IREATY BETWEEN GERMANY AND JAPAN.
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the subjects or citizens of any other State shall be extended immediate- ly and unconditionally to the subjects or citizens of the other Contract- ing Party; it being their intention that the trade and navigation of each country shall be placed, in all respects, by the other on the footing of the most favoured nation.
Art. XX.-All privileges and immunities which German subjects or citizens have hitherto enjoyed in Japan, in virtue of the existing treaties and arrangements, are maintained during the continuance of Consular jurisdiction in so far as they are not abrogated by the stipulations of this Treaty, and from the date Consular juris- diction ceases to exist, all such privileges and immunities shall be regarded as abrogated, unless maintained by this Treaty.
Art. XXI.-If, during the period Consular jurisdiction still continues, German subjects manufacture, fabricate, or prepare within the territorial limits of Consular jurisdiction, fish, saké, tobacco, shoyu, mirin, wine, beer or spirits, they shall pay the same dues and taxes as Japanese subjects engaged in a similar business.
Any German subject who desires to retail wine, beer or spirits must take out the same licence and pay the same licence fee as Japanese subjects; this licence can never be refused without just and reasonable cause.
From the date this Treaty goes into operation, outside of the territorial limits of Consular jurisdiction, and from the date Consular jurisdiction ceases to exist, throughout the entire Empire, German subjects or citizens shall be liable to the same taxes, rates, fees, and charges as Japanese subjects.
Art. XXII.—Simultaneously with the abolition of Consular jurisdiction in Japan, in conformity with Article XV. of this Treaty, the titles to all real property then held or rented by German subjects or citizens, either jointly or severally, in trust or otherwise, from the Japanese Government under leases in perpetuity, shall be converted into absolute titles and the lessees of such real property shall thereupon become absolute owners thereof, and shall, upon surrendering their leases, obtain title deeds from the Japanese Government. The rents hitherto paid on such real property shall then cease to be collected, and, in lieu thereof, such real property shall be subject to the same Imperial and local taxes as are imposed in respect of similar real property owned by native subjects, and shall also, in all other respects, be sub- ject to the laws of Japan relating to r al property.
It is, however, understood that, in all cases where a reduction in rent on land held under leases in perpetuity has been made by the Japanese Government on account of the uses to which such land has been devoted, the taxes hereafter to be levied in lieu of such rent shall not exceed the amount of such reduced rent.
When the foregoing changes in the tenure of real property have been effected, the several foreign settlements shall be completely incorporated with the respective Japanese communes. They shall thenceforth form integral portions of the municipal system of Japan, and the competent authorities shall assume all municipal obligations and duties in respect thereof. At the same time the municipal funds and property belonging to such settlements shall be transferred to the said Japanese
authorities.
All lands which have been hitherto given by the Japanese Government free of rent for public purposes in the Foreign Settlements shall, subject to the right of emin ent domain, be permanently reserved, free of all taxes and charges, for the public purposes for which they were originally set apart.
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Art. XXIII.-The present Treaty shall extend also to the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg as long as the same belongs to the German Customs Union.
Art. XXIV. The present Treaty shall be ratified as soon as possible and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Tokyo. It shall go into operation on the 11th day of the 2n i month of the 23rd year of Meiji, or 11th day of February, 1890, and shall remain in force for the full period of twelve years.
Either High Contracting Party shall have the right at anytime after eleven years shall have elapsed from the date this Treaty goes into operation, to give notice to the
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