GERMANY
TREATY OF AMITY, COMMERCE, AND NAVIGATION BETWEEN
PRUSSIA AND CHINA
SIGNED IN THE GERMAN, FRENCH, AND CHINESE LANGUAGES AT TIENTSIN, 2ND SEPTEMBER, 1861
Ratifications Exchanged at Shanghai, 14th January, 1863
Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, between the States of the Germaŋ Customs Union, the Gran Duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg- Strelitz, and the free Hanseatic Towns of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburg on the one pat, and Cina on the ou er part.
His Majesty t e King of Pussia, for himself, as also on behalf of the other members of the German Zolverein. that is to say:-The Crown of Bavaria, the Crown of Sax ny, the Crown of Hanover, the Crown of Wurtemburg, the Grand Duchy of Baden, th Electorate of Hesse, the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the Duchy of Brunswick, the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, the Grand Duchy of Saxony, the Ducbies of Saxe Meiningen, Saxe Altenburg, Saxe Coburg Gotha, the Dichy of Nassau, the Principalities Waldeck and Pyrmont, the Duc ies Anhalt, Dessau, Koethen, and Anhalt Bernburg, the Principalities Lippe, the Principalities Schwarzburg Sondershausen and Schwarzburg Rudolfstadt, Reuss ti e Elder Line, and Reuss the Younger L ne, the Free City of Frankfort, the Gran Bailesick Meisenheim of the Landgravate Hes e, the Baillewick Hamburg of the Landgravate Hesse also the Grand Duchies Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and the Senates of the Hanseatic Towns. Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburg, of the one part, and His Mjesty the Emperor of China of the other part being sincerely desirous to establish friendly relatious between the said States and China, have resolved to confirm the same by a Treaty of Friendship and Commerce, mu ually advantageous to the subjects of both High Contracting Parties, and for that purpose have named for their Plenipotentiaries, that is to ay :-
is Majesty te King of Prussia, Frederick Albert Count of Eulenburg, Chamberlain, His Maje ty's Envoy Entraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Knight of the Red Eagle, Koigh of St. John, &c., &c., &c.; and His Majesty the Emperor of China, Cheng-meen, a member of the Imperial Mini try of Foreign Affairs at Peking, Director-General of Public Supplies, and Im erial Commissioner: and Chong-hee, Honorary Under-Secretary of State, Superintendent of the three Northern Ports, and Deputy Imperial Commissioner, who after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, and found the same in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles:
Art. I.-There shall be perpetual peace and unchanging friendship between the contracting States. The subjects of both Stues shall enjoy full protection of person and property.
Art. II.-His Majesty the King of Prussia may, if he see fit, accredit a diplomatic agent to the Court of Peking, and His Majesty the Emperor of China may, in like manner, if he see fit, nominate a diplomatic agent to the Court of Berlin.
The diplomatic agent nominated by His Majesty the King of Prussia shall also represent the other contracting German States, who shall not be permitted to be represented at the Court of Peking by diplomatic agents of their own.
His Majesty the Emperor of China hereby agrees that the diplomatic agent, so appointed by His Majesty the King of Prussia, may, with his family and establishment, permanently reside at the capital, or may visit it occasionally, at the option of the Prussian Government.
Art. III. The diplomatic agents of Prussia and China shall, at their
respective residences, enjoy the privileges and immunities accorded to them by international law.
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