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SUPPLEMENTARY 1REATY BETWEEN GERMANY AND CHINA
Art. II. In addition to a treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, concluded between Prussia, the other States of th: German Customs Union, the Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenbu g-Strelitz, and the Hanseatic towns of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburg on the one part, and China on the other part.
It has been separately agreed that the Senates of the Hanseatic towns shall have the right to nominate for themselves a Consul of their own at each of the Chinese ports open for commerce and navigation.
This separate article shall have the same force and validity as if included word for word in the above-mentioned treaty.
In faith whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed this present separate article and affixed their seals.
Done in four copies at Tientsin, the second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, corresponding to the Chinese date of the twenty-eighth day of the seventh moon of the eleventh year of Hien Fung.
(Signed)
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COUNT EULENBURG. CHONG MEEN. CHONG HEE.
SUPPLEMENTARY CONVENTION BETWEEN GERMANY AND CHINA
SIGNED AT PEKING IN THE GERMAN AND CHINESE Languages, ON THE 31ST MARCH, 1880
Ratified 16th September, 1881
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN TEXT
His Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia, &c., in the name of the German Empire, and his Majesty the Emperor of China, wishing to secure the more perfect execution of the Treaty of the 2nd September, 1861, have, in conformity with Article XLI. of that Treaty, according to the terms of which the High Contracting German States are entitled, after a period of ten years, to demand a revision of the Treaty, decided to conclude a Supplementary Convention.
With this view they have appointed their Plenipotentiaries-viz., His Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia, &c., his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Max August Scipio von Brandt; and His Majesty the Emperor of China, the Minister of the Tsung li Yamen, the Secretary of State, &c., Shen Kue-fen; and the Secretary of State, &c., Chin Lien;
Who, after communicating to each other their full powers, and finding them in due form, have agreed upon the following Articles:-
Art. 1.-Chinese concession.-The harbours of Ichang, in Hupei; Wuhu, in Anhui; Wenchow, in Chekiang; and Pakhao, in Kwangeung, and the landing-places Tat'ung and Anking in Anhui, Huk'ow, in Kiangsi; Wusueh, Luchikow, and Shah- shih, in Hukuang, having already been opened, German ships are in future also to be permitted to touch at the harbour of Woosung, in the province of Kiangsu, to take in or discharge merchandise. The necessary Regulations are to be drawn up by the Taotai of Shanghai and the competent authorities.
German concession.-In the event of special regulations for the execution of concessions which the Chinese Government may make to foreign Governments being attached to such concessions, Germany, while claiming these concessions for herself and for her subjects, will equally assent to the regulations attached to them.
Art. XI. of the Treaty of the 2nd September, 1861, is not affected by this regulation, and is hereby expressly confirmed.
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