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ADDITIONAL CONVENTION BETWEEN FRANCE AND CHINA.
If however they do not agree a reference may be made to the Authorities at Peking for a joint decision.
Sir Robert Hart undertakes on behalf of himself and Shao Taotai (who was compelled by unavoidable circumstances to leave before the sittings of the Commis- sion were terminated) that the Chinese Government shall agree to the above con- ditions.
The undersigned are of opinion that if these arrangements are fully carried out, a fairly satisfactory solution of the questions connected with the so-called " Hong- kong Blockade" will have been arrived at.
Signed in triplicate at Hongkong, this 11th day of September, 1886.
(Signed),
J. RUSSELL, Puisne Judge of Hongkong
ROBERT HART, Inspector-General of Customs, China.
BYRON BRENAN.
H. B. M.'s Consul at Tientsin.
ADDITIONAL CONVENTION BETWEEN FRANCE AND CHINA, 1887.
(TRANSLATED FROM THE CHINESE TEXT.)
H.I.M. the Emperor of China and the President of the French Republic, desiring to strengthen the commercial relations between the two countries and also to ratify and give effect to the Treaty signed at Tientsin on the 25th April, 1886, have appointed Plenipotentiaries to take the necessary steps thereto. H.I.M. the Emperor of China has specially appointed H.I.H. Prince Ching and H.E. Sun Yu-wen, member of the Tsung-li Yamen and Vice-president of the Board of Works. The President of the Republic has appointed H.E. Constans, Deputy, ex-Minister of the Interior, and Mi- nister Plenipotentiary in China. Who, having exchanged their full powers and estab lished their authenticity in due form, have agreed on the following Articles
Art. I-Such articles of the Treaty signed at Tientsin as are not affected by this Convention shall on the exchange of the ratifications be put in force at once.
Art. II.-Whereas it was agreed by the Treaty of 1886 that Lungchow in Kwangsi and Mengtseu in Yunnan should be opened to trade, and whereas Manghao, which lies between Paosheng and Mengtseu, is on the direct road between the two places by water, it is agreed that this also shall be opened to trade on the same conditions as the other ports, and that a deputy of the Consul at Mengtseu shall be allowed to reside there.
Art. III.-In order to develop the trade between China and Tonquin as rapidly as possible the tariff rules laid down in Articles 6 and 7 of the Treaty of 1886 are temporarily altered, and it is agreed that foreign goods imported to Yunnan and Kwangai from Tonquin shall pay 70 per cent. of the import duties collected by the Customs at the Coast Ports in China, and that produce exported from China to Ton- quin shall pay 60 per cent. of the export duties in force at the Treaty Ports.
Art. IV.-Chinese produce which has paid import duties under Art. XI. of the Treaty of 1886, and is transported through Tonquin to a port of shipment in Cochin- China, shall if exported thence to any other place than China pay export duties accord- ing to the Franco-Annamite tariff.
Art. V. The trade in Chinese native opium by land is allowed on payment of an export duty of Tis. 20 per picul, but French merchants or persons under French Pro- tection may only purchase it at Lungchow, Mengtseu, and Manghao, but no more than
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