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XXIV

TREATY BETWEEN FRANCE AND CHINA.

the Chinese High Officers shall hereafter, respectively appoint deputies to consult together and arrange the manner in which the installments are to be paid and receipts granted.

Art. V.-The money to be paid by China is on account of French military ex- penditure, and losses sustained by French merchants and others under (French) pro- tection, whose hongs and chattels at Canton were burnt and plundered by the pop- ulace. The French Government will at a future period divide the money in fair pro- portions among such sufferers, the amount to be appropriated for the losses and in- juries incurred by such French subjects and others protected, to be One Million of Taels. The remainder will be retained for military expenses.

Art. VI. It shall be promulgated throughout the length and breadth of the land, in the terms of the Imperial Edict of the 20th February, 1846, that it is permitted to all people in all parts of China to propagate and practice the "teachings of the Lord of Heaven," to meet together for the preaching of the doctrine, to build churches and to worship; further, all such as indiscriminately arrest [Christians] shall be duly punished; and such churches, schools, cemeteries, lands, and buildings, as were owned on former occasions by persecuted Christains shall be paid for, and the money handed to the French Representative at Peking, for transmission to the Christians in the localities concerned. It is, in addition, permitted to French Missionaries to rent and purchase land in all the provinces, and to erect buildings thereon at pleasure.

Art. VII. On the day on which the Ministers of the two countries affix their seals and signatures, the port of Tien-tsin, in the province of Chih-le, shall be opened to trade on the same conditions as the other parts. The provisions of the present Convention shall take effect from the day on which it is signed, no separate Ratifica- tion of the same being necessary: they shall be observed and enforced just as if form- ing part of the text of the Treaty of Tien-tsin. And on the receipt of Five hundred thousand taels at Tien-tsin, the French forces, Naval and Military, shall retire from Tien-tsin and occupy the two ports of Taku and Yen-tae (Chefoo.) where they are to remain until the payment in full of the Indemnity,-upon which the French forces, at whatever places stationed, shall one and all be withdrawn from Chinese territory; but the Naval and Military Commanders in Chief may encamp soldiers for the winter in Tien-tsin, and on the payment of the ready money indemuity [?the Tls. 500.000 to be paid on 30th Nov. at Tien-tsin] the force shall retire from Tien-tsin.

Art. VIII.-On the exchange of the Ratifications of the Treaty of 1858, Chusan shall at once be evacuated by the French forces now stationed there; and on the pay- ment in full of the sum of Five hundred thousand Taels for which this Convention provides-with the exception of (that portion of) the force which, being about to win- ter at Tien-tsin, will remain there for a time, and which it is considered inconvenient to at once withdraw, as is stated in the seventh Article, the various forces occupying Tien-tsin shall be withdrawn from that city, and shall retire to the Taku forts, the North Coast of Tang-chow and the city of Canton, where they will be stationed until the Indemnity of Eight Millions of Taels, guaranteed by this Convention, shall have been paid in full: the occupant forces, as above referred to, shall then be entirely withdrawn.

Art. IX. On the exchange of the Ratifications of the Treaty of 1858, His Im- perial Majesty, the Emperor of China, will by Decree, notify to the High Authorities of every Province, that Chinese choosing to take service in the French Colonies, or other ports beyond sea, are at perfect liberty to enter into engagements with French subjects for that purpose, and to ship themselves and their families on board any vessel at any of the open ports of China; also that the High Authorities aforesaid shall, in concert with the Representative in China of His Imperial Majesty the Em- peror of France, frame such regulations for the protection of Chinese enigrating as

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