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TREATY BETWEEN JAPAN AND SIAM

Art. XVI.—The present Treaty shall be ratified and the ratifications thereto shall be exchanged at Bangkok as soon as possible.

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

Done at Bangkok in sextuplicate, this twenty-fifth day of the second month of the thirty-first year of Meiji, corresponding to the twenty-fifth day of February, of the one hundred and sixteenth year of Ratanakosindr Sok and the eighteen hundred and ninety-eighth year of the Christian era.

[L.S.]

MANJIRO INAGAKI.

DEVAWONGSE VAROPRAKAR.

PROTOCOL

At the moment of proceeding this day to the signature of the Treaty of Friend- ship, Commerce and Navigation between Japan and Siam, the Plenipotentiaries of the two high contracting parties have declared as follows:-

I. The Siamese Government consents that Japanese Consular officers shall exercise jurisdiction over Japanese subjects in Siam until the judicial reforms of Siam shall have been completed; that is, until a Criminal Code, a Code of Criminal Procedure, a Civil Code (with exception of Law of Marriage and Succession), a Code of Civil Procedure and a Law of Constitution of the Courts of Justice will come into force.

II.-The Japanese Government accept as binding upon Japanese subjects and vessels resorting to Siam the Trade Regulations and Customs Tariffs now in force in Siam in respect of the subjects, citizens and vessels of the Powers having Treaties with Siam.

Such Regulations and Tariffs shall be subject to revision at any time upon twelve months' previous notice, on demand of either Japan or Siam.

All fines and penalties imposed for infractions of the said Regulations or of the Treaty signed this day, shall be paid to the Siamese Government.

III.-Any controversies which may arise respecting the interpretation or the execution of the Treaty signed this day or the consequences of any violation thereof, shall be submitted, when the means of settling them directly by amicable agreement are exhausted, to the decision of Commissions of Arbitration, and that the result of such arbitration shall be binding upon both Governments.

The members of such Commissions shall be selected by the two Governments by common consent, failing which each of the parties shall nominate an Arbitrator or an equal number of Arbitrators, and the Arbitrators thus appointed shall select an Umpire.

The procedure of the Arbitration shall in each case be determined by the con- tracting parties, failing which the Commission of Arbitration shall be itself entitled to determine it beforehand.

The undersigned Plenipotentiaries have agreed that this Protocol shall be sub- mitted to the high contracting parties at the same time as the Treaty, and that when the Treaty is ratified the agreements contained in this Protocol shall also equally be considered as approved, without the necessity of a further formal ratification. In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Protocol and have affixed thereto their seals.

Done at Bangkok in sextuplicate, this twenty-fifth day of the second month of the thirty-first year of Meiji, corresponding to the twenty-fifth day of February of the one hundred and sixteenth year of Ratanakosindr Sok and the eighteen hundred and ninety-eighth year of the Christian era.

[L.S.]

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MANJIRO INAGAKI.

DEVAWONGSE VAROPRAKAR.