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SUPPLEMENTARY TREATY BETWEEN JAPAN AND COREA.

The following Supplementary Treaty was received too late to admit of its inser- tion in the proper place :---

It is hereby notified that Supplementary Articles to the Treaty of Friendship and Trade Regulations have now been agreed upon with Corea, as in the enclosure.

SANJO SANEYOSHI,

Daijo Daijin.

October 14th, 1876.

Appendix to the Treaty of Amity and Friendship.

Whereas, on the twenty-sixth day of the second mouth of the ninth year Meiji, corresponding with the Corean date of the second day of the second month of the year Heishi, a Treaty of Amity and Friendship was signed and concluded between Kuroda Kiyotaka, High Commissioner Extraordinary, Lieutenant-General of H.I.J.M. Army, Member of the Privy Council, and Minister of the Colonization Department, and Inouyé Kaoru, Associate High Commissioner Extraordinary and Member of the Genrô-In, both of whom had been directed to proceed to the city of Kokwa in Corea by the Government of Japan; and Shin Ken, Dai Kwan, Hanchoosoofuji, and In Ji-shô, Fuku Kwan, Tosofu, Fukuso Kwan, both of whom had been duly commissioned for that purpose by the Government of Corea :-

Now therefore, in pursuance of Article XI. of the above Treaty, Miyamoto Okadzu, Commissioner despatched to the Capital of Corea, Daijô of the Foreign Department, and duly empowered thereto by the Government of Japan, and Chio Inki, Kôshookwan, Gisheifudôshô, duly empowered thereto by the Government of Corea, have negotiated and concluded the following articles :-

Art. I.-Agents of the Japanese Government stationed at any of the open ports, shall hereafter, whenever a Japanese vessel has been stranded on the Corean coasts and has need of their presence at the spot, have the right to proceed there on their informing the local authorities of the facts.

Art. II.-Envoys or Agents of the Japanese Government shall bereafter be at full liberty to despatch letters or other communications to any place or places in Corea, either by post at their own expense, or by hiring inhabitants of the locality wherein they reside as special couriers.

Art. III.-Japanese subjects may, at the ports of Corea open to them, lease land for the purpose of erecting residences thereon, the rent to be fixed by mutual agree- ment between the lessee and the owner.

Any lands belonging to the Corean Government may be rented by a Japanese on his paying the same rent thereon as a Corean subject would pay to his Government.

It is agreed that the Shumon (watch-gate) and the Shotsumon (barrier) erected by the Corean Government near the Kokwa (Japanese official establishment) in Sorioko, Fusan, shall be entirely removed, and that a new boundary line shall be established according to the limits hereinafter provided. In the other two open ports, the same steps shall be taken.

Art. IV. The limits within which Japanese subjects may travel from the port of Fusan, shall be comprised within a radius of ten ri, Corean measurement, the landing place in that port being taken as a centre.

Japanese subjects shall be free to go where they please within the above limits, and shall be therein at full liberty either to buy articles of local production or to sell articles of Japanese production.