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TREATY BETWEEN FRANCE AND THE KINGDOM OF ANNAM

The equitable remuneration for the services thus rendered shall be fixed by com mon consent between the high contracting parties.

Art. V. His Majesty the King of Annam recognises the full and entire sovereignty of France over the whole of the territory actually occupied by her, and comprised within the following boundaries:-On the east, the China Sea and the Kingdom of Anuam (province of Binh-thuan); on the west, the Gulf of Siam; on the south, the China Sea; on the north, the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Kingdom of Annam (province of Binh-thuan).

The eleven tombs of the family Pham, situated on the land of the villages of Tannien-dong and of Tan-quan-dong (province of Saigon) and the three tombs of the family Hô, situated on the land of the villages of Lin-chun-tay and of Tan-may (province of Bien-hoa) shall not be opened, dug, violated, nor destroyed.

There shall be assigned a lot of ground of one hundred maos in extent to the tombs of the family Pham, and a lot of equal extent to those of the family Ho. The revenues of these lands shall be devoted to the keeping of the tombs in repair and the subsistence of the families charged with their conservation. The lands shall be exempt from taxes and the men of these families shall be equally exempt from personal imposts, from military service, and from forced service (corvées).

Art. VI.—France remits to the King of Annam the whole of the former war indemnity still remaining due.

Art. VII.-His Majesty formally engages to repay, through the French Government, the remainder of the indemnity due to Spain, amounting to one million dollars (at Tls. 0.62 per dollar), and to devote to this repayment the half of the mes revenue from the Customs at the ports open to European and American commerce, of whatever it may be the product.

The amount shall be lodged each year in the public treasury of Saigon, which shall be charged with the remittance of it to the Spanish Government, to take a receipt, and to transmit this receipt to the Aunamite Government.

Art. VIII. His Excellency the President of the French Republic and His Majesty the King grant a general Amnesty, full and entire, with all sequestrations placed on their goods, to those of their respective subjects who previously and up to the time of the conclusion of the treaty have been compromised in the service of the other contracting party.

Art. IX. His Majesty the King of Annam, recognising that the Catholic religion teaches men to do good, revokes and annula all prohibitions issued against that religion and accords to all his subjects permission to embrace and practise it freely.

Consequently, the Christians of the kingdom of Annam may assemble in churches in unlimited numbers for the exercise of their worship. They shall not be compelled, under any pretext, to commit acts contrary to their religion nor be subject to special registration. They shall be admitted to all assemblies and to the public employ without being compelled to commit any act prohibited by their religion.

His Majesty agrees to destroy the census registers of Christians compiled during the last fifteen years and to treat them, as regards registration and taxes, exactly like his other subjects. He further engages to renew the prohibition, so wisely made by him, of the employment in language or writing of terms insulting to religion, and to cause the articles of the Thap Dien in which such terms are employed to be corrected.

Kishops and missionaries may freely enter the kingdom and travel in their dioceses with a passport from the Governor of Cochin-China visé by the Minister of Rites or by the Governor of the province. They may everywhere preach the Catholic doctrine. They shall not be subject to any particular surveillancs, nor are the villagers required to notify the mandarins of their arrival, presence, or departure.

Annamite priests may freely exercise, like the missionaries, their ministry. If their conduct be reprehensible and the fault committed render them liable Recording to law to corporal punishment this shall be commuted to an equivalent punishment.

The bishops, missionaries, and Anuamite priests shall have the right of purchasing and renting lands and houses, and of building churches, hospitals, schools. orphanages, and all other edifices intended for the service of their religion.