TREATY BETWEEN RUSSIA AND CHINA
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The traces of cattle turned aside or which may have passed the frontier may indicated, not only to the guards of the frontier posts, but also to the elders of the nearest villages.
Art. XVIII.—The stipulations of the treaty concluded at Aigoun the 16th May, 1858, concerning the rights of the subjects of the two Empires to navigate the Ainoor, the Sungari, and the Oussouri, and to carry on trade with the populations of the riverine localities, are and remain confirmed.
The two Governments will proceed to the establishment of an understanding concerning the mode of application of the said stipulations.
Art. XIX-The stipulations of the old treaties between Russia and China, not modified by the present Treaty, remain in full vigour.
Art. XX. The present Treaty, after having been ratified by the two Emperors, will be promulgated in each Empire, for the knowledge and Governance of each one. The exchange of ratifications will take place at St. Petersburg, within a period of six months counting from the day of the signature of the Treaty.
Having concluded the above Article, plenipotentiaries of the two contract- ing parties have signed and sealed two copies of the present Treaty, in the Russian, Chinese, and French languages. Of the three texts, duly compared and found in agreement, the French text will be evidence for the interpretation of the present Treaty.
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Done at St. Petersburg, the twelfth of February, eighteen hundred and eighty-
NICOLAS DE GIERS. EUGENE BUTzow.
(Signed)
[L.S.]
L.S.
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TSENG.
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PROTOCOL
In virtue of Article VI. of the Treaty signed to-day by the plenipotentiaries of the Russian and Chinese Governments, the Chinese Government will pay to the Russian Government the sum of nine millions of metallic roubles, designed to cover the expenses of the occupation of the country of Ili by the Russian troops and to satisfy divers pecuniary claims of Russian subjects. This sum shall be paid within a period of two years counting from the day of the exchange of the ratifica- tions of the Treaty.
Desiring to fix the mode of payment of the aforementioned sum the undersigned have agreed as follows:-
The Chinese Government will pay the equivalent of the sum of nine millions of metallic roubles in pounds sterling, say one million four hundred and thirty-one thousand six hundred and sixty-four pounds sterling two shillings to Messrs. Baring Brothers & Co. in London, in six equal parts, of two hundred and thirty- eight thousand six hundred and ten pounds sterling thirteen shillings and eight pence each, less the customary bank charges which may be occasioned by the transfer of these payments to London.
The payments shall be scheduled at four months' distance the one from the other; the first shall be made four months after the exchange of the ratifications of the Treaty signed to-day, and the last two years after that exchange.
The present protocol will have the same force and value as if it had been inserted word for word in the Treaty signed to-day.
In faith of which the plenipotentiaries of the two Governments have signed the present protocol and have placed their seals to it.
Done at St. Petersburg, the twelfth of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one.
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NICOLAS DE GIERS. EUGENE Burzow. TSENG.
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