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ADDITIONAL CONVENTION BETWEEN FRANCE AND CHINA, 1895

delivered, stating the payment of this duty, and destined to accompany the goods. When they shall have arrived at one of the frontier Customs they shall be freed on entry by half duty of re-importation based on the reduction of four-tenths. (4) The Chinese goods above mentioned, accompanied by the special certificate - above mentioned, shall be, before passing the export Customs, or after passing Customs re-importation, submitted to the regulations governing native Chinese → goods.

Art. V. It is understood that China, for the exploitation of its mines in the provinces of Yunnan, Kwangsi, and Kwangtung, will address itself, in the first instance, to French commerce and engineers, the exploitation remaining otherwise subject to the rules and the edicts by the Imperial Government which affects- national industry. It is understood that railways already in existence or projected in Annam can, after mutual agreement, and under conditions to be defined, be prolonged on Chinese territory.

Art. VI.-Article II. of the Telegraphic Convention between France and China, signed at Chefoo, December 1, 1888, is completed as follows:-D.-A union shall be established between the secondary prefecture of Szemao and Annam by two stations - which shall be Szemao in China and Muang Hahin in Annam, midway between Laichow and Luang Prabang. The tariff shall be fixed in conformity with Article VI. of the Telegraphic Convention of Chefoo.

Art. VII.-It is agreed that the commercial stipulations contained in the present Convention being of a special nature, and the result of mutual concessions deter- mined by the necessities of the relations between Lungchow, Hokow, Mêngtse,- Szemao, and Annam, the advantages which result therefrom cannot be invoked by the subjects and protected subjects of the two high contracting parties, but on these points as well as on the fluvial and land ways here determined of the frontier.

Art. VIII.—The present stipulations shall be put in force as if they were in- serted in the text of the additional Convention of June 26th, 1887.

Art. IX.-The terms of former Treaties, Agreements, and Conventions between France and China not modified by the present Treaty remain in full force. The pre- sent complementary Convention shall be ratified immediately by His Majesty the Emperor of China, and after it has been ratified by the President of the French Republic the exchange of ratifications shall be made at Peking with the least delay possible.

Done at Peking in four copies, June twentieth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, corresponding to the twenty-eighth day of the fifth moon of the twenty-- first year Kwang Hsu.

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(Signed)

A. GERARD.

CHING.