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TREATY BETWEEN JAPAN AND COREA.

wood, coal, and other e essris, or to make repairs; the expenses incurred thereby are to be defrayed by the ship's master. In such events both the officers and the people of the locality shall display their sympathy by rendering full assistance, and their liberality in supplying the necessaries required.

If any vessel of either country be at any time wrecked or stranded on the coasts en Japan or of Chosen, the people of the vicinity shall immediately use every exertion to rescue her crew, and shall inform the local authorities of the disaster, who will either send the wrecked persons to their native country or hand them over to the officer of their country re iding at the neare 1 port.

Art. VII. The coasts of Chosen, having hitherto been left unsurveyed, are ve y dangerous for vessels approaching them, and in order to prepare charts showing the positions of islan is, ocks, and reels, as well as the depth of water, whereby all navigators may be enabled safely to pass between the two countries, any Japanese mariners may fre lv surver said coasts.

Art. VIII. There shall be appointed by the Government of Japan an officer to reside at the op n ports in Chosen for the protection of Japanese merchants resorting there, provided that such arrangement be deemed necessary. Should any question interesting both natios arise, te said officer shall confer with the local authorities of Cho en and sett'e it.

Art. IX.-Friendly relations having been established between the two contract- ing parties, their respective subjects ma freely carry on their business without any interfer nee rm the officers of either Government, and neither limitation nor pro- hizition shall be made on trade.

In e se any fraud be committed, or payment of debt be refused by any merchant of either country the officer of eit er one or of the other Government shall do their utmost to bring the delinquent to justice and to enforce recovery of the debt.

Neither the Japanese nor the Chosen Government shall be held responsible for the payment of such deb .

Art X.-Should a Japanese subject residing at either of the open ports of Chosen commit any offene against a subject of Cho-en, he shall be tried by the Japanese authorities. Should a subject of Chosu commit any offence against a Japanese subject, he shall be tried by te authorities of Chosen. The offenders Bhall be punished according to the laws of their respective countries. Justice shall be equitably and impartially administered on both sides.

Art. XI.-Friendly relations having been established between the two contract- ing parties, it is necessary to prescribe trade relations for the benefit of the merchants of the respect ve countries.

Such trade regulations, together with detailed provisions, to be added to the Articles of the present Treaty, to develop its meaning, and facilitate its observance, shall be agre d upon at the capital of Chosen or at Kokwa Fu in the country, within six months from the present date, by Special Commissioners appointed by the two

countries.

Art. XII.-The foregoing eleven articles are binding from the date of the

■igning hereof, and shall be observed by the two contracting parties, faithfully and invariably, whereby perpetual friendship shall be secured to the two countries.

The present Treaty is executed in duplicate and copies will be exchanged between the two contracting parties.

In faith whereof we, the respective Plenipotentiaries of Japan and Chosen, have affixed our scals hereunto this twenty-sixth day of the second month of the ninth year of Meiji, and the two thousand five hundred and thirty-sixth since the accession of Jimmu Tenno; and, in the era of Chosen, the second day of the second moon of the year Heishi, and of the founding of Chosen the four hundred and eighty-fifth.

(Signed)

KURODA KIYOTAKA. INOTYE KAORU.

SHIN KER

IN JI-SHO.