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TREATY BETWEEN CHINA AND JAPAN

Regulations are brought into actual operation the Arrangements, Rules and Regulations subsisting between China and the Western Powers, so far as they are applicable and not inconsistent with the provisions of this Treaty, shall be binding between the contracting parties.

Art. XXVIII.-The present Treaty is signed in the Japanese, Chinese and English languages. In order, however, to prevent future discussions, the Pleni- potentiaries of the high contracting parties have agreed that in case of any divergencies in the interpretation between the Japanese and Chinese texts of the Treaty, the difference shall be settled by reference to the English text.

Art. XXIX.-The present Treaty shall be ratified by His Majesty the Emperor of China and His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, and the ratification thereof shall be exchanged at Peking not later than three months from the present date.

In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms.

Done at Peking this twenty-first day of the seventh month of the twenty- ninth year of Meiji, corresponding to the eleventh day of the sixth month of the twenty-second year of Kuang Hsü (July 21st, 1896).

[L.S.]

CHANG YIN-HOON.

1.

HAYASHI TADASU.

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PROTOCOL REGARDING NEW PORTS

MADE AT PEKING, 19th October, 1896

Baron Hayashi Tadasu, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary_of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of His Majesty the Emperor of China have agreed upon the following stipulations supple- mentary to the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation :-

Art. I.-It is hereby agreed that special Japanese settlements shall be formed at the places newly opened to commerce, and that affairs relating to roads and police shall be under the control of the Japanese Consul.

Art. II.-Regulations with respect to steamers or ships owned or chartered by Japanese subjects at Suchow, Hangchow, and Shanghai shall be determined after conference with Japan, on the basis of the Provisional Regulations for the conduct of business by foreign merchants at those places, issued by the Shanghai Customs on August third of the twenty-second year of Kwang Hsü.

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, Tientsin, Amoy,

and Hankow.

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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.