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SINO-FOREIGN TREATIES

The President of the Republic of France;

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His Excellency Comte de Martel, Ambassador, Envoy Extraordin

ary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Republic of France to China, Commander of the Legion of Honour ;

Who, having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due. form, have agreed upon the following Articles;

Article I.-The Sino-French Commercial Convention of Tientsin of the twenty-second day of the third moon of the twelfth year of Kwang Hsu (April 25, 1886), the Additional Commercial Convention, signed at Peking on the sixth day of the fifth moon of the thirteen year of Kwang Hsu (June 26, 1887) together with the notes relating to this Convention exchanged at Peking on the third day of the fifth moon of the thirteenth year of Kwang Hsu (Junc 23, 1887), and the Supplementary Convention signed at Peking on the twenty- eighth day of the fifth moon of the twenty-first year of Kwang Hsu (June 20, 1895) are abrogated and cease to be operative. The provisions of Articles 4, 5 and 6 of the Treaty of Tientsin of the twenty-seventh day of the fourth- moon of the eleventh year of Kwang Hsu (June 9, 1885) are also abrogated.

Article II. The city of Lungchow of Kwangsi and those of Szemao, Hokow and Mengtze of Yunnan shall remain open to the trade across the land frontier of China and French Indo-China.

Article III.-The Chinese Government may send Consuls to Hanoi or Haiphong and to Saigon, cities of French Indo-China, and the French Gov- ernment may continue to send Consuls to the localities mentioned in the pre- ceding Article.

The heads and acting heads of Consulates and vice-Consulates, as well as the members of the Consular service shall be nationals of the country which appoints them. They shall not engage in commerce or industry.

Article IV.--Chinese nationals entering the territory of French Indo- China and French nationals of Indo-China entering the territory to China. must be provided with passports issued by the competent authorities of their country of origin. Such passports shall be visaed by a Consulate of the country of destination or by the proper authorities of the said country,

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The High Contracting Parties undertake to grant to each other, in con- formity with their respective laws and regulations, the most-favoured-nation treatment with regard to the fulfilment of formalities, including those relating. to identification, concerning (1) passports (2) the system of internal laissez- passer and visa for departure (3) the entry or departure of Chinese nationals and French nationals of Indo-China going to Indo-China or the three provinces of Yunnan, Kwangsi and Kwangtung.

Nothing is changed in the system of temporary or permanent passes issued to inhabitants of the frontier who are necessitated by their work or business to stay temporarily in or to go frequently to the territory of the other country in the neighbourhood of the boundary.

Article V.-The nationals of China in French Indo-China and the French nationals in the above-mentioned Chinese localities shall have the right to reside, travel and engage in industry or commerce. The treatment accorded to them for the exercise of such rights, in conformity with the laws and re- gulations in force in China or French Indo-China, shall in no way be less- favourable than that of the nationals of any other Power.

The nationals of China in French Indo-China and the French nationals- in the above specified Chinese localities shall not be subjected to taxes, im- posts or contributions higher or other than those to which nationals of the most-favoured-nation may be subjected...

Article VI.-Chinese goods exported from any Chinese port and trans- ported without transhipment or with a through bill of lading to the Provinces of Yunnan, Kwangsi or Kwangtung and using the territory of Tonking, shalk