TREATY BETWEEN FRANCE AND CHINA.
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trade, will accordingly, from time to time, either himself visit, or will send a deputy to visit the different ports. The said high officer will be at liberty, of his own choice, and independently of the suggestion of any British authority, to select any Britishi subject be may see fit to aid him in the administration of the Customs revenue, in the prevention of smuggling, in the definition of port boundaries, or in discharging the duties of harbour master; also in the distribution of lights, buoys, beacons, and the like, the maintenance of which shall be provided for out of the tonnage-dues.
The Chinese Government will adopt what measures it shall find requisite to pre- vent smuggling upon the Yang-tsze-kiang when that river shall be opened to trade.
(L. s.) ELGIN AND KINCARDINE.
Seal of Chinese Plenipotentiaries
Signature of Five Chinese
Plenipotentiaries,
CONVENTION OF PEACE BETWEEN THE EMPERORS OF
FRANCE AND CHINA.
Translated FROM THE Chinese Text.
Their Imperial Majesties, the Emperors of China and France, being desirous to resume the amicable relations that of yore existed, and to effect a peaceable settle- inent of the points in which their Governments disagree, have for this purpose ap- pointed Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:-His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China, His Imperial Highness the Prince of Kung, and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of France, Baron Gros, who, having communicated to each other their full powers, and finding the same to be in proper order, now append the Articles of the Convention, as by them determined.
Art. I.-His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China deeply regrets that the Representative of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of France, when on his way, in 1859, to Peking for the purpose of exchanging Treaty Ratifications, should have been obstructed on his arrival at Taku by the soldiers that were there.
Art. II.-The Representative of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of France, when visiting Peking to exchange Treaty Ratifications. shall, whether on the way or at the capital, he treated by all Chinese officials with the highest, consideration.
[Literally, "shall receive from all Chinese officials the most polite and most con- siderate treatment due to an Ambassador, so that he may without prejudice assert his position, authority, or rights."]
Art. III.-The provisions of the Tien-tsin Treaty of 1858 and of the Supplement- ary Articles, except in so far as modified by the present Convention, shall, without delay, come into operation, as soon as the Ratifications of the Treaty aforesaid shall have been exchanged.
Art IV. The fourth Article of the Treaty concluded at Tien-tsin in the year 1858, by which it was provided that an Indemnity of Two Millions of Taels should he paid by the Chinese Government, is hereby annulled; and it is agreed, in the stead thereof, that the amount of the Indemnity shall be Eight Millions of Taels. [Of that sum] the Canton Customs last year paid Three hundred and thirty-three thousand three hundred and thirty three taels; and the remainder (Tls. 7,666,666) shall be collected from the various Custom-houses, which shall pay quarterly one-fifth of the duties received by them, and the first quarterly payment shall be due on the 31st December 1860. The payments may be in either Hae-kwan Sycee or foreign coin, and shall be made to either the Representative of France resident in China, or the Officer by him deputed. But, on or before the 30th November, there shall be paid at Tien-tsin a sum of Five hundred thousand Taels: The French Representative and
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