargeable upon the vessels themselves, are to be paid only at the first port where they shall break bulk or unload part of their cargo; and that at any subsequent port used in the same voyage only the local port charges shall be exacted for the use of such port.
Art. VII.-In view of the concessions made by the United States in regard to the Customs Tariff, and the Customs and other Regulations of Japan, as above stipulated in Art. I., the Government of Japan will, on the principle of reciprocity, make the following concessions, to wit:-That two additional ports (whereof one shall be Shimo-no-seki, and the other shall be hereafter decided upon by the Contracting Parties jointly) from the date when the present Convention may go into effect, shall be open to citizens and vessels of the United States, for the purposes of residence and trade.
Art. VIII.—It is also agreed that, as the occasion for Article V. of the Treaty of 1858, or the fifth year of Ausei, between the two countries is considered to have passed away, that Article shall, after the present Treaty shall have gone into effect, be regarded as no longer binding.
Art. IX-It is further agreed, that such of the provisions of the Treaties or Conventions heretofore concluded between the two countries, and not herein expressly abrogated, as conflict with any provisions of the present Convention are hereby revoked and annulled; that the present Convention shall be considered to be and form a part of the existing Treaties between the two countries; that the revision of such portions of the said Treaties as are not modified or revoked by the present Convention, as also the revision of the present Convention itself, may be demanded hereafter by either of the high Contracting Parties; and that this Convention, as well as the previous Treaties as modified thereby, shall continue in force until, upon such a revision of the whole, or any part thereof, it shall be otherwise provided.
Art. X.-The present Convention shall take effect when Japan shall have concluded such Conventions or Revisions of existing Treaties with all the other Treaty Powers holding relations with Japan as shall be similar in effect to the present Convention and such new Conventions or Revisions shall also go into effect.
The present Convention shall be ratified and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as may be within fifteen months from the date hereof.
In faith whereof the above named Plenipotentiaries have hereunto set their hands and seals, at the city of Washington, this twenty-fifth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, or twenty-fifth day of the seventh mouth of the eleventh year of Meiji.
[L.S.]
WILLIAM MAXWELL EVARTS.
[L.8.]
YOSHIDA KIYONARI,