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TREATY BETWEEN JAPAN AND CHINA.

and for such quantities of opium as they may require. The said Commissioner will also administer the Customs' stations near Macao.

2. Opium accompanied by such certificates, at the rate of not more than 110 Taels per picul, shall be free from all other imposts of every sort, and have all the benefits stipulated for by the Additional Article of the Chefoo Convention between China and Great Britain on behalf of opium on which duty has been paid at one of the ports of China, and may be made up in sealed parcels at the option of the purchaser. 3.-The Commissioner of Custom responsible for the management of the Customs' stations shall investigate and settle any complaint made by Chinese merchants of Macao against the Customs' stations or revenue cruisers.

The Governor of Macao, if he deems it advisable, shall be entitled to send an officer of Macao to be present and assist in the investigation and decision. If, how ever, they do not agree a reference may be made to the Authorities at Peking for a joint decision.

4.-Junks trading between Chinese ports and Macao, and their cargoes, shall not be subject to any dues or duties in excess of those leviable on junks and their cargoes trading between Chinese ports and Hongkong, and no dues whatsoever shall be de- manded from junks proceeding to Macao from ports of China, or coming from Macao to ports in China, over and above the dues paid, or payable, at the ports of clearance or destination. Chinese produce which has paid Customs' duties and Likin tax before entering Macao may be re-exported from Macao to Chinese ports without paying Customs' duties and Likin tax again, and will be only subject to the payment of the tax named Siao-hao.

In witness whereof, this agreement has been written in Portuguese and English and signed in duplicate at Peking this the first day of December, 1887.

(Signed)

(Signed)

BERNARDO PINHEIRO CORREA DE MELLO, Secretary of the Special Mission of His Most Faithful Majesty.

SIR ROBERT HART,

Inspector-General of Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs.

JAPAN.

TREATY OF 1EACE, COMMERCE, AND NAVIGATION BETWEEN THE EMPIRES OF CHINA AND JAPAN.

SIGNED, IN THE CHINESE AND JAPANESE LANGUAGES, AT TIENTSIN, 13TH SEPTEMBER, 1871.

Ratified by the Emperor of China, September, 1871.

Ratified by the Mikado of Japan, with modifications,* 1st November, 1871.

The Empire of China and the Empire of Japan having been on terms of friend- ship for a long period of years, now desire by common action to cement their ancient relations, and to make the intercourse subsisting between the two countries more close.

To this end Li, by Imperial appointment, Minister Plenipotentiary of the Empire of China for the management of commercial affairs, Senior Guardian of the Heir Apparent, Assistant Grand Secretary, President of the Board of War, Governor- General of the Province of Chih-li, and invested with the first degree of the third order of nobility; and Ita, Minister Plenipotentiary of the Empire of Japan, &c., &c., each acting in obedience to the Decrees of their respective Sovereigns, have conferred

See Articles II. and XI. It was also stipulated, on ratification of the Treaty by the Mikado of Japan, that its commercial clauses should be held subject to modification on any future revision of the Treaties between Japan and the European Powers.