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TREATY BETWEEN BRAZIL AND CHINA,
In the ports and cities where a Consul has not been appointed, a foreign Consul may fulfil the functions, provided that he is not a trader. The local authorities, in the absence of a Consul, shall provide the means of securing to the subjects of the two States the benefits of the present Treaty.
The Consuls of the High Contracting Parties shall enjoy all the attributes, exemptions, immunities, and privileges conceded to the Consule of the most favoured nation in each of the two States.
The Consula shall not uphold the pretensions of their nationals should they be vexatious or offensive to the authorities and the inhabitants of the locality.
If a Consul conducts himself in a manner offensive to the laws of the country in which he resides, the exequatur may be withdrawn from bim, according to the general custom.
Art. IV.—Brazilian subjects shall be permitted to go into the interior of China and to travel there, provided that they are furnished with a passport, issued, at the request of the Consul, by the Customs Taotai. This passport, written in the two languages, Portuguese and Chinese, must be exhibited upon the demand of the local authorities, and shall be given up on return. No obstacle shall be raised to the hire by the travellers of men, carriages, boats, &c., necessary for the transport of their baggage.
If the traveller be found not to have a regular passport, or if he commits an illegal act, he shall be delivered up to the nearest Consul to be dealt with. The local authorities can, in this case, only arrest the traveller, and shall not insult him nor subject him to ill usage.
Brazilian subjects may go on excursions in the neighbourhood of the open ports, without being furnished with passports, to a distance of a hundred li, and for a time not exceeding five days.
The above stipulations are not applicable to the crews of ships, who shall be subjected, when on shore, to the regulations established by the Consuls and the local authorities.
Chinese subjects shall have the liberty of travelling in the whole of the territory of Brazil, as long as they conduct themselves peaceably and do not contravene the laws and regulations of the country.
Art. V. Brazilian subjects may travel with their merchandise and trade in all the ports and places in China where subjects of other nations are permitted to trade. Chinese subjects may equally travel and trade in all localities of Brazil, on equal terms with subjects of all other nations.
It is understood that in the event of one of the High Contracting Parties granting, hereafter, with its free cousent, to any other nation, advantages submitted to special conditions, the other Contracting Party may only profit by those advantages by acceding to the conditions inherent thereto, or to equivalent ones, mutually agreed
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Art. VI. The subjects and merchant ships of either of the High Contracting Parties, in the open ports of the other, shall be subjected to the cornmercial regula- tions actually in force for all the other nations, or which may be established in future.
The subjects of the Contracting States shall not pay higher import and export duties than those payable by subjects of the most favoured nation.
Art. VII. The ships of war of the Contracting States shall be admitted into the ports of the other where it is or shall be permitted to the ships of war of all other nations to repair, and they shall be treated there like those of the most favoured nation.
They shall enjoy every facility for the purchase of provisions, coal, &c., as well as for the supply of freah water, and for the repairs of which they may have need.
Ships of war shall be absolutely exempt from payment of duties either on entering or leaving port.
The commanders of Brazilian vessels of war in China and the local authorities sball treat each other on the footing of equality.
Art. VIII.-- Merchant ships of each of the two nations may frequent the porta of the other open to trade or which may be hereafter opened, and transport mer
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