TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND COTEA.
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United States merchant vessels entering the ports of Cho en sh Il pay tonnage dues t the rate of five mace per ton, payable once in the months on each vessel, according to the Chinese calendar.
Art. VI.-Subjects of Chosen who may visit the United States shall be p rmit- ted to reside and to rent premises, purchase land, or to construct residences or warehouses in all parts of the country They shall be fre ly permitted to pursuo their various callings and avocations, and to traffic in all merchandise, raw and manufactured, that is not declared contraband by law. Citizens of the Uited States who may resort to the ports of Chosen which are open to foreign comerce shall be permitted to reside at such open ports within the limits of the concession and to lease buildings or land, or to construct residences or warehouses th rein. They shall be freely permitted to pursue their various callings and avocations within the limi s of the ports and to traffic in all merchandise, raw and manufactured, that is not declared contraband by law.
No coercion or intimidation in the acquisition f land or buildings shall be permitted, and the land rent as fixed by the author ties of Chosen shall be paid. And it is expressly agreed that land so acquired in the open ports of Chosen still remains an integral part of the kingdom, and that all rights of jurisdiction over persons and property within such areas remain vested in the autho ities of Chosen, except in so far as such rights have been expressly relinquished by this tre. y.
American citizens are not permitted ei her to transport for igu imports to the interior for sale or to proced thither to purchase native pro luce, nor are they permit- ted to transport native produce from one open port t another open port.
Violation of this rule will subject such merchandis to confiscation, and the merchants offending will be handed ov r to the consular authorities to be dealt with.
Art. VII.-The governments of the Uni ed States and 1 Chosen mutually agree and undertake that subjects of C. osen shall not be permitted to import op um into any of the ports of the United States, and c'tizens of the United Stites shall not be permitted to import opium into any of the open ports of Chosen, to transport i from one open port to another open port, or traffic in it in Chosen. This absolute prohibition, which extends to v ssels owned by the citizens or subjects of either Power, to foreign vessels employed by them, and to vessels owned by the citizens or subjects of either Power and employed by other person- for the transportation of opium, shall be enforced by appropriate legi lation on the part of the United States and of Chosen, and offenders against it shall be severely punished.
Art. VIII. Whenever the Government of Chosen shall have reason to ap- prehend a scarcity of food within the limits of the kingdom, H:8 Maj sty may by decree temporarily prohibit the export of all bread-tuffs, and such de ree shall be binding upon all citizens of the United States in Chosen upon due 1 otice having been given them by the authorities of Chosen through the proper offic rs of the United States; but it is to be understool that the exportation of rice and breadstuffs of every description is prohibited from the open port of Yin-Chuen.
Chosen having of old prohibited the exportation of red ginseng, if citizens of the United States clandestinely purchase it for export it shall be confiscated and the offenders punished.
Art. IX.-Purchase of cannon, small arms, swords, gunpowder, shot, and all munitions of war is permitted only to officials of the Government of Chosen, and they may be imported by citizens of the United States only under written permit from the authorities of Chosen. If these articles are clan lestinely imported they shall be confiscated and the offending party shall be punished.
Art. X.-The officers and people of either nation residing in the other shall have the right to employ natives for all kinds of lawful work.
Should, however, subjects of Chosen, guilty of violation of the laws of the king- dom, or against whom any action has been brought, conceal themselves in the residences or warehouses of United States citizens or on board United States merchant vessels, the Consular authorities of the United States, ou being notified of the fact by the local authorities, will either permit the latter to despatch constables to make
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