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SUPPLEMENTARY TREATY BETWEEN JAPAN AND CHINA

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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.

(Signed)

HAYSHI TADASAU.

PRINCE KING.

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YIN LU.

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 the 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 Ting-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 regard to the production tax, consumption tax, and excise, and the taxes on native opium and salt, leviable by China, Japan also consents to accept the same arrange- ments as are agreed upon between all the Treaty Powers and China. It is under- stood, however, that the commerce, rights and privileges of Japan shall not, on account of the above, be placed at any disadvantage as compared with the commerce, rights and privileges of other Powers.