SUPPLEMENTARY TREATY BETWEEN GERMANY AND CHINA.
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expressly confirmed. If, by virtue of the same, subjects of the German Empire claim privileges, immunities, or advantages which may be granted by the Chinese Govern- ment to another Government, or to the subjects of any other nation, they shall also be subjected to the stipulations of execution connected with them.
Art. II.-Chinese Concession.-German ships which have already paid tonnage dues in China shall be allowed to visit all the other open ports in China, as well as all non-Chinese ports without exception, without being required to pay tonnage dues again within the term of four months. Gernian sailing vessels which lie longer than 14 days in one Chinese port shall only pay the half of the tariff rate of tonnage dues for the time b yond this period.
German Concession.-The Chines Government shall also have the right to appoint Consuls to all those places in Germany to which Consuls of other powers are admitted and they shall enjoy the same rights and privileges as the Consuls of the most favoured nation.
Art. III.-Chinese Concession.—In all the open ports of China where it is con sidered desirable by the foreign trading community, and the local circumstances appear to render it practicable, the Chinese Commissioner of Customs and the other officials concerned shall themselves take in hand the erection of entrepôts (bonded warehouses) and at the same time prepare the requisite regulations.
German Concession.-German vessels visiting the open ports in China must hand in a manifest containing exact statements of the quality and quantity of the wares. Errors which may have crept in it may be corrected within twenty-four hours (Sundays and holidays not included). False statements of the quantity or quality of the wares shipped will be punished by the confiscation of the wares concerned, and further by a money fine levied on the captain, which, however, may not exceed five hundred Tael, Art. IV.-Chinese Concession.-On native Chinese coal, which is exported by German merchants from the open ports, the export duty is hereby reduced to three (3) mace per ton; on coal exported from those ports where a lower duty is already established, this lower rate is still to subsist.
German Concession.-When any one, Lot in possession of the prescribed certificate, shall pursue the trade of pilot for any kind of vessels, he shall be subject to a money fine, which may not exceed one hundred Taels for each case. Regulations for the exercise of due control over sailors also be agreed to as speedily as possible.
Art. V.-Chinese Concession.-German ships requiring repairs in consequence of damage sustained either in port or out of it shall not have to pay tonnage dues for the time-to be fixed by the Customs House-occupied for the repairs.
German Concession.-Chinese-owned ships may not make use of the German flag, Neither may German ships make use of the Chinese flag.
Art. VI.-Chinese Concession.-In the event of German ships which have become unseaworthy being broken up in an open port in China, their materials may be sold without import duty being levi d on them. However, when the materials are to be landed, a "permit to di-charge" must first be obtained for them in the same way as takes place for wares.
German Concession.-If German subjects, without being in possession of a pass issued by the Consul and stamped by the authorised Chinese official, betake themselves to the interior for pleasure journeys, the local officials are conceded the right to send them back to the nearest German Consulate for the exercise of the nec ssary super- vision over them. Offenders shall, besides, be subject to a fine to the extent of three hundred Tael,
Art. VII.-Chinese Concession.-Materials for German docks are duty free. A list of those articles which, by reason of this stipulation, may be imported duty free is to be prepared and published by the Inspector-General of Customs.
German Concession.-Inland passes for wares of foreign origin issued to German subjects, as well as travelling passes issued to German subjects, shall be valid only for the period of thirteen Chinese months, counting from the day of issue.
Art. VIII.-The settlement of questions concerning the exercise of justice in mixed cases, the taxation of foreign wares in the interior, the taxation of Chinesa
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