APPENDIX.
Art. XXXI,~~Na tondregedues skali ho payable | be fined five Intandreil turds, and the goods discharged on hauts employed by British subjects in the cou-shall be confiscated wholly, vey mee of passengers, baggage, lestum, articles of pro- vixion, or other articles not subject to duty, between any of the open porta. All cargo-boats, however, conveying merchandise subject to duty shall pay ton nage dues once in four months at the rate of one inace per register t»n.
Art. XXXIX. -Any British merchant who has cargo to land or ship, tuest apply to the Superintend- ent of Custonia for a special permit. Cargo lauded or shipped without such permit, will be liable to couliscation.
Art. XL-No transhipment from one vessel to AR. XXXII.—The Consuls and Superintendents another can be made without special permission, un- of Customs shall consult together regarding the erce- | der pain of confiscation of the goods to transhipped. Art. XLI.—When all dues and duties shall have tion of beacons or lighthouses, and the distribation been paid, the Superintendent of Customs shall give of buuys and lightships, na occasion may demand. Art. XXXIII.—Duties shall be paid to the bau- ja port-clearance, and the Consul shall then return the kers, authorized by the Chinese Government to re-ship's papers, so that she may depart on her voyage. Art. XLII. With respect to articles subject, ceive the same in its behalf, either in sycee or in foreign money, according to the assay made at Canton according to the Tariff, to an ad valorem duty, if the on the thirteenth of July, one thousand eight hun-| dred and forty-three.
Art. XXXIV.—Sets of standard weights and measures, prepared according to the standard issued to the Canton Custom-house by the Board of Revenue, shall be delivered by the Superintendent of Customs to the Consul at each port, to secure uniformity and prevent confusion
British merchant cannot agree with the Chinese ofli- cer in affixing a value, then each party shall call two or three merchants to look at the goods, and the highest price at which any of these merchants would be willing to purchase them, shall be assumed us the value of the goods.
Art. XLIII.—Duties skall bo charged upon the net weight of each article, making a deduction for Art, XXXV.—Any British merchant-vessel ar- the tare weight of conger, &c. To fix the tare on riving at one of the open ports shall be at liberty to|any articles such as ten, if the British merchant engage the services of a pilot to take her into port. I cannot ogres with the Custom-house officer, then each In like manuer, after she has discharged all legal | party shall choose so many chests out of every hun- dues and duties, and is ready to tako her departure, dred, which being first weighed in gross, shall after- she shall be allowed to select a pilot, to conduct her wards be tared, and the average are upon these chesta shall be assumed as the ture apon the whole; out of port. Art. XXXVI-Whenever a British merchant-and upon this principle shall the tare be fixed upon vessel shall nrrive off auc of the open parts, the Su-|nll other goods an.Î packages. If there should be perintendent of Customs shall depute one or more any other points in dispute which cannot be settled, Customs allicers to guard the ship. They shall ) the British merchant may appeal to his Consul, who cillwr five in a boat of their own or stay on board will communicate the particulars of the case to tho the ship, as may best suit their convenience. Their Superintendent of Customs, that it may be equitably food and expenses shall ho supplied them from the arranged. But the appeal must be made within Custom-house, and they shall not be entitled to any twenty-four hours or it will not be attended to. fres whatever from the master or consignee. Should While such poiuts are still unsettled, the Superin- they violate this regulation, they shall be punished] trudent of Customs shall postpone the insertion of the sume in his books. proportionately to the amount exacted.
Árt. XXXVI.—Within twenty-four hours after Art. XLIV.—Upon all damaged goods a fair arrival, the ship's papers, bills of lauling, &c., shall reduction of duty slinll be allowed, propustimate to be fulged in the hands of the Consul, who will their deterioration. If any disputes arise, they shall within a further period of twenty-four hours, report | ha settled in the manner pointed out in the clause of to the Superintendent of Customs the sine of the) this Treaty having reference to articles which pay ship, her register tonnage, and the nature of her[duty ad rcforem, cargo, 16, owing to neglect on the part of the master,
Art. XIV-Dritish merchants who may have the above rule is not complied with, within forty-imported merchandizo înto any of the open ports, eight hours after the ship's arrival, hu shall be findle and paid the duty thereon, if they desire to re-export to a fine of filty taels for every day's delay: the the same, shall be entitled to make application to talii nupunt of penalty, however, shall not exceed the Superintendent of Castonis, who, in order to prevent fraud on the revenue, shall cause examina. two hundred taels.
The master will be responsible for the correctnesstion to be mado by suitable officers, to see that the of the manifest, which shall contain a full and true duties paid on such goods, us entered in the Custmuts acement of the particulars of the carga ou board. For house books, correspond with the representation presenting is fikse manifest, he will subject himself made, and that the goods remain with their original to a line of five linadrei taels; bat ho will be allow-marks unchanged. He shall then muke a memoran- el to correct, within twenty four hours after delivery | dum on the port-clearance of the gunds, and of the of it in the Custom»' ollicers, any mistake he may amount of duties puid, and deliver the same to the discover in his manifest, without incurring this puu- merchant; and shall also certify the facts to the ollicers of Customs of the other ports. All which alty.
