THE CHEFOO CONVENTION.
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8. The High Contracting Parties may, by common consent, adopt any modifica- tions of the provisions of the present Additional Article which experience may show to be desirable.
9. It is understood that the Commission provided for in clause 7 of Section III. of the Chefoo Agreement to inquire into the question of the prevention of smuggling into China from Hongkong, shall be appointed as soon as possible.
10.-The Chefoo Agreement, together with, and as modified by, the present Ad- ditional Article, shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at London a soon as possible.
In witness whereof the Undersigned, duly authorized thereto by their respective Governments, have signed the present Additional Article, and have affixed thereto their seals.
Done at London, in quadruplicate (two in Chinese and two in English), this 18th day of July, 1885, being the seventh day of the sixth moon in the eleventh year of the reign of Kwang Su.
(L.S.) (L.S.)
SALISBURY.
TSENG.
M. le Ministre,
The Marquis of Salisbury to the Marquis Tseng.
Foreign Office, 18th July, 1885,
I have the honour to address the present note to you in order to place on record the fact that, with the view of carrying out the proposal made by your Government, the following understanding has been come to between the Governments of Great Britain and China in regard to the Additional Article to the Chefoo Agreement relative to opium which has been signed this day :---
It is understood that it shall be competent for Her Majesty's Government at once to withdraw from this new arrangement, and to revert to the system of taxation for opium at present in operation in China, in case the Chinese Government shall fail to bring the other Treaty Powers to conform to the provisions of the said Additional Article.
It is further understood that in the event of the termination of the said Addi tional Article, the Chefoo Agreement, with the exception of clause 3 of Section III., and with the modifications stipulated in clause 1 of the said Additional Article, shall nevertheless remain in force.
I have the honour to request that you will acknowledge the receipt of this note, informing me that the understanding recordel in it is accepted by the Chinese Government.
I have, &c. (Signed)
SALISBURY,
My Lord,
The Marquis Tseng to the Marquis of Salisbury.
Chinese Legation, London, 18th July, 1885.
In reply to your Lordship's note of this date, I have the honour to state that the Imperial Government accept the following as the expression of the understanding which has been come to between the Governments of Great Britain and China in
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