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CONVENTION BETWEEN FRANCE AND CHINA.
Art, VI.-It shall be romulgated throughout the len. th 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 [Christ ans] shall be duly punished; and such churches, schools, cemeteries, lands, and buil ings, as were owned on former occasions by persecuted Christians 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 M ssiona ies to rent and purchase land in all the provinces, and to erect buildings thereon at peasure.
Art. VII.-On the day on which the Ministers of the two countries affix their seals and signatures, the port of Tientsin, in the province of Chih-li, shall be opened to trade on the same conditions as the other ports. The provisions of the present Convention shal take effect from the day on which it is signed, no separate Rat fication of the same leing necessary; they shal be observed and enfreed just as if forming part of the text of the Thea y of Tientsin. And on the receipt of Five hundred thousanu Taels at Tientsin, ti e French forces, Naval and Military, shall retire from Tientsin and occupy th two ports of Taku and Yeu-tai (Chefoo), where they are to remain until the paymen: in full of the Indemnity,-upon which the French forces, at whatever places statione!, shall one and all be withdrawn from Chinese territ ry; but the Naval and Military Commanders in Chief may encamp so diers for the winter in Tientsin, and on the paym at of the ready money indemnity [? t e Taels 500,000 to be paid 30th November, at Tientsin] the force -hall retire rom Tientsin.
Art. VIII.-On the ‹ xchange of the Ratifications of the Treaty of 1858, Chu-an shall at once be evacuated by the Fr nch forces now stationed there; and ou the payment in full of the sum of Five hundred thousand Taels, for which this Convention provides- with the exception of [that]ortion of] the force which being about to winter at Tientsin, will remain there for a time, and which it is con idered inconvenient to at once wit draw, as is 8 ated in the seventh Article, the various forces occupying Tientsin shall be withd awn 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, s all have been paid in full; the occupant forces, as above referred to, shall be entirely withdrawn.
Art. IX. On the exchange of the Ratifications of the Treaty of 1858, His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China will, by Decree, notify to the High Au horities of every Province, that Chinese choosing to take service in the French Colonies, or other ports beyond the sea, are at periec: liberty to enter into engagem nts 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 R presentative in China of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the French, frame such regulations for the protection of Chinese emigrating as above, as the circumstances of the diff rent ports may demand.
Art. X.-A mistake having crept into the text of the 22nd Article of the Treaty concluded at Tientsin in the year 1858, to the effect that Tonnage Dues would be charged on French ships over one hundred and fifty tons burthen at the rate of Five Mace per ton, it is now agreed that on vessels of more than one I undred and filty tons Tonage Dues shall be levied at the rate of Four Mace pr ton: o vessels of less than one hundred and fifty tons, One mace per ton shall be collected. From henceforth, French vessels entering port shall each and all pay Tonnage Dues in accordance with the rates hereby fixed.
Signed and Sealed at Peking, by the Plen poter tiaries of China and France, on the 25th day of October, in the year 1860, being the 12th day of the 2nd month of
· the 10th year of the reign of Hien-Fung.
(Signed)
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[L.S.]
BARON GROS. PRINCE KUNG.
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