GERMANY.
TREATY OF AMITY, COMMERCE, AND NAVIGATION, BETWEEN PRUSSIA AND CHINA.
SIGNED IN THE GERMAN, FRENCH, AND CHINESE LANGUAGes, at Tientsin,
2ND SEPTEMBER, 1861.
Ratifications exchanged at Shanghai, 14th January, 1863.
Treaty of Amity, Commerce, ard Navigation, between the States of the German Customs' Union, the Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg- Strelitz, and the free Harseatic Towns of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburg on the one part, and China on the other part.
His Majesty the King of Prussia, for himself, as also on behalf of the other members of the German Zollverein, that is to say :-The Crown of Bavaria, the Crown of Saxony, the Crown of Hanover, the Clown of Wurtemberg, the Grand Duchy of Baden, the Electorate of Hesse, the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the Duchy of Brunswick, the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, the Grand Duchy of Luxem ur, the Grand Duchy of Saxony, the Duchies of Saxe Meiningen. Saxe Altenburg, Saxe Coburg Gotha, the Duchy of Nassau, the Principalities Waldeck and Payamont, the Duchies Anhalt, Dessau, Koethen, and Anhalt Bernburg, the Principalities Lippe, the Principaliti s Schwarzburg Sondershousen an 1 Schwarzburg Audolotadz, Reuss the Elder, and Reuss the Younger Line, the Free City of Frankfort, the Grand Baillewick Meisenheim of the Landgravate Hesse, the Baillewick Hamburg of the Landgravate Hesse, and :-The Grand Duchies Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and the Senates of the Hans atic Towns, Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburg, of the one part, and His Majesty the Emperor of China of the other part, being sincerely desirous to establish friendly relations between the said States and China, bave resolved to confirm the same by a Treaty of Friendship and Commerce, mutually advantageous to the subjects of both High Contracting Parties, and for that purpose hare named for their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say :
His Majesty
the King of Prussia, Frederick Albrecht Count of Eulenburg, Chamberlain, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Knight of the Red Eagle, Knight of St. John, &c., &c., &c. And His Majesty the Emperor of Cina, Cheong-meen, a member of the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Peking, Director-General of Public Supplies, and Imperial Commissioner; and Chong-hee, Honorary under-Secretary of State, Superintendent of the three Northern Ports, and Deputy Imperial Commissioner, who after havi: g communicated to each other their respective full powers, and found the same in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles :----
Art. I.-There shall be perpetual peace and unchanging friendship between the contracting States. The subjects of both States stall enjoy full protection of person and prop rty.
Art. II. His Majesty the King of Prussia may, if he see fit, accredit a diplomatic agent to the Court of Peking, and His Majesty the Emperor of China, may in like manner, if he see fit, nominate a diplomatic agent to the Court of Berlin.
The diplomatic ag ut nominated by His Majesty the King of Prussia shall also represent the other contracting German States, who shall not be permitted to be represented at the Court of Peking by diplomatic agents of their own. His Majesty the Emperor of China hereby agrees that the diplomatic agent, so appointed by His Maj sty the King of Prussia, may, with his fam ly and establishment, permanently reside at the capital, or may visit it occasionally, at the option of the Prussian Government.
Art. III.-The diplomatic agents of Prussia and China shall, at their respective resid nces, enjoy the privileges and immunities accorded to them by international law.
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