Art. XXXVIII—After meriving from the Con- being done, on the arrival in port of the vessel in sul the report in duo form, the Superintendent of which the goods atu ladon, everything being found Customs shall grant the vessel a pervit to open hat-on examination there to correspond, sho shall be ches. If the master shall open hitches, and begin to permitted to break bulk, and land the said goods, with- diseluarge muy gnols without sucht permission, he shall out being subject to the payment of any additional
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duty thereon, But if, ou such examinatim, thefund advantage « omifsmack on them to Superintendent of Customs shall detect any fraud on ties; and it is kedy unprovly vaijadansi, then thu the revenue in the case, then the goo-la shill he sub-| British Government and its subjects will be all seal free and equal paticipatiu in ult galvale 2 « in nis ject to confi»ention by the Chinese Government. British merchants desiring to re-export duty-paid | tios, and advantages that may have heen, or may be imports to a foreign country, shall be entitled, on hereafter, granteil by ilis Majesty the Eamente of complying with the same conditions ne in the ease of China to the Goreriment or subjects of any other re-exportation to nuother port in China, to a draw- | nation. Art. LV.—In evidence of her desire fur the con- back-certificate, which shall lie a valid tender to the tinumuce of a friendly understanding, Her Majedy Customs in payment of import or export duties, Fureign grain brought into uny port of China in a) the Queen of Great Britain goosents to include in a British ship, if no part thereof has been kundeu, may separate Artitie, which shall be in every respect of equal validity with the Articles of this Treaty, the be re-exported without hindrance. Art, XLVI.—The Chinese authorities at cach port|conditions affecting indemnity for expenses incurred shall adopt the means they may judge most proper to and losses sustained ja tho matter of the Canon prevent the revenue sullering from fraud or smuggling. question.
Art. XLVII-British therelunt-vessels are not Art. LVI-The ratifications of this Treaty, under entitled to resort to other than the ports of trade the hand of Her Majesty the (Queen of Great Britain declared open by this Trenty. They are not unlaw-and Ireland, and His Majesty the Emperor of China, faily to enter other ports in China, or to carry on | respectively, shali Le exchanged at Peking, within n Any year from this day of xigunture. clandestine trade along the consts thereof. vessel violating this provision, shall, with her cargo,
In token whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries
be subject to coufisention by the Chinese Government. have signed and sealed this Treaty, Done at Ticutsin, this twenty-sixth day of June, Art. XLVIII—If any British merchant-vessel be concerned iu sunggling, the goods, whatever their in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred value or nature, skall be subject to confiscation by the and fifty-eight; corresponding with the Chinese tate, Chinese authorities, and the ship may be prohibited the sixteenth day, lifili moon, of the eighth year of from trading further, and sent away as soon as her lien Fung. ELGIN AND KINCARDINE recounts shall have been adjusted and paid.
(L.S.) Signature
Art. XLIX,—All penalties enforced, or confisca- tions made, under this Treaty, shall belong and be of First Chinese appropriated to the public service of the Government | l'levipotentiury. of China.
Art, I.—All oficial communications, addressed by the Diplomatic and Consular Agents of Her Majesty tho Queen ta thu Chittemo authorities, shall, kengetortli, | be written in English, They will for the present be accompanied by a Chinese version, but it is under- stood that, in the event of there being any difference
Seal of the Chinese Plenipotentiarica
Signature of Second Chineso Plonipotentiary.
Sepurata Articles wunesid tu the Treaty concluded between Gird Britain and thinu, un the treaty- sixth day of June, in the gear una thousand vight kundeed aut fifty-eight.
of meaning between the English and Chinese text, It is hereby agreed that a sum of two millions of the English Goverment will hold the sense us ex-taels, on recount of the losses sustained by British pressed in the English text to be the correct sense, subjects through the misconduce of the Chinesr This provision is to apply to the Treaty now negoti-anthorities at Canton, and a further sum of two ated, the Chinese text of which has been carefully buillions of trels on account of the military expenses correcteil by the English originest.
of the expeditimt which Her Majesty the Queen has Art. 1.1-It is agreed, "that henceforward the been compelled to soul out for the purpose of ulitain- Character HP “1” (kurbarian) dall not being redress, and of entering the due aloervanes of Treaty provisions; shall be paid to Her Majesty's applies to the Government or subjects of Her Britannic Representative its China by the authorities of the Majesty, in any Chinese official document issued by|Kwang Tung province.
the Chinese authorities either in the capital or in the The necessary arrangements with respect to the provinces.
time and the mude of effecting these payments shail Art. L.II.--British ships of war coming for no be determined by Her Majesty's Representative, in hostile purpose, or being engaged in the pursuit of concert with the Chinese authorities of Kwang Tung, When the above amounts shall have been dis- pirates, shall be at liberty to visit all ports within the dominions of the Emperor of China, and shall charged in full, the Britial forces will be withdrawa receive every facility for the purchase of provisions, from the city of Canton. procuring water, and, if occasion require, for the
Done at Tientsin, this twenty-sixth day of June, nuking of repair. The Commanders of such ships in the your of one Lord one thousand eight hundred slmil bold intercourse with the Chinese authorities, on and fifty-eight, corresponding with the Chinese date, terms of equality and courtesy.
the sixteenth day, lifih moon, of the eighth year of lien Fung.
Art. Lill-In consideration of the injury sustains ed by nativo and foreigu commersa from the preval- ence of piracy in the seas of China, the high cou tacting parties agred to concert menstres for its suppression.
Art. LIV.—The British Governmrut and its kub- ject, aru ketɑby confirmed in all privileges, immanities,||
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