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SINO-FOREIGN TREATIES
Article V.-The present Treaty shall be ratified as soon as possible and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Nanking. It shall come into force on the day on which the two Governments shall have notified each other that the ratification has been effected.
In testimony whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty in duplicate and have affixed their seals thereto.
Done at Nanking this twenty-second day of the eleventh month of the seventeenth year of the Republic of China corresponding to the twenty-second day of November, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight.
(Signed) CHENGTING T. WANG
Plenipotentiary and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the National Government of the Republic of China
(Signed) BARON J. GUILLAUME
Plenipotentiary and Charge d'Af- faires ad interim of Belgium in China.
THE SINO-SPANISH TREATY.
On November 24, 1927, Dr. C. C. Wu, then Nationalist Minister for Foreign Affairs, notified Mr. Garrido, the Spanish Minister at Peiping (Peking) that the Sino-Spanish Treaty of October 10, 1864, had expired and become in- operative. Shortly afterwards, on December 2, the following Provisional Re- gulations pending the conclusion of a new Sino-Spanish Treaty were issued by the Nationalist Government:
Provisional Regulations Pending Conclusion of New Treaty between China and Spain.
(1.) The Diplomatic and Consular representatives of Spain in China shall receive the treatment accorded to such officials by the general rules of international law.
(2) The persons and property of Spanish subjects in China shall receive protection according to Chinese law.
(3) Spanish subjects resident in China shall be amenable to Chinese law and subject to the jurisdiction of Chinese courts.
(4) Civil and criminal actions in China involving Spanish subjects shall be dealt with according to the procedure governing nationals of non-treaty countries.
(3) Imports into China from Spain or by Spanish subjects and exports from China destined for Spain shall be subject to the customs tariff as applied to non-treaty countries and their nationals.
(6) Spanish subjects in China shall pay such taxes and dues as are paid by Chinese citizens.
(7) All matters not specifically covered by the above provisions shall be dealt with and adjusted according to the general rules of international law and according to Chinese law.
Nanking, 2nd December, 1927.
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