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TREATY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND CHINA.
thousand eight hundred and fifty eight; corresponding with the Chinese date, the sixteenth day, fifth moon, of the eighth year of flien Fung.
(L.S.) ELGIN AND KINCARDINE
Signature of First Chinese Plenipotentiary..
Signature of Second Chinese Plenipotentiary.
Seal of the Chinese Plenipotentiaries
Separate Articles annexed to the Treaty concluded between Great Britain and China; on the twenty-sixth day of June, in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-eight.
It is hereby agreed that a sum of two millions of taels, an account of the losses › sustained by British subjects through the misconduct of the Chinese authorities at Canton, and a further sum of two millions of taels on account of the military expenses of the expedition which Her Majesty the Queen 'has been compelled to send out for the purpose of obtaining redress, and of enforcing the due observance of Treaty pro- visions; shall be paid to Her Majesty's Respresentative in China by the authorities of the Kwang Tung province.
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The necessary arrangements with respect to the time and the mode of effecting this payment shall be determined by Her Majesty's Representative, in concert with the Chinese authorities of Kwang Tung.
When the above amounts shall have been discharged in full, the British forces. will be withdrawn from the city of Canton. Done at Tientsin, this twenty-sixth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty eight, corres ponding with the Chinese date, the sixteenth day, fifth moon, of the eighth year of Hien Fung.
(L. 8.) ELGIN AND KINCARDINE.
Signature of First Chinese Plenipotentiary.
Signature of Second Chinese Plenipotentiary. Seal of the Chinese Plenipotentiaries.
AGREEMENT IN PURSUANCE OF ARTICLES 26 AND 28 OF THE TREATY OF TIENTSIN.
Signed at Shanghae, 8TH NOVEMBER, 1858.
Whereas it was provided, by the Treaty of Tientsin, that a conference should bỡ held at Shanghae between Officers deputed by the British Government on the one part, and by the Chinese Government on the other part, for the purpose of determining the amount of tariff-duties and transit-dues to be henceforth levied, a conference has.. been held accordingly; and its proceedings having been submitted to the Right Honorable the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, High Commissioner and Plenipotentiary: of Her Majesty the Queen, on the one part; and to Kweiliang, washana, Ho Kweit- sing, Mingshen, and Twan Chingshih. High Commissioners and Plenipotentiaries of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor, on the other part, these High Officers have agreed and determined upon the revised Tariff hereto appended, the rate of transit- dues' therewith declared, together with other Rules and Regulations for the better explanation of the Treaty aforesaid; and do hereby agree that the said Tariff and Rules-the latter being in ten Articles thereto appended-shall be equally binding on the Governments and subjects of both countries with the Treaty itself...
In witness whereof, they hereto affix their Seals and Signatures.
Done at Shanghae, in the Province of Kiangsu, this eighth day of November in
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