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Art. III.—The Government of Japan concedes the right of the Chinese Govern- ment to impose upon articles manufactured by Japanese subjects in China such a tax as may seem expedient, provided that the said tax shall not differ from, or exceed, the tax paid by Chinese subjects; and provided that the Chinese Govern- ment shall, when the Japanese Government so desires, immediately provide sites for the formation of special Japanese Settlements in Shanghai, Tientsiu, Amoy, and Hankow.
Art. IV. Instructions shall be issued in Sunfu, in Shantung, that no Chinese troops shall approach, or take possession of any position, within 5 Japanese ri, that is to say, about 40 Chinese li, of the limits of any positions held by Japanese forces in accordance with Treaty stipulations.
The above Protocol shall be drawn up in the Chinese and Japanese languages and after comparison, the two copies shall be signed and sealed, each side taking one of the copies.
HAYASHI Tadasu.
PRINCE KING.
[Signed]
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YIN LU.
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CHANG YIN-WHAN.
Nineteenth day, tenth month, twenty-ninth year of Meiji; thirteenth day, ninth month, twenty-second year of Kuang Hsü.
SUPPLEMENTARY TREATY OF COMMERCE AND
NAVIGATION BETWEEN JAPAN AND CHINA
SIGNED AT SHANGHAI, 8th OCTOBER, 1903
His Majesty the Emperor of Japan and His Majesty the Emperor of China, in order to give full effect to the provisions of Article XI. of the Final Protocol signed at Peking on the seventh day of the ninth month of the thirty-fourth year of Meiji, corresponding to the twenty-fifth day of seventh moon of the twenty-seventh year of Kuang-hsü, have resolved to conclude a Supplementary Treaty of Commerce and Navigation, designed to facilitate and promote the commercial relations between Japan and China, and have for that purpose named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:
His Majesty the Emperor of Japan:-Hioki Eki, Jugoi, Fifth Class of the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun, First Secretary of Legation, and Odagiri Masnoske, Shorokui, Fifth Class of the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun, Consul-General; and
His Majesty the Emperor of China:-Lü Hai-huan, President of the Board of Public Works; Sheng Hsuan-huai, Junior Guardian of the Heir Apparent formerly Senior Vice-President of the Board of Public Works; and Wu T'ing-fang, Senior Vice-President of the Board of Commerce.
Who, after having communicated to each other their full powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles :--
Art. I. Whereas China, with the object of reforming its fiscal system, proposes to levy a surtax in excess of the tariff rates on all goods passing through the Custom- houses, whether maritime, or inland and frontier, in order to compensate, in a mea- sure, for the loss incurred by the complete abolition of lekin, Japan consents to pay the same surtax as is agreed upon between China and all the Treaty Powers. With
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