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TREATY BETWEEN BRAZIL AND CHINA.
Art. XIII.-Chinese subjects in Brazil shall have free access to the courts of justice of the country for the defence of their just rights,
They shall enjoy, in this respect, the same rights and privileges as the Brazi- lians and the subjects of the most favoured nation.
Art. XIV.The High Contracting Parties agree to prohibit to the subjects of each of them the importation of opium into the ports of the other open to trade, and the transport of opium from port to port, whether for their own account or for the account of subjects or citizens of any other nation, as well in ships belonging to subjects of the High Contracting Parties as in ships belonging to subjects or citizens
of a third nation.
The High Contracting Parties further agree to prohibit to their respective subjects the opium trade in the ports of the other open to trade.
The clause of the most favoured nation cannot be invoked against the provisions
of this article.
Art. XV.This Treaty has been drawn up in three languages, Portuguese, Chinese, and French. Four copies have been prepared in each of these languages; the versions have been compared and found to correspond in all points, and free
from errors.
The Portuguese text shall be authoritative in Brazil, and the Chinese in China. In case of divergence in the interpretation, the French text shall decide.
Art. XVI.—If in future the High Contracting Parties desire to make any modifications in this Treaty, they shall have the liberty, after the lapse of ten years to date from the exchange of the ratifications, to open negotiations with this object. The official notification of the modifications which either of the High Contract- ing Parties may intend to propose shall always be made six months in advance.
If no such modification be made, the Treaty shall remain in force.
Art. XVII.—The present Treaty shall be ratified by His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil and by His Majesty the Emperor of China.
The exchange of ratifications shall be made, within the shortest possible time, at Shanghai or at Tientsin; after which the Treaty shall be printed and published in order that the functionaries and subjects of the two Empires may have full know- ledge of it and submit themselves to it.
In faith whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty and have affixed their seals thereto.
Done at Tientsin this third day of the month of October, in the year of Grace one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, corresponding to the eleventh day of the eighth month of the seventh year of Kwang-su.
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