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REGULATIONS FOR TRADE WITH JAPAN.

Class 2.-A duty of five per cent shall be paid on the following articles :-

All articles used for the purpose of building, rigging, repairing, or fitting out of

ships.

Whaling gear of all kinds.

Salted provisions of all kinds. Bread and breadstuffs.

Living animals of all kinds. Coals.

Timber for building houses. Rice.

Paddy. Steam-machinery.

Zinc.

Lead.

Tin.

Raw Silk.

Cotton & woollen manufactured goods.

Class 3.-A duty of thirty-five per cent shall be paid on all intoxicating liquors, whether prepared by distillation, fermentation, or in any other manner,

Class 4.-All goods not included in any of the preceding classes shall pay a duty of twenty per cent.

All articles of Japanese production which are exported as cargo, shall pay a duty of five per cent, with the exception of gold and silver coin, and copper in bars.

Rice and wheat, the produce of Japan, shall not be exported from Japan as cargo, but all British subjects resident in Japan, and British Ships for the crews and passen- gers, shall be furnished with sufficient supplies of the same.

Foreign grain, brought into any open port of Japan in a British ship if no part thereof has been landed, may be re-exported without hindrance.

The Japanese Government will sell, from time to time, at public auction, any sur-

plus quantity of copper that may be produced.

Five years after the opening of Kanagawa, the import and export duties shall be subject to revision, if either the British or Japanese Government desires it.

ELGIN AND KINCARDINE.

MIDZUO TSIKFOGONO KAMI. NAGAI GEMBANO KAMI.

INOUWYE SINANO NO KAMI.

HORI ORIBENO KAMI. IWASE HIGONO KAMI.

ISUDA HAUZABRO.

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