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TREATY BETWEEN BRAZIL AND CHINA.

Art. XV.-The Government of His Majesty the Emperor of China and the Go- vernment of His Majesty the King of Spain agree that if hereafter one of them thinks it convenient to make modifications of some of the articles of the present con- vention or to cancel them, negotiations to this effect can only be opened at the expir- tion of a least one year after the notification of such wish shall have been made by one of the high contracting parties to the other.

It is also understood that, if hereafter the Chinese Government shall grant to any other power advantages not mentioned in the present Convention regarding the emigration of Chinese subjects, such advantages will also be acquired by the Spanish Government.

Art. XVI.-The present convention will be ratified and the ratifications ex- changed in Peking within a period of eight months, or sooner if possible.

The present convention is made in Spanish, French, and Chinese, in two copies, which have been compared and found correct.

Signed and sealed, on the 13th day of the 10th moon of the 3rd year of Kwang Sü (17th November, 1877).

BRAZIL.

TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP, COMMERCE, AND NAVIGATION BETWEEN

BRAZIL AND CHINA.

SIGNED, IN THE PORTUGUESE, FRENCH, AND CHINESE LAnguages, at TIENTSIN, ON THE 3RD OCTOBER, 1881.

Ratifications exchanged at Shanghai, 3rd June, 1882.

His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil and His Majesty the Emperor of China, being sincerely desirous of affirming their mutual sentiments of friendship and concord and of establishing relations of reciprocal utility between the two countries, have resolved to conclude a treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation, and have for that purpose named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:-His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, Senhor Eduardo Callado, gentleman of the Imperial Household, Knight of the Order of the Rose and of the Imperial Turkish Order of the Medjidie, His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary on a special Mission to China

His Majesty the Emperor of China, Li, Minister Plenipotentiary, Imperial Commissioner, Grand Preceptor to the Heir Presumptive, First Grand Secretary of State, President of the Board of War, Governor-General of the province of Chihli, and Earl Sou-yi of the first rank, with the hereditary degree of Ki-tou-yi:

Who, after having exchanged their plenary powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles:-

Art. I.-There shall be perpetual peace and friendship between the Empire of Brazil and the Empire of China, as well as between their respective subjects. These may repair freely to the respective States of the High Contracting Parties and reside there. They shall obtain there full and complete protection for their persons, their

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