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SUPPLEMENTARY CONVENTION BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND JAPAN 149

country, and for any period not exceeding twelve months, from the Imperial Japanese Foreign Office in Tokyo, or from the chief authorities in the Prefecture in which an open port is situated; it being understood that the existing Rules and Regulations governing British subjects who visit the interior of the Empire are to be mainta nel.

3. The Japanese Government undertakes, before the cessation of Bri ish Consular jurisdiction in Japan, to join the International Conventions for the Pro- tection of Industrial Property and Copyright.

-It is understood between the two High Contracting Partis that, if Japan thinks it necessary at any time to levy an a iditional duty on the production or manufacture of refine sugar in Japan, an increased customs duty equivalent in amount may be levied on British refined sugar when imported into Japan, so long as such additional excise tax or inland duty continues to be raised.

Provided always that Britis refined sugar shall in this respect be entitled to the treatment accorded to refined sugar being the produce or manufacture of the most favoured nation.

5. The undersigned Plenipotentiaries have agreed that this Protoco! shall be submitted to the two High Contracting Parties at the same time as the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation signed this day, and that when the said Treaty is ratified the agreements contained in the Protocel shall also equally be considered as approved, without the necessity of a further formal ratification.

It is agreed that this Protocol shall terminate at the same time the said Treaty cases to be binding.

In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seal of their amhs.

Done at London, in duplicate, this sixteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one tho isand eight hundred and ninety four.

[L.8.] [L.8.]

KIMBERLEY.

AOKI.

SUPPLEMENTARY CONVENTION BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND

JAPAN RESPECTING THE DUTIES TO BE CHARGED ON

BRITISH GOODS IMPORTED INTO JAPAN

SIGNED AT TOKYO, 16TH JULY, 1895

Ratifications exchanged at Tokyo, 21st November, 1895

Whereas, by the Protocol signed at London on the 16th of July, 1894, it was arned between the Government of Her Britannic Majesty and the Government of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan that the ad valorem duties of the Tariff annexed to the aforesaid Protocol should, so far as might be deemed practicable, be converted into specific duties by means of a Supplementary Convention, to be conc.uded between the two Governinents within six months from the date of that Protocol; and

Whereas this period was extended by subsequent arrangement :

The High Contracting Parties have appointed as their Plenipotentaries to

conclude a Convention for this purpose, that is to say:

Her Britannic Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of Irdia, Gerard Augustus Lowther, Her Britannic Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires ;

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