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PROTOCOL TO TREATY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND COREA

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hstenings, and if any person shall, without due permission, wilfully ope any entrance that has been so secured, or break any seal, lock, or other fastening that has been affired by the Corean Customs officers, not only the person so offending, but the master of th⋅ ship also, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one bundred Mexican dollars.

3.-Any British subject who ships, or attempts to ship, or discharges, or attempts to discharge, goods which have not been duly entered at the Cust m-house in the Banner above provided, or packages containing goods different from those described in the import or export permit application, or prohibited goods, shall forfeit twice the valas of such goods, and the goods shall be confiscated.

4.---Any person signing a false declaration or certificate with the intent to defraud the revenue of Corea shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred Mexican dollars

5.-Any violation of any provi ion of these Regulations, to which no penalty is specially attached herein, may be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred Mexican dollars.

Note.—All documents required by these Regulations, and all other communications addressed to the Corean Customs authorities, may be written in the English language.

HARRY S. PARKES.

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MIN YONG-MOK.

PROTOCOL.

The above-named Plenipotentiaries hereby make and append to this Treaty the following three Declarations:-

I. With reference to Article III. of this Treaty, it is hereby declared that the right of extra-terri orial jurisdiction over British subjects in Corea granted by this Treat shall be relinquished when, in the judgment of the British Goveran ent, the laws and legal procedure of Corea shall have been so far modified and reformed as to remove the objection: which now exist to British subjects being placed under Corean jurisdiction, and Corean Judres shall have attained similar legal qualifications and a similar independent position to the 8e of British Judges.

II.—With reference to Article IV. of this Treaty, it is hereby declared that if the Chines⚫ Government shall bereaft r surrender the sight of opening commercial establishments in the city of Hanvang, which was granted last year to Chinese subjects, the same rig it shall not be claimed for British subjects, provided that it be not granted by the Coran Government to the su jects of any other Power.

III-It is hereby declard that the provisions 4f this Treaty shall apply to all British Colonies, unless any exception shall be notifie by Her Majesty's Government to that of Corea withiu n: year from the date on which the Ratificatio..s of this Treaty shall be exchanged.

And it is hereby further stipul ted that this Protocol shall be laid before the High Contrac ing Parti s simultaneously with this Treaty, and that the ratification of this Treaty shall inclule the confintion of the above hree declrations, for which, therefore, no separate act of ratificat on will he req iréd.

lu faith of which the above-named Plenipotentiaries have this day signed this Protocol, a hive hereto affix d their seals.

Done a Hanyang this twenty-sixth day of Noveinber, in the year eighte n hundred and eighty-three, corresponding to the twenty seventh day of the tenth month of the four hundred and ninetcond year of the Corcan era, Leing the ninth year of the Chinese reign Kuang Hsü.

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HARRY 8. PARKES. MIN YONG-MOK.