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The export and import of opium shall be governed by special arrangements to be inserted in the above-mentioned code of Regulations.
Trade by sea between China and Annam shall likewise be dealt with by a separate code of Regulations. In the meanwhile, the present practice shall remain unaltered.
Art. VII.—With a view to develop under the most advantageous conditions the relations of commerce and of good neighbourship, which it is the object of the present Treaty to re-establish between France and China, the Government of the Republic shall construct roads in Tonkin, and shall encourage the construction of railways
there.
When China, on her part, shall have decided to construct railways, it is agreed that she shall have recourse to French industry, and the Government of the Republic shall afford every facility for procuring in France the staff that may be required. It is, moreover, understood that this clause shall not be looked upon as constituting an exclusive privilege in favour of France.
Art. VIII.--The commercial stipulations of the present Treaty and the Regula- tions to be agreed upon shall be liable to revision after an interval of ten complete years
from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the present Treaty. But in case six months before it expires neither one nor other of the high contracting parties shall have expressed a wish to proceed to a revision, the commercial stipula- tions shall remain in force for a fresh period of ten years, and so further in like
manner.
Art. IX. As soon as the present Treaty shall have been signed, the French forces shall receive orders to retire from Keelung and to cease search, &c., on the high seas. Within one month from the signature of the present Treaty the Island of Formosa and Pescadores shall be entirely evacuated by the French troops.
Art. X.-All stipulations of former Treaties, Agreements, and Conventions between France and China, which are not modified by the present Treaty, remain in full force.
The present Treaty shall be ratified at once by His Majesty the Emperor of China, and after it shall have been ratified by the President of the French Republic the exchange of ratifications shall take place at Peking with the least possible delay.
Done in quadruplicate at Tientsin, this ninth day of June, one thousand eight bundred and eighty-five, corresponding to the twenty-seventh day of the fourth moon of the eleventh year of Kwang-Hsu.
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(Signed)
[L.S.]
PATENOTRE.
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[L.S.]
HSI CHEN.
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[L.S.]
LI HUNG-CHANG.
[L.S.]
TENG CHANG-SU.
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