TRADE REGULATIONS BETWEEN FRANCE AND CHINA.
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the local authority shall apply to the Consul, who, on proof of the guilt of the accused, shall immediately take the necessary measures in order that they may be given up and delivered to the regular course of the law.
Chinese guilty or accused of crimes or offences who seek refuge in Annam, shall, on the request of the Chinese authorities and on proof of their guilt, be sought for, arrested, and extradited in all cases where the subjects of the countries enjoying the most liberal treatment in the matter of extradition might be extradited from France. Frenchmen guilty or accused of crimes or offences, who seek refuge in China, shall, at the request of the French authorities and on proof of their guilt, be arrested and delivered up to the said authorities to be tried according to the regular process of law.
On both sides all concealment and connivance shall be avoided.
Art. XVIII. In any difficulty not provided for in the preceding provisions recourse shall be had to the rules of the Maritime Customs, which, in comformity with existing treaties, are now applied in the open towns or ports.
In case these rules are insufficient the representatives of the two countries shall refer the matter to their respective Governments.
In accordance with the terins of Article VIII. of the treaty of the 9th June, 1885, the present stipulations may be revised ten years after the exchange of the ratifications.
Art. XIX. The present Convention of Trade, after having been ratified by the Governments, shall be promulgated in France, in China, and in Annam.
The exchange of the ratifications shall take place at Peking within one year from
the date of the signature of the Convention, or earlier if possible.
Done at Tientsin, in four copies, the 25th April, 1886, corresponding to the 22nd day of the third moon of the twelfth year of Kwang-Su.
(Signed)
[L.S.]
G. COGORDAN.
[L.8.]
E. BRUWAERT.
[L.S.]
LI HUNG-CHANG.
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