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TREATY BETWEEN FRANCE AND SIAM.

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The authors of the incidents of Tong-Kieng-Khan and Cammon will be judged by the Siamese authorities. A representative of France will be present at the trial. and will see that the sentences pronounced are carried out. The French Govern- ment reserves the right of judging whether the penalties are sufficient, and, if necessary, of demanding a fresh trial before a mixed tribunal, the composition of which it will itself determine.

The Siamese Government will deliver up to the French Minister at Bangkok or to the French authorities on the frontier all French subjects, whether Annamites, Cambodians, or Loatians of the left bank, now detained for any cause whatever. It will throw no obstacle in the way of the return to the left bank of the former inhabit- ants of that region.

The Bang-Bien of Tong-Kieng-Khan and his suite will be taken by a delegate of the Minister of Foreign Affairs to the French Legation, and also the arms and the French flag seized by the Siamese authorities.

The French Government will continue to occupy Chantaboon until the execu- tion of the stipulations of the present Convention, and particularly until the complete and pacific evacuation of the Siamese posts established both on the left bank of the Mekong and on the islands in the river, as well as those in the provinces of Battam- bang and Siem-Reap, and within 15 miles of the right bank of the Mekong.