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TREATY BETWEEN PORTUGAL AND CHINA.
In faith whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty and have affixed their seals thereto.
Done in Peking, this first day of the month of December in the year of Our Lord Jesus Christ one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, corresponding with the Chinese date the 17th day of 10th moon of 13th year of Kwang-Sũ.
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(Signed)
[Chinese Seal]
Signatures of the Chinese Plenipotentiaries.
THOMAS DE SOUZA ROZA.
Prince CHING.
SUN-IU-UEN.
CONVENTION.
It naving been stipulated in the Art. IV. of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce, concluded between Portugal and China on the 1st day of the month of December, 1887, that a Convention shall be arranged between the two High Contracting Parties, in order to establish a basis of co-operation in collecting the revenue on opium ex- ported from Macao to Chinese ports, the undersigned Thomas de Souza Roza, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His Most Faithful Majesty the King of Portugal and the Algarves, in special mission to the Coart of Peking, and His Highness the Prince Ch'ing, President of the Tsung-li Yamen, and Sun, Minister of the Tsung-li Yamen and Senior Vice-President of the Board of Public Works, Mi- nisters Plenipotentiaries of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China, have agreed on the following Convention in three articles :-
Art. L-Portugal will enact a law subjecting the opium trade of Macao to the following provisions:
1.-No opium shall be imported into Macao in quantities less than one chest. 2.--All opium imported into Macao must, forthwith on arrival, be reported to the competent department under a public functionary appointed by the Portuguese Government, to superintend the importation and exportation of opium in Macao.
3.-No opium imported into Macao shall be transhipped, landed, stored, removed from one store to another, or exported, without a permit issued by the Superintendent. 4. The importers and exporters of opium in Macao must keep a register, accord- ing to the form furnished by the Government, showing with exactness and clearness the quantity of opium they have imported, the number of chests they have sold, to whom and to what place they were disposed of, and the quantity in stock.
5.-Only the Macao opium farmer, and persons licensed to sell opium at retail, will be permitted to keep in their custody raw opium in quantities inferior to one chest. 6.-Regulations framed to enforce in Macao the execution of this law will be equivalent to those adopted in Hongkong for similar purpose.
Art. II.-Permits for the exportation of opium trom Macao into Chinese ports, after being issued, shall be communicated by the Superintendent of opium to the Commissioner of Customs at Kung-pac-uan.
Art. III.-By mutual consent of both the High Contracting Parties the stipula- tions of this Convention may be altered at any time.
In faith whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed and sealed this Convention.
Done in Peking this first day of December in the year of Our Lord Jesus Christ one thousand eight hundred and eighty seven, corresponding with the Chinese date the 17th day of 10th moon of the 13th year of Kwang-Sü
[L.8.] [Chinese Seal]
(Signed)
THOMAS DE SOUZA ROZA.
Signatures of the Chinese Plenipotentiaries
Prince
CH'ING. SUN-IU-UEN.
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