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IMMĪGRATION AND COMMERCIAL TREATIES BETWEEN THE U. S. & CHINA

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or threatens 'o affect, th int re-ts of that country, or to endanger the go ›d order of any locality within the territory thereof, the Government of China agrees that the Government of the United States may regulate, limit, or suspend such coming or residence, but may not absolutely prohibit it. The limitation or suspension shall be reasonable, and sha I apply only to Chinese who may go to the United Sta es as labourers, other classes not being included in the limitation. Legislation in r gard to Chinese labourers will be of such a character only as is necessary to enforce the regulation, limitation, or suspension of immigration, and immigrants shall not be subject to personal maltreatmert or buse.

Art. II.-Chinese subje ts, whether proceeding to the United States as traders or students, merchants, or from curios ty, together with their body and household servants, and Chinese labourers wh are now in the United States, shall be allowed to go and come of their own free will and acc rd, and sh li be accorde all the rights, privileges, immunities, and exemptions which are accorded to the citizens and subjects of the most favoured nations.

Art. III.-If Chinese labourers, or Chinese of any other class, now either permanently or temporarily residing in th· terri ory of the United States, meet with ill-treatment at the hands of any other persons. the Government of the United States will exert all its power to devise measures for their protection, and secure to them the same rights, privileges, immunities, and exempt ons as may be enjoyed by the citizens or subjects of the most favoured nation, and to which they are entitled by treaty.

Art. IV. The high contracting Powers, having agreed upon the foregoing Articles, whenever the Governineut of the United States shall adopt legislative measures in accordance therewith, such measures will be communicated to the Government of China, and if the measures, as effected, are found to work hardship upon the subjec:s of China, the Chinese Minister at Washington may bring the matter to the notice of the Secre'ary of State of the United State, who will consider the subject with him, and the Chinese Foreign Office may also bring the matter to the notice of the U.S. Minister at Peking and consider the subject with him, to the end that mutual and unqualified benefit may result. In faith whereof, the Plen po- tenti ries have signed and sealed he foregoing at Peking, in English and Chinese, there being three orig nals of each text of even tenor and date, the ratifications of which shall be exchanged at Peking within one year from the date of its execution.

Dove at Peking, this 17th day of November, in the year of our Lord 1880, Kuang Su sixth year, tenth moon, fifteenth day. Signed and sealed by the above- named Commissioners of both Governmenta.

The Commercial Treaty.

The following is the text of the commercial treat signed at the same place and time:-

The President of the United States of America and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China, because of certain points of incompleteness in the existing treaties between the two Governments, have named as their Coumissioners Plenipotentiary: The President of the United States of America, James B. Angell, of Michigan; John F. Swift, of California; and William H. Treeco t, of South Carolina, as his Com- missioners Plenipotentiary; and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China has appointed Pao Chun, a member of His Imperial Majesty's Privy Council and Super- intend ut of the Board of Civil Office; and Li Hung Tsao, a member of His Imperial Majesty's Privy Council, as his Commissioners Plenipotentiary; and the said Com- missioners Plenipoten iary, having conjointly examined their full powers, and having discussed the points of possible modification in existing treaties, have agreed upon the following additional articles :-----

Art. I. The Governments of the United S'ates and China, recognizing the benefits of their past commercial relations, and in order to still further promote such relations between the cit zens and subjects of the two Powers, mutually agree to give the most careful and favourable attention to the representations of either as to such special extension of commercial intercourse as either may desire.