TREATY OF NANKING (1842).
ARTICLE IV.
The Emperor of China agrees to pay the sum of Six Millions of Dollars as the value of Opium which was delivered up at Canton in the month of March 1839, as a Ransom for the lives of Her Britannic Majesty's Superintendent and Subjects, who had been imprisoned and threatened with death by the Chinese High Officers.
ARTICLE V.
The Government of China having compelled the British Merchants trading at Canton to deal exclu-
sively with certain Chinese Merchants called Hong
Merchants (or Cohong) who had been licensed by the Chinese Government for that purpose, the Emperor of China agrees to abolish that practice in future at all Ports where British Merchants may reside, and to permit them to carry on their mercantile transactions
with whatever persons they please, and His Imperial Majesty further agrees to pay to the British Govern- ment the sum of Three Millions of Dollars, on account of Debts due to British Subjects by some of the said Hong Merchants (or Cohong), who have become in- solvent, and who owe very large sums of money to
Subjects of Her Britannic Majesty.
ARTICLE VI.
The Government of Her Britannic Majesty having * been obliged to send out an Expedition to demand and obtain redress for the violent and unjust Proceedings of the Chinese High Authorities towards Her Britannic Majesty's Officer and Suljects, the Emperor of China agrees to pay the sum of Twelve Millions of Dollars on account of the Expenses incurred, and Her Britannic Majesty's Plenipotentiary voluntarily agrees, on be- half of Her Majesty, to deduct from the said amount of Twelve Millions of Dollars, auy sums which may have been received by Her Majesty's combined Forces
as Ransom for Cities and Towns in China, subsequent to the 1st day of August 1841.
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