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REGULATIONS FOR BRITISH TRADE WITH JAPAN.

and goods as are to be landed in Japan. But such steamers shall, in all cases, enter and clear at the Custom-house.

Whale ships touching for supplies, or ships in distress, shall not be required to make a manifest of their cargo; but if they subsequently wish to trade, they shall then deposit a manifest, as required in Regulation I.

The word "ship" wherever it occurs in these Regulations, or in the Treaty to which they are attached, is to be held as meaning a ship, barque, brig, schooner, sloop, or steamer.

V.--Any persons signing a false declaration or certificate, with the intent to defraud the revenue of Japan, shall pay a fine of one hundred and twenty-five dollars for each offence.

VI.-No tonnage duties shall be levied on British ships in the ports of Japan, but the following fees shall be paid to the Japanese Custom-house authorities:-For the entry of a ship, fifteen dollars; for the clearance of a ship, seven dollars; for each permit, one dollar and a half; for each bill of health, one dollar and a half; for any other document, one dollar and a half.

* VII.-Duties shall be paid to the Japanese Government, on all goods landed in the country, according to the following Tariff.

Class 1.-All articles in this class shall be free of duty:-

Gold and Silver coined or uncoined.

Wearing apparel in actual use.

Household furniture and printed books not intended for sale, but the property of persons who come to reside in Japan.

Class 2.-A duty of five per cent. shall be paid on the following articles:

All articles used for the purpose of building, rigging, repairing, or fitting out of ships. Whaling gear of all kinds, Salted provisions of all kinds, Bread and Bread- stuffs, Living animals of all kinds, Coals, Timber for building houses, Rice, Paddy, Steam machinery, Zinc, Lead, Tin, Raw Silk, Cotton and Woollen Manufactured goods.

Class 3.-A duty of thirty-five per cent. shall be paid on all intoxicating liquors, whether prepared by distillation, or in any other manner.

Class 4.-All goods not included in any of the preceding classes shall pay a duty of twenty per cent.

All articles of Japanese production which are exported as cargo shall pay a duty of five per cent. with the exception of gold and silver coin and copper in bars.

Rice and wheat, the produce of Japan, shall not be exported from Japan as cargo, but all British subjects resident in Japan, and British ships for their crews and

passengers, shall be furnished with sufficient supplies of the same.

Foreign grain, brought into any open port of Japan in a British ship, if no part thereof has been landed, may be re-exported without hindrance.

The Japanese Government will sell, from time to time, at public auction, any

surplus quantity of copper that may be produced.

Five years ofter the opening of Kanagawa, the import and export duties shall be subject to revision, if either the British or Japanese Goveenment desires it.

(Signed)

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ELGIN AND KINCARDINE.

MIDZUO TSIKFOGONO KAMI. NAGAI GEMBANO KAMI,

INOUWYE SINANO NO KAMI. HORI ORIBENO KAMI.

IWASE HIGONO KAMI.

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ISUDA HAUZABRO.

* This Tariff' is a' rogated under the Convention of 1808.