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GREAT BRITAIN.
ARTICLE IX.
It is agreed that as soon as this Convention shall
have been signed, the Ratifications of the Treaty of
the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight
shall have been exchanged, and an Imperial Decree
respecting the publication of the said Convention and Treaty shall have been promulgated, as provided for by Article VIII of this Convention, Chusan shall be evacuated by Her Britannic Majesty's troops there stationed, and Her Britannic Majesty's force now before Peking, shall commence its march towards the
city of Tientsin, the forts of Taku, the north coast of Shantung, and the city of Canton, at each and all of which places it shall be at the option of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland to retain a force until the indemnity of Eight Millions of Taels guaranteed in Article III shall have been paid.
Done at Peking in the Court of the Board of Ceremonies on the twenty-fourth day of October in
the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty.
(L.S.) (Signed) ELGIN AND KINCARDINE.
Chinese Signature.
月月
英清 英
各以大交處赴丹· 已
看完传津山皇互潁 城屯帝也 潛
臣各
同條證能約並兵允 須條 在又有回第大立降 約
施國三沽當證續 都增行抑款砲出合約
大大
大大
信守
【續增條約現下
京都禮部衙門盖印畫押以昭
大英一千八百六十年十月二十四日 大清咸豐十年九月十一日
或所臺境奉
早載登京到八印 -退賠州外業款畫
下 總與北大
八海軍宣
百廣 即
萬東應所 雨省啟有 總城程英
數等前國
約一經盖印畫押戊午年和約亦
(L.S.) (Signed) ELGIN AND KINCARDINÉ.
Chinese Siguature.
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Chinese Seal.
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