FRANCE AND ANNAM.
TREATY BETWEEN THE REPUBLIC OF FRANCE AND THE
KINGDOM OF ANNAM.
SIGNED AT SAIGON, 15TH MARCH, 174.
His Excellency the President of the Republic of France and His Majesty the King of Annam, wishing to unite their countries by the ties of a durable amity, have resolved to conclude a treaty of peace and alliance replacing that of 5th June, 1862, and they have in consequence named their plenipotentiaries to that effect, namely:-
His Excellency the President of the Republic of France: Rear A Imiral Dupré, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Lower Cochin-China, Grand Officer of the National Order of the Legion of Honour, Officer of Public Instruction, etc.; and His Majesty the King of Annam: Letuan, Minister of Justice, first ambassador, and Nguyen-van-tuong, First Councillor of the Ministry of Rites, second ambassader; who, after communication of their respective powers, found in due form, bave agreed to the following articles :-
Art. I.-There shall be perpetual peac, amity, and alliance between France and the Kingdom of Anuam.
Art. II.-His Excellency the President of the French Republic, recognising the sovereignty of the King of Annam and his entire independence of all foreign power whatsoever, promises him aid and assista ce, and engages to give him, on his demand and gratuitously, the necessary means for maintaining order an I tranquility in his state, to defend it against all attacks, and to destroy the piracy which desolates a portion of the coast of the king lom.
Art. III. In recognition of this protection, His Majesty the King of Annam engages to conform his foreign policy to that of France and in nothing to change his present diplomatic relatious.
This political engagement does not extend to treaties of commerce, but in no case shall His Majesty the King of Annam make with any nation whatsoever a treaty of commerce in disaccord with that concluded between France and the King lom of Annam, and without having previously informed the French Government.
His Excellency the President of the French Republic engages to make to His
Majesty the King of Annam a gratuit us present:-
1.-Of five steam vessels of five hundred horse power, in perfect condition alike in their boilers and engines, arms and equipment, in conformity with the provisiona of the rules of armament.
2. Of one hundred cannon of seven and six centimetres in diameters, provided with two hundred charges per piece.
3. Of one thousand breech-loading rifles; and five hundred thousand cartridges. These boats and arms shall be delivered fres in Cochin-China within the space of one year from the date of the exchange of the ratifications.
Art. IV. His Excellency the President of the French Republic likewise promises to place at the disposition of the King a sufficient number of military and marine instructors to reorganise his army and fleet; of engineers and chief artizans capable of directing the works which it shall please His Majesty to undertake; of men expert in finance to organise the excise and customs services in the king lom; of professors to establish a college at Hué. He promises also to furnish to the
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