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CONVENTION BETWEEN FRANCE AND CHINA.

Art. VI. It shall be promulgated throughout the length and breadth of the land, in terms of the Imperial Edict of the 20th February, 1846, that it is permitted to all people in all parts of China to propagate and practice the "teachings of the Lord of Heaven," to meet together for the preaching of the doctrine, to build churches and to worship; further, all such as indiscriminately arrest [Christians] shall be duly punished; and such churches, schools, cemeteries, lands, and buildings, as were owned on former occasions by persecuted Christians shall be paid for, and the money handed to the French Representative at Peking, for transmission to the Christians in the localities concerned. It is, in addition, permitted to French Missionaries to rent and purchase land in ali the provinces, and to erect buildings thereon at pleasure.

Art. VII-On the day on which the Ministers of the two countries affix their seals and signature, the port of Tientsin, in the Province of Chih-li, shall be opened to trade on the same conditions as the other ports. The provisions of the present Convention shall take effect from the day on which it is signed, no separate ratification of the same being necessary; they shall be observed and enforced just as if forming part of the text of the Treaty of Tientsin. And on the receipt of Five hundred thousand Taels as provided by Article IV., the French forces, Naval and Military, shall retire from Tientsin and occupy the two ports of Taku and Yen-tai (Chefoo), where they are to remain until the payment in full of the Indemnity, upon which the French forces, at whatever places stationed, shall one and all be withdrawn from

Chinese territory; but the Naval and Military Commanders-in-Chief may, if they

think necessary, winter their forces in Tientsin until the indemnity shall have been paid in full.

Art. VII-On the exchange of the Ratifications of the Treaty of 1858, Chusan shall at once be evacuated by the French forces now stationed there; and on the payment in full of the sum of five hundred thousand Taels, for which this Convention provides-with the exception of [that portion of] the force which being about to winter at Tientsin, will remain there for a time, and which it is considered inconvenient to at once withdraw, as is stated in the seventh Article-the various forces occupying Tientsin shall be withdrawn from that city, and shall retire to the Taku forts, the North Coast of Tang-chow, and the city of Canton, where they will be stationed until the Indemnity of Eight millions of Taels, guaranteed by this Convention, shall have been paid in full, when the occupant forces, as above referred to, shall be entirely withdrawn.

Art. IX. On the exchange of the Ratifications of the Treaty of 1858, His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China will, by Decree, notify to the High Autho- rities of every province, that Chinese choosing to take service in the French Colonies, or other ports beyond the sea, are at perfect libert, to enter into engagements with French subjects for that purpose, and to ship th mselves and their families on board any vessel at any of the open ports of China; also that the High Authorities afore- said shall, in concert with the Representative in China of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the French, frame such regulations for the protection of Chinese emigrating as above as the circumstances of the different ports may deman/l.

Art. X.-A mistake having crept into the text of the 22nd Article of the Treaty concluded at Tientsin the year 1358, to the effect that Tonnage Dues would be charged on French ships over one hundred and fifty tons burthen at the rate of Five Mace per ton, it is now agreed that on vessels of more than one hundred and fifty tons Tonnage Dues shall be levied at the rate of Four Mace per ton; on vessels of less than one hundred and fifty tons, One mace per ton shall be collected. From henceforth, French vess Is entering port shall each and all pay Tounage Dues in accordance with the rate hereby fixed.

Signed and Sealed at Peking, by the Plenipotentiaries of China and France, on the 26th day of October, in the year 1860, being the 12th day of the 2nd month of the 10th year of the reign of Hien Fung.

(Signed)

[L.8.] [L.S.]

PRINCE KUNG.

BARON GROS.