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PROTOCOL TO TREATY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND COREA
fastenings, and if any person shall, without due permission, wilfully open any entrance that has been so secured, or break any seal, lock, or other fastening that has been affixed by the Corean Customs officers, not only the person so offending, but the master of the ship also, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred Mexican dollars.
3-Any British subject who ships, or attempts to ship, or discharges, or attempts to discharge, goods which have not been duly entered at the Custom house in the manner above provided, or packages containing goods different from those described in the import or export permit application, or prohibited goods, shall forfeit twice the value of such goods, and the goods shall be confiscated.
4. Any person signing a false declaration or certificate with the intent to defrand the revenue of Corea shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred Mexican dollars.
5.-Any violation of any provision of these Regulations, to which no penalty is specially attached therein, may be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred
Mexican dollars.
Note.—All documents required by these Regulations, and all other communications addressed to the Corean Customs authorities, may be written in the English language.
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HARRY S. PARKES.
MIN YONG-MOK.
PROTOCOL
The above-named Plenipotentiaries hereby make and append to this Treaty the following three Declarations:
I. With reference to Article III. of the Treaty, it is hereby declared that the right of extra-territorial jurisdiction over British subjects in Corea granted by this Treaty shall be relinquished when, in the judgment of the British Government, the laws and legal procedure of Corea shall have been so far modified and reformed as to remove the objections which now exist to British subjects being placed under Corean jurisdiction, and Corean Judges shall have attained similar legal qualifications and a similar independent position to those of British Judges.
II.-With reference to Article IV. of this Treaty, it is hereby declared that if the Chinese Government shall hereafter surrender the right of opening commercial establishments in the city of Hanyang, which was granted last year to Chinese subjects, the same right shall not be claimed for British subjects, provided that it be not granted by the Corean Government to the subjects of any other Power.
III. It is hereby declared that the provisions of this Treaty shall apply to all British Colonies, unless any exception shall be notified by Her Majesty's Government to that of Corea within one year from the date on which the Ratifications of this Treaty shall be exchanged.
And it is hereby further stipulated that this Protocol shall be laid before the High Contracting Parties simultaneously with this Treaty, and that the ratification of this Treaty shall include the confirmation of the above three declarations for which, therefore, no separate act of ratification will be required.
In faith of which the above-named Plenipotentiaries have this day signed this Protocol, and have hereto affixed their seals.
Done at Hanyang this twenty-sixth day of November, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three corresponding to the twenty-seventh day of the tenth month of the four hundred and ninety-second year of the Corean era, being the ninth year of the Chinese reign Kuang Hsü.
[L.S.]
[L.S.]
HARRY S. PARKES.
MIN YONG-Mox.
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