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TREATY BETWEEN JAPAN AND MEXICO

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manufactures, and merchandise of lawful commerce; and, finally, of there engaging in and pursuing all other lawful occupations.

Art. V. The two Contracting Parties hereby agree that any favour, privilege, or immunity whatever in matters relating to commerce, navigation, travel through or residence in their Territories or Poss seions, which either Contracting Party has actually granted, or may herefter grant to the subjects or citizens of any other State, shall be exten led to the subjects or citizens of the other Contracting Party gratuitously, if the concession in favour of that other State shall have been gratuitous; and on the same, or equivalent conditions, if the concession shall have been con- ditional.

Art. VI. No other or higher duties or charges on account of tonnage, light or harbour dues, pilotage, quarantine, salvage in case of damage, or any other local charges, shall be imposed in any of the ports of Japan on vessels of the United Mexican States, or in any of the ports of the United Mexican States on vessels of Japan, than are or may hereafter be payable in like cases in the same ports on vessels of the most favoured nation,

Art. VII. No other or higher duties shall be imposed on the importation into Japan of any article the growth, product, or manufacture of the United Mexican States, and reciprocally no other or higher duties shall be imposed on the importa- tion into the United Mexican States, of any article the growth, product, or manu. facture of Japan, than are or shall be payable on the importation of the like article, being the growth, product, or manufacture of any other foreign country, nor shall any other or higher duties or charges be imposed in the Territories or Possessions of either of the two Contracting Parties on the exportation of any article to the Terri- tories or Possessions of the other, than such as are or may be payable on the expor- tation of the like article to any other foreign country. No prohibition shall be im- posed on the importation of any article the growth, product, or manufacture of the Territories of either of the Contracting Parties into the Territories or Possessions of the other, which shall not equally extend to the like article, being the growth, pro- duct, or manufacture of any other country. Nor shall any prohibition be imposed on the exportation of any article from the Territories of either of the Contracting Parties to the Territories or Possessions of the other, which shall not equally extend to the exportation of the like article to the Territories of all other nations.

Art. VIII.-Citizens of the Unitel Mexican States, as well as Mexican vessels resorting to Japan, or to territorial waters thereof, shall, so long as they there remain, be subject to the laws of Japau and to the jurisdiction of His Imperial Majesty's Courts; and, in the same manner, His Imperial Majesty's subjects and Japanese vessels resorting to Mexico and to the territorial waters of Mexico shall be subject to the laws and jurisdiction of Mexico.

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Art. IX. The present Treaty shall go into operation immediately after the ex- change of ratifications, and shall continue in force until the expiration of six months after either of the Contracting Parties shall have given notice to the other of its in- tention to terminate the same, and no longer.

Art. X. The present Treaty shall be signed in duplicate in ea h of the Japanese, Spanish, and English languages, and in case there should be found any di screpancy between the Japanese and Spanish texts, it will be decide in conformity with the English text, which is bin ling upon both Governm nts.

Art. XI.-The present Treaty shall be ratified by the two Contracting Parties, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible.

In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed this Treaty, and hereunto affixed their respective seals.

Done in sextuplicate at Washington this 30th day of the 11th month of the 21st year of Meiji, corresponding to the 30th day of November of the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

MUNEMITSU MUTSU.

(Signed)

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M. ROMERO.